Four goals, two red cards, and two penalties, one of them in the 13th minute of stoppage time, comprised the… menu of the exciting encounter Sheffield United and West Ham!
In a game that was lopsided throughout, the Londoners took the lead twice, on 28′ and 78′, but the tail of the score found the answers, leveling the final 2-2 with a penalty in the 113′!
So, West Ham may have remained on just one defeat in their last 10 Premier League games, but missed a great chance to get closer to -3 at fifth-placed Tottenham, while Sheffield remained bottom of the table and – 7 from salvation.
The match started with the hosts entering the pitch stronger, but with the “hammers” being the ones to open the scoring in the 28th minute, when Cornet he found himself in the right spot after Ings’ shot against a defender, scoring for 0-1.
Sheffield responded in the 44th minute, with the newly acquired Brereton Diazto score on his Premier League debut, while West Ham managed to score the winning goal in the 78th minute when Ward-Prowse Ings took a well-placed penalty from Hamer.
In the remaining minutes Sheffield pressed but saw their task made more difficult when they saw Brewster to be sent off with a straight red card for too hard a tackle. However, the numerical balance was restored in 97′, when o Soufal was sent off for West Ham, while shortly before the final, o Areolas took a penalty and left injured giving his place to Fabianskiwho, however, did not manage to stop his penalty McBurneyfor the final 2-2.
The schedule for the 21st matchday:
Friday, 12/1
Burnley-Luton 1-1
(36′ Amdouni – 90’+2′ Morris)
Saturday, 13/1
Chelsea-Fulham 1-0
(45’+4′ Palmer)
Newcastle-Manchester City 2-3
(35′ Isaac, 37′ Gordon – 26′ Bernardo Silva, 74′ De Bruyne, 90+1′ Bob)
Sunday, 14/1
Everton-Aston Villa 0-0
Manchester United-Tottenham 2-2
(3′ Hoyland, 40′ Rashford – 19′ Richarlison, 46′ Bedancourt)
Saturday, 20/1
Arsenal-Crystal Palace 5-0
(11′ Gabriel, 37′ auto. Henderson, 59′ Trossard, 90’+4′, 90’+6′ Martinelli)
Brentford-Nottingham Forest 3-2
(19′ Toni, 59′ Mi, 68′ Mopay – 3′ Danilo, 65′ Wood)
Sunday, 21/1
Sheffield United-West Ham 2-2
(44′ Brereton-Diaz, 90’+13′ pen. McBurney – 28′ Cornet, 78′ pen. Ward-Prowse)
Bournemouth-Liverpool (18:30)
Monday, 22/1
Brighton-Wolves (21:45)
Next matchday (22nd):
Tuesday, 30/1
Nottingham Forest-Arsenal (21:30)
Luton-Brighton (21:45)
Fulham-Everton (21:45)
Crystal Palace-Sheffield United (22:00)
Aston Villa-Newcastle (22:15)
Wednesday, 31/1
Manchester City-Burnley (21:30)
Tottenham-Bradford (21:30)
Liverpool-Chelsea (22:15)
Thursday, 1/2
West Ham-Bournemouth
Wolves-Manchester United (22:15)
Source: Sport Fm
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