David Moyes: West Ham suffered a frustrating loss last night in the Europa League semi-finals. The club went into the 2nd leg with a one goal deficit to overturn. However, the sending off of Cresswell early on in the fixture killed any chances the club had hoped they had to come back.
The club’s manager, David Moyes in a moment of frustration kicked the ball, which caused controversy. Responding to this and the match, Moyes spoke in the post match conference.
“I have to apologise for kicking the ball,” Moyes said.
“The ball boy left it short nicely on the volley for me. I apologise for it. It didn’t hit him, I think I bent it past him.”
“Let’s be honest, we probably lost the game in the first few seconds at London Stadium when we conceded,” Moyes said.
“We were chasing the game since.
“I am really proud of the players. How they played with 10 men was fantastic. They stayed in it. Other teams would have folded and lost two or three.
“I thought we had better chances than Frankfurt. But we congratulate them. They go through, we don’t and we give them our best wishes.
“I thought it wasn’t great officiating throughout. Aaron has given the referee a decision to make. I was more disappointed with the Frankfurt bench. The whole bench came out, it comes back to haunt you.
“I hope our bench wouldn’t react like that.”
