Gianfranco Zola promises a tough week ahead for his strikers as he reflects on today's 2-1 defeat at the Reebok Stadium.
On the game...In the end, after all the chances we had I thought we were going to get at least one point. But it didn't happen and I'm sorry for my players, that's all. That's football. The only complaint I have is that the first 15 minutes were very costly for us.
The free kick, first goal was a great goal so that's football. I've got something to say maybe on the second one, we should have done better. But we knew the first 15 minutes would be difficult; that was a good lesson for the future - in the Premier League you have to start better if you really want to get points.
At every moment in the game I had the idea that we were going to get something because the team were playing very well and they were having problems handling us. I couldn't believe Di Michele's chance, I thought it was a goal. But never mind, he's promised me that next game he's going to score two so ..!
On wasted opportunities...
We had a couple of very good ones. That has been the difference - they had two chances which they took and we didn't, and that's something we're going to be working on in the next few days.
On James Collins...
It's a pity because James has been playing very well recently and it's not easy to lose a player like him, but on the other hand James Tomkins when he came on was excellent so that gives me a good guarantee for the future.
On losing the four-month unbeaten away record...
We've had a long, good spell and now we're looking forward to setting up another one, even longer possibly.
Gary Megson - Bolton Wanderers
I felt it was our biggest game so far this season. We had some repair work to do and we've done that.
We've got into a great lead, 2-0 and we're all over them playing some terrific stuff - then for some unknown reason we became a little bit hesitant, a little bit apprehensive and we got pegged back at times. Although it will be looked at that West Ham put us under a great deal of pressure you would expect that.
Zola and Megson were talking to the BBC.
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