West Ham 2-0 Rapid Vienna: Declan Rice and Said Benrahma score

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By Simon StoneBBC Sport at London Stadium

Last updated on 11 minutes ago.From the section European Football

Declan Rice's first-half tap-in and Said Benrahma's injury-time effort gave West Ham a deserved Europa League group stage win over Rapid Vienna at the London Stadium.

Following on from their success at Dinamo Zagreb a fortnight ago, David Moyes' men are in command of Group H ahead of back-to-back meetings with Belgian side Genk.

Rice also hit a post with a near-post flick and Craig Dawson saw his header bounce back off the woodwork.

Substitute Jarrod Bowen should have scored in the second half, but blazed wide with only defender Kevin Wimmer on the line to beat.

Pablo Fornals had a shot saved in stoppage time, moments before Benrahma found the bottom corner with virtually the last kick.

The game did not pass without incident.

West Ham's 29th-minute opener triggered ugly scenes as a number of the 1,300 Rapid Vienna fans jumped over barriers and ran the short distance to goad the home contingent. It triggered numerous objects being thrown in the air by both sets of fans.

It took a significant police presence to ensure the situation did not escalate and, although more objects were thrown when Rapid had a penalty overturned late on, it was not on the same scale.

Thankfully, Benrahma's effort did not result in a repeat of what happened following the opening goal.

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West Ham United

Squad number13Player nameAreola
Squad number31Player nameJohnson
Squad number15Player nameDawson
Squad number23Player nameDiop
Squad number3Player nameCresswell
Squad number16Player nameNoble
Squad number41Player nameRice
Squad number7Player nameYarmolenko
Squad number11Player nameVlasic
Squad number22Player nameBenrahma
Squad number9Player nameAntonio

Squad number8Player nameFornals
Squad number10Player nameLanzini
Squad number20Player nameBowen
Squad number28Player nameSoucek

Rapid Vienna

Squad number25Player nameGartler
Squad number4Player nameAiwu
Squad number30Player nameGreiml
Squad number6Player nameWimmer
Squad number31Player nameUllmann
Squad number16Player namePetrovic
Squad number14Player nameGrahovac
Squad number36Player nameArase
Squad number8Player nameKnasmüllner
Squad number9Player nameFountas
Squad number29Player nameKara

Squad number5Player nameLjubicic
Squad number22Player nameStojkovic
Squad number23Player nameAuer
Squad number27Player nameGrüll
Squad number32Player nameKitagawa

Line-ups

West Ham

Formation 4-2-3-1

13Areola
31Johnson
15Dawson
23DiopBooked at 75mins
3Cresswell
16NobleSubstituted forSoucekat 62'minutes
41Rice
7YarmolenkoSubstituted forFornalsat 76'minutes
11VlasicSubstituted forLanziniat 62'minutes
22Benrahma
9AntonioSubstituted forBowenat 62'minutes

Substitutes

1Fabianski
4Zouma
8Fornals
10Lanzini
20Bowen
21Ogbonna
26Masuaku
28Soucek
33Král
35Randolph
42Alese
75Baptiste

Rapid Vienna

Formation 4-2-3-1

25Gartler
4Aiwu
30GreimlBooked at 57minsSubstituted forStojkovicat 62'minutes
6Wimmer
31UllmannSubstituted forAuerat 74'minutes
16PetrovicSubstituted forLjubicicat 81'minutes
14GrahovacBooked at 44mins
36Arase
8Knasmüllner
9FountasSubstituted forKitagawaat 62'minutes
29KaraSubstituted forGrüllat 62'minutes

Substitutes

5Ljubicic
10Ballo
13Schick
20Hofmann
21Unger
22Stojkovic
23Auer
27Grüll
32Kitagawa
45Hedl

Live Text

Match ends, West Ham United 2, Rapid Vienna 0.
Second Half ends, West Ham United 2, Rapid Vienna 0.
Goal! West Ham United 2, Rapid Vienna 0. Saïd Benrahma (West Ham United) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jarrod Bowen.
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Emanuel Aiwu.
Attempt missed. Tomas Soucek (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Saïd Benrahma.
Corner, West Ham United. Conceded by Paul Gartler.
Attempt saved. Pablo Fornals (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Saïd Benrahma.
Foul by Kevin Wimmer (Rapid Vienna).
Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Robert Ljubicic (Rapid Vienna) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Filip Stojkovic.
Corner, Rapid Vienna. Conceded by Tomas Soucek.
Substitution, Rapid Vienna. Robert Ljubicic replaces Dejan Petrovic.
Attempt missed. Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, West Ham United. Pablo Fornals replaces Andriy Yarmolenko.
Issa Diop (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Issa Diop (West Ham United).
Marco Grüll (Rapid Vienna) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aaron Cresswell (West Ham United).
Kelvin Arase (Rapid Vienna) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Rapid Vienna. Jonas Antonius Auer replaces Maximilian Ullmann.