Everton far from best at West Ham, says Ronald Koeman

Ronald Koeman admitted Everton were far from their best during their 0-0 draw with West Ham at the London Stadium on Saturday.

The Toffees remain winless on the road since Boxing Day and failed to register a single shot on target at the London Stadium.

And the disappointed Dutchman thought only one team deserved to win the game and it was not his own.

"There was one team that deserved the win and that was West Ham, not Everton," Koeman told Sky Sports.

"I'm really disappointed. We were far away from our level of the whole season and I don't understand why we started poorly with no intensity in the game. Then it's really difficult to turn it around.

"One positive thing is a clean sheet but nothing else."

Koeman made a double substitution at half-time replacing Idrissa Gueye and Tom Davies with Gareth Barry and Ademola Lookman, but he revealed he could have made many more changes after his side's woeful first-half performance.

He added: "We needed to change something and then you change two players but we could have changed seven, eight or nine players after the first-half because nobody was at the level we can bring and what the team has brought until now.

"That's why we're disappointed.

"We didn't start the game well. There was a lack of intensity in the game and then it's difficult to change.

"We didn't win any second balls and our ball possession was slow. There was a slot of space to play because they changed the system but we didn't play with the tempo we like to play with."

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The point moved Everton back into sixth place in the Premier League table but with Arsenal and Manchester United, both having three games in hand, a top-five finish looks beyond the Toffees.

"Seventh position in the table is in the pocket and if we want to win more we need to win the game," Koeman said.

"One point is not in that direction."