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\nNicolas Dominguez (l) got Forest’s leveller<\/p>\n
West Ham’s Premier League survival hopes took another major blow after slipping to a 2-1 defeat at home to fellow strugglers Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n
The Hammers will point to two controversial VAR decisions, a disallowed goal for offside and a late penalty award converted by Morgan Gibbs-White for Forest’s winner.<\/p>\n
But ultimately they came off second best to a team just as bad as them and where the gap to safety would have been just one point with a victory over Sean Dyche’s side, it is now seven.<\/p>\n
Having rolled over to give rock-bottom Wolves a first win of the season on Saturday, a 12th defeat in their 21 games means the end is surely nigh.<\/p>\n
They were without Callum Wilson, with the striker understood to have already negotiated his departure having been removed from the squad earlier in the day.<\/p>\n
Instead West Ham have gambled on new signings and Taty Castellanos, the #28million capture from Lazio, was handed an immediate debut little more that 24 hours after arriving in east London.<\/p>\n
The Argentinian was quickly involved, seeing a shot charged down after being played in by Crysencio Summerville.<\/p>\n
Forest threatened with Neco Williams seeing a 20-yard curler acrobatically tipped over the crossbar by Alphonse Areola.<\/p>\n
West Ham took the lead after 13 minutes, albeit with a goal entirely of Forest’s making.<\/p>\n
Omari Hutchinson’s attempt at a Cruyff turn near his own corner flag backfired when he conceded a corner, and when Tomas Soucek flicked on Summerville’s delivery Murillo inadvertently headed past his own keeper.<\/p>\n
Forest were inches from equalising shortly before half-time when Callum Hudson-Odoi’s swerving, dipping effort clipped the crossbar.<\/p>\n
Early in the second half a brief VAR check cleared Soucek of a suspected handball in the area, although Forest should at least have had a corner.<\/p>\n
Play moved to the other end and when Kyle Walker-Peters’ shot was blocked it fell for Summerville to lash home, only for VAR to spot Castellanos was offside – some time earlier – in the build-up.<\/p>\n
\nNicolas Dominguez (l) got Forest’s leveller<\/p>\n
It was a pivotal moment, as seconds later Forest equalised when Nicolas Dominguez met Elliot Anderson’s corner at the near post and his header looped up and over Walker-Peters at the far post.<\/p>\n
Nuno Espirito Santo sent on his second new forward, Pablo Felipe, before the Hammers boss’ frustration got the better of him when he was yellow-carded for protesting against the decision not to give what looked a clear foul on Summerville.<\/p>\n
Sels made a fine double save to deny Walker-Peters and then Castellanos on the follow-up, before Jarrod Bowen was thwarted by a last-ditch Murillo block.<\/p>\n
The winner came after Areola came out to clear another corner only to catch Gibbs-White in the face, with referee Tony Harrington eventually giving the spot-kick for the Forest captain to smash home and leave West Ham seriously contemplating life in the Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham’s Premier League survival hopes took another major blow after slipping to a 2-1 defeat at home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-231378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}