Arsenal v West Ham LIVE: Premier League result and reaction as Hammers move into top six with shock away win
Arsenal 0-2 West Ham: Arsenal miss out on the chance to go top of the table as David Moyes wins for the first time at the Emirates
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Your support makes all the difference.Arsenal missed out on the chance to move top of the Premier League table as they slumped to a 2-0 loss and a first home defeat of the season against West Ham.
The home slide flew out of the traps in the early goings but soon found themselves behind when Tomas Soucek slammed home an effort in the first half, which stood after a lengthy VAR check couldn’t determine whether the ball had gone out of play in the build-up.
David Moyes had never won away against Arsenal in his managerial career but his team took a further step towards victory when former Arsenal defender Konstantinos Mavropanos headed home from a corner after the break.
Declan Rice started his first league game against his former side and saw his blushes saved late on when David Raya saved Said Benrahma’s injury-time penalty after the former Hammers skipper brought down Emerson in the penalty area. Relive all the match action and reaction below:
HALF-TIME: Arsenal 0-1 West Ham
West Ham hold firm as the referee blows to signal the end of the first half. Arsenal have had the lion’s share of the ball but it’s Soucek’s strike that has the Hammers in the lead the break.
It’s not all been plain sailing for the visitors, mind, who have lost Paqueta to a first-half injury after the Brazilian had gone down in the warm-up.
Plenty to address at the break for Mikel Arteta - his Arsenal side have been far from their free-flowing best.
Arsenal 0-1 West Ham
45+4 mins: Odegaard and Jesus attempt a cute give-and-go around the edge of the West Ham box but it’s a superb tackle from Ogbonna to dispossess the Arsenal skipper just as he was looking to pull the trigger.
Arsenal 0-1 West Ham
45 mins: Five minutes of added time is greeted by a roar from the Arsenal fans. How they would love an equaliser before the break.
Arsenal 0-1 West Ham
42 mins: POST! So close to an opener from Saka as he smashes the near post with a fierce, low effort. The ball cannons back to Trossard but the Belgian doesn’t have enough time to re-adjust his body and the ball ricochets off him and out for a goal-kick.
Arsenal’s best chance of the game so far.
Arsenal 0-1 West Ham
41 mins: Rice makes one of his first bursting runs forward into the West Ham box but he’s forced away well by the West Ham defence. Odegaard’s low ball - looking for Saka - is intercepted before Martinelli’s low ball, moments later, goes straight into Areola’s hands.
Arsenal 0-1 West Ham
37 mins: WIDE! Martinelli fires wide but what an intricate move from Arsenal. Saka finds Jesus with a low cross before the Brazilian flicks it back to his fellow countryman.
Martinelli shifts it onto his right foot but he just can’t wrap his boot around the ball as it flies just wide of the right post.
Arsenal 0-1 West Ham
35 mins: A nice corner routine from Arsenal but White’s flicked header from Zinchenko’s cross just drifts past the far post.
Arsenal 0-1 West Ham
32 mins: Ah, that’s not good for the visitors. Paqueta went down in the warm-up but still started the match. However, the Brazilian has now hit the turf and can clearly no longer continue.
Benrahma replaces the midfielder for West Ham.
Arsenal 0-1 West Ham
30 mins: SAVE! Areola is finally forced into a save as the West Ham keeper does well to tip Saka’s header over the bar from close range.
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