Nuno’s first home match in charge coincided with a planned stay-away organised by supporters’ groups in protest against the club’s board.<\/p>\n
It seemed as though West Ham’s defence had also not bothered turning up in what was an alarmingly poor display.<\/p>\n
Those fans who were in attendance sat there in near pin-drop silence as their team rolled over yet again – the first time they have lost their opening four home matches of a season in the club’s history – before booing them off at the end.<\/p>\n
On the day Graham Potter – sacked by the Hammers last month – was named as the new manager of Sweden, his replacement got a stark illustration of the mess he has been left with.<\/p>\n
“Not good enough. Poor,” was the head coach’s blunt assessment. “Fairly Brentford won the game, they were the better team.<\/p>\n
“I think we are all concerned. You can see our own fans are concerned. Concern becomes anxiety, becomes silence. We have a problem.<\/p>\n
“It’s understandable. It’s up to us to change. The fans need to see something that pleases them and they can support us and give us energy.<\/p>\n
“I understand it, I understand it totally, and I respect it. It’s up to us, it’s up to us to change it.”<\/p>\n
![\"Igor](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/00235903-614.jpg\"\/)
\nBrentford’s Igor Thiago celebrates his first-half goal with manager Keith Andrews<\/p>\n
Brentford had 22 attempts on goal to West Ham’s seven. The only surprise was that it took them 43 minutes to score.<\/p>\n
The goal came courtesy of Maximilian Kilman’s risible attempt at clearing a routine ball over the top which allowed Kevin Schade to nip in behind and hook the ball to Thiago.<\/p>\n
Hammers keeper Alphonse Areola got a hand to his shot but the ball spun away and nestled inside the far post.<\/p>\n
Thiago, ruled out for most of last season through injury, found the net again before the break, only for his effort to be ruled out by VAR for offside.<\/p>\n
Thiago and Schade also hit the woodwork before Brentford finally wrapped up the win in stoppage time when Keane Lewis-Potter cut the ball back for fellow sub Jensen to fire into the roof of the net.<\/p>\n
“Very pleased,” said boss Keith Andrews. “We approached the game really well. I had a good feeling the last few days, the vibe, the energy around the place. I thought we produced a really good performance.<\/p>\n
“Ultimately you want that second goal to be more comfortable but I felt we controlled it in the main. It was the most complete performance of the season, for sure.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nuno Espirito Santo admitted “we have a problem” after West Ham slumped to a dispiriting 2-0 defeat at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-135397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}