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- But instead they remain five points adrift of safety after the first of a run of supposedly winnable games, with Brighton and Forest still to come to east London, either side of a trip to rock-bottom Wolves. Burnley’s lack of quality allows depleted Everton to leave with a pointRead moreThere was little festive good cheer in the air at the London Stadium, with West Ham supporters holding up red cards and chanting “sack the board” in the latest protest against the owner David Sullivan and the vice-chair Karren Brady.
- On the pitch, the club have won just two matches at home this season, lost their last six London derbies and taken just three points from their last seven games. Jiménez, who scored Fulham’s winner against Forest before Christmas which lifted them well clear of any imminent danger, had their first chance but curled his effort wide.
- Moments later, Harry Wilson let fly from 20 yards with Alphonse Areola at full stretch to tip the ball over. West Ham threatened when Mateus Fernandes threaded the ball to Jarrod Bowen, whose angled shot was saved by Bernd Leno.
- Then a slick Hammers move down the right saw Kyle Walker-Peters send Crysencio Summerville to the byline, and his cross was headed narrowly wide by Ollie Scarles. Summerville had a volley deflected wide from a Freddie Potts corner before, at the other end, Areola had to make an unorthodox save with his feet to keep out Joachim Andersen’s long-range effort. Fulham should have taken the lead seven minutes into the second half when Wilson darted into space down the right, but his low cross eluded both Kevin and Sasa Lukic in front of goal. Nuno Espírito Santo sees West Ham slip to their 11th Premier League home defeat of 2025, now the joint-most home losses in their league history in a calendar year along with 1967.
- ony O Brien/ReutersThe chances were by now coming at both ends with Lukic heading an inviting Antonee Robinson cross wide, before Bowen somehow scooped a cross from Soungoutou Magassa off target from six yards out.
