West Ham 1-2 Nottingham Forest: Premier League - live reaction

1m ago 11.26 EDT FT: West Ham 1-2 Nottingham Forest After a scramble in the visitors’ box, another Sels save, and some very late yellow cards handed out by Sam Barrott, that’s it – game, set and match Forest. They can start thinking about next week’s Champions League showdown with Chelsea now, because those top five hopes are still very much alive and kicking. They went 2-0 up through Morgan Gibbs-White and Nikola Milenkovic and, although Jarrod Bowen made it very tense late on, Forest survived and clung onto the three points. We ended up playing to the 117 minute mark thanks to various VAR and refereeing delays. Share

3m ago 11.25 EDT 115 minutes on the clock now and still we haven’t had a full-time whistle. Paqueta and Milenkovic, among others, were involved in a scuffle. Share

5m ago 11.23 EDT There’s a few late handbags going on between the players and VAR is looking into an incident. It’s all a bit of a mess. Share

8m ago 11.20 EDT We’ve ticked into the rarified air beyond the 100-minute mark. Forest continue to thwart West Ham’s various attacking attempts. Jota Silva does enough to win the away side a corner, which is ideal for them. Share

10m ago 11.17 EDT 90 mins +8: Forest win it back and Wood only has eyes for the corner flag. Share

11m ago 11.16 EDT 90 mins +7: Forest are interested in wasting time and little else at this late stage … I suppose you can hardly blame them but it could mean we’ll get more than the 11 allotted minutes of stoppage time. West Ham are coming forward once more … Share

13m ago 11.14 EDT 90 mins +5: Elanga’s final act of the game is to win his team a corner. He’s been really sharp this afternoon, a consistent outlet on the counterattack. What a season he’s had. Share

15m ago 11.13 EDT 90 mins +4: Ryan Yates and Jota Silva are going to come on to try and see this out for Forest. Share

16m ago 11.11 EDT 90 mins +2: West Ham suddenly look like a different team. Guilherme is running into some dangerous areas and Forest look panicked. Wood misses his touch after getting a rare opening on the break. Share

17m ago 11.10 EDT 90 mins: Coufal hooks it back towards Bowen whose shot is blocked. Todibo is then booked, not quite sure why, as his tackle seemed like a fair one. We’ve got 11 (ELEVEN) minutes of added time! Share

19m ago 11.08 EDT 89 mins: Remember there will be a hefty chunk of added time because of that VAR delay. Murillo has gone down again – not sure whether it’s a reoccurrence of that injury or perhaps a spot of gamesmanship. Forest are happy to take their time here. Share

21m ago 11.06 EDT Oooh it’s the most sumptuous of left-footed volleys. The touch to set it up wasn’t bad either! Bowen remains a shining light for this West Ham side. Nuno looks concerned. This wasn’t in the script. The crowd are up. Share

22m ago 11.05 EDT GOAL! West Ham 1-2 Nottingham Forest (Bowen, 86) West Ham have a lifeline. But has it come too late? Some nervy moments now await for Forest. A quite brilliant strike from Jarrod Bowen. View image in fullscreen West Ham United's Jarrod Bowen scores their first goal. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images/Reuters Share Updated at 11.09 EDT

24m ago 11.04 EDT 85 mins: The great thing about this Forest side is how they cover for each other’s mistakes. Elanga played a poor backheel to nobody hoping to keep the ball in play and West Ham broke on it – but they were soon smothered out by a clutch of Forest defenders. Share

25m ago 11.02 EDT Forest are making their first changes, with Gibbs-White, Sangaré and Anderson trotting off. On come Danilo, Morato and the fit-again Hudson-Odoi. Back five time? Share

27m ago 11.01 EDT 82 mins: Huffing and puffing seems like the perfect phrase to describe what West Ham are doing. Someone check with Adam Hurrey. Share

27m ago 11.00 EDT An email from Matt Dale on the VAR delay to end all delays earlier: Watching the game in a bar with no volume. It looked like the referee was put in a bad situation by VAR (possible tech issues) but I thought he handled the situation very well. Not sure who the ref is [Sam Barrott] but he looks to be having a good all-round game. I’m a depressed Man Utd fan so have no skin in this game but I do feel officials should get credit where due and not be an easy scape goat. Still baffled how long it took VAR to reach a decision. I was always against the introduction of VAR and have seen nothing to change my mind. Maybe managers, coaches and players should just learn to accept on field decisions. You’re right on the referee, Matt, he’s done well. The VAR situation was largely out of his hands. Share

29m ago 10.59 EDT 79 mins: Potter rolls the dice one more time, bringing Luis Guilherme on for the hapless Kudus. Share

30m ago 10.58 EDT 78 mins: You know when pundits and TV presenters say ‘this has been a great advert for the Premier League’? Well, this one hasn’t. Forest won’t care, mind you, it’s suited them down to the ground. They’re in precisely the position they’d have wanted to be in. Share

32m ago 10.55 EDT 76 mins: Another Hammers player goes into the book, after Paqueta blatantly pulled back Elanga, who was dashing into more open space. Share

33m ago 10.54 EDT 75 mins: An untimely slip from Coufal almost allows Elanga through to latch onto Gibbs-White’s cross from the right. West Ham scramble clear in the end. Share

35m ago 10.53 EDT 73 mins: Mohammed Kudus is a good player who is having a bad season. But he remains on the pitch as he’s pretty much the best option Graham Potter has. The hosts were starting to look a little dangerous until Kudus hooked one miles over the crossbar. Share

37m ago 10.51 EDT 71 mins: Lovely play from Soler, dragging the ball back onto his right foot, staying composed and forcing a save from Sels. It opened up for him there. Share

39m ago 10.48 EDT 69 mins: Back in the real world, Forest are on the front foot again, with Gibbs-White winning a corner. He’s been immense today – head and shoulders above everyone else. Share Updated at 10.48 EDT

40m ago 10.47 EDT 68 mins: I’m still reeling from that delay. How can it possibly take that long to decide whether Dominguez was interfering with play from an offside position when it was clear nobody else was offside and the ball didn’t go anywhere near him? Truly baffling stuff. Share

42m ago 10.46 EDT GOAL GIVEN. Let’s all move on with our lives, shall we? That delay lasted more than six minutes. Good grief. Share

43m ago 10.44 EDT 65 mins: This is taking a farcical amount of time. “F*ck VAR” is the chant from the terraces. Share

45m ago 10.43 EDT 63 mins: The officials are still having communication issues apparently … Dominguez is the only Forest player offside from Elanga’s delivery. You cannot give that as offside, can you? Who knows. Share

46m ago 10.42 EDT VAR is having a look at this … was anyone in an active offside position? Doesn’t look much wrong with it to me. Share

47m ago 10.40 EDT GOAL! West Ham 0-2 Nottingham Forest (Milenkovic, 61) Elanga whips it in and it’s ended in the net via a touch or two. That might be Elanga’s goal! No, it looks like it was glanced in by Milenkovic. Either way Forest have a precious two-goal lead and all the plaudits must go to Elanga for a wicked delivery. View image in fullscreen Nottingham Forest's Nikola Milenkovic scores their second goal past West Ham United's Alphonse Areola. Photograph: Tony O Brien/Reuters Share Updated at 10.49 EDT

48m ago 10.39 EDT 60 mins: Füllkrug at least ought to give West Ham a focal point, something they’ve badly lacked this season. It looks like a back four now with Bowen and Kudus wide of the German. At the other end, Todibo clatters into Elanga who was racing down the left, conceding a free-kick. Share

50m ago 10.38 EDT FOUR West Ham changes … Füllkrug for Soucek, Alvarez for Cresswell, Paquetá for Rodriguez and Soler for Ward-Prowse. Let’s see how that shakes things up. Share Updated at 10.38 EDT

51m ago 10.36 EDT 57 mins: Guido Rodriguez, who has been largely anonymous, is booked for hauling down Gibbs-White. The resulting free-kick is lobbed into the mixer by Anderson but Murillo’s volleyed cross is easily gathered by Areola. Share

52m ago 10.36 EDT 56 mins: Coufal has a pop and it’s not half bad. Forest afford him the time to chest down and volley just over the crossbar. Graham Potter is preparing a number of changes, to hopefully bring some thrust to this lacklustre performance. Share

54m ago 10.33 EDT 54 mins: Nice play from Wan-Bissaka, nicking the ball as Forest threatened a counter and then slinking in between a few men and playing for Coufal to cross nicely … but why so few Hammers gambling in the box? Nothing came of it in the end. Neco Williams is the latest Forest player to go down with a knock. He looks fine, to be honest. Share

1h ago 10.31 EDT 52 mins: Better. Kudus wriggles away from a couple of Forest players, with Anderson booked for a despairing challenge on the Ghanaian. Share

1h ago 10.30 EDT 51 mins: Jeez, this is slow paced stuff at the moment. I know West Ham have very little motivation, but there’s no urgency about their play at all. Share

1h ago 10.27 EDT 48 mins: Can West Ham offer any sort of attacking threat in this half? It all sort of fizzled out for them after an encouraging start in the first 45. Their fans will demand something in the final home half of the season. Share

1h ago 10.26 EDT 46 mins: Kudos to the Forest medical team, who have clearly sorted out the Brazilian defender to get him in a fit enough state to play a little while longer. Is he 100 percent fit though? We’ll see. Share

1h ago 10.25 EDT Second half: Back under way – and Murillo is back up and running for Forest after all! Share

1h ago 10.19 EDT It looks like Murillo will play no part in the second half. He didn’t quite need a stretcher but went off around the perimeter of the pitch on the back of a buggy to the visiting dressing room. Morato is the likely half-time replacement for him. That’s a blow for Forest. Share

1h ago 10.18 EDT The two 3pm kick-offs are under way, with Fulham’s Raul Jimenez scoring for them at Brentford. Leicester v Ipswich is the other game. Share

1h ago 10.08 EDT HT: West Ham 0-1 Nottingham Forest A half that begin brightly and openly ended in rather dour and dismal fashion, especially for West Ham, who found themselves a goal down after 11 minutes via a horrible Alphonse Areola error. Morgan Gibbs-White, who has comfortably been the best player on the pitch, made no mistake in capitalising and Forest have the exact situation they’d have craved before kick-off. They lead 1-0 at the break and their Champions League qualification hopes are still very much alive. West Ham simply must do better. The only negative for the visitors could be an injury that Murillo sustained right at the end of the half, challenging for a ball in the West Ham box. It looks like an ankle injury and Nuno’s brow was furrowed as the defender got treatment deep into first half added time. We’ll hear more about that during half-time, for sure. Share

1h ago 10.04 EDT 45 mins +3: Coufal goes into the referee’s book for a show of dissent after a 50-50 corner/goal-kick decision is given Forest’s way. That sums up the Hammers’ half. Share

1h ago 10.03 EDT 45 mins + 1: “They’re not angry, they’re just bored,” says Sky Sports’ Jamie Carragher of the West Ham fans, who haven’t had much to cheer so far today. Share

1h ago 10.02 EDT This half is fizzling out somewhat. We’ll have four added minutes, though, Share

1h ago 09.59 EDT 42 mins: It’s been a frustrating watch, so far, for those of us with Elanga and Wood in our fantasy football teams. Share

1h ago 09.58 EDT 41 mins: Two big opportunities go begging for Chris Wood … or do they? The flag belatedly goes up and it looks very close on replay. Wood couldn’t find Elanga in the first instance and then took too much time and only found Areola with the second. Share

2h ago 09.57 EDT 39 mins: Slide tackle after slide block… the Forest commitment is there for all to see. But there’s no great urgency from them to commit players forward at this stage. They’re in control, without controlling possession or territory. Share

2h ago 09.54 EDT 37 mins: A near mixup in the Forest defence almost brings about a goal for Cresswell, who aims a cheeky backheel goalwards and gets a corner for his troubles. Soucek is then penalised for a push going up for a header. Share

2h ago 09.52 EDT 36 mins: The home fans have found their voices and are urging their team forward at every opportunity. Almost every backwards pass prompts a London Stadium groan. Their team are still bossing the ball. Share

2h ago 09.50 EDT 34 mins: Milenkovic slides in effectively to stop Kudus racing through the centre of Forest’s defence. Good defending, as usual, from the Serbian international. Share

2h ago 09.49 EDT 32 mins: Kudus arrives late in the box for a header but mis-times his jump and it’s over the bar. Share

2h ago 09.47 EDT 31 mins: Anderson, who looks to have shaken off that knock by the way, is doing a decent job of recycling the ball for Forest in the middle. It’s so congested in there that West Ham cannot navigate a route through. Share

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