Monday, August 15

Forest ire as unlucky Hammers miss out

Nottingham Forest 1 West Ham 0

Luckily I was at Hearts versus Dundee United while this was happening (the Jambos won 4-1) and also enjoying the Edinburgh Festival. We’ll surely not create so many chances without scoring in a game all season.

Declan Rice had a penalty saved, Fornals and Benrahma hit the bar, Benrahma had a goal disallowed, Forest cleared one off the line from Zouma's header and Dean Henderson made a series of great saves. In addition Forest’s goal was the result of a lucky bounce, the ball deflecting off Johnson's clearance on to Awoniyi's shin and into the back of the net.

There’s much to improve on but in a weird way this defeat was encouraging, in particular the return to form from Benrahma. Hopefully we can get some confidence against Viborg and then finally beat bogey team Brighton in the must-win game next weekend. And at least we’re not Man United.

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