PREMIER - West Ham, Rice: "Losing against Man. City was frustrating"

Commenting upon latest defeat of theirs against Manchester City, West Ham powerhouse Declan Rice stated:

“It was frustrating and I’m disappointed but that’s because we didn’t put the ball in the back of the net. We’ve been here before and I’ve spoken to you before and it’s been after a humiliating defeat, so it shows how far we’ve come as a team that we played really well in the first half in some stages, then in the second half we did well, but it’s just about putting the ball in the back of the net at the moment and we haven’t quite done that in the last two Premier League games and we need to get back to that.

Losing the momentum, that’s the problem with these international breaks! We had gone seven in a row without defeat and we were really cooking and we really felt like we could give anyone a game at any time and beat them, then obviously the break happens and everyone goes away and it takes time to get back into it, you know.

There are no excuses. It’s two defeats in a row [in the Premier League] for the first time since April, so we need to get back to it and I think we can, starting on Wednesday”.