Michail Antonio scored in the fifth and 33rd minutes for West Ham to move up to four goals for the season – all of them headers – before his team imploded in its second league match at the Olympic Stadium.
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Watford stunned the Hammers 4-2 at London stadium.
The FA are also expected to contact the Hammers about the events in the stands at their new London Stadium home. In-fighting amongst home supporters has also given us cause for concern and we will continue to work closely with West Ham United to identify and take action against the small number of supporters found to be responsible for these incidents.
The capitulation by Slaven Bilic’s team sparked trouble among sections of the West Ham support.
“West Ham United unreservedly condemn the behaviour of the individuals involved in incidents during today’s fixture against Watford”, a club statement read.
And the FA has since informed Omnisport it will be liaising with “the club and the relevant authorities” over the matter.
West Ham said it is prepared to request the courts serve banning orders on disruptive fans. Our policy on this behaviour remains one of zero tolerance and we will work with the police to identify individuals involved.
Walter Mazzarri has described Roberto Pereyra as a great player after he helped Watford mount a remarkable recovery in their victory at West Ham United.
Pereyra kept the West Ham defensive players guessing, creating an early chance for Odion Ighalao and it was his cross that led to Etienne Capoue putting Watford ahead early in the second half.
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“We had other opportunities to kill the game, but we didn’t manage to do that and defensively we made a couple of mistakes”.
