Six things we learned at the London Stadium

1 BAGGIES ARE IN BIG TROUBLE

It doesn’t take a genius to realise Albion are in a deep mess after 20 league games without a win, but there have been some promising performances under Alan Pardew to suggest fortunes could turn around.

However, in the last two matches, Lady Luck has shone on them. Mike Dean awarded them a dubious penalty against Arsneal and James McClean’s shot looped in after a kind deflection at West Ham. The fact they only picked up one point despite playing well in both fixtures and enjoying those slices of good fortune does not bode well.

2 PROMISING PERFORMANCES ARE NO LONGER ENOUGH FOR PARDEW

Things have definitely improved under the new boss, and there were some lovely sweeping one-touch moves up the pitch against West Ham. But the stark reality is that it’s eight games without a win under Pardew.

He inherited a team desperately low on confidence with too many defensive midfielders, not enough finishers, and has also been unlucky with injuries to his creative forces. But at some point he needs to convert this promise into points.

He’s looking more and more exasperated after each game, and it's clear he needs help in January. Albion are better in the middle third, but are still struggling in the final one.

3 OLIVER BURKE MAY BE RAW, BUT PARDEW’S STATEMENT CONFUSES

The first thing Pardew said in his post-match press conference was that Burke should have taken the ball into the corner in injury time, instead of crossing it. But a week ago, he was urging his team to take more risks to find this elusive victory. It wasn't a bad cross either, and West Ham still had plenty to do to score so it's difficult to pin the goal on him alone.

Burke’s bigger crime was missing his one-on-one, but the £15m man also made a mistake against Manchester United. He’s obviously talented, with bags of pace and potential, and certainly offers an important variety to Albion's limp attack, but elements of his game still need to be honed.

4 JAMES MCCLEAN BOUNCES BACK FROM OWN GOAL

It was the sort of ferocious breakaway goal McClean scores for the Republic of Ireland more than Albion, and even though there was an element of luck involved in the deflection, it was still a brilliant solo effort.

McClean has infuriated this season, and cost the team a lot of points through individual errors, but he was Albion's best outlet against West Ham and proved that he still has worth to the club. It was an emotional celebration, and the winger appeared to point to his badge, perhaps in response to speculation he could leave in January.

5 FATIGUE CERTAINLY PLAYED ITS PART

Under normal circumstances, Pardew would have kept the same team that played so well against Arsenal, but two games in three days forced him to remove two of his best performers in recent weeks. Chris Brunt and Gareth Barry didn't have enough in the tank to start again, and to make matters worse Matt Phillips was removed from the line-up moments before kick-off.

But against the odds, Albion played well in the first half and took the lead. In the second half though, they looked tired, both mentally and physically. West Ham were quicker to every ball, and in the end it told. Two games in three days is not unheard of at this time of year, but in the second half it was obvious Albion's opponents had had a whole week without a game.

6 HAVE TEAMS NOTICED A WEAKNESS?

Kieran Gibbs has been consistently superb since his £5m switch from Arsenal, but Romelu Lukaku and Andy Carroll have now climbed higher than him and Jonny Evans to head home in recent weeks.

Pulling onto the full-back is a tried and tested method for big strikers, and Carroll is likely to beat anyone in the air with a run on them.

It's worth saying that Gibbs offers more than enough both defensively and offensively in other areas, but he and Evans could do with staying alive to that threat from now on.