West Ham boss David Moyes cursed his side's luck in defeat to Nottingham Forest.
The Reds beat the Hammers 1-0 at the City Ground on Sunday to get off the mark on their return to the Premier League.
Taiwo Awoniyi scored the winner for Steve Cooper's side in the first half and on-loan goalkeeper Dean Henderson saved a Declan Rice penalty in the second half.
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Pablo Fornals and Said Benrahma also both hit the underside of the crossbar for West Ham, with Benrahma also seeing an opening goal ruled out by VAR in the first half after Forest's Orel Mangala was adjudged to be impeded in the build-up.
“I’m really frustrated,” said Moyes. “We haven’t scored many in pre-season so that was an excerpt of it.
“The first 20 minutes frustrated me, I thought we were really poor. We grew into the game. We didn’t deserve the result we got that was for sure but we did in the end.
“Forest started well, they were powerful, strong and put us under pressure. We didn’t cope with that well.
“Maybe on another day, today we hit the underside of the bar twice, we missed a penalty, we got a goal disallowed which was a bit contentious.
“Today very little went our way in what was a big game for Nottingham Forest. They carried quite a bit of luck and we didn’t have any.”
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