Georginio Rutter’s stoppage-time equaliser for Brighton cancelled out Jarrod Bowen’s superb finish as West Ham missed the chance to escape the Premier League relegation zone.<\/p>\n
With 91 minutes on the clock, West Ham were unable to hold out for a win that would have lifted them out of the bottom three, as Rutter finished from close range.<\/p>\n
The video assistant referee (VAR) checked whether Rutter handled the ball before finishing – but the goal was allowed to stand.<\/p>\n
The Premier League Match Centre said: “The referee’s call of goal was checked and confirmed by VAR – with it deemed that Rutter’s arm was in a natural position and he did not deliberately handle the ball, and the contact with the arm was not immediately prior to him scoring.”<\/p>\n
Konstantinos Mavropanos was inches away from then snatching a winner for the Hammers but he could only head wide from a corner with the last action of the game. <\/p>\n
West Ham captain Bowen had given the Hammers the lead in the 73rd minute after he latched on to a Callum Wilson pass and finished from an incredibly tight angle. <\/p>\n
Brighton almost responded immediately. A cross looped up off Max Kilman and looked goalbound, but Alphonse Areola was able to push the ball on to the woodwork.<\/p>\n
The Seagulls continued to push for a leveller as Charalampos Kostoulas made a near-post run to meet Rutter’s cross, but he could not direct his shot on target.<\/p>\n
In a drab first half, Bowen tried to stamp his authority on the game – dancing his way through the Seagulls’ defence to force Bart Verbruggen into a stunning stop. Crysencio Summerville latched on to the rebound for the Hammers, but the goalkeeper was there once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Georginio Rutter’s stoppage-time equaliser for Brighton cancelled out Jarrod Bowen’s superb finish as West Ham missed the chance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-336791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336791","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=336791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}