It’s only a matter of time before West Ham star Nuno impresses in his first start as he trains

West Ham supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo is already feeling the warmth and his first dwelling sport as supervisor was an absolute nightmare.

West Ham set new membership file after disastrous dwelling defeat to Brentford

Brentford took West Ham to the clear room throughout a match boycotted by nearly all of Hammers officers as protests towards David Sullivan, Cullen Brady and the board continued.

Keith Andrews’ facet had been untroubled by a lackluster, uninspired dwelling facet who appeared to lack confidence, rhythm and clear id, other than a Jarrod Bowen shot that nearly went in on the far publish.

In truth, the 2-0 defeat was a welcome one for West Ham, as Brentford additionally hit the crossbar twice, forcing nice saves from Alphonse Areola, and one other objective was canceled out by VAR simply earlier than half-time.

Nuno’s lineup was additionally fairly questionable at greatest.

The Portuguese tried Lucas Paqueta as a centre-forward whereas Niklas Furkruk was out with a thigh harm, however couldn’t persuade him, leaving him nearly remoted and giving the ball away carelessly.

Ollie Scurls and Kyle Walker-Peters performed the uncommon full-back function on the other flank, with Freddie Potts and summer season signing Sung’untu Magassa sacrificed to create a leggy midfield partnership of Tomas Soucek and Andy Irving.

Brentford had an unforgettable night time towards the rampaging Bees, with the centre-back mixture of Max Kilman and Jean-Clair Todibo, who was given his first begin beneath Nuno, firing a complete of 17 photographs, exposing West Ham’s fragility time and time once more.

The end result means West Ham have misplaced all 4 dwelling league video games for the primary time within the membership’s lengthy historical past, and it is clear that Nuno will discover himself in a relegation battle if issues do not change quickly.

Final season, the Irons prevented falling into the Championship as a result of all three promoted groups had been too poor, and this would be the case in 2023/2024, however West Ham might not have that luxurious this time round.

The 51-year-old wants inspiration from someplace and one West Ham participant is alleged to be working laborious to show his price to Nuno at Rush Inexperienced.

Igor Julio impresses Nuno in West Ham coaching session

That man is Igor Julio, who joined East Londoners on a season-long mortgage from Brighton this summer season.

The Brazilian has made 37 appearances within the Premier League since becoming a member of Brighton from Fiorentina in 2023, however was restricted to only one Carabao Cup look this season, signing for West Ham in hopes of enjoying extra video games.

Nuno has but to start out for Julio in his first three video games as West Ham supervisor, enjoying only one minute off the bench towards Everton and never being within the match-day squad towards Brentford.

With Kilman and Todibo actually struggling on Monday night time, the 27-year-old might sense a possibility to get into the competitors, given how fragile West Ham’s protection is now.

As reported by The West Ham Method, Julio is considered doing properly in coaching with West Ham, probably opening the door for Nuno to grab the likes of Todibo, Kilman and Konstantinos Mavropanos as he experiments to seek out his definitive greatest facet.

To be sincere, West Ham have conceded extra targets than some other group within the Premier League in the meanwhile and the scenario on the again might hardly get any worse.

Julio seems to be working laborious to interrupt into the beginning eleven, however Friday’s difficult take a look at away to Leeds will likely be a baptism of fireside for the brand new signing as he seems to get his Premier League profession again on monitor.

Former Seagulls coach Iñigo Calderon has gone on file to name Julio an “animal” of defenders, and that is precisely what Nuno is shouting.