When West Ham were hammered at Aston Villa last weekend, James Ward-Prowse made the eyebrow-raising assessment that it had been “an entertaining game for the neutral”. Even that consolation was not on offer here.
In a miserable game on a miserable afternoon, the Hammers were beaten for the third time in eight days, this time by an Everton side who threw in the kind of intense, alert defensive display they are liable to on occasion under Sean Dyche, aided by the difference-making presence of a fit Dominic Calvert-Lewin, whose second-half turn and finish brought the game’s only goal.
