Key events
69 mins: Back in the real world, Forest are on the front foot again, with Gibbs-White winning a corner. He’s been immense today – head and shoulders above everyone else.
68 mins: I’m still reeling from that delay. How can it possibly take that long to decide whether Dominguez was interfering with play from an offside position when it was clear nobody else was offside and the ball didn’t go anywhere near him? Truly baffling stuff.
GOAL GIVEN. Let’s all move on with our lives, shall we?
That delay lasted more than six minutes. Good grief.
65 mins: This is taking a farcical amount of time. “F*ck VAR” is the chant from the terraces.
63 mins: The officials are still having communication issues apparently … Dominguez is the only Forest player offside from Elanga’s delivery. You cannot give that as offside, can you? Who knows.
VAR is having a look at this … was anyone in an active offside position? Doesn’t look much wrong with it to me.
GOAL! West Ham 0-2 Nottingham Forest (Milenkovic, 61)
Elanga whips it in and it’s ended in the net via a touch or two. That might be Elanga’s goal!
No, it looks like it was glanced in by Milenkovic. Either way Forest have a precious two-goal lead and all the plaudits must go to Elanga for a wicked delivery.
60 mins: Füllkrug at least ought to give West Ham a focal point, something they’ve badly lacked this season. It looks like a back four now with Bowen and Kudus wide of the German.
At the other end, Todibo clatters into Elanga who was racing down the left, conceding a free-kick.
FOUR West Ham changes …
Füllkrug for Soucek, Alvarez for Cresswell, Paquetá for Rodriguez and Soler for Ward-Prowse. Let’s see how that shakes things up.
57 mins: Guido Rodriguez, who has been largely anonymous, is booked for hauling down Gibbs-White.
The resulting free-kick is lobbed into the mixer by Anderson but Murillo’s volleyed cross is easily gathered by Areola.
56 mins: Coufal has a pop and it’s not half bad. Forest afford him the time to chest down and volley just over the crossbar.
Graham Potter is preparing a number of changes, to hopefully bring some thrust to this lacklustre performance.
54 mins: Nice play from Wan-Bissaka, nicking the ball as Forest threatened a counter and then slinking in between a few men and playing for Coufal to cross nicely … but why so few Hammers gambling in the box? Nothing came of it in the end.
Neco Williams is the latest Forest player to go down with a knock. He looks fine, to be honest.
52 mins: Better. Kudus wriggles away from a couple of Forest players, with Anderson booked for a despairing challenge on the Ghanaian.
51 mins: Jeez, this is slow paced stuff at the moment. I know West Ham have very little motivation, but there’s no urgency about their play at all.
48 mins: Can West Ham offer any sort of attacking threat in this half? It all sort of fizzled out for them after an encouraging start in the first 45.
Their fans will demand something in the final home half of the season.
46 mins: Kudos to the Forest medical team, who have clearly sorted out the Brazilian defender to get him in a fit enough state to play a little while longer. Is he 100 percent fit though? We’ll see.
Second half: Back under way – and Murillo is back up and running for Forest after all!
It looks like Murillo will play no part in the second half. He didn’t quite need a stretcher but went off around the perimeter of the pitch on the back of a buggy to the visiting dressing room.
Morato is the likely half-time replacement for him. That’s a blow for Forest.
The two 3pm kick-offs are under way, with Fulham’s Raul Jimenez scoring for them at Brentford. Leicester v Ipswich is the other game.
HT: West Ham 0-1 Nottingham Forest
A half that begin brightly and openly ended in rather dour and dismal fashion, especially for West Ham, who found themselves a goal down after 11 minutes via a horrible Alphonse Areola error. Morgan Gibbs-White, who has comfortably been the best player on the pitch, made no mistake in capitalising and Forest have the exact situation they’d have craved before kick-off.
They lead 1-0 at the break and their Champions League qualification hopes are still very much alive. West Ham simply must do better.
The only negative for the visitors could be an injury that Murillo sustained right at the end of the half, challenging for a ball in the West Ham box. It looks like an ankle injury and Nuno’s brow was furrowed as the defender got treatment deep into first half added time. We’ll hear more about that during half-time, for sure.
45 mins +3: Coufal goes into the referee’s book for a show of dissent after a 50-50 corner/goal-kick decision is given Forest’s way. That sums up the Hammers’ half.
45 mins + 1: “They’re not angry, they’re just bored,” says Sky Sports’ Jamie Carragher of the West Ham fans, who haven’t had much to cheer so far today.
This half is fizzling out somewhat. We’ll have four added minutes, though,
42 mins: It’s been a frustrating watch, so far, for those of us with Elanga and Wood in our fantasy football teams.
41 mins: Two big opportunities go begging for Chris Wood … or do they? The flag belatedly goes up and it looks very close on replay. Wood couldn’t find Elanga in the first instance and then took too much time and only found Areola with the second.
39 mins: Slide tackle after slide block… the Forest commitment is there for all to see. But there’s no great urgency from them to commit players forward at this stage. They’re in control, without controlling possession or territory.
37 mins: A near mixup in the Forest defence almost brings about a goal for Cresswell, who aims a cheeky backheel goalwards and gets a corner for his troubles.
Soucek is then penalised for a push going up for a header.
36 mins: The home fans have found their voices and are urging their team forward at every opportunity. Almost every backwards pass prompts a London Stadium groan. Their team are still bossing the ball.
34 mins: Milenkovic slides in effectively to stop Kudus racing through the centre of Forest’s defence. Good defending, as usual, from the Serbian international.
32 mins: Kudus arrives late in the box for a header but mis-times his jump and it’s over the bar.
31 mins: Anderson, who looks to have shaken off that knock by the way, is doing a decent job of recycling the ball for Forest in the middle. It’s so congested in there that West Ham cannot navigate a route through.
30 mins: Magnificent feet from Gibbs-White, deep in his own territory, to dance away from trouble and get Forest moving forward with a good pass. He’s a fine player.
