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Burnley and Wolves are in action in those 3pm games. With West Ham and the teams above them now picking up points on the regular, I’d suggest both the Clarets and the Wanderers require a minor miracle from here to stay in the Premier League.
Winning away at Manchester City would, in itself, be a miracle for Wolves.
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Clockwatch: Attention now quickly turns to the 3pm kick-offs, where Rob Smyth is your man for live updates.
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Summerville chats to TNT Sports afterwards and says West Ham “are in a good flow” as Fernandes adds that “the most important thing was when we scored the first, we scored again… a good job by everybody”.
“I was surprised with myself,” laughs Summerville on his opening goal. “This was my first header!”
On his own strike, Fernandes says: “I need to shoot more, as I always score in training. I was lucky a little bit.”
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How the relegation battle now looks:
14th – Tottenham, 27 pts
15th – Bournemouth, 27 pts
16th – Leeds, 25 pts
17th – Nottm Forest, 22 pts
18th – West Ham, 20 pts
19th – Burnley – 14 pts
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FT: West Ham 3-1 Sunderland
That’s it. West Ham have successive Premier League victories for just the second time this season and deservedly so, as those first half goals from Summerville, Bowen and Fernandes see off a sub-par Sunderland, who got a second half consolation via Brobbey.
The three points move the Hammers to within two points of safety, with Nottingham Forest above them and not in action until tomorrow afternoon.
Goalscorer Jarrod Bowen (left) celebrates with his manager Nuno Espirito Santo following West Ham’s win over Sunderland. Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PAShare
Updated at 14.40 GMT
90 mins + 4: A smart run from Bowen gets West Ham back up the pitch with the awarding of a home throw-in. This is almost done and dusted.
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What on earth has happened here? West Ham think the ball has crossed the line after a ridiculous hit from Fernandes ricochets off the crossbar down onto the turf and ends in an almighty scramble in front of Robin Roefs.
As that Fernandes hit was screaming towards goal, Mavropanos and Alderete were nose-to-nose in some sort of row.
It ended with a Sunderland free-kick for a Soucek push after all that. Crazy scenes.
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90 mins: Matheus Fernandes has been awarded player of the match by TNT Sports’ Ally McCoist. I think Bowen and Summerville run him close, but it’s fair enough.
As we tick into four added minutes, West Ham have the luxury of a corner.
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Something untoward may have been said in that exchange, as play is stopped for a moment to deal with the problem.
“A dispute in the crowd” is the current wording from the officials.
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87 mins: Granit Xhaka has got himself involved in some heated discussions with the West Ham fans behind him. He’s been hugely missed on the pitch for Sunderland today… but seemingly can’t stay out of the action.
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Off the woodwork from O’Nien! He’s come on at right-back and sent an attempted cross towards Areola’s near post – he definitely did’t mean to try and score. Maybe the goalkeeper got a slight touch to prevent a goal – he then gratefully flops down on the loose ball.
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85 mins: Great play from Wilson to take the ball on his chest and turn. The striker then looks to shoot and goes down under pressure in the box but there’s nothing doing in terms of a penalty.
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83 mins: There is applause from Le Bris after a well-worked Sunderland sequence ends in a snatched volley at the back post from Isidor.
Luke O’Nien is on for Mukiele in the visitors’ final change of the game. Mukiele isn’t too happy about his withdrawal, to say the least, with words directed towards his manager.
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82 mins: Fernandes sends in the free-kick from the left, which is headed straight up twice by Sunderland defenders, until Mavropanos scuffs a left-footed shot well wide.
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Into the final 10 minutes plus added time. Sunderland need to score soon to stand any chance and set up a – cliche alert – grandstand finish.
Instead West Ham have a precious free-kick down the other end after the effervescent Summerville draws a yellow card-worthy challenge from Sadiki.
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78 mins: West Ham no longer have an outlet on the counter like they did before. Maybe removing Castellanos wasn’t the greatest shout… Wilson is getting crowded out by the Sunderland centre-backs whenever it comes forward.
The home side aren’t quite home and hosed.
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76 mins: Mukiele launches another long throw into the box, which looks for for Ballard but instead lands on a West Ham head. When it comes back into the Hammers’ box, it’s gobbled happily up by Areola.
There will be no clean sheet today for the West Ham No 1 but he’ll be still delighted with the current scoreline.
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West Ham make a sub: Freddie Potts replaces Castellanos.
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73 mins: There is far more spring about Sunderland now, but as Wilson wins a foul to relieve the pressure a tad, you wonder if it’s just come a little too late for the visitors.
Wilson Isidor is going to be their latest introduction from the bench.
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70 mins: Here comes the first West Ham change of the afternoon as Callum Wilson enters the fray, with Malick Diouf also on after his successful Senegal sojourn at the Africa Cup of Nations.
Pablo and Scarles are taken off to plenty of applause.
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Maybe me saying Sunderland look beaten was the proverbial rocket up the backside they needed.
With newfound energy and a surge of noise from the away corner, the visitors are on the attack once more.
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GOAL! West Ham 3-1 Sunderland (Brobbey, 66)
And just like that, Sunderland do find a goal from somewhere! Out of nowhere really, as Brian Bobbey heads coolly into the net after a fine run and cross from Mukiele, who had charged down the right.
West Ham were caught completely cold then.
Sunderland’s Brian Brobbey (left) pulls a goal back for the visiting Black Cats. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PAShare
Updated at 14.08 GMT
65 mins: This is all feeling rather low-key now. Sunderland don’t seem to believe they can get back into it. They look beaten.
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64 mins: After more good play from Summerville, Castellanos tests Roefs from the edge of the box but the Sunderland keeper holds on without too much fuss.
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62 mins: West Ham haven’t kept a clean sheet in the Premier League since August.
Mads Hermansen was in goal that day. So Areola is less than half an hour away from his first clean sheet of the season… in late January.
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60 mins: A West Ham corner reaches Fernandes some 30 yards from goal and the Brazilian has another pop, this one far more speculative, off-balance and with his left foot and it’s not close to troubling Roefs.
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58 mins: Diarra thumps a low drive off Tobido to earn Sunderland a corner.
Can they give themselves something to build on here?
No, the Frenchman heads it away.
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56 mins: Bowen almost wriggles away from Le Fée’s clutches on a mazy run down the right, but just runs out of room. The West Ham captain continues to drive his side forward.
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54 mins: Matheus Fernandes has been super-cool on the ball for West Ham and just now he’s played a delightful chip to Soucek, who is fouled to relieve some pressure on the Hammers’ midfield. Good from the former Southampton man.
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52 mins: It’s reflective of West Ham’s recent form that their fans still don’t feel comfortable at 3-0 up.
I guess a Sunderland goal in the next 10 minutes could change the outlook, but it would need an almighty Hammers collapse to cede the three points from here …
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Ian Sargent is back in my email inbox:
Need a fourth then we can relax and recall memories of a 6-0 Sunday thrashing of Sunderland in the early 90s. That was in Division 2 but on the telly and at a time there was ill-feeling towards the board – bond scheme-related if I recall.
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49 mins: Sunderland are snapping into their challenges a little quicker early in this second half but a tackle from Brobbey on Fernandes is deemed over-zealous by the referee, Thomas Bramall.
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Ally McCoist has just revealed on commentary for TNT Sports that he had an interview to be Sunderland boss some time after Steve Bruce’s exit in 2011. What a scoop!
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46 mins: So that’s two changes down the left flank and one in midfield for Sunderland. Reinildo was walking a disciplinary tightrope after escaping a second yellow late in the first half, while Hume struggled in a central role. Let’s see if that has any impact for the Black Cats.
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We’re back under way for the second half.
Le Bris has made a triple substitution: Habib Diarra, Dennis Cirkin and Chemsdine Talbi have replaced Hume, Reinildo and Mundle.
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Sunderland’s five defeats in the Premier League this season:
Burnley 2-0 Sunderland (23 Aug)
Manchester United 2-0 Sunderland (4 Oct)
Fulham 1-0 Sunderland (22 Nov)
Manchester City 3-0 Sunderland (6 Dec)
Brentford 3-0 Sunderland (7 Jan)
When they lose it tends to be away from home and they tend to get nilled. Can they change that in the second half at West Ham?
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“Sunderland cant be this poor for another 45 [minutes] can they?” asks West Ham fan Ian Sargeant on email.
To paraphrase Mick McCarthy… they can.
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The goals: Summerville’s opener was well-worked by West Ham but all too easy from a Sunderland perspective, the second came from an avoidable Trai Hume challenge in the box and the third was an absolute pearler from Matheus Fernandes.
The Black Cats have created chances and looked especially threatening in the opening 10 to 15 minutes but they responded badly to the initial concession, ceding control in midfield.
Time to me to grab a cuppa while we digest that first half.
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HT: West Ham 3-0 Sunderland.
What a half of football for West Ham United. Crysencio Summerville and Jarrod Bowen have been excellent and the home side have been utterly ruthless, punishing a sloppy Sunderland, who are missing their talisman Granit Xhaka.
The scoreline is a complete reverse of what we saw at the Stadium of Light on the opening day of the season. Who’d have thought it …
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45 mins +2: Reinildo catches Bowen and West Ham are appealing for a second yellow card. But it looks like the full-back is going to escape punishment.
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Surely Le Bris will have to change something at the break? He’s got Geertruida to add ballast to the base of midfield, or perhaps Simon Adingra or Wilson Isidor to spice up a forward line that hasn’t taken its chances.
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45 mins: The camera keeps panning to Xhaka in the crowd. He has proven to be a huge miss.
We’ll have three first-half added minutes.
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It all stemmed from a lovely switch of play to pick out Summerville, who laid it back from the left to Castellanos. After the striker’s shot was blocked, Fernandes picked it up and curled it into the top corner beyond Roefs, who got a slight hand to it.
Sunderland look shell-shocked.
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GOAL! West Ham 3-0 Sunderland (Fernandes, 43)
What a beauty from Mateus Fernandes! Stick that in your scrapbook! A brilliant strike from 25 yards out.
A thumping drive from outside the box by Mateus Fernandes extends West Ham’s lead. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/ReutersWhich he, understandably, is pretty pleased about. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PAShare
Updated at 13.23 GMT
42 mins: It’s now Sunderland who are making more fouls and it’s West Ham who are gleefully sending crosses into the box, pinning back their opponents.
Nuno Espírito Santo’s gameplan has worked to perfection. So far.
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40 mins: Enzo Le Fée is another Sunderland player who has been quiet so far.
West Ham just seem to have a numerical advantage in the middle of the pitch, so they’re crowding out the mercurial Frenchman.
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38 mins: Nordi Mukiele isn’t having the best game I’ve seen him have. He always looks more comfortable at centre-back in my view and he’s been given a tough time by Summerville so far.
Ironic cheers are greeting every misplaced Sunderland pass right now.
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Updated at 13.10 GMT
The free-kick came to nothing, but 3-0 to West Ham now looks likelier than 2-1, if we’re having a conversation about where the next goal will come from.
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35 mins: Reinildo is next into the book for Sunderland after hauling down a rampaging Bowen on the left-hand edge of the Sunderland box.
A free-kick for West Ham coming here, in a dangerous spot.
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Silly decision from yours truly to put Robin Roefs in my FPL team. And Granit Xhaka. *Facepalm*
Whoever has Bowen will be sitting pretty.
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