West Ham record fourth straight victory and pile further pressure on struggling Fulham
Re-live the action from Craven Cottage
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Fulham's chaotic defending cost them again as in-form West Ham roared to a fourth straight victory.
The Cottagers remain the only team in England without a clean sheet this season after goals from Robert Snodgrass and Michail Antonio gave the visitors a 2-0 win and lifted them to ninth in the Premier League.
New Fulham manager Claudio Ranieri knows he needs to plug the leaks but on this evidence he has a lots of work still to do with his side still rooted to the foot of the table.
West Ham's goals were beautifully worked, but when not one of the seven defenders in attendance thought to close down Snodgrass on edge the area, and when Javier Hernandez - a player also known as 'Little Pea' - won a header in the box to set up Antonio's second, Ranieri's problems were laid bare.
Good afternoon and welcome to The Independent's live coverage of today's evening Premier League encounter between Fulham and West Ham, brought to you from Craven Cottage.
The teams are set to be unveiled at 4.30pm before we begin our full coverage ahead of kick-off at 5.30pm.
The teams are out at Craven Cottage and we're minutes away from kick off!
It's a fabulous ground in English football and can they haul themselves off the bottom of the table?
It's bound to be a good one...maybe.
Mike Dean blows his whistle and we're underway at the Cottage with West Ham winning a foul within 3 seconds.
Fun start.
Fulham 0-0 West Ham - 5 mins:
Corner to West Ham comes to nothing and it's been a rather conservative start to proceedings here.
Fulham will probably be happy with that given how they collapsed at Old Trafford last week.
And right in time, as if I've got my headset on, BT has just presented the stat that Fulham have conceded the most goals in the opening 15 minutes of games in the whole of the Premier League.
They've just made it beyond half of that, now.
Fulham 0-0 West Ham - 8 mins:
Good play from Andre Schurrle sees him take it beyond one West Ham player before unleashing a long range right footed shot which flies over the bar.
Fulham 0-0 West Ham - 9 mins HUGE CHANCE FULHAM!
What an opportunity to open the scoring for the Cottagers as Mitrovic threads it through for Kamara who runs on to the ball and is one on one with Fabianski.
No West Ham defenders catch up with him and he's at a pretty handy angle.
His shot though is tame, rubbish and just thoroughly disappointing.
A genuinely weird effort for a striker.
GOAL! Fulham 0-1 West Ham - (Snodgrass, 17)
On the counter attack West Ham take the lead and it could have all been so different as Mitrovic was played through on goal but didn't have the composure to do so.
Instead, Felipe Anderson beats Odoi on the left hand side far too easily and lays it into the path of Snodgrass on the egde of the box.
The Scottish midfielder curls it into the top corner beyond the reach of Rico.
Good goal but slightly against the run of play. Definite sign of quality they possess.
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