Pardew frustrated with Brighton result

West Ham had 17 shots against Brighton but only three of those were on target. Pardew said to the Official Site “I told the players in the dressing room that it's difficult to be too critical of the way we played, especially in the first-half when I felt that we did more than enough to score.

“Don Hutchison and Marlon Harewood made some good moments for us early on, but you have to hit the target when those clear-cut chances come along, otherwise you'll get punished. The game was a bit disrupted in the second-half with the injury to Matty Etherington and then the sending-off, and we're disappointed that we didn't create more chances in the last 10 minutes.

“It's a very bad result, especially when you consider how good our home form has been, and that we were going into the game off the back of a 2-1 win over QPR last weekend.

“Brighton came with a specific tactical plan, they dropped deep, gave us very little room to play and then tried to nick something on set-plays or on the break. They defended very well, and even when we did manage to open them up, nothing seemed to drop for us today. Some of the lads were disappointed with the goal, Calum Davenport said that he was pushed in the penalty area before it went in, but it was a bad goal to concede after we gave away a needless free-kick so close to our penalty-area.”