Good evening and welcome to our live text coverage of the Premier League match between West Ham United and Fulham from the London Stadium! The Hammers have had a tough run of fixtures but have struggled nonetheless, finding themselves in 15th in the Premier League table, whereas Fulham are two places behind them in 17th after registering their first win of the season on Monday - a 2-0 victory over West Brom. We will be bringing you all the build-up, highlights and talking points from the match tonight, so stay tuned ahead of kick-off at 20:00.

Premier League / Matchday 8

London Stadium / 07.11.2020

West Ham United

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Fulham

T. Soucek(90+1')

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ByMarcus Foley

Updated 07/11/2020 at 22:12 GMT

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Highlights

End of 2nd Half

90+8'

FULL-TIME: West Ham 1-0 Fulham

Well, that is it I guess! The Hammers had a flurry of chances early on in both halves but struggled to capitalise on them in a game that seemed headed for a bore draw but incredibly dramatic scenes late on turned a forgettable match into a complete soap opera that the home side will be relieved to have won.

90+8'

OHHH NOOO!!! What is Lookman doing there?! It's the last minute of the game and he has the perfect opportunity to secure a valuable point for Fulham and he decides to go for an audacious panenka attempt. They always look slick if you score, but they are mightily embarrassing if you miss and Lookman simply dinks it straight into the hands of Fabianski. He's thrown it away there.

90+7'

WOW! IT'S GIVEN! Rob Jones goes to the pitchside monitor and proceeds to declare that Benrahma has made contact with Cairney and it will be a penalty! There really was not much in it at all and Moyes is fuming on the touchline.

90+5'

ABSOLUTE CHAOS!! Fulham take a corner and Cairney goes down in the box after appearing to make some contact with Benrahma. The Fulham players are appealing passionately for a penalty and this one will go to VAR...

90+1'

GOOOAALLLLLL!!! Have West Ham just clinched the win?! Benrahma picks up a poor Fulham clearance, plays it across to Soucek and the Czech midfielder nets injury time! Absolute scenes.

Goal

T. Soucek

West Ham United

Goals1

On target2

Fouls against1

90'

CLOSE!! Benrahma nearly gets the Hammers a late winner after wriggling his way into the box and to the byline he has two attempts to score from an acute angle but Areola manages to block both of them.

83'

Fulham make their first change as Ruben Loftus-Cheek is subbed on for Decordova-Reid.

R. Loftus-Cheek

Fulham

Off

B. Decordova-Reid

Fulham

On target1

Blocked Shots1

Fouls1

75'

Chance for West Ham as the substitute Benrahma finds some space on the right hand side and tries to find a teammate in the box. But no one was able to make contact with the ball and Areola sweeps it up easily.

72'

The other change sees Manuel Lanzini come on for Bowen.

M. Lanzini

West Ham United

Off

J. Bowen

West Ham United

On target1

Blocked Shots1

Fouls1

Fouls against1

72'

Moyes finally makes the attacking double substitution that he's been intending to make for about 10 minutes now. The first change sees Said Benrahma replace Pablo Fornals for only his second West Ham appearance. Hopefully he didn't cool down too much while waiting to come on!

S. Benrahma

West Ham United

Off

P. Fornals

West Ham United

Wide1

70'

CLOSE!! Reed finds Decordova-Reid out on the right, who manages to get beyond Cresswell and take a shot but Fabianski gets his hands to it.

69'

Lookman wins a free-kick by virtue of being tripped by Balbuena but wastes the set-piece by hitting it straight at Fabianski after playing a simple one-two with Mitrovic.

65'

Decordova-Reid finds Anguissa inside the box near the byline. He tries to dink it across goal but there's just a bit too much on it for a teammate to meet it.

62'

Ogbonna goes down holding his groin. He has played every minute of West Ham's Premier League season so far and that run will come to an end now as he is substituted off for Issa Diop, who lost his place in the side while having to self-isolate with Covid-19 in September.

Moyes was about to make a double attacking substitution but those plans have perhaps been slightly halted now.

I. Diop

West Ham United

Off

A. Ogbonna

West Ham United

Yellow Cards1

Fouls2

Fouls against1

60'

SAVED!! Haller rises to win the ball and lays it off to Fornals who promptly shoots low and sees his effort saved comfortably by Areola.

56'

Ogbonna now picks up a yellow card himself! Him and Mitrovic will have to be careful now and they both seem quite heated. The Italian defender is overzealous in an aerial challenge and clips Cairney in the process.

Minutes later Ogbonna is marking Mitrovic and they appear to exchange a few more words. The referee Rob Jones is certainly keeping an eye on this.

Yellow card

A. Ogbonna

West Ham United

Yellow Cards1

Fouls2

Fouls against1

54'

Mitrovic collides with Fabianski after following through on his run once the West Ham 'keeper caught the ball and in the process pushes into Ogbonna. The Fulham striker then squares up to Ogbonna and starts pushing him before rightfully being handed a yellow card.

Yellow card

A. Mitrovic

Fulham

Blocked Shots2

Yellow Cards1

Fouls2

Wide2

51'

CLOSE!! Moyes' half-time team talk appears to be working as West Ham pile the pressure on Fulham once again! A corner finds Bowen and his half-volley is deflected inches wide of the goal by Adarabioyo.

48'

OFF THE BAR!! The Hammers hit the crossbar for the second time this evening as Creswell curls a beautiful effort from a free-kick. Lovely technique and he's unfortunate not to score!

2nd Half

46'

Second half underway now! No substitutions for either team, but hopefully the game picks back up again.

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