"PLAYERS WERE UNBELIEVABLE" | David Moyes | West Ham 1-1 Bayer Leverkusen | UEFA Europa League

Well, David, just what do you think summing up that game? Well, the most important thing you say is that I think the

players

were incredible, they did everything we asked, expected, maybe, except score a second or third. goal in the first half when we had the opportunity to do it we ran out of energy in the second half and you can't continue like we did in the first half, but I'm very proud of what they've done, it's for the third half. quarter-final, in three years, so it's an achievement, yeah, do you think it was some of the best football West Ham have played this season?

I think we played really good football. I think we know the

players

will know that. We've been in them a bit. I don't think we've played as well as we should have recently, but I think tonight we did a little bit of everything we were committed to and pressed really well when we had to. and passing the ball well when we had the opportunity, I almost felt that Halim came too early because you were in a very good moment at that time, yes, but he was determined to get the players out as quickly as possible. It was a 5 minute change for me and I backed off and we kept going as much as we could because they've been so good and we wanted to keep them on the ropes but their changes also made the difference and they obviously had a chance to regroup and watch, we had a terrible night with Fisha, we had a terrible night with uh, we got knocked out in the first game, you know, we got Lucas Petta booked and all sorts, so, uh, it didn't get any better tonight.

I have to say yes. I wanted to ask you about that because Mel Antonio certainly felt like he didn't have decisions. The crowd made known his full-time thoughts. I mean, was there any justification for you from the fourth official? You stood there explaining any of the decisions. maybe they, their Ben sh, speak Spanish and their manager speaks Spanish and I don't, maybe that had something to do with it. I should have learned my Spanish better when I was there, but look, as you said, it's your third quarter-final, which is phenomenal and there's still everything to play for in the Premier League and a fourth European campaign is still on the cards, yes, still We're out there fighting and look, tonight we're playing against a team that, if we've been honest, is on a higher level than us, but we ran them very close and when I look back I'm just looking at the goals we lost at the end in Leverkusen, where you know we did a brilliant job against them in the first leg and I thought we did a very good job tonight for a lot of the game tonight, so overall I don't have any problems with the players, they've done a great job and being in Europe has been great, it has also been difficult, but it has been great David thank you very much thank you thank you