The Baggies lost 2-1 after being reduced to nine-men at Bloomfield Road.
Pablo Ibanez was sent-off for bringing down DJ Campbell, and they were punished from the resulting penalty by Charlie Adam.
Gonzalo Jara soon followed him off as he was red-carded for a two-footed lunge on Luke Varmey - who then doubled the score on the hour.
Youssouf Mulumbu pulled one back for the Baggies, but Blackpool held on to take the point.
"We tried and the players were magnificent, they fought hard and battled, and you never know in football but it has been a night to forget for us," he told Sky Sports.
Di Matteo felt Ibanez should not have been sent-off.
"It would have been nice to see a good football game but that was destroyed by incidents on the night," he said.
"On the first one it was probably a penalty but it was not a sending off, the second one he called it right- it was a sending off.
"I think our player (Jara) lost his head with first decision and then he made a mistake.
"We were down to nine, it doesn't happen very often and we tried not to concede a goal and just tried to hurt them on the break, we defended well and going forward we had a couple of chances.
"When you lose under those circumstances we have to take it and rebuild, we are going to be missing some players but we need to start again."
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