Summary

  • West Ham start European campaign with 3-1 win at home to Viborg

  • £30m signing Scamacca scores first Hammers goal before Bowen's second

  • Viborg back in the tie after Bonde header before Antonio restores two-goal lead

  • Rice, Cresswell and Moyes all suspended

  • Viborg finished seventh in Danish league last season

  1. Postpublished at 82 mins

    West Ham 3-1 Viborg

    Unlucky! Vladmir Coufal crosses from the left and Maxwel Cornet throws himself in the air to hit an acrobatic volley which Lucas Lund Pedersen saves well.

  2. Postpublished at 21:24 British Summer Time 18 August 2022

    West Ham 3-1 Viborg

    That's Michail Antonio's first goal of the season. He netted in their last European home game too, against Eintracht Frankfurt.

  3. goal

    GOAL - West Ham 3-1 Viborgpublished at 78 mins

    Michail Antonio

    West Ham's subs combine and they have their two-goal lead back.

    Said Benrahma loses his defender on the left with a nice stepover, runs into the box and squares it for Michail Antonio to tap into an almost empty net from close range.

    Michail Antonio scoresImage source, Getty Images
  4. Postpublished at 21:22 British Summer Time 18 August 2022

    West Ham 2-1 Viborg

    Nils Mortimer Moreno is a summer signing from Barcelona.

  5. Postpublished at 76 mins

    West Ham 2-1 Viborg

    Viborg sub Nils Mortimer Moreno is urged by his fans to shooooooooot and he does as he flicks the ball up and volleys it towards goal from 22 yards. It takes an acrobatic save by Alphonse Areola to keep it out.

  6. Postpublished at 75 mins

    West Ham 2-1 Viborg

    West Ham are looking noticably less comfortable than they were. Pablo Fornals completely hacks at a cross and hits it behind for a corner.

    West Ham clear the corner.

  7. Postpublished at 72 mins

    West Ham 2-1 Viborg

    Christian Sorensen tries to get another assist but Alphonse Areola holds this cross.

    No away goal rule any more so effectively it's just like it's 1-0 to West Ham still.

  8. Postpublished at 71 mins

    West Ham 2-1 Viborg

    David Moyes covers his mouth while talking to first-team coach Kevin Nolan in the stands.

    Uefa rules say... A team manager/coach or other team official who is sent off or suspended from carrying out his function may not be in the technical area or communicate directly with the team's players and/or technical staff during the match.

    Hmmmmmmm.

  9. goal

    GOAL - West Ham 2-1 Viborgpublished at 69 mins

    Jakob Bonde

    The mood changes instantly.

    Jakob Bonde leaps over Vladimir Coufal to head in Christian Sorensen's cross at the back post.

    Jakob BondeImage source, Getty Images
  10. YELLOW CARDpublished at 67 mins

    West Ham 2-0 Viborg

    Viborg made a couple of changes too and one of them, Mads Sondergaard Clausen, is straight in the book for hauling down Maxwel Cornet

  11. SUBSTITUTIONpublished at 66 mins

    West Ham 2-0 Viborg

    West Ham make a triple sub.

    Defender Thilo Kehrer, who joined from PSG yesterday, Michail Antonio and Said Benrahma are on.

    Goalscorers Jarrod Bowen and Gianluca Scamacca and Angelo Ogbonna, making his return from nine months out injured, are replaced.

  12. goal

    GOAL - West Ham 2-0 Viborgpublished at 64 mins

    Jarrod Bowen

    West Ham are in control now.

    Jarrod Bowen gets the ball in midfield, turns and then places a beautiful drive from 25 yards into the bottom corner. Lovely technique.

    Jarrod Bowen scores for West HamImage source, Getty Images
  13. Postpublished at 63 mins

    West Ham 1-0 Viborg

    Vladmir Coufal plays a fine ball down the left to Maxwel Cornet. Sadly he can't find the unmarked Pablo Fornals in the middle.

  14. Postpublished at 61 mins

    West Ham 1-0 Viborg

    A brilliant disguised ball from Maxwel Cornet to find Vladmir Coufal on the overlap... well actually not that brilliant as Coufal is offside.

  15. Postpublished at 58 mins

    West Ham 1-0 Viborg

    Gianluca Scamacca is offside as he runs onto a ball down the left. David Moyes and Kevin Nolan have a chat in the stands.

  16. Postpublished at 57 mins

    West Ham 1-0 Viborg

    Vladmir Coufal cuts in from the left and swings a cross onto the head of his old bud Tomas Soucek, whose header is straight at the keeper.

    Gianluca Scamacca was going to head it if Soucek missed.

  17. Postpublished at 55 mins

    West Ham 1-0 Viborg

    Denmark isn't one of those countries that has a summer league - their the top flight only started a month ago.

    So Viborg shouldn't be fitter than West Ham - as can happen sometimes when a team in the middle of their season play in European qualifiers.

  18. Postpublished at 54 mins

    West Ham 1-0 Viborg

    Pablo Fornals corner is hacked behind for another one. This one isn't any better and it's cleared.

  19. Postpublished at 53 mins

    West Ham 1-0 Viborg

    Woof. Maxwel Cornet's cutback from the left is actually poor and rolls all the way to the onrushing Harrison Ashby on the other side. He blasts in a shot from 25 yards out which the keeper tips over the bar.

  20. Postpublished at 51 mins

    West Ham 1-0 Viborg

    Jarrod Bowen almost takes advantage of a lucky ricochet forward but it won't quite land for him.