West Ham midfielder Declan Rice admits they weren't good enough for defeat at Arsenal last night.
The victory saw the Gunners leapfrog West Ham into fourth place, with David Moyes' side enduring a miserable run of two wins from their last eight games.
"Not good enough tonight," the 22-year-old said. "Nowhere near the level that's required to be a top-four team
"You can't come to a place like Arsenal and let them impose the game on you like we did tonight.
"We just made bad decisions across the pitch, really. Giving the ball away cheaply, taking too many touches, not putting the ball in the box, [being] soft, not making tactical fouls. Just all round, a night off it."
Rice suggested that referee Anthony Taylor was "against us all night" in response to his controversial decision to send Vladimir Coufal off, but admitted that Arsenal's success in the final third was the difference.
"We had a little spell in the first half where we were getting in down the sides of them," he said. "What we've been lacking recently is putting crosses in the box and then actually putting the ball in the back of the net and again tonight it showed.
"Second half they scored a great goal from Martinelli and [from] Smith Rowe, and obviously we didn't have the cutting edge to score or bring one back."
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