Leicester City 1 West Ham 1
This game has been completely overshadowed by tragedy since the crash of the Leicester chairman's helicopter. Thoughts go out to all those affected and the Leicester City fans. And well done to Gary Lineker for presenting what must have been a very difficult Match of the Day in a professional manner.
As for the football, the Irons started without the ill Arnautovic. But it was pleasing to see Fabian Balbuena score his first goal for the Hammers. Grady Diangana, on his full Premier League debut, did well to win a free kick. Rice headed it back and the General first hit the post and then tapped home the rebound, reacting more quickly than Maguire.
The game then turned again with Mark Noble's sending off. No complaints about this. Sometimes Nobes is so keen to set an example that he lunges in and if you go in with your studs up and miss the ball while connecting with the man, then the ref has no choice.
For the rest of the game we saw why West Ham have improved defensively and players like Snodgrass really put in a shift. Fabianski is now looking an upgrade on Adrian and made another set of impressive saves. When the 89th minute equaliser came from Ndidi it took a huge deflection off the unlucky Balbuena. There was still time for West Ham to almost win it. Good work from Antonio saw Snodgrass cut it back for sub Ogbonna who blazed over — a real centre back's shot when he should have scored.
But really it's difficult to write about football on a day like this. West Ham go on to play Spurs on Wednesday — for Leicester it won't be anything like as easy.
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