West Ham break Huddersfield hearts with heroic comeback

West Ham 4-3 Huddersfield Town

No one could have expected this roller coaster ride of a match when they arrived at the London Stadium.

Huddersfield as good as relegated, West Ham pursuing an outside chance of Europa League qualification. How wrong you can be?

West Ham took the lead on the quarter hour after Manuel Lanzini was taken down in the penalty area. Mark Noble duly dispatch the resulting penalty.

The visitors took just a couple of minutes to draw level, when Juninho Bacuna came through unmarked to head home the corner from Aaron Mooy.

Huddersfield then took the lead when Chris Lowe put a low cross in for Karlon Grant to sweep home.

Grant then intercepted a miss timed tackle by Issa Diop, cut inside Angelo Ogbonna and rifled his shot beyond Lukasz Fabianski into the corner.
West Ham then made some changes bringing on Javier Hernandez, Sami Nasri and Lucas Perez.

Ogbonna came through to head home a corner, then it was over to Hernandez.

The diminuitive Mexican came in around the back to head home a  Sami Nasri cross from the right.

The great comeback was then completed one minute into injury time as Hernandez twisted to head home Felipe Anderson cross.

West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini thought his side showed great character to come back from three one down. "The most important thing is never to give up," said Pellegrini.

An emotional Huddersfiel boss Jon Siewert told how he had gone over to acknowledge the club's travelling fans. "We should have won it, said Siewert, who confirmed the club will keep fighting for the remaining seven games. "We need to represent the club and those working at the club - they are amazing."