West Ham United

We asked for your thoughts after Saturday's Premier League game between West Ham and Burnley.

Here are some of your comments:

West Ham fans

Joe: West Ham might still not be the prettiest football team to watch, but it is good to see the team grind out a win. Need more of this if we have a chance in beating the drop. Tomas Soucek is so underrated, he always turns up with a goal.

Steve: Hammers started slowly as usual but Nuno Espirito Santo seems to have finally decided on the players and a system they can play in. Callum Wilson needs to get fit and Crysencio Summerville gets pushed off the ball too easily - from the stands he looks like a schoolboy playing with men. He has potential, but I'm just not sure where he can fit in other than bombing down the wing and putting in crosses, which he needs to improve his technique with. Well done all the team and Soucek again coming off the bench to score. Luckily we had a two-goal lead as Burnley scored with the last kick of the game.

Michael: Not the best performance on the pitch but all that mattered was the three points.

Adrian: There is no doubt the team are playing better now than earlier in the season. The defence still looks vulnerable but Freddie Potts has improved the midfield and Summerville looks a threat. Wilson and Jarrod Bowen worked hard. I was impressed with Burnley. They will make a fight of staying up.

Burnley fans

Graham: Excellent, confident, dominant football against a docile West Ham, but Burnley contrived to let them score more goals. Simple! Never really pressurised or consistently threatened throughout the match. Burnley just didn't have the aggression or firepower to kill off the match, and paid the price.

Pete: West Ham were there for the taking. Really disappointing substitutions that took the wind out of our sails.

Bob: Once again, we played well in part but still lost! We don't seem to quite have what it takes to dominate and get the vital wins we will need to stay up.

Jack: Definitely Scott Parker's fault. His substitution decisions were awful. To introduce Armando Broja left us with no threat for 15 minutes of the game.

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• Everton 2-0 Fulham

• West Ham 3-2 Burnley

• Sunderland 2-2 Arsenal

West Ham manager Nuno Espirito Santo to BBC Match of the Day after their 3-2 victory against Burnley: "Very, very happy. I am happy for the boys and our fans. This was a massive game for us.

"The goal we conceded, the reaction was good. We have proved we want to change things, we want to be strong characters. The boys on the pitch are showing this slowly.

"All the squad will be needed, the boys coming on understand what is needed. It doesn't matter who puts it in, as long as it goes. And we needed it.

"The midfielders work hard and they are complementing each other. In the middle of the park we have a lot of good options and the boys are doing really well.

"Arriving to the Premier League for any player is really difficult. We have a lot of players who we need to be patient with.

"I think it's a small step, Another day where we have achieved something at London Stadium which means a lot. But we will not get carried away."

Emlyn Begley
BBC Sport journalist

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For a long period of the 3-2 win over Burnley it looked as if it was going to be total misery for West Ham - with fans calling for chairman David Sullivan and vice-chair Karren Brady to resign in the latest of several fan protests.

They are furious with a host of things including London Stadium, a change of the club crest, poor investment in the squad and the failure to build on winning the 2023 Conference League.

On the pitch boss Nuno Espirito Santo has not had a magic wand since replacing Graham Potter, with this his sixth game, but this is now a second win in a row after beating Newcastle last weekend.

The result was better than the performance but the three points were what West Ham needed here.

Had Callum Wilson not struck just before half-time it is likely they would have been booed off at the break. But he did. And then, with Martin Dubravka giving them a helping hand, they scored twice from loose balls to complete a turnaround win.

Tomas Soucek, a 62nd-minute substitute for the injured Freddy Potts, and Kyle Walker-Peters with his first Premier League goal since 2022, were the decisive figures. Though fortunately for them the final whistle went moments after Josh Cullen made it 3-2.

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What did you make of Burnley's display?

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West Ham XI: Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Kilman, Todibo, Diouf, Fernandes, Potts, Lucas Paqueta, Bowen, Wilson, Summerville. Subs: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Igor, Luis Guilherme, Rodriguez, Magassa, Soucek, Irving, Golambeckis.

Burnley XI: Dubravka, Walker, Tuanzebe, Esteve, Hartman, Cullen, Florentino, Tchaouna, Ugochukwu, Anthony, Flemming. Subs: Weiss, Bruun Larsen, Foster, Edwards, Ekdal, Lucas Pires, Broja, Mejbri, Laurent.

If they rock up and play in the manner they did when they beat Newcastle United here last week, then there is only one winner - but will we see Nuno Espirito Santo's side play with that same intensity?

I thought Freddie Potts did well on his first senior start against the Magpies, Lucas Paqueta was at his mercurial best, and Jarrod Bowen impressed me with his strong running.

But the problem here is that this is exactly the kind of game where you expect West Ham to win and they mess it up.

Burnley are awkward opponents and they have got a bit about them.

They are nothing like the open and expansive side under Vincent Kompany a few years back. There was a softness about that Clarets side, which simply isn't there any more.

So West Ham are going to have to work hard to win this - and maybe Callum Wilson holds the key. He was a nuisance last time out and it meant Bowen did not have to carry the team.

Sutton's prediction: 2-1

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West Ham have the chance to climb out of the relegation zone as they face a Burnley side one place above them in 17th in the table on Saturday (15:00 GMT). BBC Sport examines some of the key themes before the match.

Hammers hope for repeat performance

The Hammers claimed their first home win of the season last weekend and are vying for back-to-back top-flight victories, a feat they have managed only once since David Moyes departed as manager in May 2024.

Sunday's 3-1 win against Newcastle was clearly much needed, but supporters will take heart from the performance as well as the result.

Not only did West Ham deservedly beat the Magpies, dominating in terms of expected goals and shots on target, they demonstrated rarely seen fighting spirit, refusing to let heads drop despite Jacob Murphy's fourth-minute opener for the visitors.

It was the first time the Hammers have come from behind to claim three points since May 2024, ending a winless run of 32 league matches in which they trailed.

Nuno Espirito Santo's team will hope to maintain that momentum against a Burnley side who are winless in the previous six meetings between the sides.

Can shot-shy Clarets claim another clutch win?

Burnley failed to register a shot on target in their defeat by Arsenal, and while the Gunners are the most formidable defensive unit in Europe right now, the Clarets' lack of cutting edge has been a recurring issue.

They have attempted just 74 shots in the top flight this season, comfortably the league's lowest figure.

Their average of 7.4 shots per game is also the lowest ever across a Premier League season in the 28 years that such data has been recorded.

However, Scott Parker's team have been clinical with the few opportunities they have created, with their shot conversion rate of 16.2% second only to Tottenham this term.

Crucially, they have also demonstrated a knack for claiming clutch wins against potential relegation rivals, beating both Leeds and Wolves last month.

They won at Molineux in their last away match so are seeking to win consecutive top-flight matches on the road for the first time since July 2020 – with the second game in that sequence a 1-0 victory at West Ham.