Overview
- Jarrod Bowen put West Ham ahead in the 73rd minute after Jan Paul van Hecke’s error, with substitute Callum Wilson supplying the pass, before Georginio Rutter leveled in the 90+1st minute.
- Officials reviewed a potential handball in the buildup to the equaliser and upheld the on-field decision for the goal to stand.
- Brighton moved to seventh on 23 points, while West Ham stayed 18th on 13 points, two behind Nottingham Forest.
- Bart Verbruggen kept Brighton in it with a superb second-half double save from Bowen and Crysencio Summerville, as Alphonse Areola later tipped a deflection onto the bar and denied Charalampos Kostoulas.
- Driving rain and swirling wind shaped a scrappy contest, and West Ham’s late chance went begging when Konstantinos Mavropanos headed wide in stoppage time.