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  • Kick-off: 15:00
  • Venue: Upton Park
  • Attendance: 34742
  • Referee: Dean, M

Live Commentary

93mins

West Ham full value for their point and will be aggrieved not to have taken more from the game. Wenger and his troops disillusioned after another lacklustre performance.

92mins

Quincy Owusu-Abeyie strike rebounds off Anton Ferdinand

89mins

Beautiful ball into the box from Hleb which Fredrik Ljungberg narrowly fails to connect with.Ljungberg tries a shot from the right hand side which goes out for a throw in(!)

87mins

Harewood turns and shoots on the edge of the box but fails to make a true connection with the ball.

85mins

Hleb fires in a left footed effort for Arsenal as the Gunners threaten to make a smah and grab at Upton Park.

83mins

Ashley Cole gives the ball away to Benayoun. Ball is chipped into the penalty area after excellent passing football from West Ham.Zamora connects with the cross only to head just wide of the left hand post.

80mins

Goal - Kick for West Ham. Clichy comes on to replace Van Persie.Wenger decides to push Ljungberg up front. Bobby Zamora comes on to replace Teddy Sheringham for the final ten minutes.

78mins

Reo Coker fires in an effort from an acute angle at Lehmann who collects.

77mins

Cesc Fabregas shoots a few yards wide of the right hand post after good work from Hleb.

74mins

Repka wins a throw in near the corner flag for West Ham. West Ham win a free kick which is lifted into the box by Yossi Benayoun but Sol Campbell clears.

73mins

Jose Antonio Reyes replaced by Quincy Owusu-Abeyie. Abeyie almost makes an immediate impact when he is released by Flamini but he shoots narrowly wide of the right hand post.

71mins

West Ham corner taken short by Etherington. Ball falls to Reo - Coker who shoots over the bar.

69mins

Mathieu Flamini comes on for Arsenal to replace the injured Gilberto.

67mins

Arsenal failing to make a real impact in the game. West Ham dominating the play in the middle of the park

63mins

Tomas Repka booked for kicking the ball out of play.

62mins

Another cross from Repka, but this time the ball heads harmlessly out of play. Jose Antonio Reyes heads on a darting run that results in a corner. Reyes takes the resulting set play but the ball is headed away by Anton Ferdinand.

57mins

Repka drills a ball into the Arsenal box that evades Sheringham and Harewood and drtifts wide.Good attacking play from West Ham, Sheringham instrumental.

56mins

Lauren takes a foul throw which is greeted by ironic cheers from the West Ham faithful.

55mins

Etherington penalised for pulling back Lauren

54mins

Reo-Coker wins a throw in after a mazy run down the wing.Yossi Benayoun takes it to Sheringham who strikes and appears to hit Sol Campbells arm.The referee waves away West Ham's appeals for a penalty.

50mins

Threat of a goal in the air. End to end stuff, with both sides going all out to break the deadlock.Excellent energy levels being displayed by West Ham.

49mins

Lehmann appears to handle the ball outside the box but the whistle had already blew for offside against Harewood.

48mins

Good build up play by West Ham resuls in a corner as Ashley Cole puts the ball into touch. Etherington takes the corner which falls to Yossi Benayoun who hits the ball straight at Jens Lehmann.

46mins

West Ham get proceedings underway. No substitutions made at half time.

45mins

Arsenal began the game full of confidence but West Ham grew in stature as the game wore on, with Teddy Sheringham and Marlon Harewood a constant thorn in the side of the Arsenal defence. Ashley Cole came close for Arsenal with an angled drive that f

44mins

Ashley Cole appears to handball on the edge of the area and then the half time whistle blows.

43mins

Robin Van Persie cracks a fine effort just wide of the right hand post after fine work by Aleksandr Hleb

41mins

Some lucid passing from Arsenal results in a throw in by the right hand corner flag. taken by Cesc Fabregas but the ball falls safely to Roy Carroll

39mins

Robin Van Persie tumbles to the ground after an uncompromising challenge by Danny Gabbidon

35mins

West Ham beginning to dominate proceedings with Sheringham dictating play.

34mins

Long throw in by Repka causes havoc in the Arsenal defence but Flamini manages to kick the ball into touch.

32mins

Jose Antonio Reyes teasing and taunting the West Ham defence before drilling a low angled drive wide of Roy Carroll's left hand post

29mins

Marlon Harewood caught offside

28mins

Jose Antonio Reyes flashes a snap shot into the side netting.

26mins

Corner floats harmlessly into the arms of Roy Carroll

26mins

Tomas Repka forced into conceeding a corner by Ashley Cole

25mins

Tasty back heel from Hleb present Reyes with the ball on the edge of the West Ham box but Collins intercepts.

24mins

Harewood wins possesion for West Ham before ballooning the ball into row z.Etherington and Yossi Benayoun watch in disbelief.

23mins

Etherington wins a corner for West Ham after good work by Yossi Benayoun

23mins

Arsenal win a corner following determined run down the wing by Hleb

21mins

Teddy Sheringham curls an effort narrowly over the Arsenal bar

20mins

Goal bound effort from Cesc Fabregas diverted wide by Danny Gabbidon

19mins

Foul by Nigel Reo-Coker on Aleksandr Hleb

18mins

Jose Antonio Reyes gives the ball away to Etherington who puts Harewood through on goal but he is flaged off-side.

17mins

Teddy Sheringham free kick from 20 yards out curls narrowly wide of the left hand post.

12mins

Arsenal enjoying the best of the early exchanges with Gilberto and Fabregas winning the battle in midfield.

11mins

Ashley Cole fouled by Marlon Harewood

10mins

Robin van Persie hits a weak shot straight into the arms of Roy Carroll

8mins

Jose Antonio Reyes stopped on the edge of the West Ham box by Gabbidon.

5mins

Harewood runs at the Arsenal defence but is foiled by Campbell

0mins

Game begins and West Ham are immediately put on the back foot.

Match Report

Alan Pardew's Premiership new boys West Ham continued their top-flight apprenticeship as they moved into the heady heights of third spot after earning a deserved point against Arsene Wenger's Arsenal.

The two sides had come into this end-to-end London derby separated by just one point and a single place and there was little to divide them at the final whistle, too.

Indeed, it was testament to the ultra-confident Hammers' bright start to the season, that they were the team with the slight edge over their more illustrious London rivals following successive away victories at Fulham and Sheffield Wednesday.

West Ham made nine changes from the side that had won their Carling Cup tie at Hillsborough to revert to the eleven that had been victorious at Craven Cottage, while seventh-placed Arsenal, already minus goal-ace Thierry Henry, found themselves without another striker as the injured Robert Pires was replaced by Alexander Hleb following their 2-0 win over Everton.

The Gunners had yet to return from this season's travels with any points, but they could well have taken an early lead when Robin Van Persie burst into the box only to be foiled by Roy Carroll's assured save.

In reply, Teddy Sheringham almost out-witted the flat-footed Jens Lehmann with a low 18-yard free-kick which curled inches wide of the German's right-hand post, as West Ham showed that they were not in awe of their more illustrious London neighbours.

With Paul Konchesky and the rest of the Hammers' defence in unyielding mood, the misfiring Gunners - despite their superior, incisive passing moves - were finding clear-cut goal chances equally hard to come by.

On the half-hour mark, though, Jose Antonio Reyes chipped out a clever 20-yarder that whistled into the side-netting and then as the interval neared, Van Persie scooped over from close range to keep it goalless at the break.

Just after the restart Matthew Etherington's half-cleared corner fell to Yossi Benayoun whose volley was held on his own goalline by the well-placed Lehmann and, as the temperature started to rise, both Sheringham and Tomas Repka were booked.

And when Cesc Fabregas appeared to handle Nigel Reo-Coker's hooked shot, the Upton Park tension created by a full house bubbled yet further, while a full-blooded challenge between Gilberto and Benayoun then saw the boy from Brazil hobble away to be replaced by Mathieu Flamini.

Shortly afterwards the subdued Reyes was withdrawn as the pacy Quincy Owusu-Abeyie was pitched into the fray.

The tiring legs of Sheringham were then swapped for the fresher limbs of Bobby Zamora who marked his arrival by wastefully heading well wide from six yards.

But by the time Arsene Wenger also withdrew the labouring Van Persie, it was readily apparent that the stalemate was not going to be broken on an afternoon when Arsenal were happy to have garnered their first away point of the season and Premiership new boys West Ham had, once again, shown no fear.

Man-of-the-Match: Paul Konchesky - Silenced Highbury's big guns with the type defensive display that could see him get a call from England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson.

West Ham United

Arsenal

Corners

43

Fouls

117

Goal attempts

68

Shots off target

66

Offsides

41

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