PREMIER - West Ham, Soucek: "We lost against City, but we showed good spirit"

Commenting upon West Ham's narrow defeat, suffered by hands of Manchester City, 26-year old Czech international deep-lying midfielder Tomas Soucek stated:

“It’s frustrating. You cannot be happy when you have lost so we are disappointed with the result. I think that we started quite well and we created two or three opportunities but we couldn’t score. We conceded the first goal, and the first goal changed the whole game. We are frustrated but I’m happy, that we fought to the end. We showed good spirit and I’m proud of the guys.

We won in the Europa League in midweek and went through, but now it’s the Premier League in front of us and we need to do a good recovery and prepare well for Wednesday’s game against Brighton. It’s a big game for us and all of us want to beat them. It’s a great opportunity for us because we played three games in a row away, and now the opposite. We play at home and I hope and believe our fans will support us to the maximum and we want to give it back to them with results on the pitch”.