West Ham United vs Everton; Premier League
West Ham United vs Everton. Premier League.
London StadiumAttendance62,454.
West Ham United 2
- T Soucek (51st minute)
- C Wilson (92nd minute)
Everton 1
- K Dewsbury-Hall (88th minute)
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West Ham United 2-1 Everton: Callum Wilson's late winner keeps Hammers out of Premier League relegation zone
Report and free match highlights as West Ham beat Everton 2-1 at London Stadium; Callum Wilson came off the bench to score a stoppage-time winner; Tomas Soucek had opened the scoring, before Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall levelled; West Ham stay 17th in the table, two points ahead of Tottenham
Saturday 25 April 2026 19:00, UK
Callum Wilson came off the bench to score in stoppage time as West Ham beat Everton 2-1 to stay out of the Premier League relegation zone.
On a topsy-turvy afternoon in the capital, Nuno Espirito Santo's side had appeared to be cruising to a huge three points thanks to Tomas Soucek's 51st-minute header, until late drama.
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Firstly, as news of a Tottenham Hotspur goal at Wolves filtered around the London Stadium, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall volleyed the visitors level with just two minutes to go, pushing the Hammers into the drop zone on goal difference.
But just as the board was raised to indicate there would be another eight minutes of injury time, up popped the ever-green Wilson to score after good work at the back post by Jarrod Bowen, a vital strike that saw West Ham again leapfrog their London rivals in the table.
There had been little indication of the climax we were in store for, though, after a cagey first period in the east London sunshine, only for Soucek's thumping near-post header from Bowen's inswinging corner to spark the game into life.
The home side had appeared to be doing a good job seeing the match out, only for that man Soucek to somehow deflect Thierno Barry's effort on to the bar, before Everton were denied what appeared a convincing call for an 84th-minute penalty when Mateus Fernandes appeared to scoop the ball away with his hand.
Video Assistant Referee Michael Salisbury deemed it accidental, but that close call seemed to cause doubt in the West Ham back line and minutes later Dewsbury-Hall's sweetly struck volley from James Tarkowski's clever headed knock down looked to be a knock-out blow for the hosts.
That was until Wilson used all his experience in the second minute of injury time to know exactly where Bowen's knock down would land as West Ham stayed two points clear of Spurs in the race to beat the drop, with now just four games left to play.
What the managers said...
West Ham boss Nuno:
"Nobody is making it easy. It's going to be a big fight, I think, until the end. But the good thing is that we don't give up. We're still on it. The momentum, especially here at the London Stadium, I think it's a huge factor in the Premier League."
Everton boss David Moyes:
"It's not as if the ball comes on to his hand, his arm goes towards the ball [regarding the decision not to award Everton a second-half penalty].
"I think today's the first time I've heard the word 'accidental' being used. I think that word had been taken out of the vocabulary really."
Ice-cool Soucek still one of the Hammers' MVPs
Sky Sports' Rich Morgan at the London Stadium:
Tomas Soucek's interventions at both ends of the field were key in West Ham's last-gasp win against Everton, and could also prove pivotal in their bid to beat the drop this season.
Not only did the midfielder give his side the breakthrough with a characteristic header from a set-piece after a tense first half at the London Stadium, but he was also in the right place on the line to somehow divert Thierno Barry's seemingly goalbound strike onto the bar to preserve that slender lead with 12 minutes left to play.
Everton did soon level matters, before the Hammers' late winner, but as David Moyes acknowledged after the game, Soucek's big-match experience and ice-cool temperament are going to be crucial in the closing weeks if his side are to hold off Tottenham Hotspur and stay in the Premier League.
The Everton boss, who signed the Czech Republic international while in charge of the Hammers more than six years ago, talked up the importance of the 'unselfish' Soucek's heading ability in both boxes, and his side will need more of the same from the influential 31-year-old in their remaining four games to beat the drop.
