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Commentary
1¹GOAL!! A delightful dummy from JENKS allowed FAGAN-WALCOTT to lay a lovely ball off to HALILOVIC who struck the ball into the back of the net. (1-0 Reading)
2¹A header by YARMOLENKO at the near post was comfortably collected by the Reading 'keeper.
4¹GOAL!! After EKWAH was bundled over HEGLEY waved play-on and LEES-MELOU went on to easily score. (1-1)
6¹The stunned WARD was a mere bystander as a backpass from SENIOR fell just wide.
8¹A twenty-five yard shot from HULK caused the 'keeper little difficulty.
9¹GOAL!! A goalmouth meleé culminated with YARMOLENKO striking the ball into the net. (2-1 West Ham United)
15¹RAHMAN beat BURGESS and fired the ball to JENKS who hit his shot wide.
17¹EKWAH rushed a simple chance.
20¹A accurate pass found MBAYE and his looping shot flew narrowly over.
24¹ROGELJ beat two Reading players and thundered a great chance wide.
25¹GOAL!! On the left wing HENRY collected a defender's clearance and hit it into the goalmouth for HALILOVIC to tuck it into the net. (2-2)
27¹YARMOLENKO booked by HEGLEY for a bad challenge.
30¹The Reading 'keeper dived to his right to save an accurate drive from West Ham United's EKWAH.
32¹BURGESS was put clear by HULK and he raced past WARD but glanced his shot inches over.
37¹GOAL!! A clever set-piece enabled VANAT to tuck the ball into the net. (3-2 West Ham United)
45¹GOAL!! TAYLOR hit a swerving thirty yard shot past the stunned Reading 'keeper. (4-2 West Ham United)
48¹VANAT shot wide.
0²A penalty box scramble resulted in TETEK tapping the ball wide.
4²A weak strike from HALILOVIC trickled agonisingly wide.
21²The 'keeper did well to hold onto an amazing strike from AZEEZ.
40²A mix up in the Reading defence enabled HULK to crack the ball wide.
45²GOAL!! A perfect ball from TAYLOR left HULK in the clear, he made WARD commit himself before touching the ball to VANAT to score. (5-2 West Ham United)

 
West Ham United
 
League position: 9
Home league form: LWWW
Overall league form: LLWWWLWL
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Krisztiįn HEGYI5½15½Jed WARD
Ibrahima MBAYE8½27 Femi AZEEZ
Charlie TAYLOR6 36 Ryan JONES
Pierre LEES-MELOU8 46 Adam SENIOR(c)
Christian BURGESS7½56½Malachi FAGAN-WALCOTT
Enes MAHMUTOVIC7 66 Finn COUSIN-DAWSON
Zan ROGELJ7½76 Baba RAHMAN
(c)HULK7½85½Teddy JENKS
(p)Vladyslav VANAT7 96½Dejan TETEK(p)
(f)Pierre EKWAH7½105½Aaron HENRY(f)
Andriy YARMOLENKO7 117 Alen HALILOVIC
ManagerScott Smillie
Patrick VAN AANHOLT  12  Finlay ARMSTRONG
David BUTTON  13  Tiernan BROOKS
Zan VIPOTNIK  14  Lewis RICHARDSON
GONĒALO Bento CARDOSO  15  Zak EMMERSON
Matty PEARSON  16  Kahrel REDDIN
 
Reading
 
League position: 23
Away league form: LLWL
Overall league form: XLLLLLWL
Formation: 3-2-4-1

Statistics
West Ham United 5 Reading 2
(Half-time: 4-2, Attendance: 28,778, Stadium: London Stadium, Referee: Grant Hegley 6)

Lees-Melou 4¹, Yarmolenko 9¹, Vanat 37¹, Taylor 45¹, Vanat 45²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Halilovic 1¹, Halilovic 25¹
  
  
Yarmolenko 27¹ 
100
29
94
83
164
247
31
60%40%
Man of the match: Ibrahima Mbaye