West Ham boss David Moyes wasn't seeking excuses after their 2-2 draw with Burnley.
The Hammers fought back from 2-0 down via goals from Lucas Paqueta and Danny Ings to earn the point.
Moyes later said: "I'm not making any excuses for the poor performance in the first half.
"We've done a lot of Thursday-Sunday football in the past three years, but we never really got to the speed of it.
"Right from the start we looked as if we were going to play quite slow when we needed to play fast, hard and put them under pressure and we didn't do.
"We had a disappointing first half and it was summed up by giving away an own-goal just on half-time to make it 2-0.
"We got back and had enough chances to win it, but it was a day when very few decisions went for us, that was for sure.
"We needed to get an early goal in the second half.
"When we got the goal I thought 'We have a good chance of going on and winning this now'. We could keep going for it, and we did do, but I thought we missed a lot of opportunities to score.
"From corner kicks and things getting blocked, we didn't quite get it. But we got the goal [to level] and we had other opportunities [after that] as well.
"We tried to put them under pressure as much as we could, but we gave up quite a few chances as well.
"We can't be a team who are giving away two or three goals in a game, we have to be defending much better.
"Obviously the boy [David Datro Fofana] scores a screamer for the first goal, but it looked as if we should have won the tackle, the ball then breaks and then he hits it into the top corner."
On Ings, he added: "It's the sort of game when we're on top and making chances, then Danny over his career has been brilliant at it.
"Unfortunately he's not quite had his scoring boots on [this season], but today he did. He had one cut off for offside, he scores another, and then he hits the bar.
"Hopefully that will give him a lot of confidence and it gives us more confidence as well, because we want to play Danny.
"We want to play him for his goals and what he can do."
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