Everton v West Ham: Premier League – live | Premier League

93 min: West Ham get a corner. It pinballs around the six-yard box momentarily but Everton eventually clear.

92 min: West Ham have it near the left corner flag as they attack. Cornet tries a backheel but it’s nabbed by Everton who play it around and then burst out on the counterattack. Doucoure is advancing into space and has loads of options – he tries quite an ambitious switch of play from right to left but gets it completely wrong …

90 min: Bowen goes down injured for West Ham. Lampard, sporting a black suit, directs affairs from the touchline. Moyes has his hands plunged into his pockets nearby. Everton have five minutes to hold on for their first, precious three points of the season.

90 min: Five minutes will be added on.

88 min: Everton’s centre-backs get in a muddle after Bowen flicks a ball on. Suddenly it looks like Cornet is one-on-one but the ball runs away from him, or maybe he overruns the ball, and he runs out of angle in which to get an effort on goal away. Nervous moments for Everton but they survive. Maupay comes off, Rondon comes on.

86 min: Iwobi – another player who has been excellent in the second half – belts a shot goalwards. It’s saved.

85 min: Moyes’s face was indeed a picture of disappointment. He is entitled to expect more quality from Behrahma, there.

83 min: West Ham have the ball in the final third. A cross is aimed at Scamacca at the far post. He can’t control it and it bounces out. However, West Ham win the ball back immediately in midfield thanks to Declan Rice, and he feeds the onrushing Cornet, who belts a powerful shot which is flying into the top corner … Begovic beats it out for a corner. Benrahma fluffs the corner completely and Moyes grimaces in disgust on the touchline.

81 min: Gray was excellent today. Quite a big call to take him off, in fact, what with attack being the best form of defence and all that.

79 min: Doucoure is coming on for Everton. Onana is down receiving treatment on what looks like a knock to his right thigh. But it’s Gray that is taken off and the former Watford midfield general, Doucoure, joins the action after recovering from a hamstring knock he sustained last month.

76 min: Gray, again, punches holes in the West Ham defence. He skips into the area and is upended up Kehrer. There are shouts for a penalty but it’s a good challenge, the German defender wins the ball fair and square while taking a little bit of the man along with it.

75 min: Lampard does turn to his bench. Dwight McNeil comes on for Gordon.

74 min: What an effort by Benrahma. Soucek gets a foot in in midfield, an excellent tackle on Gueye, and Benrahma has space to take the ball towards the box, before unleashing a curling shot towards the far post, which thwacks off the woodwork and out! Begovic was a mere spectator there. It was a cheap way for Gueye to lose the ball there and Lampard will be having words.

73 min: Is Lampard going to call on his bench? You’d have thought so. Moyes has made three changes.

71 min: West Ham are pushing a bit harder now. This is a significant test for Everton, having got the goal, can they close out the win?

70 min: Some applause for the late Queen.

67 min: West Ham build an attack into the Everton half. Cornet gets a touch and then it’s with Cresswell, whose attempted cross is blocked out for a corner.

Soucek meets the corner at the near post and glances it goalwards (or nearly goalwards) but it bounces out after Mykolenko at the far post ducks under it. That looked like a goal kick but West Ham get another corner. Nothing comes of that.

Now, here comes Gianluca Scamacca, West Ham’s summer signing from Sassuolo. Could he nab a point for the Hammers?

63 min: The Everton winger Gray with a beautiful bit of work on the left now, ghosting past Coufal and stroking a dangerous ball that flashes across the six-yard box. No one can get on the end of it.

62 min: Everton stalwart Mary Waltz is satisfied with the goal: “Quality pass into the box. Beautiful first touch, no hesitation, confident shot and goal. That is what we mean by quality. Messi, Ronaldo? No. But basic skill, yes.”

61 min: Cornet and Benrahma come on for West Ham. Fornals and Paqueta go off.

59 min: Iwobi again is the man hurting this West Ham defence. He is released down the left and sprints on to the ball, bending a good low cross around the back-tracking defenders. It’s a two-on-one – but Gordon is caught offside.

Now West Ham, enlivened by conceding a goal, stream down to the other end and Bowen has a shot blocked. We’ve got a ball game!

56 min: Everton are suitably buoyed by the goal. Gray attacks again, then they win a corner. The crowd is up, the players are up. It looked a nailed on 0-0 in the first half, but Everton have been far better since half-time, attacking with real intent and fluency. Fair play to Lampard because whatever he said at half-time did the trick.

A really good finish by Maupay, who instantly controls the ball on the edge of the box, then turns and belts a right-footed finish low into the corner. Iwobi also deserves a ton of credit for the way he created it: he picked out Gray on the touchline, took the ball back from his teammate, and then picked out Maupay with a crisp and accurate pass.

That was a lovely injection of pace and, yes, quality from Iwobi, and it got the finish it deserved from Maupay. His first goal for Everton.

GOAL! Everton 1-0 West Ham (Maupay 53)

51 min: Antonio goes down injured for a bit. He is OK.

50 min: West Ham have had eight corners. Everton have had four. Defences are on top.

48 min: Bowen drills a shot over the crossbar, first-time, after (I think) Soucek crosses.

At the other end, Iwobi sends a good pacy pass to Gray, who cuts in from the left wing, jinks away from his marker and bends a good on-target shot that Fabianski gathers.

46 min: Mykolenko makes inroads on the Everton left. He slides a good ball across looking for Gray who has made a run to the near post. Zouma does well to cut the cross out and concede a corner.

That was defending of quality from Zouma, and there was quality on the ball from Mykolenko too.

Second half kick-off!

Kári Tulinius adds: “American sports journalists Jon Bois and Alex Rubinstein once made the point in a video about baseball player Steve Jeltz, who was just about good enough to play in the Major League, but was outclassed by nearly everyone else there, that it’s a harsh fate to be the worst of the best, forever held up to a near impossible standard. At least they are handsomely remunerated.”

Yes. Poor Everton and West Ham!

“Watching the game on holiday in Tunisia,” writes Christian. “One of the pundits almost fell asleep during the half time analysis. I know how he feels. Come on West Ham, I’m missing the beach for this dross!!!”

Half-time reading:

Half-time! Everton 0-0 West Ham

43 min: West Ham win a corner as we approach half time. The ball is worked back to Cresswell and Everton completely fail to close him down. Cresswell thinks about shooting but then bends a ball in for Zouma, who meets it with a glancing header, which goes straight into the gloves of Begovic.

42 min: I sort of see what you mean, Adrian, these people are clearly capable footballers, but isn’t that the point? In view of their training, and the vetting, and all the resources available to them, shouldn’t we be seeing a little more composure, skill and … what’s the word … quality?

41 min: An email arrives from Adrian Goldman:

“‘A real lack of quality’

“I’ve always been a little bit puzzled by this phrase – the people we are talking about are very well paid, went through extensive vetting processes – more than the current PM! – and each and every one of them is a member of the top 0.01-0.1% of all current football players on the planet.* (No, none of them are Lionel Messi.). But I think the idea that they aren’t, indeed, very, very good at what they do is more than a little bit demeaning and unfair.”

38 min: Everton attack. Maupay and Gordon link up, the former trying to play a low pass to his teammate. Everton win a corner. Nothing comes of it.

Maybe we could and should have predicted that Lampard v Moyes would be high-tempo but short on attacking quality?

37 min: What’s going on? Not much. Antonio again uses his considerable presence to control the ball with his back to goal, on halfway, and launches another West Ham attack. The Hammers thread together a few passes. It ends when Paqueta launches a cross towards Antonio, but Begovic claims the ball.

33 min: More like it from Everton. Iwobi advances from midfield and feeds Maupay, before the ball is worked to Gray, popping up on the home team’s left wing. Gray fires a good cross to the far post. But the defending from West Ham is solid.

32 min: David Moyes is wearing a nice charcoal grey sweater.

“There’s a real lack of quality,” says Carragher on Sky Sports of the football on show, and you know what, he’s spot on again.

30 mins: This is, at least, not as dour as Villa v Saints from the other night. But it isn’t very good.

Someone needs to put their foot on it.

28 min: Again with his back to goal, Antonio uses his body to turn beyond Coady, who is touch-tight. Coady knows he’s been beaten and hacks Antonio to the floor instead of letting him run. Coady is booked. Lampard appears to be appealing for something from the ref while Coady committed that cynical foul. No idea what.

26 min: West Ham win another corner. Paqueta climbs high to meet it with a header and manages to crank his neck back sufficiently to send the ball in the vague direction of the goal. Begovic catches it easily.

25 min: Demarai Gray is “the one attacking player who’s had a few good moments,” opines Carragher on Sky Sports. “It hasn’t really happened for any of the attacking players on the pitch, just yet.”

He’s right!

22 min: While I was checking my emails, West Ham won a few corners. Everton repelled the danger. This is like a lunchtime secondary-school playground encounter. Lots of running and shouting but not much cutting edge … On the plus side none of the players are trying to eat their cheese rolls while trying to compete in midfield.