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West Ham 3-0 Sheffield United

Premier League    2020-21Match review
London Stadium   0
  SubsGoals  
1Lukasz Fabianski    
23Issa Diop 1  
15Craig Dawson    
3Aaron Cresswell    
5Vladimir Coufal    
28Tomas Soucek    
41Declan Rice 1 (1 P)  
31Ben Johnson    
10Manuel Lanzini    
11Jesse Lingard    
20Jarrod Bowen    
16Mark NobleSubed #10   
9Said BenrahmaSubed #11   
24Ryan FredericksSubed #311  
 PosTable as at 15 Feb 2021PlWHDHLHFHAHWADALAFAAAPts
1Manchester City2392125773121753
2Manchester United245342518840251346
3Leicester City246151916831231046
4Chelsea246422311624171342
5West Ham United246331914633181442
6Liverpool247232214453231840
7Everton224251617722181337
8Aston Villa225141914624171036
9Tottenham Hotspur235341713533191236
10Arsenal245341613516151234
11Leeds United234251616606242632
12Wolverhampton Wanderers244441414426111830
13Southampton235161615344142429
14Crystal Palace244351421426132129
15Brighton and Hove Albion241741115444141526
16Burnley2342591333681626
17Newcastle United244261521327101925
18Fulham23147717254121418
19West Bromwich Albion24147832138112313
20Sheffield United24219918111062211
match review copied from www.sportinglife.com

Rice and Diop lead in-form West Ham to win over Sheffield United
Paul MacInnes at the London Stadium
Date published: Mon 15 Feb 2021 21.19 GMT

A Jesse Lingard-powered West Ham continued their season of exceeding expectations with a clinical win over a surely-doomed Sheffield United.

The hosts climbed above champions Liverpool with 24 games played in this relentless season, and while David Moyes said talk of the top four “makes me feel uneasy”, good performances in the five matches his team face before April could have their fans’ dreams turning into something other than bubbles.

Lingard was at the forefront of the win, the loanee rescued from the Manchester United scrapheap turning the match with his energy and incision. He won a penalty late in the first half before Issa Diop doubled the score an hour in and substitute Ryan Fredericks wrapped it up in injury time.

Lingard’s all-round play, however, was too much to handle throughout for a Sheffield United side with no cutting edge and the odd, crucial mistake in their play. Their manager, Chris Wilder, was in particular made to rue a succession of missed opportunities from striker David McGoldrick.

“Some of Jesse’s stuff was great,” Moyes said of his former United charge, though he was keen to keep the individual praise to a minimum. “He was a great outlet, though if he had released the ball a bit quicker he could have had more opportunities,” he said. “Jesse’s ability has always been there, and overall he’s a talented footballer who can give us something in the final third.”

The first half was bookended by two penalty calls, both horrible in their own way. The first was just four minutes in following a free-kick given away cheaply by Sheffield United’s Ben Osborn. Declan Rice forced a save from Aaron Ramsdale with the set piece, but it was not a very good one and Craig Dawson was on to the rebound, getting his toe to the ball just before Enda Stevens and going over from the subsequent contact.

Referee Simon Hooper pointed to the spot but that was just the start, of course, as VAR got to its assiduous, tedious, will-sapping work. The foul was marginal but cleared the video-assisted bar. Stockley Park then worked backwards though, to the free-kick itself, and lines started to appear on Dawson’s knee. The West Ham man had got ahead of Stevens and, as defined among the small print of Rule 11, the goalkeeper’s intervention had not prevented him from eventually being offside.

So that was that. The penalty that was came as West Ham grabbed control of the game as the first half came to a close. This time it was horrible in the way Sheffield United coughed it up: mugged of possession on halfway by Lingard and cut open from there.

Lingard pinched the ball from Chris Basham, and Jarrod Bowen drove the ball to the box before squaring to Lingard. As the attacker angled to get a shot off, Basham emerged stage left to bring him down. A clear penalty decision, it provoked no digitised officiating and this time Rice had the chance to step up and sweep the ball home.

McGoldrick had opportunities in the first half, opting to take the ball on his toe rather than with his head early on when a goal could have changed the dynamic entirely. In the second half, it got far worse. Two headers, first bounced off a defender and then down into the arms of Lukasz Fabianski, when it would have been easier to score. Meanwhile at the other end, Diop flicked an Aaron Cresswell corner beyond Ramsdale and Fredericks, following tricksy work from fellow sub Saďd Benrahma, drove home the third with the last kick of the game.

Wilder berated mistakes from his team and chances not taken. They remain bottom of the league and the performance “epitomised our season,” he said. “It was a long walk from the technical area to the dugout,” he added, and that was only partly the fault of the stadium.

Daily Mail: MATCH FACTS, PLAYER RATINGS AND LEAGUE TABLE
West Ham (3-4-3): Fabianski 8; Diop 7, Dawson 7.5, Cresswell 6; Coufal, Rice 7.5, Soucek 7, Johnson 7.5 (Fredericks 90, 6); Lingard 8 (Benrahma 82, 6), Lanzini 6 (Noble 63, 6); Bowen 6.5.
Subs not used: Martin, Alves, Fornals, Odubeko, Coventry, Baptiste
Scorers: Rice 41 pen, Diop 58, Fredericks 90+6
Manager: David Moyes 8
Sheffield United (5-3-2): Ramsdale 8; Bogle 6, Basham 6, Egan 6 (Jagielka 85, 6), Ampadu 7, Stevens 6; Lundstram 6, Norwood 5 (McBurnie 62, 6), Osborn 6; McGoldrick 7, Sharp 6.5
. Subs not used: Foderingham, Baldock, Lowe, Burke, Brewster, Bryan, Maguire
Booked: Basham, Lundstram
Manager: Chris Wilder 6
Referee: Simon Hooper 7
Man of the match: Jesse Lingard
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