Extended HLs: West Ham v. Leeds Matchweek 38
Watch full-match highlights from West Ham's end-of-season showdown against Leeds at London Stadium in Matchweek 38.
Video Transcript
In the London Stadium today, West Ham United will be fighting for their future in the Premier League.
But on this, the final day of the season, their fate is not in their own hands.
This is the London Stadium, West Ham's home for the last 10 years, all spent as members of the Premier League, but that status is seriously under threat in this final round of fixtures.
There is only one combination of results which can save them.
West Ham have to win here against Leeds United, who by the way, only seven weeks ago knocked them out of the FA Cup in this stadium, and their near neighbors and bitter rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, have to lose at home to Everton.
Everton, of course, in the hands of David Moyes, a former West Ham manager, who a couple of times saved the club from relegation in his two spells in charge at the London Stadium.
Goodness me, they've finished the season strongly.
They're unbeaten in their last eight games in the Premier League.
They wear their change strip of all blue as they did when they won here in the cup a few weeks ago.
It will be sapping physically as well as testing mentally.
All West Ham can do is win the game.
What happens elsewhere, well, that will take care of itself.
Summerville again.
He's now a Leeds player.
In by Pablo.
It's too high for Castillanos.
Those two arrived.
An excellent run.
Disasi, not too clever.
Here's Bogle.
Coming onto it.
He's just in.
Well, must've Fernandez moves away.
Bowen teases it in.
Goalkeeper committed.
Come out to Doucoure.
Leeds trying to push out.
West Ham plenty of numbers in the box.
Doucoure again with a better angle for the cross.
And he wins a corner, so it will stay in the penalty area.
First ball wasn't the best in for me.
It's got to have had more pace on it.
First time by Doucoure.
Goalkeeper doesn't come.
Birol glances it away to a semblance of safety.
Castillanos does well to make something of that.
His teammates a little bit surprised, but it went way over their head.
Regained by Summerville.
Little bit of sustained pressure here from the Hammers.
Sounds a handle, but only from the crowd.
Back with Doucoure.
Just starting to turn it on a bit here.
Such a great time of need.
Summerville, Bowen digs out.
Back with Walker-Peters.
Great defensive headers there, Martin.
They got to every ball first, Leeds.
Really attacked it.
Castillanos trying to steer it in.
Calvert-Lewin is by far the furthest forward, and wasn't quite sure where the support was.
Lost it in a dangerous area.
Bowen.
Winding up for a cross.
Oh, there's another block that stops Pablo opening his account for West Ham United.
Concentration of the essence.
Aaronson trying to just pop it back in.
Birol is there, and the goalkeeper's there as well.
And West Ham, it's not easy to sprint away and they, And here's Mejia.
Calvert-Lewin up with it.
Aaronson just waiting out on the edge of the area.
Mejia thinking about going for goal himself.
Still thinking about going for goal himself, and then puts it on the plate he thought for Calvert-Lewin.
That's another close-range chance for a Leeds striker.
Mejia had one himself early on, and West Ham lucky, but it's still Leeds United nil.
Castillanos has got some holding up to do here, and he's found Bowen.
That's a ball that's gone woefully astray.
Calvert-Lewin has another go at it.
Jarrod Bowen would have his head in his hands if that had led to the opening goal for Leeds United.
Bogle has a crack, and hits the netting but on the outside.
And here we are in the last five minutes of the first half.
It's been tight.
It's been very tense.
But Summerville eh, doesn't get any depth to it.
Leeds not chasing anything down here, so Fernandez, under pressure on the ball, can put it in pretty much where he was aiming for.
Towards Pablo.
Who's won it here against the odds.
Oh, well that's as close.
Castillanos, the two.
Here's Disasi.
Fernandez has passed his width on the left, and Doucoure is part of it.
Well, on this side of the ground, they thought it was in the net.
And it was the outside of the net.
Pablo's position's of maximum opportunity.
It's the left flank again, overloaded with Summerville and Doucoure, and, Soucek getting in there again, and, oh, in the end has come Bowen, he just got in there, didn't he?
But then there's a little bit at the end, he's just overrun it.
That's unlucky for Pablo, but- Calvert-Lewin.
Well, they're enjoying themselves, playing without pressure.
Here's Aaronson getting in with shooting range.
And Hermansen has a shot on target to save.
Ah, disturbing signs again.
Summerville has done well.
Played across.
Castillanos, oh.
Wilson's major contribution for the first time to set up.
Now Fernandez.
Patience can be a virtue, and here's Summerville.
It's broken for him.
He's still going.
Oh.To Castillanos as Leeds had a panicky moment when it looked as though Darlow was in control.
Ampadu.
Now there's a chance for Summerville here.
He's got Castillanos up with him.
Two against two.
Leeds are trying to stretch back.
Goalkeeper's coming, and he didn't get there.
Summerville.
A vital moment you feel for West Ham United here.
Summerville gets there again.
Only half away by Ampadu is far as Doucoure.
He's got the crowd going.
In by Doucoure, and over clubbed it.
Back to Soucek.
In by Fernandes.
Rodon is fouled.
It's a very good defensive header.
Great ball in by Fernandes as well and- Hammers have it back again.
Trying to mount a, a finish to remember, even if it doesn't produce the outcome to remember.
In by Bowen.
Yes, for West Ham United.
Castillanos.
They lead in their quest to do all they can here at the London Stadium, and it's come from a corner.
Yeah, and the hope is that it's not been, stopped, but I don't think so, Martin.
I think the marking was poor.
Castillanos got up in between markers.
You can see there wasn't even a jump on that far post.
Castillanos gets up, and he's one of the smallest players in that crowded penalty area.
Didn't really even have to get up high, did he?
And it ends up in the back of the net.
Well, he is a player with a goal-scoring knack.
Soucek.
Long from Doucoure.
Looking for Wilson.
Drops for Castillanos.
Bowen was setting off.
And Jarrod Bowen could be in here.
Any follow up.
Here's Traore.
Still plenty of time for any of the three possible results to happen, but West Ham lead on a day when they have to win.
And this for Jarrod Bowen, who's looking to see what's on in terms of support.
Oh, he doesn't need any support.
Well, this might be a sign-off day in the Premier League for West Ham and their skipper, but that is vintage Bowen.
Is the ball into midfield, and it's nicked.
They're gonna have a look at the foul from Mavropanos.
Fernandes sh- straight back into Bowen.
Just Bow- Rodon thinks he's cutting it off, Martin, down the side, but it's such a good strike across the keeper, and it goes so quickly that he can't get it, and that's where he's so difficult to defend against because you know he You think he wants to come back on his left foot, and if you show him too much, he'll just strike the ball like that, so cleanly and across the keeper and back into the back of the net.
Get a firm base back in the Premier League, but there was a little bit of complacency in there.
Here's Benrahma.
There was a deflected.
That is what he has got.
A little drift through midfield and- Takes you down.
Well, here is going to be a moment to, remember.
Oh.
Well, it wasn't in the end.
To wrap it up with perhaps the last kick in the Premier League.
Really incidental if West Ham get another goal here.
Wilson does.
It's not incidental to him.
Having squandered a chance from close in, he has drilled in number three for West Ham United.
They've come alive in the second half.
Goal for the Hammers!
And they've done more emphatically than it looked what they had to do here.
Well, there it is.
The nightmare of relegation has become an agonizing reality for West Ham United.
Quite literally a hammer blow, but we cannot confirm that in that there is a, a period, I think, of eight minutes of added time going on at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which does give Everton the possibility of scoring the two goals which would spare West Ham.
But it looks like the end of a 14-season spell in the Premier League.
It looks like the London Stadium will stage second-tier football for the first time next season.
