Murillo flicks in own goal; Summerville effort ruled out before Dominguez levels. Gibbs-White converts from spot
West Ham boss Nuno faces former club Forest
Hammers sit 18th, seven points off safety
Dyche's Forest one place above their hosts
Castellanos makes West Ham debut after arriving from Lazio
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That's all from this live text as Nottingham Forest end the night three points ahead of West Ham, who are in deep trouble.
We'll be back tomorrow night for eight Premier League matches.
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Forest make the trip to Wrexham in the third round of the FA Cup next up before hosting leaders Arsenal.
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Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche, speaking to BBC MOTD: "We know we played a lot better than that with the ball, but you have got to find a way to win. You have to earn the right, and we have done.
"A very edgy game. Monday night, no other football on and even bigger with all the noise around it.
"We wanted to come out the right side of it and we have. Very pleased with not only the performance, but the grit and determination of the team to find a way to win."
On VAR decisions: "I haven't seen it back, but they tell me they're both the right decisions. Our reaction to that was very good.
"Once we got the first one, I thought we were asking a lot more questions of what we did in the first half.
"Second half, we asked a few more questions and made it a mixed game and made it a bit more awkward for them.
"I thought Dominguez was fantastic. His team play was out of this world. He is good-natured to go win it, and to go press. A very good team player."
On pressure building after four successive losses: "Don't forget we have lost four on the trot and noise built up quickly. With other teams, there didn't seem to be that type of noise.
"We have got to go again. That is part of the next mentality and the growth."
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West Ham take on another London club in QPR, in the FA Cup next up before four huge Premier League games.
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West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo speaking to Sky Sports: "I think we did enough good things to win the match today. The boys really worked hard. We got the advantage, we scored a goal ruled out by fine margins of offside, that was the moment of the game, and a lot of incidents happened, but I've got nothing to say about the hard work.
"That was the idea [score early] and the boys did it. We had good combinations and control, we had good threat in attack. It was a good first half. We started the second half well. There was a foul on the edge of the box on Summerville and then that leads to Forest breaking out. This takes the mind out of the players and makes it hard to explain how things happen."
On losing confidence after the disallowed goal: "No. They kept fighting until the end. We knew how important this match was and the boys did it until the end. We had chances but it didn't go for us today."
On the penalty: "It happens so many times during the matches that you get confused about the rules honestly. How many times has this happened and penalties have not been given? So I don't quite understand. Areola goes for the ball, Soucek takes the ball out and then he cannot stop his movement, so hard to explain."
On another corner concede: "We scored from a corner also. We have to try to do better but it's a flicked ball, it's hard to defend. It's not about organisation."
On the mood: "We to keep believing and sticking together. It's not over yet. We keep on going."
On the fans: "It's hard to ask them anything. It's hard to explain. We understand their frustration and the sadness and we are all the same. What to say? Keep helping us. Again they showed today when the team gives, they give back the support that we need. Today the boys showed that we are here to keep the fight."
On his belief: "You know me. I'll keep on going, believing and working with the boys. Sometimes you have good moments and bad moments but you need to be resilient enough to understand that this is the game."
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West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo, speaking to BBC MOTD: "Very tight margins and a goal ruled out that we had that would put us in front.
"Then a lot of incidents with the penalty - a tough match.
"I think we did enough things to win the match. The boys worked very hard. I think we did enough to win it."
On debutants Pablo and Taty Castellanos: "Good, they have settled in with the team. They have qualities and they have come to help.
"We have to keep going, keep believing, and keep working. It is not over."
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Image source, Getty ImagesHas one group of players ever contributed to the sacking of the same manager twice in one season? Delighted Forest fan, but sympathetic to Hammers fans who deserve so much better from their disgraceful board.
Paul
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West Ham midfielder Tomas Soucek speaking to Sky Sports about the Forest penalty: "For me it is a joke. I just saw it again and I think we can have 20 penalties per game if it is like that. I came to the Premier League because I thought it was the toughest league in the world and we are all fighters and warriors, but this looks more like basketball when you can't touch the player. This is what I saw
"[Areola] is the same in the dressing room. He didn't know who was fouled. He came for the ball, I think I cleared it and that was already out. We didn't know why there was VAR and then the penalty, so it was tough for all of us."
On Forest extending the gap at the bottom: "I know our position. This is not anymore time for nice words. We have so many games but we have to do it from the first game. Now is the time. We have to be winning. Seven points, we cannot just win one or two, we have to win a few in a row. I still believe and will until the end, but I have to say that we are in a really bad position."
On if the squad still believes: "We have to show the honesty between each other. The truth of who cares and who not. We have to do it because if someone is easy to play and relaxed he has to be out of the squad. We will look to the mirror and know the position we are in and nobody from the squad wants to play second division next season."
On Nuno: "We have to be behind the manager always, until the end. I believe he can be a big help for us because he did a lot through the Premier League already. It's on all of us, Nuno as the manager, us as the players, the whole training ground. Especially for him I want to keep going and do the maximum, we don't want them to lose their jobs. All of us, even for the fans, we need to stick together."
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Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche, speaking to Sky Sports: "Well, pleased obviously. Pleased with the mentality of the players. Awkward game for both sides and a lot of noise around the game. To go 1-0 down and stay calm and deliver a second half that can win the game is very pleasing.
"The noise changes quickly, and we have got to change it around quickly."
On VAR decisions: "We have been on the wrong side of that, of course, things going against us with VAR. But both decisions were right, I am told."
On the game: "Second half, we started changing the field a bit more. Sometimes you need the rub of the green, and it went our way for a couple of big decisions.
"You can feel the nerves in the stadium. They're important games, we showed the mentality of finding a way of winning. I'll take that.
"You have got to find a way and we found a way tonight. There is more to come from this group. You still have to find a way. The game is rarely the perfect game for you. There has been a shift in mentality, and I am pleased with that.
On upcoming fixtures: "There is still work to be done. My job is to go through that noise and see the facts of it.
"By no means a classic, but you have got to find a way of winning.
"These are awkward games. I have been through a lot of these awkward games. I am happy to come out the right side of it tonight and the players just about deserved it."
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Michael Dawson
Former Nottingham Forest defender on Sky Sports
Image source, Getty ImagesThat is the biggest boost to be seven points clear after that match.
There was so much riding on it. A huge night and Morgan Gibbs-White stepped up crucially with the penalty.
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Why sympathise with a club who hounded out their best manager for years in David Moyes. The fans want the West Ham way, they are getting it direct to the Championship
Chris, Birmingham
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Rob Green
Former England goalkeeper on Sky Sports
Image source, Getty ImagesI don't see Nuno staying. I just can't see it how you can go this long without winning a game. Tonight wasn't the worst performance by a long shot, it wasn't, and they still didn't get a result. It's heart-breaking but I don't see another answer.
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Sean Dyche doing what Sean Dyche does. Keeps teams in the PL, he's masterful at it.
Luke
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West Ham midfielder Tomas Soucek speaking to Sky Sports: "We wanted to win. We were winning at half-time. It was so close to being 2-0 and then I think we would get all three points but we lost the game. It's so tough for us because we know where we are in the [table] position.
"I was very happy from the start. We created a few chances and then we scored the goal, so I was happy as I could be with all of it into half-time. Then we scored the second and when it was disallowed, it kept us a little bit down and then it was tough. It's so difficult to lose by the goal at the end.
"When we scored the second and then it was disallowed and then in a few minutes we conceded for the draw, it was tough for us. Forest had all the joy at that moment, for 10-20 minutes. We just had to keep going because I believed that we would score the goal, the winning goal, and then it was the opposite."
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Castellanos flagged offside in the build up to Summerville's goal that would have put West Ham 2-0 up
Image source, Getty ImagesAreola is deemed to have fouled Gibbs-White at a corner before the Forest captain converts from the spot to make it 1-2
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As a Newcastle fan who’s been in the same position, I can’t help but feel sympathy towards the West Ham fans. There’s nothing more draining than seeing your club sleepwalk down the league due to poor recruitment and incompetence from your owner. Unfortunately this has been coming.
Dan, Newcastle
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Former Nottingham Forest defender on Sky Sports
When you are down and things aren't going quite right, the rub of the green doesn't go your way.
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Sean Dyche doing what Sean Dyche does. Keeps teams in the Premier League, he's masterful at it.
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Image source, Getty ImagesNottingham Forest captain Morgan Gibbs-White, speaking to Sky Sports: "Incredible. It wasn't a nice game. We knew it was going to be a battle because of the position of both teams. What I liked from the boys is we didn't give up and we fought till the end.
"Again, we seem to keep conceding straight after half-time. When that got disallowed, it changed the momentum of the game. It brought belief in the squad. Delighted we got the three points.
"We should be starting every game with full belief, but it has not been that case recently. Their goal put us on a downer, but we reacted well."
On the penalty decision: "To be honest, I got whacked in the face and I didn't have a clue what was going on. I came to my senses when he said it was a penalty.
"No doubts, I was practicing it yesterday. It was a safety one, but we got the three points in the end.
"It is what we want to do, we want to go into the game believing. We have not got to kick on this year, a fresh start.
"First half we were that one yard off and second half it picked up, and we were good again."
Late Gibbs-White penalty sinks helpless Hammers
At a glance
West Ham take 13th-minute lead through Murillo own goal
Hammers have a second goal ruled out for offside
Nicolas Dominguez scores headed equaliser for Forest
Morgan Gibbs-White converts late penalty for visitors
West Ham stay 18th, seven points behind Forest in 17th
Nottingham Forest fought back from a goal down and scored a dramatic late penalty to claim a vital victory over fellow strugglers West Ham United.
Hammers goalkeeper Alphonse Areola conceded the spot-kick when he failed to get to a cross and his fist instead collided with Morgan Gibbs-White's face, with the decision awarded after an intervention from the video assistant referee (VAR).
Gibbs-White then calmly converted the penalty to secure Forest's first win in five matches, while the Hammers' winless run stretches to 10 games.
The hosts, without a victory since 8 November, took a 13th-minute lead when Crysencio Summerville's excellent left-wing corner was flicked on by Tomas Soucek and Forest defender Murillo headed into his own net from close range.
After Callum Hudson-Odoi hit the crossbar for the visitors, West Ham thought they had doubled the lead through Summerville's strike only for it to be ruled out as new signing Valentin 'Taty' Castellanos was judged offside earlier in the move.
That proved costly as Forest equalised minutes later.
The goal was very similar to West Ham's as Elliot Anderson's inswinging corner from the left was converted by Nicolas Dominguez's looping header, before the late penalty drama.
The result leaves West Ham 18th, seven points behind Forest in 17th.
Relegation fight 'not over' - Nuno
It proved to be another frustrating evening for boss Nuno Espirito Santo, who has now collected only 11 points from his 16 games in charge of the Hammers since replacing the sacked Graham Potter in September.
That is the lowest total from any West Ham boss in the Premier League era - and the side now face an almighty battle if they are to stay in the top flight, which they have been in since 2012-13.
They were booed off at the end of the match by some of the remaining fans, though a large number had left before the final whistle.
Nuno, booked in the second half for complaining after a decision had gone against his side, had apologised to fans for what he called an "embarrassing" performance during their 3-0 loss to bottom club Wolves on Saturday.
He would have been pleased with his side's effort against Forest, though a lack of clinical finishing again proved decisive.
Leading 1-0 at the break, West Ham began the second half well with Jarrod Bowen firing one chance just over, before Summerville thought he had made it 2-0 only for VAR to rule that Castellanos was narrowly offside.
Argentina international Castellanos was making his Premier League debut after joining from Italian club Lazio earlier this week for an undisclosed fee. He worked hard up front, but he struggled to create chances.
His best opportunity came midway through the first half from Soucek's right-wing cross, but Castellanos got his volley all wrong, with the ball bouncing off him, and the chance vanished.
Nuno, who took Forest into European football before being sacked after three games of this campaign, brought on his other January signing: Brazilian forward Pablo Felipe, who joined from Portuguese club Gil Vicente.
Felipe's best effort was deflected over the top - but if West Ham are to have any chance of staying up, they will need their two new additions to find the goalscoring touch quickly.
Once again, the Hammers failed to hang on to a point and the pressure on Nuno increases.
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We had the mentality to get the job done - Dyche
The final whistle celebrations showed how important this victory was for Forest.
It has been a tough campaign for them since Nuno took them seventh in 2024-25, their highest finish in 30 years.
He was sacked in September before Ange Postecoglou lasted 39 days as Forest manager, then Dyche became the side's third of the season.
He picked up 13 points from his first eight games in charge, although four successive league losses had left them only four points above West Ham before Tuesday's game.
Dyche and the Forest fans would have worried the gap might close to one point, despite the visitors playing well in the first half.
Neco Williams had a 20-yard effort superbly tipped over by Areola when the score was goalless and Hudson-Odoi was unlucky to see his strike bounce off the bar when the home goalkeeper was well beaten.
But Forest scored an equaliser within 10 minutes of the second half and had to survive some pressure before Gibbs-White kept his composure to score the match-winning penalty.
Forest still have plenty of work to do to ensure their own safety, but these three points gives them some breathing space.
WestHam have two London derbies in their next two matches. They host Championship outfit Queens Park Rangers in the FA Cup on Sunday (14:30 GMT), before returning to league action with a trip to Tottenham on Saturday, 17 January (15:00 GMT).
NottinghamForest play in Wales at Championship side Wrexham in the third round of the FA Cup on Friday (19:30 GMT), before entertaining Premier League leaders Arsenal on Saturday, 17 January (17:30 GMT).
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| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
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| 20 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 40 | 14 | 26 | 48 |
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| 20 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 44 | 18 | 26 | 42 |
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| 20 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 24 | 9 | 42 |
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| 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 28 | 4 | 34 |
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| 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 33 | 22 | 11 | 31 |
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| 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 34 | 30 | 4 | 31 |
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| 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 32 | 28 | 4 | 30 |
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| 20 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 30 |
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| 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 24 | 4 | 29 |
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| 20 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 30 | 27 | 3 | 28 |
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| 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 28 | 29 | -1 | 28 |
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| 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 24 | -2 | 28 |
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| 20 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 28 | 24 | 4 | 27 |
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| 20 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 23 | -1 | 27 |
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| 20 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 31 | 38 | -7 | 23 |
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| 20 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 26 | 33 | -7 | 22 |
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| 21 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 21 | 34 | -13 | 21 |
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| 21 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 43 | -21 | 14 |
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| 20 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 20 | 39 | -19 | 12 |
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| 20 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 40 | -26 | 6 |
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West Ham are looking to complete their first league double over Nottingham Forest since 2011-12 in the Championship, and first in the top-flight since 1968-69.
Nottingham Forest won this exact fixture 2-1 last season, last winning consecutive away league games against West Ham between 1982 and 1984 (3 in a row).
Since their return to the Premier League in 2022, nine of the 11 goals Nottingham Forest have conceded against West Ham have come in the final 20 minutes of games, with each of the last five coming in the final 10 minutes.
West Ham lost 11 home league games in 2025, their joint-most ever in a calendar year. However, they’ve not lost their first home league game in a year since 2017 (vs Man Utd), winning six and drawing two since.
West Ham are winless in their last eight evening kick-offs (7pm or later) in the Premier League (D3 L5) since a 2-0 win over Leicester last February. They last had a longer run without a win in late games between February 2019 and June 2020 (11).
Nottingham Forest have alternated between winning (3) and not winning (D1 L2) in their last six Premier League games on a Tuesday, losing 2-0 at home to Everton last week.
West Ham are winless in their last nine Premier League games (D4 L5), giving Wolves their first league win of the season last time out. The Hammers last had a longer run without a win in the competition between December 2006 and March 2007 (11 games).
West Ham failed to register a single shot on target in their 3-0 loss at Wolves at the weekend. It’s the third time they’ve done so in the Premier League this season (also v Arsenal and Liverpool), with no side failing in more different games (Burnley also 3).
Nottingham Forest have lost their last four Premier League games. They last lost five in a row between August/October 2022, while manager Sean Dyche has never lost five consecutively in the same campaign before.
West Ham boss Nuno Espírito Santo was in charge of Nottingham Forest in their 3-0 defeat to the Hammers earlier this season. There have been 13 occasions of a manager being in charge of both sides in meetings in a single Premier League campaign, with only Harry Redknapp losing both times (Portsmouth v Southampton in 2004-05)
