Nottingham Forest 0-3 West Ham: Late flourish earns Hammers’ first win of the season | OneFootball

Three goals in the final seven minutes helped ease the pressure from under-fire Graham Potter as West Ham took all three points from the City Ground.

Jarrod Bowen opened the scoring late on before Lucas Paquetá’s penalty and Callum Wilson’s first goal for the club helped The Hammers emerge victorious after a disappointing start to the season.

As it happened

West Ham had the best chances of the opening 15 minutes as Dinos Mavropanos and Niclas Füllkrug both headed narrowly over bar.

The first chance for Forest came in the 22nd minute as Morgan Gibbs-White flicked a header off-target.

Both sides went in goalless at the interval as the chances were few and far between in the first half.

Minutes into the second half Chris Wood saw a close-range header saved by Mads Hermansen before Bowen then drove up the pitch where his low cross was put narrowly wide by Paquetá.

Füllkrug came close to breaking the deadlock 56 minutes in, but his powerful shot from just inside the box forced Matz Sels’ to make a brilliant one hand save.

In the 84th minute, Bowen got the all-important goal as he directed Crysencio Summerville’s pass to the edge of the box into the bottom left corner to give West Ham the lead.

Just under four minutes later Summerville was taken down in the box by Ibrahim Sangaré. Paquetá placed the penalty in the bottom left corner sending Sels the wrong way.

El Hadji Malick Diouf saw his late cross converted by Wilson as he headed the ball home to seal a well-fought victory for The Hammers.

The lineups

Nottingham Forest: Sels; Williams, Murillo, Milenković, Aina; Anderson, Sangaré; Hudson-Odoi, Gibbs-White (C), Ndoye; Wood

West Ham United: Hermansen; Diouf, Kilman, Mavropanos, Walker-Peters; Souček, Ward-Prowse; Bowen (C), Paquetá, Fernandes; Füllkrug