West Ham will look to put the pain of last weekend’s controversial 2-1 defeat to Chelsea behind them when they play their first match of the Europa Conference League group stage on Thursday evening against Romanian side FCSB.
The Hammers thought they had snatched a 2-2 draw against their London rivals when Maxwel Cornet found the net late on but a VAR review inexplicably determined that Jarrod Bowen had fouled Edouard Mendy during the build-up despite the Chelsea goalkeeper appearing to have just made a mess of the situation and then feigned injury despite Bowen making minimal or no contact with him.
