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West Ham: Hermansen, Mayers, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Kilman, Todibo, Potts, Magassa, Bowen (C), Summerville, Taty
Subs: Areola, Soucek, Walker-Peters, Pablo, Rodriguez, Scarles, Irving, Golambeckis, Kante

QPR: Walsh, Mbengue, Dunne, Cook, Norrington-Davies, Hayden, Madsen, Dembele, Saito, Kone, Kolli
Subs: Hamer, Adamson, Alindileni, Smith, Field, Morgan, Bennie, Smyth, Esquerdinha

After a painful run of being winless in 10, the Hammers have weighed their future upon the results of others and are reliant on them to stay amongst the pack.

Last night’s results saw Newcastle have an emphatic comeback against Leeds to win 4-3, but despite their loss, they don’t just remain 8 points above the struggling Hammers, which really does show the bigger picture. These other ‘relegation candidates’ are capable of bringing it to the big boys, they’re able to put up a fight and make it a close game, in comparison to West Ham? Nuno’s side more often than not will sit back and adopt a damage limitation style once losing to protect our non-existent goal difference.

Bournemouth, Wolves, Fulham, and Burnley all managed to secure points last night. The Cherries, who appeared to be plummeting, got their first win in 11 games. Meanwhile, Fulham beat the Blues, Wolves secured a draw, and Burnley drew 2-2 against Manchester United.

Shockingly, from being down and out, Wolves have now picked up form, they haven’t lost in three and gotten 5 points in those, curtesy of ourselves… we can’t even see where to get a point, with the worrying factor being that a point is no longer good enough, we need wins from thin air, the odd point and relying on Forest or Leeds to lose will only result in a slow impending relegation.

Fans are grasping at straws at the moment, which almost doesn’t appear a sad sight to see, there’s minimal feeling towards the situation that West Ham are in, as it was anticipated by most initially. Certainly no sudden surprises!

There are 17 fixtures until the season is over, 51 points to play for, which is certainly a big handful on the table that could perhaps be achieved, yet it still feels impossible. Why is that? Within West Ham’s last 17 matches, the Irons have picked up 11 points…

Surrounding teams have a better fight than West Ham, they’ve got leaders, mentality and overall seem to want to stay up more.

Misfortune for ourselves but fortunate regarding others, being reliant on surrounding results and riding on luck can only go on for so long… wake up West Ham!

Lost in the Forest! Tonight’s defeat leaves West Ham winless in 10 and seven points from safety, a game in which the Hammers played a good game, but lacklustre abilities and the end of the rainbow being reached, left us with nothing but an empty pot of gold.

A handful of opportunities were presented to Nuno and West Ham at the beginning of 2026, a beginning which could’ve seen hope reinstated in all, but instead, the supposed back-to-back ‘must wins’ games have ended up in damning defeats, with the feeling of relegation no longer holding the value of fear and now more so complacency.

From being 1-0 up through a bit of fortune and going into the second half with confidence in our heads, Summerville’s finesse doubled our lead but VAR would rule it out for an unfair offside against Taty, which began the demise of the game, Forest pulled one back and from that moment on only a handful of chances would follow, none of which West Ham could convert, no matter who dared to shoot. Marinakis must’ve been on the phone to the ol’ PGMOL, who decided to carefully review Areola’s alleged assault, which, despite no complaints being received, Sean Dyche’s smile beamed as his burning Forest planted dread into West Ham’s patch, with Nuno left stumped.

The smallest of positives was that Taty provided power to the struggling Hammers, but tonight, the only people to provide power were he and British Gas.

Speaking about the players is truly null, attempting to pick out the positives for West Ham appears to be more of a chore each week as it just gets more and more difficult. Despite the signings, despite the starting squad changes and despite being at home, West Ham can’t win regardless of the circumstances.

Where do West Ham go from here? The clear, immediate answer isn’t apparent, and 90% of the fanbase are waiting for the last 17 games to pass whilst embracing the inevitable feeling of Championship Football.

21 games played this season, 22 goals scored, -21 goal difference. That summarises West Ham’s campaign this season. - LN

A recent surge of reports from certain stooges revealed that Nuno was on a tightrope come the end of the Wolves battering and that the inevitable sack was imminent, however, these statements have been quashed given that Nuno isn’t under any current threat.

The Hammers will have confirmed Taty Castellanos and the other forward signing of Pablo, two forwards whom Nuno requested himself, therefore spending €50,000,000 on the manager’s player to sack him a day later is on another level of incompetence… though if any club were to do it, it would be the Ol’ Hammers.

However, it would be abnormal for an action to make logical sense at West Ham and things aren’t always as they seem, it has been said that if the Hammers are to lose to Nottingham Forest on Tuesday night, Nuno will be under an immense amount of pressure seeing as many higher ups were more hopeful for the Brighton, Fulham and Wolves matches, certainly not expecting to get a lone point from the three in total.

Many are hopeful that the signings will be handy dandy and can push the Hammers away from relegation, with no wins in nine matches but a handful of draws picked along the way, Nuno’s closed the bridge to his former side, Nottingham Forest. A victory on the anticipated freezing Tuesday would place West Ham within a point, but a loss would have detrimental results for the table.

What is ongoing in the club is unknown, but at this moment in time, Nuno has 100% backing.