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88 min West Ham go again, Bowen crossing and the ball pinging about in the box with Fullkrug hammering o2 into the roof of the net – it’s a brilliant finish. But eventually, Everton clear, and shortly afterwards, Dibling does well to win a free-kick down the right-hand side of the box.
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86 min Paqueta and Mykolenko tussle for the ball, Mykolenko on the ground as Paqueta nudges him and getting up while imparting an elbow to the mid-section. Naturally, Paqueta goes down like he’s been tasered, and the Ukrainian is booked.
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85 min And here they come again, Bowen finding space down the right and crossing low; again, Fullkrug is inches away from sliding on to the end of it.
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84 min Grealish lays back to Dewsbury-Hall, who crosses to no one. But these last few minutes have been a little better for Everton, even if West Ham still look likelier winners.
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83 min Garner looks to curl inside the near post and doesn’t get that close.
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82 min Areola plays out to Mavrapanos, Dewsbury-Hall mugs him, and does all he can to hurl himself into the area when the inevitable foul comes. Free-kick Everton, near its left corner; Mavropanos is booked.
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81 min Another change for Everton, Dibling replacing Ndiaye. I wonder if Moyes thinks the former’s physicality is more likely to stop Diouf than the latter’s.
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80 min West Ham win a corner, the headed clearance falls for Diouf – of course it does – and he lamps a shot miles away from anywhere.
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78 min West Ham clear a long throw, Garner collects, and gets the right willies when he sees Diouf charging at him, conceding a throw. Nothing comes of it, but the 20-year-old right-back is now the most important player in this game.
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77 min Change for West Ham, Summerville – who’s been good and doesn’t look hurt – replaced by Guilherme.
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76 min Diouf slides Summerville down the left with a pass of impeccable weight; Pickford waits, then times a perfect sliding tackle to avert the danger.
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75 min “Why no updates or live score from the big match between Stirling University and Burnt Island Shipyard?” wonders Ray Wells. I’m not sure it’s possible to find it – i’ve tried and no one will allow us to know.
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73 min Everton just can’t control Diouf – he’s too fast and strong to catch, and his crossing is superb. He’s hit more good ones in 20 minutes than Patrick Dorgu has in nearly a year.
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72 min West Ham are coming now, Diouf again overlapping, crossing well through the corridor, and when Bowen retrieves the ball, his shot is deflected wide of the near post … for a corner which comes to nowt.
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70 min I didn’t see it at the time, but I think Bowen’s finish may have flicked off Keane on its way past Pickford. Either way, it was a decent finish because he made room for the shot and delayed until he was ready. Meantime, Fullkrug runs off Tarkowski who looks to put a hand on him, but the ref sees nothing amiss; if he had, he’d have had a decision to make.
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69 min Change for Everton: Barry replaces the ineffective Beto.
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67 min Diouf is a serious athlete – when he gets going, he can run through people, and the cross he just hit was his second beauty of the match. I’m looking forward to seeing how he develops, because the raw materials are off the scale.
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GOAL! Everton 1-1 West Ham (Bowen 65)
Summerville hooks a pass over his head for Diouf, on halfway, who powers on to it, picking up two defenders with his hands and flinging them into touch before sending over another delicious cross. This time, the ball makes its way to Bowen on the far side, and he stands up Mykolenko, making an angle for the shot, then power-curls into the far side-netting, a third of the way up. West Ham were growing into this, and that’s a very good goal, the first of the Nuno era.
Jarrod Bowen lets fly with a left-footed shot to equalise for the Irons! Photograph: Ed Sykes/Apl/SportsphotoBowen slides in for his celebration in fron of the travelling Hammers fans! Photograph: Martin Rickett/PAShare
Updated at 16.28 EDT
63 min Kilman is booked for a foul, I didn’t see who on.
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62 min Both these teams need to find ways of scoring goals. I’m not sure how either do it on a regular, but hang about! Areola kicks long the ball bounces, and O’Brien’s header back is weak and read by Summerville, who latches on, slips a low shot goalwards … and Pickford saves with a foot. That’s by far the best chance West Ham have had tonight.
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61 min “That James Garner is a bit of a maverick,” chortles Rudd Hughes.
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Updated at 16.18 EDT
59 min Change for West Ham: Freddie Potts, son of Steve, replaces Magassa.
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58 min Inswinger from Dewsbury-Hall which Kilman does really well to head away, facing his own goal; the ball drops into Garner’s stride, but his low shot is saved by Areola easily enough.
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Updated at 16.15 EDT
55 min West Ham are barely in this game as an attacking force but, as I type, Diouf arcs a gorgeous ball into the corridor of uncertainty, but Fullkrug, on the slide, can’t quite get studs on it. I wonder if Nuno might try a second striker at some point, because West Ham sticking balls into the box might work better than playing through midfield. Meantime, Garner sticks a decent cross in, which Kilman dives to stick behind.
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53 min Everton are pushing hard for a second, a big switch finding Dewsbury-Hall, who moves on to to Grealish down the left. He hits the line, crosses, and wants a penalty for something we couldn’t see, but I think is hands against Mavrapanos; yup, the cross hits the keeper, then hits the defender’s hand, and there’s no way that could be considered a penalty.
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52 min Again, though, Eveeton keep West Ham boxed, Grealish drawing men to him before finding Garner, whose shot is straight at Areola.
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50 min Nice from Everton, Garner into Ndiaye and on to Grealish, who nips inside Diouf, then flicks with the outside of his foot for Garner, whose shot is blocked and winds up over the touchline for a throw. O’Brien flings long … and West Ham clear.
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47 min Magassa is late on Garner, introducing studs to thigh, but with Everton on the attack the ref plays advantage, a low cross comes in, and I think a flick off a defender takes it away from Beto, who was certain he was about to score. Instead, Dewsbury-Hall’s shot is deflected over, the ref goes back to book Magassa, then following the corner, Gueye clatters over the top.
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47 min Summerville crosses and Keane heads clear, then Magassa slides into the box seeking Bowen, but puts too much on it.
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46 min Off we go again.
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Half-time email: “Since some minor MBM flavor beef has shown itself,” says Justin Madson, “I wanted to share: as a neutral who was reading your MBM at the time, I thought your take was refreshingly factual and pragmatic. Too often pundits and commentators are happy to dive in on the CONTROVERSIAL DECISION as an abhorrent affront to the spirit of the game. Arguing about calls in sporting events is as old as time and putting things up on a monitor wont change that. What we can change is how we talk about decisions, because this isn’t fun for anyone.”
Relitigating decisions is what foisted VAR upon us, and the way I tend to look at these things is that no one fell in love with the game because of its decision-making process, so I tend not to care how accurate of effective it is. My own team were robbed at the weekend, but they had a full 90 minutes to render the ref’s error irrelevant and weren’t good enough to, so.
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Updated at 16.16 EDT
HALF-TIME: Everton 1-0 West Ham
Everton have played with decent intensity but not that much quality; West Ham with fair intensity and less quality.
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45 min We’ll have one additional minute.
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45 min It goes shot and Paqueta creates an angle to send Walker-Peters down the line, but his pass is inaccurate and intercepted.
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44 min Paqueta robs Gueye but West Ham don’t move the ball quickly enough to exploit the space, going sideways before going forward and eventually winning a free-kick, Magassa doing well to hold off Dewsbury-Hall before falling over.
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43 min Ndiaye protects the ball well, then Garner sticks it into touch, falling on his shoulder and feeling it. I think he’ll be fine.
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42 min West Ham need to find a way of getting Paqueta on the ball. We’ve barely seem him so far, and without him involved, they look unlikely to create.
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40 min Word to the wise: the Dallas Cowboys doc on Netflix is absolutely brilliant. Obviously it’s helps that in American sport, they film everything – they do, for example have footage of Troy Aikman criticising his coach on the sideline – but the desire of all invovled to speak candidly even if it makes them look bad is very helpful.
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37 min Summerville has good pausa. He weaves infield, stops, dips outside O’Brien … who can’t resist the foul. He does well not to be booked there, and the free-kick comes to nowt.
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36 min “Win, lose or draw tonight (he’s 48 hours into the job) I’m willing to take bets that Forest will regret their decision to sack Nuno in favour of that gobby Australian,” says Jeremy Boyce, “and that the Hammers will finish above Forest this season. That may mean 18th and 19th, with only another of Nuno’s other former employers (Wolves) saving them both from the ultimate embarrassment.”
Yeah, I’d not be surprised either; Forest’s squad is useful for what Nuno wants to do, whereas I’m not certain what Postecoglou wants to do, never mind whether he can do it with those players.
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35 min West Ham just can’t defend crosses. Ndiaye stands up Diouf, goes past then crosses, and Dewsbury-Hall should do better than head wide of the far post.
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33 min Grealish comes to the ball and Walker-Peters, impatient at how hard it is to get the ball when it’s this expertly protected, leaves a foot in and is booked. Everton need to set Grealish at him whenever they can.
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32 min Nice from Grealiosh, who draws en towards him then ushers Dewsbury-Hall outside him; he thunders over a cross and Beto chucks head at it, but can’t quite apply brow to ball.
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Updated at 15.33 EDT
31 min There’s noise coming from the away end, including “Sully, you’re a cee” and “sack the board”. Do West Ham have a viable alternative, i.e. someone or some people with the money, desire and expertise to run the club?
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30 min O’Brien wins a free-kick off Diouf – I’d like to see that one again – but Everton have a chance to put the ball into the box. West Ham, though, get the ball away, then clear Mykolenko’s long through.
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29 min Just after getting booked, Tarkowski committed another foul, on Summerville I think.The ref was right not to send him off – not every infringement is a booking, which is why I think Casemiro was unlucky last weekend. But he won’t be given unlimited leeway.
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27 min Grealish draws Magassa in, oozes away, and wears the inevitable lunge. I think the West Ham man got a bit of the ball, which is why there’s no booking.
Soungoutou Magassa brings down Jack Grealish. Photograph: Darren Staples/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 15.30 EDT
25 min Again, West Ham attack down O’Brien’s flank; he gets a foot in, at cost of a throw. So Diouf hurls long but loopy, Kilman craning and extending neck to flick on, and Fullkrug is there, but forced to generate all the pace himself, he can only plop a header into Pickford’s hands.
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24 min Fullkrug reads a pass from Gueye, snaffles it, and Tarkowski slides in hard; he’s booked.
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22 min “Nice ball from Garner,” writes Robert Hisnay. “Garner, Henderson, McTominay, Elanga, Rashford, Garnacho. Straighten it out Ratcliffe!”
Of those, though only one I’m certain is good for United, and the only one who proved it at United, is Rashford, and Amorim knew he was good enough but couldn’t get on board with other aspects of the package.
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20 min Apparently because the goal came immediately following a corner, in the same “phase” it’s the eighth from which West Ham have conceded so far this season.
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GOAL! Everton 1-0 West Ham (Keane 18)
With the ball on the edge of the box, West Ham don’t step up and out, so when it goes wide to Garner, he’s got loads of time to come inside and curl in a flat, fast cross that Keane, totally unmarked, can use the pace of to redirect a header high above Areola.
Michael Keane evades his marker to head Everton into the lead! Photograph: Martin Rickett/PAMichael Keane runs to celebrate. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PAShare
Updated at 15.24 EDT
