West Ham attacking midfielder Manuel Lanzini believes that there are a lot of positives for the side to take from the Arsenal game into Wednesday's FA Cup replay against Manchester United.
The Hammers came from being two goals behind to be up 3-2 in the 52nd minute at Upton Park. However, they were disappointed in the end as Laurent Koscielny's late strike earned a point for Arsene Wenger's team.
While Lanzini is disappointed with the fact that his team weren't able to kill off the game, he believes that there are more positives to take away from the game than the negatives.
The Hammers now have an FA Cup quarter-final replay against Manchester United on Wednesday and Lanzini hopes that their performance from the weekend will motivate them to a win against the Red Devils.
“The team showed a lot of character to get a point from the game", Lanzini told his club's official website.
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"It is slightly frustrating that we weren’t able to take the three points, but on the whole, I think we take a lot of positives from it and we will now concentrate on Wednesday’s cup game against Manchester United."
Speaking about the events that transpired during the course of the match on Saturday, the 23-year-old said that once they started to move the ball a bit better things improved and in spite of being 2-0 down they managed to turn things around in their favour.
“When you go 2-0 down in the first half, you know that it is always going to be difficult to come back to get something out of the game. But we then started to move the ball around a bit better and things got better.
“It was very end to end and the balance shifted between the two sides during the game. We were up against a good side with a talented midfield and we knew that before the game.
"We knew that we needed to break up their rhythm, but at first, we didn’t manage to do that and that’s why we struggled a bit. When we were able to break up their movement, we got ourselves back into the game and into a position to at least draw the game."
