During the last minutes, people inside the London Stadium felt a feeling for a long time lost around these parts – a little excitement.
West Ham and Bournemouth slipped him for a winner after the splint and the goal of Evanilson each for Niclas Fullkrug and Jarrod Bowen and saw the two sides take a head.
When the final whistle finally blew, the two sets of players fell on the ground or shortly shorted on their knees on your knees.
The little of this Ham from Verve West has seen this season and he came from striker Fullkrug, whose introduction to the second half rejuvenated an Hammers outfit which, for the most part of the game, once again looked devoid of ideas.
The German, who is still coming back in great shape after three months with an injury to the hamstrings, had only been on the ground for seven minutes when his head of the corner of a James Ward-Prowse won his first home for the club and leveled the score just after the hour.
Evanilson had previously capitalized on Alphonse Areola’s error to overthrow Antoine Semenyo’s shooting to give Bournemouth ahead.
Evanilson won in Bournemouth to shoot 2-2 against West Ham with a late strike
The Brazilian striker had opened the scoring after reacted quickly to the parry of Alphonse Areola
The powerful Nicas Fullkrug header obtained West Ham at levels shortly after the hour bar
The introduction of Fullkrug allowed the West Ham Bowen skipper to move in his favorite wide position and he quickly jumped to meet the crossing of Mohammed Kudus and direct a superb head in the area to end a sterile series of five games at home without purpose or help.
West Ham has not been able to keep a first victory since February after more slack defended allowed Evanilson to retire to the back post and put Dean Huijsen in the lead.
“The good the bad and the ugly,” joked Potter.
“It was difficult to fight, to make a Premier League match.
“Niclas’ impact was clear, not just the objective, but also how he helps the team. If we can format it and shoot, it can be a success here.
The result was far from sufficient for Bournemouth, who is now without victory in their last six league games and all the hopes they had of a Champions League charge now seem to be redirected to the league of the conference.
It was a frustrating afternoon for Iraola, who watched his team dominate a large part of the competition and had a great chance to win the match late when Semenyo ran to the goal, but was refused by a good safeguard of Areola.
“We cannot be satisfied with a point,” said Iraola. “There was only one team almost winning and it was Bournemouth.”
Jarrod Bowen scored his eighth goal in the Premier League of the season to put West Ham 2-1
But Evanilson made sure that the booty was shared with a Tap-in at the back of the post
The draw meant that the race without Bournemouth victory has now reached six games on Andoni Iraola