Everton 1-1 West Ham United
Premier League, Hill Dickinson Stadium, Monday 29 September 2025, 8pm BST
West Ham United showed plenty of the fighting spirit demanded by Nuno Espírito Santo to come from behind and draw 1-1 at Everton on Monday evening.
Playing for the first time under our new Head Coach, the Hammers put in plenty of effort and endeavour and were rewarded with a deserved point on Merseyside.
Hammers captain Jarrod Bowen became the first visiting player to score at the Blues’ new Hill Dickinson Stadium, curling high past Jordan Pickford midway through the second half to cancel out Michael Keane’s early header for David Moyes’ side.
In the first half, the Irons created half-chances but could not breach a home defence that had not conceded in their first three competitive matches at their new 52,500-capacity home on the site of a former dock. At the other end, we were initially seemingly sunk by an inability to deal with another cross into our penalty area.
Early on, Lucas Paquetá and Niclas Füllkrug saw shots blocked by Keane and Vitalii Mykolenko, while the recalled German also saw a mis-hit shot and looping header both held by Jordan Pickford.
At the other end, David Moyes’ side threatened sporadically, with Beto and Iliman Ndiaye seeing efforts held by Areola, but the French goalkeeper could do nothing to stop Keane’s header from James Garner’s left-wing cross flying into the roof of the net.
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall went close to doubling Everton’s lead before the break from another cross, but his header bounced past the far post.
Everton started strongly after the break, too. Crysencio Summerville did superbly to block Jake O’Brien’s shot then, at the climax of the same attack, Idrissa Gueye blasted over. With West Ham wobbling, Maximilian Kilman blocked one Garner shot, then Areola held a second before making a smart save to hold Garner’s snap-shot.
Then, out of almost nowhere, Areola’s clearance was allowed to bounce, O’Brien’s header to Pickford was short and the Summerville was denied by the England goalkeeper’s right knee.
Two minutes later, West Ham levelled. Summerville and El Hadji Diouf combined, the Senegalese crossed, Keane’s header fell to Bowen and his well-struck curler flew in off the Everton No5. It was the skipper’s 59th Premier League goal in 199 appearances in the competition since joining in January 2020.
Suddenly, Everton were uncertain, and only a deflection off Tarkowski prevented Bowen beating Pickford at his near post and putting the visitors in front.
West Ham pushed. Dinos Mavropanos headed a corner over. Diouf shot high and wide.
Into the final ten minutes and Garner curled a free-kick wide for the home side after Mavropanos had pulled down Dewsbury-Hall.
Nuno and Moyes stood on the edge of their respective technical areas, imploring their respective teams to find a winner.
West Ham almost did, but Füllkrug’s shot was blocked.
Everton almost did, but Areola saved Tarkowski’s drive.
In the end, while the Hammers could not replicate the achievements of 2007 or 2019, when we became the first visitors to win at Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur respectively, we did become the first to breach Everton's defence at their new Hill Dickinson Stadium home.
Everton: Pickford, O’Brien, Keane, Tarkowski ©, Mykolenko, Gueye, Garner, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndiaye (Dibling 81), Grealish, Beto (Barry 69)
Subs not used: Travers (GK), Patterson, Coleman, McNeil, Alcaraz, Aznou, Iroegbunam
Goal: Keane 18
Booked: Tarkowski, Mykolenko, Dewsbury-Hall
West Ham United: Areola, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Kilman, Diouf, Magassa (Potts 59), Fernandes, Paquetá (Igor 90+4), Bowen ©, Summerville (Luis Guilherme 77), Füllkrug (Irving 90+4)
Subs not used: Hermansen (GK), Scarles, Rodríguez, Marshall, Wilson
Booked: Walker-Peters, Magassa, Kilman, Mavropanos
Goal: Bowen 65
Referee: Sam Barrott
Attendance: 51,890
