Alex McCarthy described the dressing room as a frustrated place following Southampton’s narrow 1-0 defeat at home to West Ham.
Unable to record a third successive victory at St Mary’s, Sébastien Haller’s first-half strike was enough for the Hammers to leave with all three points in the Premier League.
Missing the chance to exit the bottom three, McCarthy said: “Everyone’s come off the pitch very frustrated.
“Going into the game, we knew the magnitude of it having won our previous two games here against teams around us.
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“We knew how big the game was, so everyone is frustrated. It was a chance to climb up the table but it wasn’t meant to be.”
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Rallying in the second half, Danny Ings struck the crossbar before having a goal controversially disallowed for a foul in the build-up.
Unable to find an equaliser, the Saints keeper was left to rue a missed opportunity.
“I don’t think we started the game well enough but I think we created more in the second half.
You need that little bit of luck and to be fair, in the second half I thought we were going to come away with a point.
“Danny was unlucky when he hit the bar and the one he curled into the corner, I don’t know what the foul was given for but we regroup now and look to go and get a result next week at [Aston] Villa.”
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