West Ham United boss David Moyes has described the goal Said Benrahma had disallowed during their 1-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest as "contentious."
The Hammers suffered a second straight defeat in as many Premier League games to newly-promoted Forest during a busy affair that saw the Irons have a Benrahma goal disallowed in the first half, with a foul from Michail Antonio in the build-up leading to VAR cancelling out the goal.
Taiwo Awoniyi bundled in the only goal of the game in first half stoppage time and asked about Benrahma's disallowed finish, Moyes said that refereeing pundits are the best people to ask on the decision.
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"You’re better listening to the referees that do the punditry, they will tell you if they think it should have been a goal or not, said Moyes. "It doesn’t really matter what I think does it? The referee has given it. Maybe on another day.
"Today, we hit the underside of the bar twice, we miss a penalty kick, we get a goal disallowed that was a bit contentious. Today, very little went for us, very little went our way in what was a big game for Nottingham Forest and a big first [home] game for them. They carried quite a bit of luck and we didn’t have much today."
In the second half, Declan Rice had a chance to level the game from the penalty spot when Tomas Soucek had a shot blocked by the hand of Scott McKenna. Rice took the penalty but his low effort was saved by Dean Henderson.
Asked about the spot-kick, Moyes outlined that Rice was the designated penalty taker, with Manuel Lanzini on the bench at the ime.
"Manuel Lanzini took the penalty kicks last year and scored them, it wasn’t Declan. We had Declan in mind today," added Moyes.
The Hammers' Scottish boss was later asked if Rice was the club's primary penalty taker with Lanzini as his understudy, something that Moyes denied.
"No. That was one question, it doesn’t mean it will be the same all season," explained Moyes. "We will see, but Declan was the guy that was on the penalties today."
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