Pablo Zabaleta has apologised to West Ham supporters after the club had been humiliated in a defeat to Oxford from the Carabao Cup.
A 2-0 win over Manchester United raised West Ham to fifth in the Premier League on Sunday but they were outclassed by a side 12th at Sky Bet League One, crashing from the next round on Wednesday.
West Ham conceded four occasions on target in a rocking Kassam Stadium after the minute with Tariqe Fosu, Matty Taylor, Elliott Moore and Shandon Baptiste and managed 3 attempts.
“Sorry to the off fans who came to the game because we don’t need our fans to find this sort of functionality,” Zabaleta, who was captain for the night, told the club’s site.
“If you look at the performance tonight, then it is not been anywhere close to our standard and in how we dropped was not excellent. It was just a bad night.”
London rivals Tottenham, beaten by Colchester on Tuesday, Bournemouth and Sheffield United since scalps for league competitions from the contest were combined by west Ham.
Hammers boss Manuel Pellegrini praised Oxford’s display as his side’s six-match unbeaten run ended suddenly.
“Should you give them time and space all of these are good players. They scored four goals, they had additional chances and I believe we just created one in the first ten minutes of the game and one at the last second,” Pellegrini said.
We missed too many moves from the beginning and also the obligation is first on me since I chose the players and second naturally on the team which didn’t compete”
Oxford director Karl Robinson has standing from the Carabao Cup having masterminded a win over Manchester United five decades ago when in charge of MK Dons.
“Considering the scoreboard, 4-0 from West Ham and an extremely powerful West Ham, this can probably go down as one of the greatest results at the Kassam (Stadium) in recent decades,” Robinson stated.
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