West Ham vs Brentford: West Ham plunge deeper into crisis with fourth straight home defeat, Brentford cruise to 2-0 win

West Ham have lost their fourth home match in a row in the Premier League, late goals in both halves giving Brentford a 2-0 win that could have been much bigger had the visitors taken more of their chances.

Going into the game, West Ham had lost all three of their home games this season while Brentford had lost all three of their away matches in the league, but the visitors dominated from the start at the London Stadium on Monday.

Igor Thiago and Kevin Schade both missed good opportunities to score, before Thiago finally broke the deadlock two minutes before halftime.

The Hammers’ defence failed to deal with a long ball and Schade squared to Thiago to score. Goalkeeper Alphonse Areola got a hand to his shot but could not stop it going over the line.

Some West Ham fans boycotted the game in protest at what they say is mismanagement by the club’s owners, and there were more empty seats than usual at the former Olympic stadium, which became the club’s home in 2016 after moving from Upton Park.

They missed little as the home side were second best throughout against a team that had 22 shots on goal to West Ham’s seven.

Nevertheless, it took Brentford until the 94th minute to get a second goal. Another long ball flummoxed the West Ham defence and Keane Lewis-Potter cut back for Mathias Jensen to slam home.

“It probably could’ve been more,” Brentford midfielder Mikkel Damsgaard said. “We created a lot of chances and had a lot of set pieces, but we’re happy to get the three points.”

The result leaves Nuno Espirito Santos’ team in 19th place with four points from eight games and the worst goal difference in the league.

Brentford moved into 13th place with 10 points after eight games.