{"id":396764,"date":"2026-01-07T04:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/396764\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:48:07","slug":"west-ham-an-impossible-task-ten-game-winless-run-leaves-nuno-espirito-santos-side-facing-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/396764\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham: ‘An impossible task?’ Ten-game winless run leaves Nuno Espirito Santo’s side facing drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

The stats make grim reading.<\/p>\n

With four draws and six losses, it is the first time West Ham<\/a> have gone 10 Premier League games without a win since a run of 11 between December 2006 and March 2007.<\/p>\n

Only Bournemouth<\/a> with 16 have dropped more top-flight points from winning positions than the Hammers’ 15, while West Ham<\/a> have also failed to win any of their past five matches when scoring first.<\/p>\n

Boss Nuno Espirito Santo, who guided Nottingham Forest<\/a> to Europe last season before being dismissed three games into 2025-26, has now picked up 11 points from 16 matches since he replaced the sacked Graham Potter in September.<\/p>\n

That is the worst start from any West Ham<\/a> boss in the Premier League era, with the back-to-back wins over Newcastle<\/a> and Burnley<\/a> in November – Nuno’s only two successes – quickly fading from memory.<\/p>\n

Former West Ham<\/a> and England goalkeeper Rob Green, speaking on Sky Sports, feels change is needed at London Stadium.<\/p>\n

“Ten games without a win you’re wondering, where is the answer now? Where do West Ham<\/a> go now? Where does Nuno go from here? You can’t see things continuing much longer with results like this,” said Green.<\/p>\n

“They need at least 30 points to have any chance of staying up and they’re not going to get close at this rate.<\/p>\n

“I don’t see Nuno staying. I just can’t see it how you can go this long without winning a game. Tonight wasn’t the worst performance by a long shot and they still didn’t get a result. <\/p>\n

“It’s heartbreaking but I don’t see another answer. It’s looking more and more an impossible task.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The stats make grim reading. With four draws and six losses, it is the first time West Ham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-396764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}