It was just as West Ham imagined it when they spent more than £100m last summer. Lucas Paquetá up front, two left-backs on the pitch at the end and the latest man to sit in the home dugout at the London Stadium wondering if his new employers are always this baffling.
This was a game that West Ham did their best not to win, so much so that they even let in two crosses from Alex Iwobi. Still, though, Graham Potter found logic in the puzzle.
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