Hammers U21’s scrape a point

West Ham’s Development team scraped their first point last night at the Boleyn Ground after drawing with Newcastle Development team in the 90th minute thanks to a Martin Samuelson penalty.

It gives the under 21’s their first point of the season after five games and four loses but they are still rooted to the bottom of division two, one point below Newcastle.

The Hammers took thje fourth-minute lead through striker Jordan Brown. West Ham included Michail Antonio in the starting lineup, as the 25-year-old who joined from Nottingham Forest in the summer, is cup-tied for the League Cup clash against Leicester this evening. It was left up to Martin Samuelsen  to convert a late penalty for Irons to rescue a point

U21: Starting XI   Spiegel, Knoyle, Hendrie, Dobson, Chambers, Onariase, Parfitt-Williams, Browne, Brown, Samuelsen, Antonio  U21: Subs  Nasha, T.Brown (GK), Page, Pask, Belic