West Ham move off the foot of the Premier League with win at Nottingham Forest

West Ham eased the pressure on Graham Potter as three late goals saw them move off the foot of the Premier League following an extraordinary 3-0 victory at Nottingham Forest.

Potter’s position as Hammers head coach has been under increasing scrutiny after his side were thrashed by Sunderland and Chelsea in the league and knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Wolves in midweek.

But captain Jarrod Bowen’s strike gave them the lead after 84 minutes before Lucas Paqueta’s penalty and Callum Wilson’s first West Ham goal handed Potter just his sixth win in 23 matches in charge of the club.

As well as collecting their first points of the campaign, West Ham kept a clean sheet having shipped 11 goals in their last three outings against a Forest side who desperately lacked a cutting edge.

Potter’s opposite number Nuno Espirito Santo has had a tumultuous past fortnight of his own after admitting his relationship with owner Evangelos Marinakis had become strained and the pair are set for clear-the-air talks during the international break.

If there were talking points aplenty surrounding both clubs off the pitch, there were few on it once the action started, with Hammers frontman Niclas Fullkrug twice heading over from corners early on.

Forest’s summer signing Dan Ndoye got in behind the defence on a couple of occasions but his end product was lacking, while Callum Hudson-Odoi and Morgan Gibbs-White were unusually out of sorts as the hosts struggled to make an impact in the final third.

As misplaced passes and errors piled up from the hosts, West Ham had the best chance of a tepid first 45 minutes when debutant Mateus Fernandes, a £40million signing from Southampton, found space on the left and pulled back to Paqueta, whose first-time