Dom Smith on West Ham 3-2 Fulham

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00:00Well it's full time here at the London Stadium and I think if this is a sign of things to

00:04come for West Ham under Graham Potter it's going to be a hell of a lot of fun. This was

00:08a 3-2 win against Fulham in this London derby. It means that Potter, who got off to a losing

00:15start in Clarendon Blue when West Ham went out of the FA Cup in the third round on Friday

00:21night against Aston Villa, it does at least mean that he's won his first Premier League

00:24match in charge of West Ham. This was a barmy encounter, a crazy game really, in which West

00:29Ham were 2-0 up at the break thanks to goals within the space of two minutes of each other

00:34from Carlos Soler and Thomas Socek as well. The Socek goal in particular was an excellent

00:39strike which involved a lot of West Ham players in a really nice flowing move. Fulham have

00:45got a very good record against West Ham and they halved the deficit just after the interval

00:49when Alex Iwobi crossed and Jimenez looked like he might have got a touch but he didn't

00:53so the cross went straight in from Iwobi. And actually Fulham's second goal, which was

00:57the final goal of this 3-2 win for West Ham, was exactly the same. Again Iwobi crossing,

01:02Harry Wilson trying to head it in, not quite managing to, and the cross went through Fabianski's

01:07grasp anyway. But luckily for West Ham they had scored a third in between those two goals

01:12through Lucas Paqueta after a crazy error by goalkeeper Bernd Leno, who was tackled

01:16by substitute Danny Ings and Paqueta rolled into an empty net and in the end they needed

01:21that goal because West Ham of course conceded again to Iwobi. But they held on and won 3-2

01:26so it's off to winning ways, at least in the Premier League, for Graham Potter in the

01:29new job.