Everton 0 West Ham 1
Managed to watch most of this while also supervising out local Play Street, as you do. West Ham started well and looked immediately sharp with Rice dominating the midfield against an Everton side lacking Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison.
Iwobi missed with an air-shot after looking likely to score, but at the other end Soucek had a goal correctly disallowed for offside after Bowen's shot was parried and Fornals curled wide when he should have hit the target. Bar the odd dangerous cross from Townsend flicked wide by Rondon the Toffees failed to seriously worry the Irons' defence.
The second half saw more gritty, attritional action. The winner was always likely to come from a set piece and it arrived in the 74th minute when Ogbonna got on the end of Bowen's fine inswinging corner to score his first of the season.
After that the Hammers could have had a second as Pickford tipped away Bowen's shot and late on saved from Antonio. The only blemish was the facial injury suffered by Soucek. Credit to Zouma for some fine blocks and Ben Johnson for filling in at right-back for the injured Coufal. It wasn't pretty but it was resilient and after the Brentford game is a great result against an in-form side. Irons!
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