The Hammers travel to Brighton & Hove Albion this weekend, having surrendered a lead at home to already-relegated Southampton to draw 1-1 last weekend.

The draw represented its sixth league game without a win and kept it fourth-bottom in the Premier League.

"Sure [I understand that]. The performance wasn't good enough and the result isn't what we want. So I completely understand that," Potter said in response to the fans booing.

"Our performance wasn't good enough, first half especially. Nowhere near what we wanted to do. Credit to Southampton but we need to do better with the balance between attack and defence.

"In the modern Premier League, you have to do both sides of the game, we're struggling to do that, to sustain attacks, keep the ball well to create chances. We struggled.

"The we looked was in transition, which is where the goal came from, but overall we're disappointed."

West Ham had initially gone a goal up in the 47th minute through Jarrod Bowen, although Leslie Ugochukwu earned Saints just their 11th point of the season in stoppage-time.

"You have to score the second goal, do the right things, attack well, not give the ball away, and unfortunately we didn't do that well enough," Potter said.

"There are probably not too many players who can say 'I had a really good game today'. We need to look at that collective to find out the reasons. It's not a lack of effort.

"But we're suffering a bit at home, we're suffering here. We need to do better."

Brighton head coach Fabian Hurzeler, meanwhile, was sympathetic to his own fan criticism ahead of this weekend's game.

The Seagulls were beaten 4-2 away to Brentford last time out, leaving them 10th in the Premier League.

"Yeah, in the end we have to make the decisions that bring us success," Hurzeler said.

"I tried to put some fast players like Kaoru Mitoma and Solly March, more midfielders on the pitch to control the game.

"In the end we didn't get the credit for the courage we showed. In the end it doesn't help when you lose a man but he said sorry to the team and he will learn from this."