West Ham midfielder Jarrod Bowen insists there's positives to draw from defeat at Manchester United.

An unfortunate Craig Dawson own-goal from a corner kick put the Red Devils ahead shortly after the restart, but the Irons responded well and created several promising shooting opportunities, only to see the ball not fall for them in the critical moments.

Despite the defeat, therefore, Bowen was optimistic that encouragement could be drawn from a hard-fought defeat as West Ham seek to close out a memorable season thus far accordingly.

“Coming to Manchester United away, you know they're going to have chances, and Lukasz [Fabianski] made some great saves for us," Bowen told West Ham TV.

“We're obviously disappointed to concede from a set-piece where we've been really strong this season, but we had the ball in some great positions in the final third – myself included – and we didn't capitalise on it.

“You've got to stay in the game and you've got to impose yourself on the game as well. There are different spells in games where we'll be on top, winning the ball back high which I think we did well, especially in the second half, and there will be times like in the first half where we were penned in a bit.

“It's just about different times in the game, different stages. Right up to the last whistle, you could see the work rate we were putting in, how much we wanted it, but it just didn't fall for us.

“We had a couple of shots blocked and things not dropping for us, but at the end of the day we've lost the game and we're disappointed and gutted by the way we probably weren't at the levels we expect ourselves to be at.

“We're going to lose games in the season – but what we've done well this season is, when we've lost a game, we've reacted really well the game after."