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West Ham 1-1 Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace's Christian Benteke heads his side into the lead against West Ham

ON THE evidence of the past two performances at the London Stadium, West Ham appear set on securing their Premier League survival one point at a time.

The 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace on Tuesday night was the second home game in a row that David Moyes’s team had come back after going behind, only to go on and grind out a draw. Indeed, there were many similarities between this and the previous game against Bournemouth.

Moyes thought his team “did well with what we had available,” dealing well with the threat of the Palace strikers.

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