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The news fans dreaded has occurred. After what was already a disappointing result against Southampton, as the Hammers charged for a late goal, Konstantinos Mavropanos was taken out by Southampton’s Daniel Peretz and subsequently suffered a knee injury which the club are not immensely hopeful about.

The Greek international is set to be out for 4-6 weeks, which will serve as a devastating blow as he could miss up to nine matches, one of which being Middlesbrough at the beginning of December.

Well, well, well, where does one start with what was West Ham’s most turbulent match of the season so far? Now that the emotions have started to settle down, Saturday’s match, in retrospect, has many theories that one could follow.

Looking at the match as a whole, it was a shambles, and West Ham were tragic defensively, but that also doesn’t hide the fact that the Hammers conceded three and walked away with no points against an underwhelming Southampton side on Saturday, who ultimately were lucky to walk away with three points given their defensive ability too.

West Ham: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Kilman, Mavropanos, Morato, Engels, Kante, Mukasa, Bowen (C), Solomon, Taty
Subs: Areola, Soucek, Austbø, Orford, Piroe, Pablo, Scarles, Golambeckis, Mayers

Southampton: Peretz, Bree, Stephens (C), Schlotterbeck, Manning, Ward-Prowse, Jander, Matsuki, Azaz, Scienza, Dobbin
Subs: Long, Wood, Abbott, Roerslev, Wellington, Bragg, Fellows, Edozie, Mubama