West Ham captain Mark Noble has discussed his failed penalty in defeat to Manchester United on Sunday.

With the score at 2-1 and having won a penalty, the Hammers sent on Noble to take it, only for his effort to be saved by United goalkeeper David de Gea.

Noble told whufc.com: "Obviously for myself it was a little bit unfortunate at the end, but looking back on it, when the manager asked me whether I wanted to take the penalty, I didn't even feel nervous – I was just so excited to do that.

"Obviously, missing hurt – but I said many years ago that when you put yourself in that situation and you take penalties, at some point, it is going to go wrong.

"The thing I take out of it was that if the manager had asked me and I'd had said 'no', that I didn't want to take it… I can live with missing a penalty and having the sick feeling I had after, I can live with that, that's fine, but I don't think I could have lived with saying 'no' and regretting for the rest of my life that I didn't put myself in that situation.

"It would have been lovely in my last season to have scored, but as I said, I can live with missing – that's not a problem with me – but would I have been able to live with saying no and sitting there and watching somebody else take it, not knowing 'What if'? That would have haunted me for the rest of my life, so I take a bit of strength out of that.

"I thought the lads were brilliant in the game.

"I thought they were great. We scored a really good goal and obviously we were playing against a top team with now one of the greatest players of all time, and that brings that added pressure.

"The way that the crowd were was incredible. Obviously it would have been topped off with a point but I think the way the boys played, we can take a lot of strength from that."