Hammers get a heads-up

SO which West Ham is going to turn up next time, when Fulham come to the London Stadium in 12 days’ time?

Will it be the West Ham that battled so well to take a point off title-chasing Liverpool last week and at Selhurst Park played well and then hung on for a point, largely thanks to the brilliance of goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski?

Or will it be the West Ham that embarrassingly crashed out of the FA Cup at League One relegation battlers AFC Wimbledon, the one that conceded five goals in two hapless displays at Bournemouth and Wolves?

Fabianski, right, revealed that during the week the Hammers squad had tried to address their inconsistency. The Pole said: “That’s one conclusion we have

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made from the performances that were not good – it is the mental side of things.

“We realised what we have to do to get a result, how we’ve to grind out a performance sometimes even if it is not playing pretty football. You know that with hard work and tactical awareness you are able to get points.

“We know if we have the mental side right, and we start compact as a team, and we work hard for the team, we are always able to get something from the game.” Mark Noble had given West Ham the lead with a first-half penalty but Palace’s Wilfried Zaha was not to be denied for the home side, levelling with 14 minutes left. Zaha had six shots on goal here and scored his second goal in as many games, and full-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka said: “Wilf showed how important he is. “He showed what he is capable of doing. He always puts in 100 per cent.

“We created a lot of chances and we should have taken the three points. We will prevent any danger of getting relegated with the performances like this.”