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Vincent Kompany admitted Burnley\u2019s 2-1 home defeat to West Ham was the toughest one to take yet in what has been a miserable start to life back in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
The Hammers, poor by David Moyes\u2019 own admission for most of the afternoon, scored twice in the space of five minutes to snatch victory away, with Tomas Soucek hitting a superb volley to win it in the first minute of stoppage-time.<\/p>\n
It was a seventh-straight home defeat for Burnley to start the season and leaves them bottom of the table with just four points from 13 games.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can say that,\u201d Kompany said with a rueful laugh when asked if this was the hardest one yet of Burnley\u2019s 11 defeats.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s what makes this game beautiful but also what makes this game hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no other way to say it. Today was a tough one to take but I\u2019ve mentioned it before, it\u2019s still a universal recipe, you\u2019ve got to get back up and keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burnley had led through Jay Rodriguez\u2019s 49th-minute penalty after Luca Koleosho had been tripped by Mohammed Kudus and West Ham, without the injured Jarrod Bowen and Michail Antonio, rarely threatened to get back into the game.<\/p>\n
But that all changed in a frantic finish as Kudus atoned for conceding the penalty by setting up the equaliser, with his cross deflected in by Dara O\u2019Shea for an own goal and then picking out Soucek to strike the winner.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to play until the end but in minute 86, probably what I would have said was how outstanding the performance was, on the ball, off the ball, disciplined, mature,\u201d Kompany said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as it is in football, it is shaped fairly by the result and every minute of the game is as important as the first one and in this case it\u2019s tough\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you go home, if your children fall down what do you tell them? \u2018Get back up and go again\u2019. But you also have to really believe in that. I always have.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens in the last five minutes is we throw everything away. It\u2019s not good enough but it\u2019s not supposed to be easy to get up to this level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moyes recognised his side were lucky to escape Turf Moor with the points.<\/p>\n
\u201cI certainly didn\u2019t see it (coming) at half-time with the way we started the game,\u201d he said. \u201cTo get in at 0-0 was as good as it could get.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hadn\u2019t played well in the first half at all, we were too slow, we never affected Burnley\u2026The climax was great, it shows a lot of the things we\u2019ve got about the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cA bit of resilience, we stuck at it, never wilted and had to find a way of getting a goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t play at our best today. A lot of players were nowhere near their levels but ultimately we got three points in the Premier league.\u201d<\/p>\n
Soucek was the matchwinner in the 3-2 victory over Nottingham Forest before the international break, then scored two in two for the Czech Republic, before his sixth club goal of the season and ninth overall broke Burnley hearts here.<\/p>\n
\u201cTomas scored for the Czech Republic in midweek, he\u2019s scored today, he scored against Forest so really he\u2019s in a bit of goalscoring form,\u201d Moyes said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe took it really well and he took it as someone who\u2019s got a bit more confidence in his finishing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he first came in he got 10 goals in his first season, last year not so much but this year, I think he is up to six already so that\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n