West Ham midfielder Rice 'very frustrated' after defeat to Leeds | OneFootball

West Ham midfielder Declan Rice admits they missed an opportunity with defeat to Leeds.

Leeds came away from London with three points after an impressive 3-2 win.

Rice later lamented: "It's very frustrating. It was an opportunity to really push up in the table and get three points off Chelsea in second, so it's an opportunity missed today, and a big one as well. Obviously we played Leeds last week and did really well and today we seemed to struggle, but that happens in football."

“The same thing happened in the Southampton game as well – we get back in the game and then are pushing for it and they end up scoring another goal. Silly mistakes just cost us and that's unlike us as usually we're compact and we're solid and we don't normally concede from corners, but we also had some great chances ourselves to draw the game or get ourselves in front, so it's a game of mixed emotions, really."

Rice admits he thought Jarrod Bowen had rescued a point for the hosts.

He added: “Jarrod's one at the end, I thought he was going to go with his head, but we can't say anything to Jarrod because he's been absolutely brilliant for us with the goals his putting in and his assists. It's one of those ones where maybe he saw it late. We were in it right until the end and that's what we're going to keep doing every game."