Robert Snodgrass lamented West Ham United's inability to convert their chances against Liverpool on Wednesday night.
The Reds were comfortable 2-0 winners at London Stadium, with Mohamed Salah and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
But Snodgrass thinks the game could have turned out differently if his team were clinical in front of goal.
"It's a hard one, Snodgrass said. "You're playing against the European champions and they're the out-and-out favourites to win the league. We've had a lot of chances there and you've got to take them to give yourself a chance. We conceded a penalty, which we're disappointed with, and then a goal from a counter-attack from our set-piece.
"There's a lot of positives to take though. The lads were miles better than what we were at Leicester and we've just said in the dressing room that that's the minimum from now until the end of the season; that work-rate. We've run the European champions close, but it's disappointing, but we need to get ourselves ready for a tough game [against Brighton on] Saturday.
"It goes that way sometimes for you. It's one of those nights. Their 'keeper has pulled off some great saves and we've conceded goals that we worked really hard in training to stop. You can't gift Liverpool penalties, especially at a point in the game where we had a good shape and they couldn't break us down. We had our chances."