{"id":37469,"date":"2026-01-07T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/west-ham-an-impossible-task-ten-game-winless-run-leaves-nuno-espirito-santos-side-facing-drop\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T02:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:04:10","slug":"west-ham-an-impossible-task-ten-game-winless-run-leaves-nuno-espirito-santos-side-facing-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/west-ham-an-impossible-task-ten-game-winless-run-leaves-nuno-espirito-santos-side-facing-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham: &#8216;An impossible task?&#8217; Ten-game winless run leaves Nuno Espirito Santo&#8217;s side facing drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stats make grim reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With four draws and six losses, it is the first time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> have gone 10 Premier League games without a win since a run of 11 between December 2006 and March 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/afc-bournemouth\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Bournemouth<\/a> with 16 have dropped more top-flight points from winning positions than the Hammers&#8217; 15, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> have also failed to win any of their past five matches when scoring first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boss Nuno Espirito Santo, who guided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/nottingham-forest\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> to Europe last season before being dismissed three games into 2025-26, has now picked up 11 points from 16 matches since he replaced the sacked Graham Potter in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That is the worst start from any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> boss in the Premier League era, with the back-to-back wins over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/newcastle-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Newcastle<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Burnley<\/a> in November &#8211; Nuno&#8217;s only two successes &#8211; quickly fading from memory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> and England goalkeeper Rob Green, speaking on Sky Sports, feels change is needed at London Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ten games without a win you&#8217;re wondering, where is the answer now?  Where do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> go now? Where does Nuno go from here? You can&#8217;t see things continuing much longer with results like this,&#8221; said Green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They need at least 30 points to have any chance of staying up and they&#8217;re not going to get close at this rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t see Nuno staying. I just can&#8217;t see it how you can go this long without winning a game. Tonight wasn&#8217;t the worst performance by a long shot and they still didn&#8217;t get a result. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s heartbreaking but I don&#8217;t see another answer. It&#8217;s looking more and more an impossible task.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cdx4enpg3pvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stats make grim reading. With four draws and six losses, it is the first time West Ham have gone 10 Premier League games without a win since a run of 11 between December 2006 and March 2007. Only Bournemouth with 16 have dropped more top-flight points from winning positions than the Hammers&#8217; 15, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37471,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37469\/revisions\/37471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}