Paquetá kickstarts Potter era but Fulham almost spoil West Ham party

It was just as West Ham imagined it when they spent more than £100m last summer. Lucas Paquetá as a false nine. Two left-backs on the pitch at the end. A defence so fragile that Alex Iwobi can score direct from two crosses. The new man in the dugout watching and wondering if life at the London Stadium is always this baffling.

This ended up being a game that West Ham tried very hard not to win, even though they led 2-0 and 3-1 after a host of comical errors from Fulham. As it was, all that mattered for Graham Potter was taking the points and finding logic in the puzzle.

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