
Seventy-three minutes gone, and David Moyes is on the pitch. Declan Rice is near enough in the first row of seats. And the London Stadium is not so much breathing a sigh, as letting out a cry, of collective relief.
By the corner flag, the rest of West Ham’s players are engulfing Danny Ings, who has just bundled home the second of two goals in three second-half minutes that might, in time, prove the most important of the Hammers’ season.