Toffees bounce back to end Hammers revival

08 November 2009 18:10
Everton secured a much-needed first win in five Barclays Premier League games with a battling 2-1 victory at West Ham, who slipped back into the relegation zone.[LNB]Louis Saha, who missed the midweek Europa League defeat to Benfica with a calf problem, netted from 20 yards against the run of play after 26 minutes.[LNB]Everton then snatched a second on the break after 64 minutes.[LNB]Substitute Yakubu pushed the ball out to Dan Gosling on the overlap down the right whose first shot was blocked by Robert Green, but the ball fell straight back to the Everton winger who this time drilled it into the net.[LNB]West Ham, though, hit back moments later when Junior Stanislas clipped a shot past the advancing Tim Howard, but with Toffees defender Tony Hibbert looking set to hack clear he could only put the ball into his own net.[LNB]The Upton Park faithful sensed an equaliser as the game entered the closing stages but it was not to be.

Source: Eurosport