27-year-old was absolutely awful for West Ham, was mainly to blame for Fulham goal

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Kurt Zouma made an appalling error that led to Fulham taking the lead against West Ham United at the London Stadium this afternoon.

Sure, Lukasz Fabianski should have done better than he did from Andreas Pereira’s shot.

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The annoying thing is that the Fulham ace shouldn’t have got anywhere near the position that he ended up in.

And he certainly shouldn’t have had that much space with which to work.

We do make it really hard for ourselves sometimes don’t we!

West Ham centre-back Kurt Zouma caused a lot of our early problems against Fulham today. Who knows, perhaps he just isn’t fit enough?

We recently highlighted how the Frenchman just doesn’t seem to be physically robust enough, with concerns about his troublesome knee ongoing.

And he just didn’t look anywhere near his best today against the Cottagers…

Kurt Zouma drops clanger during West Ham vs Fulham

The 27-year-old centre-back should have done so much better when Pereira was running with the ball towards the Hammers’ goal.

Fulham’s lead was certainly a surprise one, and it should never have been allowed to happen.

It really was poor defending from the Frenchman. He gave the Fulham ace far too much space and time on the ball.

Zouma should have been so much tighter to Pereira, and he he done that, he wouldn’t have been able to get a shot in on our goal as easily as he did.

At this level, you rarely see centre-backs step off from attackers like Zouma did with Pereira today.

Fabianski’s role in the Fulham goal was really poor. The fact that Alphonse Areola is just sitting on our bench for Premier League games is incredibly frustrating.

In my opinion though, Zouma’s role in the goal was even worse than Fabianski’s.

West Ham got off to the worst possible start this afternoon. Thankfully though, the Hammers attackers bailed out our defenders.

Zouma really does need to raise his levels now, if he is to keep his place int he West Ham team.

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