It's a tough one to take - Vincent Kompany reacts to West Ham defeat - video Dailymotion

Burnley boss felt his side played well for 86 minutes, but conceded that the defeat was very hard to take.

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00:00 You can say that. It's what makes this game beautiful, but it's also what makes this game hard.

00:07 There's no other ways to say it. Today is a tough one to take.

00:12 I mentioned it before, it's still a universal recipe. You've got to get back up and keep going.

00:24 I was looking at this game and obviously come minute 86, game is what it is. You've got to play until the end.

00:33 But come minute 86, probably what I would have said is how outstanding the performance was.

00:39 On the ball, off the ball, discipline, mature.

00:43 But as it is in football, you get shaped fairly by the result.

00:51 Every minute of the game is as important as the first one. In this case, of course, it's tough.

00:58 You know how I function. For me, I think these moments now, you've got to give yourself the opportunity to be objective

01:12 and look back at the things you've done since the start of the season to get to a certain point, a certain level.

01:19 And believe that with the amount of games left to play, if every game is like this, or most games,

01:24 because it can't be every game like this, but if most games give us this type of feature,

01:31 why should you doubt? Why should you stop working hard to get over the line?

01:42 What I would say is with definitely... It looked like a solid performance today all round, without any drama.

01:53 It was disciplined defensively. It was calculated in possession.

01:59 And there was always threat, whether we had the ball or whether we didn't have the ball.

02:02 And that's the way you have to be in these games in the Premier League.

02:06 So I'd say it's definitely a good template to go forward, but it's hard to take, very hard to take.