Crystal Palace v West Ham: Premier League – live
Crystal Palace defeated West Ham to reach the magical target of 40 points
Premier League updates from the 12.30pm BST kick-off
90+9min: A dreadful delivery by Said Benrahma ruins any faint chance West Ham have of snatching a late equaliser. It’s all over and Palace have won.
90+8 min: There’s a flare-up out by the touchline between Aguerd and Edouard, after the Palace substitute slaps the ball out of the West Ham player’s hands. The watch of referee Craig Pawson seems to have stopped.
90+1 min:We’ll have a minimum of six added minutes.
85 min: Crystal Palace corner. The ball’s swung towards Joachim Andersen, who heads wide under pressure from Declan Rice. A replay shows the ball actually went out off Rice’s head but West Ham are awarded a goal kick. Joachim Andersen is not best pleased.
82 min:Ward and Cresswell contest a bouncing ball on the edge of the West Ham penalty area and theCrystal Palace right-back is penalised for a late challenge. Palace substitution: Odsonne Edouard on for Wilf Zaha. He’ll play through the middle, while Jordan Ayew has moved out to the left wing.
80 min: Ogbonna loses track of the flight of a long ball from deep and is beaten to it by Jordan Ayew, who draws a foul from the defender. Free-kick for Palace, about 40 yards from the West Ham goal. Eze sends the ball into the penalty area, where Danny Ings hoofs it clear.
75 min: West Ham survive a VAR check for a possible handball in the build-up to the goal. As for who scored it? You can take your pick from Soucek, Aguerd, Antonio or Own Goal. It seems the Premier League have awarded to Nayef Aguerd.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 4-3 West Ham (Aguerd 73)
West Ham pull one back. From a corner, Soucek got a flick at the near post, sending the ball looping up in the air. Either one of Aguerd or Antonio got the faintest of touches at the far post and the ball ended up in the back of the net. Aguerd looks to be claiming it so let’s give it to him.
70 min: Zaha tries to pick out Joel Ward with a scooped pass across the West Ham penalty area. His delivery is intercepted and a potential Goal of the Season contender goes unscored by the Crystal Palace right-back, who had been shaping to rip the net off the goal frame with a venomous volley from 18 yards.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 4-2 West Ham (Eze 65pen)
Palace extend their lead! Without looking at the ball, Eze takes a stuttering run-up, waits for Fabianski to go one way and then rolls the ball into the opposite corner.
PENALTY FOR PALACE!
63 min: Eberechi Eze goes down in the West Ham penalty area, apparently the victim of a tug on the shirt or arm by Nayef Aguerd. It’s a soft one but there was a foul.
50 min: Michail Antonio tries to canter down the left wing to latch on to a long ball from Cresswell but is clearly held by Joachim Andersen. For reasons best known to referee Craig Pawson, he doesn’t get a free-kick.
Second half: Crystal Palace 3-2 West Ham
46 min: Play resumes and West Ham have made two changes. Aaron Cresswell and Said Benrahma, the players who dropped to the bench today, have been introduced. Emerson and Pablo Fornals, who came in for them, have made way.
A quick recap: Following a 15 minute delay prompted by turnstile issues, West Ham opened the scoring against the run of play when Tomas Soucek rifled home from close range when the ball broke his way from a corner.
Jordan Ayew equalised not long after wards, slotting home after being played in behind by Michael Olise, who has been a constant threat for Palace. He tunred provider again, teeing up Wilf Zaha to fire Palace ahead from close range on his return from injury.
Palace made it 3-1 when Jeffrey Schlupp caught Tomas Soucek on his heels facing his own goal, then nutmegged Lukasz Fabianski. West Ham scored their second from a corner, Soucek’s near post flick allowing Michail Antonio to head home from three yards out.
Half-time: Crystal Palace 3-2 West Ham
Peep! A terrific half of football is brought to a close with Palace leading by the odd goal of five scored in the opening 45 minutes. On the evidence of what we’ve seen so far, there could be plenty more to come in the second half.
45+4 min: There’s another appeal for a Palace penalty as Zaha goes to ground, apparently dragged there by Soucek. There’s no spot-kick and replays show both players were dragging out of each other.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 3-2 West Ham (Antonio 36)
35 min: Michail Antonio wins a corner for West Ham. The ball’s sent into the penalty area, Soucek gets a flick across the face of goal and Antonio nods home from three yards out at the back post. This is tremendous fun!
33 min: Picking up the ball outside the West Ham penalty area, Schlupp tries his luck from distance. His effort fizzes a foot or two over the bar.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 3-1 West Ham (Schlupp 30)
Palace extend their lead! West Ham try to play the ball out from the back. Schlupp catches Soucek napping about five yards outside his own penalty area, robs him of the ball and advances unopposed on the West Ham goal. As Fabianski came off his line to try to deny him, Schlupp prodded the ball between the goalkeeper’s legs and into the back of the net.
28 min: Palace corner. Eze takes it short to Olise, who picks out Zaha in line with the left edge of the West Ham penalty area. He stands the ball up for Schlupp, who sends a looping header on to the roof of the net.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 2-1 West Ham (Zaha 20)
Palace lead! Back from a spell on the sidellines with a groin injury, Wilf Zaha fires his side into the lead, sidefooting home at the far post after getting on the end of a low cross from Olise
19 min: West Ham substitution: Zouma is helped from the field by two medical staff and replaced by Angelo Ogbonna.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 1-1 West Ham (Ayew 15)
Palace equalise! Jordan Ayew gets the “wrong” side of Kurt Zouma, runs on to a delightfully weighted through ball from Micahel Olise and fires a low diagonal effort past Lucasz Fabianski. It’s his fourth goal of the season.
14 min: Soucek and Lucas Paqueta combine down the right touchline but their good work is undone by Jeffrey Schlupp, who wins the ball and sends Palace forward again.
11 min: It’s early in the game but it’s fair to say that West Ham opener came against the run of play. Jarrod Bowen sent his corner towards the far post, where Olise got his head to it but succeeded only in heading it into the path of Soucek in a crowded penalty area. Quick to react, the Czech international smashed the ball past Sam Johnstone, who had no chance of stopping it.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-1 West Ham (Soucek 9)
West Ham lead! Tomas Soucek buries the ball from close range after it is headed his way by Michael Olise from Jarrod Bowen’s corner. It’s a great, albeit unwitting assist from Olise, who one presumes didn’t really mean to head the ball across the face of his own goal.
Antonio picks out Jarrod Bowen with a lovely ball around the corner, but the midfielder’s cross is put out for a corner. The ball’s swung in to the mixer, where Marc Guehi heads it out for another corner.
The corner is taken short but nothing comes of it. Emerson clears for West Ham.
Michael Olise canters down the right wing, cuts inside and tries to cross from the byline. Emerson Palmieri does well to dive in and intercept. Corner for Palace.
Palace continue to dominate, refusing to allow West Ham to get anything resembling a foothold in the game. Schlupp is penalised for a foul on Jarrod Bowen and West Ham have a chance to get forward for the first time.
Wilf Zaha threads the ball down the inside left for Jeffrey Schlupp to chase into the penalty area. Under pressure from Tomas Soucek, he slips and the ball goes out for a goal kick.
Palace dominate possession in these very early stages, pinging the ball hither and yon as they search for an opening.
Crystal Palace get the ball rolling, their players wearing their customary home kit. West Ham’sd players wear white shirts, orange shorts and white socks. Game on!
Kick-off delayed by 15 minutes
With hundreds, if not thousands of Palace fans still unintentionally locked outside the ground and the resident IT crowd busy at work trying to fix the card readers, kick-off has been delayed until 12.45pm (BST).
Not long now: Or is it? There are a lot of Palace fans stuck outside the ground, apparently unable to gain access to the ground because of some problem with the season ticket card readers. There’s no news of any delay to kick-off yet but we’ll keep you posted.
