West Ham United's 4-1 defeat at Manchester City did nothing to ease the pressure on manager Julen Lopetegui.
The latest reverse came after a 5-0 home thrashing at the hands of Liverpool, with Lopetegui's predecessor David Moyes spotted in the crowd at the Etihad.
The former Real Madrid and Spain boss could, however, bemoan his luck after early missed chances by Mohammed Kudus and Tomas Soucek, while Crysencio Summerville was harshly penalised for a foul when clean through.
Lopetegui, whose side did manage a consolation through Niclas Fullkrug, said: "It is not easy to explain the match. We deserved more in my opinion. A lot of little details worked against us.
"Not only did we not take advantage of two clear situations - we have to do better - but after they scored one goal we were very unlucky.
"We had a very clear situation with Summerville on (Manuel) Akanji. It was not a foul but the referee said foul. It was an unfair situation.
"We did very good things and positive things, but in the end it was not enough."
City went ahead when Vladimir Coufal turned Savinho's cross into his own net, before Erling Haaland struck either side of the break and Phil Foden made it 4-0.
It was another tough afternoon for the Hammers, who were without captain Jarrod Bowen through injury.
Stand-in skipper Soucek told the club's website: "It is a sad day for us because we had a couple of chances to go ahead and then we conceded a deflected goal, so that was an unlucky moment for us.
"We had a game plan, how we wanted to play, how we wanted to show ourselves and I think we tried to play with the ball a lot.
"We created the chances, so it was good at the start and even in the second half we played very well in many minutes but, at the end, we conceded four goals and that just can't happen.
"But the number of shots we had is positive. We played Manchester City away. It's always one of the hardest games and we have to take some positivity."
West Ham's focus turns to the FA Cup and a third-round tie at Aston Villa on Friday (8pm).
Meanwhile, City boss Pep Guardiola felt his side were still far from their best in beating the Hammers.
He said: "We saw in many years our level and we are not at our level. We won, I am so happy and it helps us.
"But you judge results, (when) our performance was not good.
"I'm so happy for the guys, and the work ethic, but in the first minutes deserved to be 0-1, 0-2 and we were lucky with the first goal.
"We are a strong team (when) we run a lot and have the composure, but now we don't have it.
"I'm very pleased for the result but you cannot ask me if the old City is back. If you saw the game, we are not.
"You saw many times during the years what we have done with the opponents."
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