West Ham United 3-0 Fulham (2012-13 Premier League)

Sat 1 Sept 2012 15:00	West Ham United	(3) 3-0 (0)	Fulham	Upton Park, London Attendance: 33,458 Referee: Anthony Taylor
	Nolan  1' Reid  29' Taylor  41'	Report

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WEST HAM UNITED (4-2-3-1) GK 22 Jussi Jääskeläinen DR 20 Guy Demel 78' DC 19 James Collins 67' DC 2 Winston Reid DL 17 Joey O'Brien DM 16 Mark Noble DM 21 Mohamed Diamé AMR 4 Kevin Nolan (c) AMC 14 Matthew Taylor AML 12 Ricardo Vaz Tê ST 8 Andy Carroll 68' Substitutes: GK 13 Stephen Henderson DF 5 James Tomkins 67' MF 23 Alou Diarra MF 32 Gary O'Neil FW 9 Carlton Cole 68' FW 11 Modibo Maïga FW 46 Robert Hall 78' Manager: Sam Allardyce

FULHAM (4-4-2) GK 1 Mark Schwarzer DR 27 Sascha Riether DC 18 Aaron Hughes DC 5 Brede Hangeland (c) DL 3 John Arne Riise MR 16 Damien Duff MC 19 Mahamadou Diarra MC 7 Steve Sidwell ML 15 Kieran Richardson 59' ST 10 Mladen Petrić 46' ST 20 Hugo Rodallega Substitutes: GK 13 David Stockdale DF 2 Stephen Kelly DF 6 Chris Baird DF 17 Matthew Briggs MF 8 Pajtim Kasami MF 31 Alex Kačaniklić 59' FW 9 Dimitar Berbatov 46' Manager: Martin Jol

Assistant referees: Simon Long Mick McDonough Fourth official: Lee Mason Previous Meeting: Fulham 1-3 West Ham United (2010-11 Premier League) (26 Dec 2010) Following Meeting: Fulham 3-1 West Ham United (2012-13 Premier League) (30 Jan 2013) Trivia Kieran Richardson & Dimitar Berbatov make their Fulham debuts Hugo Rodallega makes his first League start for the club The defeat was Fulham's 10th out of 17 Premier League meetings against West Ham This was the first time that Fulham have failed to score at Upton Park since 1964 - 48 years ago Statistics West Ham United Fulham Possession 45% 55% Shots on target 6 9 Shots off target 4 1 Shots blocked 6 5 Corner kicks 6 6 Fouls committed 12 5 Offsides 1 2 Yellow cards 0 0 Red cards 0 0 Total passes 453 553 Passing success 83% 85% Tackles 25 21 Tackles success 80% 95% Total crosses 22 18 Lost balls 137 153 Recoveries 58 45 Images 1-0: Kevin Nolan strikes for West Ham less than 60 seconds into the match 2-0: New Zealand's Winston Reid headed in from a corner just before the half-hour mark to send West Ham 2-0 up 3-0: Matthew Taylor caps a miserable afternoon for Fulham as he strikes a third before half-time Something to take for Fulham fans was Dimitar Berbatov's debut as he came on for Petrić in the second half and looked impressive Andy Carroll wins one of many headers on his West Ham debut, this time climbing above Mahamadou Diarra 2012-13 season Pre-season: HB Køge (n) • Lokomotive Leipzig (a) • Kaiserslautern (n) Wycombe (a) • Nice (a) • MK Dons (a) • Charlton (h) Premier League: Norwich (h) • Man Utd (a) • West Ham (a) • West Brom (h) • Wigan (a) • Man City (h) • Southampton (a) Aston Villa (h) • Reading (a) • Everton (h) • Arsenal (a) • Sunderland (h) • Stoke (a) • Chelsea (a) • Tottenham (h) Newcastle (h) • QPR (a) • Liverpool (a) • Southampton (h) • Swansea (h) • West Brom (a) • Wigan (h) • Man City (a) West Ham (h) • Man Utd (h) • Norwich (a) • Stoke (h) • Sunderland (a) • Tottenham (a) • QPR (h) • Newcastle (a) Aston Villa (a) • Chelsea (h) • Arsenal (h) • Everton (a) • Reading (h) • Liverpool (h) • Swansea (a) FA Cup: 3rd round: Blackpool (h) • Replay: Blackpool (a) | 4th round: Man Utd (a) League Cup: 2nd round: Sheff Wed (a)