West Ham v Brighton: Premier League – live!

10.39am EST 10:39

67 min I wonder if Graham Potter is thinking about changing things. A point isn’t dreadful for Brighotn but a win takes them two points clear of Burnley. I’d expect to see Gross or Mac Allister pretty soon.

10.37am EST 10:37

65 min West Ham are stretching the play well now, Yarmolenko keeping the width on the right with Johnson and Cresswell doing likewise on the left.

10.36am EST 10:36

64 min West Ham have the impetus now and will fancy themselves to go on and win this, just as Brighton will fancy themselves to go on and lose this.

10.35am EST 10:35

62 min Watching that celebration again, a young man realising a dream, is such a joy. Sport is so good.

10.34am EST 10:34

GOAL! West Ham United 1-1 Brighton & Hove Albion (Johnson 60)

He’s been at the club six he was six and now look! What an absolute moment! Yarmolenko goes down the right and his cross causes trouble because this half, Soucek is straining to get in there. In the ensuing chaos, the ball breaks to Lanzini who, from the groundm crab-footballs the ball back to Johnson, who opens his body to sidefoot high into the far side-netting! Lovely finish.

West Ham United’s Ben Johnson scores their first goal. Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters

Updated at 10.40am EST

10.30am EST 10:30

58 min But here they come now, Bissouma bursting past a challenge to find March out on the left; his cross is easily claimed by Fabianski.

10.29am EST 10:29

57 min Brighton look pretty happy with what they’ve got, winning the ball high up the pitch and slowly funnelling it back to Sanchez. That makes sense, because it doesn’t look like West Ham have the guile to break them down, so protecting 1-0 is more important than seeking 2-0.

10.28am EST 10:28

56 min West Ham are at least getting men forward now, though still struggling to locate quality or space.

10.27am EST 10:27

54 min Better from West Ham, Lanzini moving the ball quickly to find Soucek, but when he looks to stick it into the box, he can only find Webster.

10.25am EST 10:25

53 min Alzate stretches forward from midfield and down the right, but when he looks to cross he finds Coufal in the road so has to make do with a throw.

10.24am EST 10:24

51 min “West Ham sure did pay a lot for Benrahma not to play him at all,” says Joseph Harvey. “Brentford sorely need him too. What a strange deal.”

I saw Brentford in midweek and they did well without him, but I see your point. On the one hand, he’s really not a Moyes player, but on the other managers like Moyes sometimes find themselves one x-factor player and allow him to get on with it, like Alan Ball and Matt Le Tissier.

10.21am EST 10:21

48 min “My favorite type of defensive mistake,” emails Kári Tulinius, “is when a defender bodychecks another out of the way of the attacker. Ogbonna’s block on Rice, allowing Maupay space to turn and shoot, is a classic of the genre. The finest example I can remember off the top of my head is when two Bosnians tackled each other while trying, unsuccessfully, to keep Messi from scoring.

Enjoy the second half!”

This is my favourite many things, and absolutely my favourite this.

10.19am EST 10:19

47 min Better already from West Ham, Rice swinging in a cross that Haller can only head straight at Sanchez.

10.19am EST 10:19

46 min So I guess West Ham are sticking to the 5-3-2 for now, with Yarmolenko replacing Bowen up front and Lanzini a more natural number 10 than Noble.

10.17am EST 10:17

Brighton make one half-time change: Alzate replaces the presumably injured Lallana.

10.17am EST 10:17

West Ham make two half-time changes: Lanzini and Yarmolenko replace Noble and Bowen. I’m a little surprised not to see Benrahma, and I guess Bowen is just knackered.

10.05am EST 10:05

Half-time email: “The Moysiah has got this wrong though, hasn’t he?” asks Graeme Arthur. “Johnson and Nobes are spare parts that need replacing with shiny new Benrahma and classic luxury model Lanzini.”

Can’t argue with any of that. I thought the team he picked would grind Brighton down by taking away what they do best, but the lack of intensity scuppered that.

10.04am EST 10:04

Half-time: West Ham United 0-1 Brighton & Hove Albion

That was absolutely horrendous from West Ham, who were slow, negative and generally useless. Brighton have been ok, looking to go forward and move the ball quickly, but struggling to get very far because it’s hard to break down seven men defending.

10.02am EST 10:02

GOAL! West Ham United 0-1 Brighton & Hove Albion (Maupay 44)

Burn lanks forward to find March and carries on around his outside to accept the return. He crosses low and Maupay tries to set it off for Trossard, but his touch-back hits Rice who hits Ogbonna, so the chance looks to have gone … except the ball bounces back to him and this time he spins to drive into the net from 10 yards. That goal is a lot of what Brighton deserve and everything that West Ham deserve – they’ve been execrable and then some.

Neal Maupay of Brighton & Hove Albion scores. Photograph: Getty Images Maupay celebrates after scoring. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/EPA

Updated at 10.39am EST

10.00am EST 10:00

44 min Maybe it being 0-0 tells us how well-drilled West Ham are, because they’ve been so poor yet, as I keep repeating, not come close to conceding…

9.58am EST 09:58

42 min The possession stats are 32-68 in Brighton’s favour. But they’re still struggling to create anything … except here comes March, weaving inside across Coufal to open a shooting lane, only to drag his effort straight at Fabianski.

9.57am EST 09:57

40 min So what will Moyes do? I’d expect to see Fornals or Benrahma for Noble, and to see Soucek and Rice running far harder than they are now.

9.55am EST 09:55

38 min Nice from Brighton, Trossard pulling right and deep to swing a cross towards the far post, but Coufal does really well to get himself between Welbeck and ball, which passes over the by-line for a goalkick.

9.54am EST 09:54

37 min West Ham don’t change the team that often, so perhaps it’s no surprise to see them flagging from the off. But they’ve got plenty of options on the bench, and if I didn’t know Moyes’ reputation for dithering as well as I do, I’d have expected him to have changed things already.

9.52am EST 09:52

36 min This is a general as well as specific problem too – Brighton need to get more men and more balls into the box.

9.51am EST 09:51

34 min But how about now! Bissouma lofts a terrific ball over the top for March, burrowing infield from wide on the left, and with no one busting their arse to get into the box, he has no option but to shoot, slicing wide. He the shares how hurt this loneliness made him feel with his friends.

9.49am EST 09:49

33 min Gary Nev says that Brighton couldn’t be doing much more in the game, they just need to score, but that sounds extremely generous to me. They’ve not really created much, they’ve just had more of the ball.

9.48am EST 09:48

32 min Brighton move the ball side to side, probing for a gap. Eventually, though, Webster loses patience and lamps a shot that catches Welbeck’s midriff and flies wide.

9.46am EST 09:46

30 min And he’s on the touchline gesticulating as we speak. Brighton really need to score before he gets it right, because West Ham can’t play much worse than this and it’s still 0-0.

9.45am EST 09:45

30 min I daresay David Moyes is going to dispense some sentiments when he gets his players back into the dressing room at half-time.

David Moyes, manager of West Ham United. Photograph: Javier García/BPI/REX/Shutterstock

Updated at 9.51am EST

9.44am EST 09:44

28 min Brighton are turning it to but need to capitalise and here they come again, Welbeck moving the ball onto Trossard, who finds Burn … and from 25 yards he tries a dig, which flicks off Balbuena and behind.

9.43am EST 09:43

27 min The corner is decent too, picking out Webster in the middle, but he can’t get any power into his header which plops into Fabianski’s arms.

9.42am EST 09:42

26 min West Ham need to change something here, because Brighton’s midfield are dominating. Welbeck is running in behind, usually from centre to right and off Ogbonna – there he goes again, winning a corner – while Trossard is helping Bissouma and Lallana in midfield.

9.40am EST 09:40

25 min This is another soupcon better, Rice turning up on the right of the box and banging a cross with which Bowen can do nothing.

9.40am EST 09:40

24 min And here’s Rice now, breaking forward and finding Coufal down the right. Nothing comes of it, but it’s a start.