Everton vs West Ham LIVE! Premier League match stream, latest score and goal updates today
Two of the Premier League’s early strugglers meet today at Goodison Park. Frank Lampard’s Toffees are yet to win a league game this season and have drawn the majority of their matches as they look to avoid another relegation battle.
Following back-to-back wins in the Europa Conference League amid the domestic postponements, West Ham can claim to be worth more than their 18th position in the table. After beating Aston Villa, David Moyes’ side took a draw against Tottenham and controversial defeat at Chelsea to raise optimism of an end to their woes.
Dominc Calvert-Lewin is not involved for the hosts as he once again misses out with injury, while Michail Antonio leads the line for West Ham as Gianluca Scamacca has to settle for a place on the bench despite his goal in midweek. Follow all of the action from Merseyside with Standard Sport’s live blog!
Managers lead the teams out, taking part in the pre-match tributes to Queen Elizabeth II.
Players wearing black armbands, as has been the case all weekend. There will be a minute’s silence before the national anthem is sung.
Kick-off coming up in less than ten minutes now.
Both sides need a win, and both sides will feel they can get all three points this afternoon. Could set it up to be an entertaining clash.
Then again, it could be a nervy, tense encounter. We’ll hope it’s the former.
“We’ve shown some signs in recent games. We won away at Villa, we had a good result against Tottenham and we played quite well, Chelsea as well.
“Coupled in between that we’ve had three or four good results in Europe so we’re getting closer, but I don’t think we’ve quite the rhythm we had last season and the season before.
“It takes a little bit of time to come. The toughest thing at the moment is the number of games - the gelling would normally come at the training ground.”
Everton 17th in the table, West Ham 18th. Both sides with just four points from their opening six games.
The Toffees are still looking for their first league win of the season too, after four draws and two defeats. Goals not exactly flying in either for either side - a combined seven between them.
Not really set up to be a classic - we’ll hope for the best!
So Fabianski, Zouma and Bowen among those to come back into the side after being rested in midweek. Cresswell preferred to Emerson at left-back, while Scamacca has to settle for a place on the bench as Antonio leads the line.
For Everton, Gueye starts but there is no Calvert-Lewin in the squad despite the talk that he could return from injury.
It’s Gray and Gordon even side of Maupay for the hosts.
Everton XI: Begovic, Patterson, Coady, Tarkowski, Mykolenko, Gueye, Onana, Iwobi, Gray, Maupay, Gordon.
Subs: Keane, McNeil, Doucoure, Coleman, Davies, Ruben Vinagre, Rondon, Jakupovic, Garner.
West Ham XI: Fabianski; Coufal, Kehrer, Zouma, Cresswell; Rice, Soucek; Bowen, Paqueta, Fornals; Antonio.
Subs: Areola, Dawson, Emerson, Ogbonna, Downes, Lanzini, Cornet, Benrahma, Scamacca