Nottingham Forest celebrated their first residence sport within the Premier League for 23 years by beating West Ham 1-0 on Sunday. The 2-time European champions have made 14 new signings in a bid to take care of their top-flight standing and two of these making their residence debuts have been the heroes as Taiwo Awoniyi scored the one purpose and Dean Henderson saved Declan Rice’s penalty. Forest had fortune on their facet because the Hammers additionally had a first-half purpose controversially dominated out and hit the underside of the crossbar twice after the break by Pablo Fornals and Stated Benrahma.

However that mattered little to a capability 30,000 crowd on the Metropolis Floor, who roared the house facet over the road.

West Ham have now misplaced each their opening two video games of the season, however in stark distinction to a 2-0 defeat to Manchester Metropolis final weekend, they need to have taken not less than a degree again to London.

Benrahma’s cool end from Rice’s move was dominated out after a VAR overview for a foul by Michail Antonio as he blocked off Moussa Niakhate.

On prime of practically 100 million kilos in switch charges, Forest have splashed out a reported 200,000 pounds-a-week  to safe Jesse Lingard on a one-year deal.

Lingard had been lengthy linked with a return to West Ham after a profitable mortgage spell within the 2020/21 season.

And he performed a component within the winner as his shot was blocked by Ben Johnson however rebounded in off Awoniyi’s knee.

Bar a Brennan Johnson purpose that was dominated out by VAR for offside, it was the guests who had all the most important probabilities after the break.

Fornals smashed an effort of the bar seconds into the second interval earlier than Benrahma did likewise from a virtually inch-perfect free-kick.

Rice had the very best likelihood of all from the spot after Scott McKenna dealt with Tomas Soucek’s effort.

Nonetheless, Henderson made himself an immediate hero by diving low to his proper to save lots of the penalty.

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Extra determined defending was wanted by Neco Williams to clear Kurt Zouma‘s header off the road late on, however Forest held out for a well-known win.

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