Sheffield United 2-2 West Ham United (21 Jan, 2024) Game Analysis،
Sheffield United substitute Oliver McBurnie scored a deep penalty in stoppage time to give his side a 2-2 Premier League home draw against sixth-placed West Ham United on Sunday in a match which saw both teams send off a man late on.
McBurnie's 103rd-minute strike was the last ever in the Premier League, and it was nothing less than what his struggling side deserved after a spirited display.
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The Yorkshire club have 10 points from 21 games and are seven points from the safety zone, while West Ham have 35 and are eight points from the top four.
The hosts started brightly, but their poor finishing was punished when Maxwel Cornet pounced on a deflected Danny Ings shot and fired the ball into the net for the first time in the 28th minute.
Playing his first league match since joining on loan from Villareal on January 5, Ben Brereton Diaz put Sheffield back in the game just before the break after West Ham goalkeeper Alphonse Areola's parried save from William's header Osula, was rejected by the native of England. Chilean international.
The home side looked to be on course for their 16th league defeat of the season when West Ham's James Ward-Prowse scored from the penalty spot in the 79th minute after Ings had been brought down by Gustavo Hamer.
Their chances of staging any sort of comeback appeared to be over when substitute Rhian Brewster received a straight red card for a tough challenge.
However, there was a final twist when West Ham defender Vladimír Coufal picked up his second yellow for what seemed a harmless challenge in the 97th minute.
From the resulting free-kick, Areola was injured fouling McBurnie in the box, and the striker stepped up to slam the ball past replacement goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski to snatch a well-deserved point.
