Manuel Pellegrini was pleased with West Ham United's display with 10-men in Monday's goalless draw with Aston Villa.

The Hammers were left a man down when Arhtur Masuaku was shown his second yellow card with 23 minutes remaining.

West Ham continued to push for a winner despite the numerical disadvantage, which impressed their manager.

"I think that we gave a good performance, first because we came here and from the first minute of the game until the last minute we tried to win," he said.

"After that, with ten men, we continued trying to have the ball, and trying to have the opportunity to win the game. We didn't just defend so I'm very happy with a lot of things tonight.

"I don't know if we played better with ten men, but the important thing was that it didn't seem we had ten players.

"We worked very well in defending, we had the personality to come here and try to win from the first minute.

"We couldn't do that, but with ten men it's a good result."