{"id":29358,"date":"2025-10-20T18:37:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=29358"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:37:03","slug":"west-ham-v-brentford-premier-league-live-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=29358","title":{"rendered":"West Ham v Brentford: Premier League \u2013 live | Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"dcr-90inr0\"><span id=\"key-events-carousel-mobile\"\/><span class=\"dcr-90inr0\"><\/p>\n<p>Key events<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span id=\"filter-toggle-mobile\"\/>Show key events only<\/p>\n<p><span>Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe have good options and solutions, starting and on the bench\u201d Nuno tells Sky. \u201cIt\u2019s a great chance for us to connect with our fans,\u201d he says, and brushes off concerns over a potential fan boycott tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On Brentford, he adds: \u201ca very good team, same threat as under Thomas Frank, very dangerous on set pieces.\u201d And will Bowen lead the line? \u201cYou\u2019ll find out in an hour!\u201d He seems in a good mood, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Brentford\u2019s last away game \u2013 a 3-1 defeat to Fulham \u2013 was exactly a month ago, and since then they\u2019ve beaten Manchester United and lost to City at home. Appearing on Monday Night Football, Keith Andrews reveals he is going with three up top, having largely used a 5-3-2 setup in recent games. He also plans to continue embracing pace and chaos, telling Sky \u201cwe handle it better than a lot of other teams\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Nuno has sprung some surprises in that line-up, with youngster Ollie Scarles in at left-back and Andy Irving making just his second Premier League start. With Niclas F\u00fcllkrug injured, it\u2019s unclear who will start as centre-forward \u2013 my best guess would be Jarrod Bowen, but Summerville and Paquet\u00e1 can also step in to that role.<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<p>Updated at\u00a014.32 EDT<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"dcr-1wl2b6o\">Team news<\/h2>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>West Ham (4-3-3):<\/strong> Areola; Walker-Peters, Todibo, Kilman, Scarles; Irving, Soucek, Fernandes; Summerville, Bowen (c), Lucas Paquet\u00e1.<br \/><em>Subs: Hermansen, Wilson, Diouf, Mavropanos, Rodr\u00edguez, Magassa, Wan-Bissaka, Potts, Marshall.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Brentford (4-3-3):<\/strong> Kelleher; Kayode, Collins (c), Van den Berg, Ajer; Henderson, Yarmolyuk, Damsgaard; Ouattara, Schade, Thiago. <br \/><em>Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Nelson, Carvalho, Onyeka, Lewis-Potter, Janelt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Referee:<\/strong> Andrew Madley (West Yorkshire)<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<p>Updated at\u00a014.14 EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Catch up with the weekend\u2019s key Premier League moments here:<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<p>Updated at\u00a014.09 EDT<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"dcr-1wl2b6o\">Preamble<\/h2>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Welcome to the Nuno Zone. West Ham, the team currently managed by Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo, kick off here 19th in the table, sandwiched between two other clubs he previously managed \u2013 Wolves and Nottingham Forest, where the wheels have fallen off spectacularly since he left just under six weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Nuno might still look like the man who walked away unscathed from an escalating bin fire, but West Ham\u2019s next four games might be crucial if he is to do what everyone expects and carry them clear of danger in a sensible fashion. They face four of the five teams immediately above the Nuno Zone with a trip to Leeds before home assignments against Newcastle and Burnley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Turning around West Ham\u2019s awful home form is top of Nuno\u2019s to-do list: almost a month into his tenure, this is his first game in charge at the London Stadium. Tonight\u2019s opponents at least have an equally poor away record \u2013 no points from three games, including a defeat to Nuno\u2019s Forest in the distant fog of August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Head-to-head form is very much in Brentford\u2019s favour, though: in eight Premier League meetings, West Ham have won just once. Keith Andrews\u2019 side will also sense a chance to move away from danger tonight. Kick-off: 8pm BST.<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature \u201cWe have good options and solutions, starting and on the bench\u201d Nuno tells Sky. \u201cIt\u2019s a great chance for us to connect with our fans,\u201d he says, and brushes off concerns over a potential fan boycott tonight. On Brentford, he adds:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[12949,7524,3504,132,1706,2187],"class_list":{"0":"post-29358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brentford","9":"tag-ham","10":"tag-league","11":"tag-live","12":"tag-premier","13":"tag-west"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}