West Ham 4-2 Burnley: Felipe Anderson bags a second-half brace as Javier Hernandez kills off a late comeback from the Clarets
- Marko Arnautovic pounced on a James Tarkowski mistake to give West Ham an early lead on Saturday
- Johann Gudmundsson sprung the offside trap to finish neatly and level things up on the stroke of half time
- Felipe Anderson restored the Hammers lead as he broke through and finished well on his left foot
- Super-sub Chris Wood scored Burnley’s second minutes after coming off the bench to head home a corner
- Anderson got his second goal of the game with six minutes remaining as Burnley failed to clear their lines
- Javier Hernandez rounded off the scoring and sealed the win with a superb finish in the 92nd minute
Manuel Pellegrini is not a man for big, emotional gestures, but even he allowed himself an air-punch of relief here.
In a mad game that ebbed and flowed against Burnley, West Ham emerged with the points to delight the London Stadium and relieve their manager in the same moment.
Pellegrini this week called out club-record signing Felipe Anderson’s struggles for form; here, he witnessed his team dominate but fail to tighten a grip on Burnley or take control.
Felipe Anderson celebrates scoring his second goal as West Ham run away as winners at the London Stadium on Saturday
West Ham’s summer signing took advantage of Burnley struggling to clear their lines as he tucked home his second goal
Anderson is congratulated by his Hammers team-mates after scoring his second goal and help his side retake the lead
Javier Hernandez added a fourth goal in stoppage time as West Ham ran out 4-2 winners over Sean Dyche’s Clarets side
MATCH FACTS, PLAYER RATINGS, LEAGUE TABLE AND MATCH ZONE
WEST HAM: (4-1-4-1) Fabianski 6; Zabaleta 6.5, Diop 6, Balbuena 6.5, Cresswell 6; Rice 7; Diangana 7.5 (Antonio 86), Obiang 6.5 (Hernandez 61, 6.5), Snodgrass 6, Anderson 8; Arnautovic 7.5 (Ogbonna 90)
SUBS NOT USED: Adrian (GK); Fredericks, Masuaku, Lucas Perez
GOALS: Arnautovic (11), Anderson (68, 84), Hernandez (90+2)
BOOKINGS: Anderson (34)
COACH: Manuel Pellegrini 7
BURNLEY: (4-4-1-1) Hart 7; Lowton 6, Tarkowski 4, Mee 7, Taylor 6; Westwood 6.5, Vydra 5 (Barnes 72, 6), Defour 6.5; Gudmundsson 7, Vokes 5.5 (Wood 72, 7), Lennon 5.5 (Brady 75)
SUBS NOT USED: Heaton (GK); Hendrick, Long, McNeil
GOALS: Gudmundsson (45), Wood (77)
BOOKINGS: Tarkowski (68), Lowton (87), Barnes (90+3), Brady (90+6)
COACH: Sean Dyche 5.5
REFEREE: Roger East 5.5
MAN OF THE MATCH: Felipe Anderson
VENUE: The London Stadium
ATTENDANCE: 56,862
Marko Arnautovic (No 7) pounced on a James Tarkowski mistake to give the Hammers an early lead on Saturday. For more of Sportsmail’s fantastic MATCH ZONE feature, click here.
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Twice they were pegged back by the visitors before Anderson saved the day.
Two goals and a starring role alongside the excellent Marko Arnautovic and fearless youngster Grady Diangana and West Ham rescued a win in the last six minutes.
West Ham splashed £40million on Anderson from Lazio and have seen limited return so far. This, they hope, was a vision of what is to come: quality, a calmness of mind and a clinical streak.
West Ham certainly started the slicker of the two sides, Burnley perhaps cowed by the fear that comes with having lost their last two matches by an aggregate score of 9-0.
But those games were against title-chasing Manchester City and Chelsea, not a 20-year-old winger making just his second Premier League start.
Felipe Anderson (No 8) scores with his left foot to restored West Ham’s lead over Burnley at the London Stadium on Saturday
The Brazilian winger was slipped through on goal after a brilliant bit of build-up play from the hosts in the second half
Anderson celebrates scoring West Ham’s second goal as Matthew Lowton (left) throws his hands up in the air
Hammers goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski celebrates after Felipe Anderson scored their second goal in the second half
West Ham academy graduate Diangana looked fearless, seeing plenty of the ball and dancing around Charlie Taylor at any opportunity — the chance offered to him by Andriy Yarmolenko’s injury absence being gleefully taken.
But there was little joy in the early battle between Arnautovic and Tarkowski that frequently threatened to bubble over.
Tarkowski snapped at the ankles of the Austrian forward six minutes in – unpunished, to Arnautovic’s annoyance.
He made that very clear to his marker, going nose-to-nose moments later when Ben Mee’s foul on Pedro Obiang provided a break in play.
Chris Wood (centre) rose high above Robert Snodgrass to level things up for Burnley, minutes after coming off the bench
Burnley’s second-half super-sub celebrates scoring after being on the pitch for just five minutes at the London Stadium
So perhaps Tarkowksi’s guard should have been up when he turned on Ashley Westwood’s pass with the intention of playing it back to goalkeeper Joe Hart on 10 minutes.
Instead, Arnautovic was straight on to him, taking advantage of the second of hesitation to rob his rival of the ball before slotting past Hart.
Subtle as ever, Arnautovic celebrated by laughing in Tarkowski’s face.
The hosts continued to press forward and when Arnautovic escaped his marker again, this time on the end of a one-two with Felipe Anderson, Hart saved well to stop the lead being doubled.
Back at the stadium he called a temporary home last season, the former England No 1 was being regularly tested.
At the other end Lukas Fabianski was far more relaxed until he had to nervously steer a Mee header at a rare Burnley corner away from goal with a few black away shirts lurking.
Mee was certainly faring the better of Burnley’s two centre backs and brilliantly scooped an Anderson curler, bound for the top corner, over the bar from his own goal-line moments later just after the half-hour mark.
Johann Guomundsson slides the ball past West Ham goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski to level things up on the stroke of half time
The Iceland international watches his shot roll into the back of the net moments before the interval at the London Stadium
The winger is congratulated by his Burnley team-mates after scoring the equaliser on Saturday afternoon
Sam Vokes gives Gudmundsson (right) a high-five after the winger beat the offside trap to score for Burnley on Saturday
There was less to admire about Steven Defour’s challenge on Diangana moments later which should have seen West Ham given a penalty, little of the ball won. Referee Roger East was unmoved.
And as so often happens with these things, that decision would prove crucial minutes later.
Issa Diop’s header away from a long ball was unconvincing, falling to the feet of Westwood who weaved a lovely pass through to Johann Berg Gudmundsson to touch home a classy finish.
Half-time, and a sense of injustice mixed with opportunity squandered haunted West Ham as they headed down the tunnel.
The second half started with plenty more West Ham possession — Hart saved from Snodgrass and Arnautovic — but the zip seen from the start of this game seemed to have disappeared.
Enter Javier Hernandez, offside with his first touch of the ball and almost converting an Arnautovic cross with his second, the Mexican at least breathed some life into a fading attack.
Mee, again, was the man to intervene to stop Hernandez scoring, this time robbing him of the ball as Arnautovic’s cross looked on a plate for the No 17 to score after good work by Anderson down the left.
Arnautovic broke the deadlock for the hosts inside 10 minutes as he pounced on James Tarkowski’s mistake
The Hammers striker celebrates in front of Tarkowski (right) after it was the defenders mistake that led to the opening goal
Arnautovic celebrates with his West Ham team-mates after scoring the opening goal for Manuel Pellegrini’s side
West Ham poured forward again and this time, with some end product.
If Mee had been brilliant for Burnley, partner Tarkowski was his team’s undoing. With theArnautovic turned from the centre circle, drove forward and passed to Diangana.
Driving forward with intent, the youngster was clattered by a terrible Tarkowski challenge — but not before he had slipped the ball left and into the path of Anderson, unmarked, to put it through Hart’s legs.
But Burnley came back into it again, somehow. Wood and Ashley Barnes came on as substitutes on 72 minutes, followed by Robbie Brady three minutes later.
Burnley manager Sean Dyche (left) urges for more from his players as they fell behind early on at the London Stadium
Joe Hart pulled off a superb save in the first half to deny Arnautovic (centre) a second goal and keep Burnley in the game
Give it another two and they were back level again: Brady’s corner guided straight on to the head of Wood who, after a grapple with Robert Snodgrass, smashed his header home.
Still time for more drama: Anderson hit the post at the end of another Diangana-Arnautovic cycling of the ball.
Burnley could not heed this warning quick enough when the summer signing from Lazio scored the fifth goal, and eventual winner of this mad game.
Wood headed on to the bar again with five minutes to go.
For a team so dominant, West Ham could not breathe easy — at least until Hernandez fired in the fourth from Michael Antonio’s stoppage-time shoulder-pass.
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