Sam believed that the Hammers bosses the game and but for some poor finishing in the first half and two defensive errors they could have picked up all three points.
“It was shocking defending today on two occasions, which stopped us winning the game,” Sam told the official site.
“Just two sloppy pieces of defending has gifted the opposition two goals and made life very difficult for us on what was a very accomplished performance other than that.”
Assessing the current situation that see’s the Hammers sitting comfortably around the top end of the table Allardyce believes the squad have enough to push on towards promotion.
“We have 18 points from the first phase, the first ten matches. It is two points behind what we wanted but I expect we will make that up if we continue to grow as we showed today.
“The full squad is coming into play. It produced a great performance if not the right result. It gives us all confidence to go on and perhaps achieve 20, 22 or more points from the next ten games.”