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From having a second goal disallowed to being pegged back at 1-1 – how important will that couple of minutes in the second half be for both teams come the end of the season?
It’s relief for Dyche and Forest, who always looked like they had the quality to win this game but often looked vulnerable at the back. Dominguez’s equaliser, a looping header from a corner, came at the perfect time and Gibbs-White oozed coolness as he kept his nerve with the late penalty.
Some West Ham players are down on their haunches. Mavropanos sits on the ball and looks ruefully into the distance as the rain continues to teem down. It’s a miserable result for them, a 10th game in a row without a win. There’s still just less than half the season remaining but tonight will be among their best opportunities to close the gap to safety.
FULL TIME: West Ham 1-2 Nottingham Forest
Morgan Gibbs-White’s late penalty wins all three points for Sean Dyche’s side – the gap is now seven between West Ham and Premier League safety.
90+6 min: Williams does wonders for Forest by charging down the left wing. Mavropanos takes the bait and brings him down, at the cost of a yellow card.
90+5 min: Forest win another free-kick in their own half as Gibbs-White goes down under a challenge. Textbook.
90+4 min: Forest get a free-kick in their own box after Williams gets an arm across the face from Walker-Peters.
90+3 min: Three centre-backs on for Forest now. West Ham look a bit lost for ideas.
90+2 min: Dyche runs down the clock by replacing Bakwa with Morato. The sub is subbed.
90+1 min: Williams intervenes at a Summerville cross before it can reach Pablo at the back post.
90 min: Sean Dyche points to his head and tries to calm his players down. Some West Ham fans head for the exits. There will be seven minutes added.
GOAL! West Ham 1-2 Nottingham Forest (Gibbs-White 89pen)
Straight down the middle! Areola dives to his right and Gibbs-White slots it into the space he has vacated.
Gibbs-White will take. This is a massive moment for both clubs.
PENALTY TO NOTTINGHAM FOREST
Tony Harrington points to the spot for what he describes as a “foul” by Areola on Gibbs-White.
It’s not good news for West Ham. There will be an onfield review. The evidence is pretty damning for Areola, who punches Gibbs-White right in the face.
85 min: Anderson swings a teasing ball to the far post and Soucek heads away. Areola also comes out to punch but connects only with Gibbs-White’s face. VAR are checking for a penalty …
84 min: Pablo treads on Williams and Forest get a free-kick to the left of the penalty area. Anderson will take …
82 min: Big block from Murillo! Just as Bowen is about to pull the trigger in the box, the Brazilian comes in to prod the ball out for a corner. Bowen then tries a chest-and-volley from the corner and it dribbles wide of the near post.
80 min: Potts comes on in place of Fernandes for the last 10 minutes plus stoppage time.
79 min: Potts is preparing to come on for West Ham, who are enjoying a decent spell of pressure.
77 min: West Ham go close! Walker-Peters plays a one-two with Pablo and shoots across goal. Sels saves well and Castellanos can’t turn it in.
75 min: Soucek lifts the ball down West Ham’s right channel and Bowen directs it across the six-yard box where Aina is waiting to hook it out for a corner. Bowen takes and it comes off Soucek for a goal-kick.
73 min: Hudson-Odoi picks out Dominguez in the D and his low shot is accurate but Areola gathers before it finds the bottom corner.
72 min: Pablo sees his name up in lights as he dispossesses Anderson, enters the area and hits a shot that flies high and wide of the far post. Definitely an opportunity.
71 min: Castellanos looses out to Murillo on halfway and the defender sets off, bumping off a couple of challenges before sending a wayward ball forward. He’s fun to watch in full flow, that’s for sure.
70 min: Nuno has been booked for contesting that decision a bit too vehemently.
69 min: Bowen fronts up Williams, trying to create room for the shot. When it comes, Williams slides to block it. Summerville goes down on the edge of the box as Anderson was chasing him but the referee gives nothing.
67 min: Forest waste another free-kick in a crossing position. The momentum is still in their favour for the moment.
65 min: West Ham make a bit of a meal of defending the corner as one defender heads against another but Areola picks up the pieces. Pablo, another new signing, is playing behind Castellanos in attack.
64 min: Anderson floats a free-kick into the box and Todibo heads it behind for another Forest corner …
63 min: Castellanos breaks loose for West Ham but runs into Williams … quite literally. West Ham make two changes: Paquetá is replaced by Pablo and Scarles by 18-year-old Mayers.
62 min: Still Forest come. Mavropanos gets a vital head to Anderson’s inviting cross that stops it reaching Igor Jesus in behind him.
61 min: Todibo goes into the book for a reckless slide on halfway that sends Igor Jesus up in the air.
60 min: More questions over the West Ham disallowed goal as replays show that Milenkovic made a tackle on Summerville as the ball was played to the offside Castellanos and may have got the last touch.
59 min: The tables have turned big time. Scarles concedes a corner, which Hudson-Odoi will take but the referee gives a free-kick to West Ham.
58 min: Murillo heads at Areola! Nervy times for West Ham. Murillo stays forward from a previous free-kick and heads a cross down into the grasp of Areola.
57 min: The away end is in full voice now. The rest of the ground is stunned a bit. From 2-0 up to 1-1 in the space of a couple of minutes. Now it’s about how West Ham respond.
GOAL! West Ham 1-1 Nottingham Forest (Dominguez 55)
What a kick in the teeth for West Ham! After the disallowed goal, Forest win a corner through Williams’ blocked shot. Anderson whips it into the near post, Dominguez flicks it on and it loops right over into the far corner!
54 min: It wasn’t that close either. Castellanos made his run too early and was coming back.
GOAL DISALLOWED
VAR reveals that Castellanos was offside from Summerville’s initial pass out wide and the goal is chalked off.
Summerville scores for West Ham!
Another massive goal for West Ham! Summerville leads a breakaway and Castellanos switches it to Walker-Peters. The full-back comes inside and has a swing with his left foot. It’s blocked into Summerville’s path, the ball sits up nicely and he hits it hard and low through a crowd of bodies and into the corner. It might take a nick off Castellanos.
50 min: Williams takes a tumble after being bumped by Soucek in the area. Dominguez prods the ball goalwards and it comes off Soucek and goes behind. VAR checks for handball off Soucek and says no penalty. Somehow Forest did not get a corner.
48 min: Bowen shoots over! Summerville feeds the ball into the West Ham captain and he thumps it high and wide of the near side of the goal – but not by much.
47 min: Paquetá pulls off a lovely spin in midfield to set West Ham up for an attack which they eventually retreat from. They come back for more but Scarles’s bouncing cross is easily dealt with.
SECOND HALF BEGINS
Forest have made one change at the break: Bakwa for Hutchinson. One winger for another.
“Greetings from the london stadium Billy,” writes Ian. “Literally 10 empty seats next to us in block 201. We had bigger attendances for dead rubber conference games against sides from Azerbaijan.”
Those that have turned up have been rewarded thus far.
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HALF-TIME: West Ham 1-0 Nottingham Forest
A Domínguez cross is cleared to safety and there’s the whistle. West Ham lead thanks to Murillo’s own goal after Soucek had flicked on Summerville’s corner. Nuno will be pretty pleased with their defensive showing but you get the feeling that Forest will put them under substantial pressure if they continue to sit back in the second half.
One minute added.
45 min: Areola gathers the corner, pushes his team up and launches the ball towards Bowen. It runs out for a Forest throw in their own half.
44 min: Igor Jesus runs the channels once more but is dispossessed. It’s just not coming off for him at the moment. Aina has a cross blocked and Forest have a corner.
42 min: Hudson-Odoi hits the bar! He drifts in on his right foot and bends one towards the far top corner and it bounces off the crossbar and behind. Areola was nowhere near it.
41 min: Fernandes wins the ball back and combines with Bowen through the middle but his pass off to the right isn’t weighted right. Bowen slides a ball into the box but it’s cut out.
39 min: West Ham are happy just to keep Forest at arm’s length at the moment. They’re seeing little of the ball in the Forest half.
37 min: A bright move from Forest sees Igor Jesus flick the ball into Hutchinson’s path but West Ham close the door before he can get a shot off. Castellanos then leaves Milenkovic on the deck and Forest get a free-kick.
35 min: Walker-Peters is pulled up for a foul throw having stolen one too many yards. It’s all a bit scrappy at the moment.
34 min: Mavropanos takes the free-kick down on the left, sets it back for Scarles but his delivery is headed away. The rain is coming down a fair bit now.
33 min: There are a few worried looks in West Ham colours as Fernandes goes down but he picks himself up to launch a free-kick into the box …
