Soucek provides thrilling finale to banish Moyes' early boredom

IF AT first you don’t succeed, then try and try again. Tomas Soucek had already squandered two chances to settle this topsy-turvy contest by the time a third fell his way, first poking against the crossbar on the stretch, then seeing a desperate header bounce down and agonisingly up over the bar off the fingertips of Odysseas Vlachodimos in the Nottingham Forest goal.

- Malik Ouzia

You cannot keep a good man down, however, particularly when James Ward-Prowse will insist on serving cross after cross on a sixpence, and from West Ham’s ninth corner, amends were made, Soucek again straining to guide low into the bottom-left-corner.

The gangly midfielder’s joyous, twirling celebration had something of the Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain about it, but this was a winning goal vital in dispelling the odd cloud that had begun to gather over London Stadium heading into the international break.