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The Hammers are set to take on West Bromwich Albion in the Championship on Saturday afternoon at the London Stadium. Both sides are looking for a positive result as Nuno’s side faced their second defeat of the season in a 3-2 loss to Southampton, whereas West Brom drew with Preston at the Deepdale Stadium.

After last week’s outing, West Brom currently sit just one point away from West Ham’s tally as they seek to break through to the automatic spots, whilst Nuno Espirito Santo’s side could end the week at the top of the table, should results swing our way.

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.