West Ham’s defensive crisis for Arsenal laid bare after Dawson dismissal vs Chelsea

The latest antiaircraft stroke suffered by West Ham United during the club’s gathering with Chelsea this day has fixed emergence to thing abbreviated of a situation up of the club’s adjacent home outing.

David Moyes’ troops were of people backmost successful enactment a abbreviated clip ago, making the travel crossed London for a Premier League gathering with superior rivals Chelsea.

And, with a afloat 86 minutes connected the clock, the Irons looked bully worth for a stock of the spoils, amid a hard-fought, but yet goalless affair.

The momentum, however, soon swung firmly successful favour of the hosts, arsenic Craig Dawson, amid a stellar idiosyncratic display, was fixed his marching orders for a foul connected Romelu Lukaku.

After consulting the VAR monitor, the ref has besides sent disconnected Craig Dawson for pulling backmost Lukaku. #CHEWHU 0-0 (84) https://t.co/JPbSUTkDdb

— West Ham United (@WestHam) April 24, 2022

Dawson, successful turn, present faces a one-game ban.

And, harmless to say, this improvement could not travel astatine a much inopportune infinitesimal for David Moyes and co.

Remarkably, West Ham are present primed to caput into the club’s gathering with Arsenal adjacent play without a azygous elder centre-half enactment disposable for selection.

This comes with the suspended Dawson having followed the sidelined trio of Kurt Zouma, Issa Diop and Angelo Ogbonna onto the absentee list.

Adding insult to injury, meanwhile, is the information that, not lone did West Ham spell connected to gaffe to decision astatine Stamford Bridge connected Sunday, but the Irons did truthful lone AFTER Lukasz Fabianski kept retired the punishment which followed Dawson’s dismissal.

Instead, arsenic proceedings rolled into the 90th minute, substitute Christian Pulisic latched onto Marcos Alonso’s debased transportation from the left, to prime retired the bottommost country of the visitors’ net:

CHELSEA TAKE THE LEAD! 🎯 pic.twitter.com/QeHObbB3eM

— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) April 24, 2022

This nonfiction was edited by Josh Barker.