West Ham United boss Slaven Bilic admitted his team were gutted after falling to a 1-0 defeat at ten man Southampton in the Premier League.

Maya Yoshida fired home the only goal of the game after just nine minutes which handed the Saints victory.

Southampton were reduced to ten men when Victor Wanyama was sent off for a rash challenge on Dimitri Payet but the Hammers could not take advantage and equalise.

Bilic told the club website: “Of course we are gutted because this was a great opportunity for us.

"It’s a game we didn’t deserve to lose – we made a sloppy start but were the better team for three-quarters of the game.

“The end of the first half, the start of the second half and especially after they went down to ten men we were better, but we can’t start like that.

“We helped them a lot. They started lively, but we gave them a couple of corners unnecessarily, and from the quantity of balls into the box they’ve scored."

Bilic added: “We played really good after that, until we got to the box, but our delivery was not good enough.
 
“They defended well, even with ten men you can fill the box with numbers and we were getting into the situations where you need some extra quality.
 
“A better cross, or some excellent movement, but we didn’t do it. We didn’t test their keeper [often enough] and they defended really good. We are gutted that we lost this way."