Kevin Schade’s early strike noticed Brentford beat West Ham 1-0 on the London Stadium as Thomas Frank’s aspect recorded a club-record third straight top-flight win on their travels.
The guests dominated the primary 45 minutes, however solely led by Schade’s fourth-minute purpose as two tight Video Assistant Referee [VAR] requires offside went towards them, though they had been grateful the expertise went of their favour for his or her winner.
The transfer began as Yoane Wissa’s intelligent cross from inside his personal half launched Schade and, after Emerson and Max Kilman collided, the German noticed his preliminary effort half-saved by the advancing Alphonse Areola, who one way or the other raced again to claw the ball off the road – just for the ahead to knock the rebound dwelling.
On a day of a number of VAR interventions, Schade’s purpose first needed to be cleared by goal-line expertise after which for offside, just for Wissa to then see two additional strikes dominated out for offside because the Bees solely went in 1-0 forward on the break, regardless of dominating the primary interval.
West Ham boss Graham Potter reacted by making a triple change on the break and the alterations had the specified impression as the house aspect started to take cost of proceedings.
Nonetheless, a mix of poor ending – Mohammed Kudus blazed over a gaping purpose after being arrange by a type of half-time subs, Evan Ferguson, in the beginning of the second interval – and glorious goalkeeping from the returning Mark Flekken ensured Brentford held on for all three factors.
As for West Ham, although, Potter’s aspect had been booed off at full-time, with the brand new head coach having solely gained one recreation in all competitions since changing Julen Lopetegui in January.
