Another fine point against City

West Ham 1 Manchester City 1

I listen to this one on Radio London, as do Matt and Lisa, while Nigel has found a new lucky pub with CQ at the Cricketers in Kew, Michael is the sole customer in the Black Prince in Kennington and Fraser is among gambling Irons fans at an Irish pub in Ilford. 

West Ham continue to give another disciplined performance against the team that normally beats us 5-0. We're ahead after 18 minutes when Soucek chases a loose ball to feed Coufal who crosses for Michail Antonio to score with a stunning overhead kick. Not quite as good as Andy Carroll's overhead against Palace but still a brilliant goal.

City seem out of sorts and there's even a spell of West Ham pressure late in the half with the Irons having a penalty appeal and the Radio London commentator declaring "and City defending with their lives", which isn't something I ever expected to hear.

Nigel WhatsApps to say that WHU have been the better team for long stretches of the first half, while Michael the Whovian comments: "Line of five, line of four, sole attacker, but lots of wing-back forays... most striking aspect is the team spirit."

City have taken off Aguoro and replaced him with Foden. The City youngster scores a great equaliser seven minutes into the second half, turning instantly to shoot home after Cancelo (is he part of the Cancelo culture?) has outpaced Coufal on the left. When Antonio goes off a minute later feeling his iffy hamstring it looks bleak. Matt wonders if "Yarmolenko on for the injured Antonio" are the most depressing six words in the English language.

Twenty minutes of playing Bowen alone up front doesn't work and eventually Haller is brought on. The Hammers owe their point to a fine display from Fabianski. After Masuaku hangs on too long and loses the ball in midfield Sterling gets through but is foiled by a fine stop from Fab. The keeper then has to black Mahrez at his near post late on. At the lther end Fornals fails to lob Ederson. We'll take a point though. That's eight points from the last four games, when most pundits predicted we'd get none. Irons!