West Ham host Arsenal on Sunday afternoon in a game where Arsenal are trying to get one step closer to the title, whilst were attempting to scramble out of the last escapeable relegation spot.

It is the be all or end all once again? It certainly seems to be. Should the worst-case scenario happen and a defeat occurs on Sunday, the Spuds will have a huge opportunity to increase their gap - a possible gap of four points - which means they’d have to be recouped by ourselves in two games; otherwise it’s kiss goodbye.

As the season begins to come to an end, the Hammers are set to go through a mountain of changes, whether they remain in the Premier League or not.

One decision that’ll be one of many significant ones will be whether West Ham United’s manager next season will be Nuno Espírito Santo.

West Ham have made it known that they would want to keep Nuno should the Hammers suffer relegation, viewing him as one of the perfect candidates for the task that would be at hand.

A tough result to take.

Numerous swings and roundabouts across the 90 with a brutal reality check coming our way, but it would be unfair to suggest that the 3-0 scoreline was a fair outcome.

Brentford’s goals came through initially, an own goal by Mavropanos, which had its own controversy, as well as a shocking foul by Diouf and finally, Damsgaard firing low and giving Brentford their three.

Brentford: Caoimhin Kelleher (GK), Michael Kayode, Sepp van den Berg, Nathan Collins, Keane Lewis-Potter, Yehor Yarmoliuk, Mathias Jensen, Dango Ouattara, Mikkel Damsgaard, Kevin Schade, Igor Thiago.
Substitutes: Ajer, Dasilva, Donovan, Furo, Hickey, Janelt, Nelson, Pinnock, Valdimarsson.

The busy bees have certainly been an underestimated force in the Premier League this season, with the majority of Football fans at the beginning of the season suggesting they’d be one of the three to go down, yet Keith Andrews’ side have proved everyone wrong numerous times over.

The Hammers have faced Brentford twice so far this season, both times in the London Stadium, one being the glamorous FA Cup victory on penalties, whereas the other was a dismal, gloomy 2-0 defeat where the Hammers didn’t even pose a shot on goal.

Each week it would seem to the general world that all West Ham fans are broken records, but the truth it, when a situation updates every game-week, it always begins to feel that the next match is ‘the biggest match of the season’.

After West Ham’s uneasy outing against Everton. Both Nuno’s side and Spurs walked away with three points, turning the page to the next gameweek with the situation remaining the same.

The relegation fight has now reached a stage where a determination of fate can be made within one set of fixtures.

Numerous candyfloss rumours have been running around West Ham the past few days, since the crucial win against Everton, regarding the ownership of the club.

Some have been quick to suggest that David Sullivan is out the door entirely, whereas others believe he may INCREASE his stake in the club as Daniel Kretinsky attempts to gain further power.

We don’t make it easy for ourselves… it couldn’t have possibly been a tense 1-0 win, it had to go through a grain of pain before the eventual last-minute heroic goal scored by Wilson, giving us a crucial three points, given Spurs’ victory against Wolves - their first in 2026.

An intense first half kicked us off, both sides battling tooth and nail with a combined 13 shots coming into the break, but none being on target - both teams struggled to sting the gloves of the other side.

West Ham: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Disasi, Diouf, Soucek, Fernandes, Summerville, Bowen (C), Taty, Pablo
Subs: Areola, Todibo, Wan-Bissaka, Wilson, Adama, Magassa, Scarles, Kante, Potts

Everton: Pickford, O’Brien, Tarkowski (C), Kean, Mykolenko, Gana, Garner, McNeil, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndiaye, Barry
Subs: Travers, Patterson, George, Dibling, Coleman, Alcarez, Rohl, Iroegbunam, Armstrong

West Ham United started the gameweek two points ahead of Tottenham Hotspur and has maintained the gap with this set of games.

Spurs’ difficulty defending in the closing stages, something that the Hammers have been victims of far too many times this season as well, fortunately saved West Ham, and we retained being in a position of safety before the Palace match had started.

A draw would be the final result, but three points could’ve gone towards either side - the point accumulated now begs the question, what is required to stay up?