West Ham United manager David Moyes believes things could have turned out differently had Andre Ayew converted his spot-kick in Saturday's 3-2 home defeat to Newcastle United in the Premier League. J. D. Martinez Jersey

The Ghanaian, who was handed a rare start, spurned a 56th minute penalty to restore parity after Henri Saivet and Mohamed Diame gave the away side a 2-1 lead, Marko Arnautovic having opened the scoring for the Hammers in the sixth minute.

The 28-year-old, however, made amends with a strike13 minutes laterbut the effort was still not enough to curtail a reversal at the Craig Kimbrel Jersey London Stadium.

Probably, we hadnt deserved to get back into the game because in the first half, they had two good chances where they hit the post and the bar, but we needed to get back into it," Moyes said, as reported by his club's official website.

The crowd Jim Rice Jersey had been good to us and stayed behind us and if wed got the penalty I think it would have changed things.

Weve already mi sed two penalty kicks since Ive been here and, when youre in the position were in, youve just cant afford to do that and youve got to take your chances.

Saturday's setback is West Ham's fifth defeat in nine games since Moyes replaced Slaven Bilic last David Price Jersey month.

It was just a game full of errors. It was an error from them for the first Fred Lynn Jersey goal, but certainly from us it was error after error all game and we just couldnt pull it together, the manager added.

We kept at it, huffing and puffing, but never really produced anything of any note in the whole game.

Individually, we have to take responsibility for some of the things weve done. Well look at things and see what we could have done Rick Porcello Jersey better as a team, but we just really me sed up for the third goal, we mi sed a penalty on the day and just didnt do the jobs well enough.

West Ham currently sit one place above the relegation zone ahead ofTuesday'smeeting with Bournemouth.

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