{"id":191684,"date":"2025-09-30T06:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191684\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:42:20","slug":"everton-hero-says-two-west-ham-stars-were-outstanding-but-17m-man-so-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/191684\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton hero says two West Ham stars were ‘outstanding’ but \u00a317m man ‘so poor’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A point away at Everton is hardly an extraordinary example of \u2018new manager bounce\u2019 at its most dramatic, but it is a point West Ham United will certainly take on Nuno Espirito Santo\u2019s Premier League return.<\/p>\n

Positive substitutions, a few popular changes to the starting XI, and a strong second-half response after conceding yet another goal from a cross into the box.<\/p>\n

On his first appearance in the West Ham United<\/a> dugout, Nuno Espirito Santo<\/a> endeared himself to a travelling support desperate to see something, anything even remotely different to the morale-sapping malaise of the Graham Potter era. <\/p>\n

Nuno made a statement when dropping James Ward-Prowse<\/a>. Probably the most maligned of West Ham\u2019s players so far this season, and that\u2019s saying something. Potter never appeared to trust Freddie Potts enough<\/a> but, introduced for only the second time this season, Ward-Prowse might have fallen behind the youngster too, going from first-choice to fourth in the space of 48 hours.<\/p>\n

The sight of Crysencio Summerville<\/a> causing havoc down the left, and El Hadji Malick Diouf<\/a> delivering another trademark cross for Jarrod Bowen\u2019s<\/a> leveller, only added to the sense of new-found positivity.<\/p>\n

Andy Hinchcliffe, a Toffees legend, was happy enough to put his Everton allegiances aside as a member of the \u2018left-back union\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"JarrodPhoto by Michael Regan\/Getty ImagesEverton hero Andy Hinchcliffe hails West Ham United\u2019s Malick Diouf and Crysencio Summerville<\/p>\n

Going into the weekend, Diouf was the full-back with Europe\u2019s most assists<\/a> so far in the opening weeks of the 2025\/26 campaign. And while he is still on three, from six Premier League starts, it was his surging pace and wicked delivery which laid the foundations for Bowen\u2019s flashing finish.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely extraordinary [from Diouf]. The quality is outstanding,\u201d Hinchcliffe told Sky Sports<\/a> from the commentary gantry, albeit before criticising the other left-back in action at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce [Bowen] shifts that ball, you\u2019ve got to close him down. If you don\u2019t, he\u2019s got the quality to pick out the far corner. [Vitalii Mykolenko] has to do more. There\u2019s no chance for [Jordan] Pickford.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nuno watched Summerville terrorise his Nottingham Forest<\/a> team during that 3-0 West Ham victory at the end of August. The new Hammers boss will be glad he has the former Leeds star at his own disposal these days, with Hinchcliffe picking Summerville ahead of Bowen and Diouf while handing out Sky\u2019s Player of the Match award.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Summerville was] West Ham\u2019s best player,\u201d said Hinchcliffe, who played almost 200 Premier League matches for Everton in the 1990s. \u201cAbsolutely outstanding. <\/p>\n

\u201cWest Ham showed a lot of character, looked really confident. Every time [Summerville] got the ball, it looked like he was going to make something happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they\u2019ve been the better side overall. They created the better quality of chances, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Konstantinos Mavropanos was \u2018so poor\u2019 when Michael Keane headed Everton ahead<\/p>\n

No West Ham performance is ever complete these days, however, without either Mads Hermansen or Alphonse Areola seeing a header flash into their net. It was Michael Keane on this occasion. The eighth goal the Hammers have conceded from a set-piece situation already this term.<\/p>\n

Hinchcliffe could barely believe the space awarded to Keane by Konstantinos Mavropanos<\/a>, in particular.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s pace on the ball and you direct it, it just zips past the goalkeeper,\u201d the pundit said, bemused. \u201cIf you can\u2019t stop the cross, you\u2019ve got to pick up who is on the end of it. [The West Ham players] are jogging out, there\u2019s no pressure on the ball. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo one is anywhere near Michael Keane. Mavropanos is nowhere near him. So poor defensively from a ball into the box.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A point away at Everton is hardly an extraordinary example of \u2018new manager bounce\u2019 at its most dramatic,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[92382,8321,69419,111633,1084,403,99],"class_list":["post-191684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-crysencio-summerville","tag-el-hadji-malick-diouf","tag-jarrod-bowen","tag-konstantinos-mavropanos","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}