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The Hammers kicked off the game without Ward-Prowse in the starting squad, who had been the first to suffer Nuno's ruthlessness, being dropped from the squad entirely and being replaced by the debut of Soungatou Magassa.

West Ham: Areola, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Kilman, Diouf, Magassa, Fernandes, Paqueta, Bowen (C), Summerville, Fulkrug
Subs: Hermansen, Igor, Wilson, Guilherme, Rodriguez, Scarles, Potts, Irving, Marshall

Everton: Pickford, O'Brien, Tarkowski (C), Keane, Mykolenko, Gana, Garner, Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish, Beto
Subs: Travers, Patterson, McNeil, Barry, Dibling, Coleman, Alcaraz, Aznou, Iroegbunam

Graham Otter exited the building at Rush Green for the last time on Saturday, and a new manager walked through the same door Potter exited just a few hours later.

In classic West Ham fashion, GP became the headline for numerous different reasons, but these weren’t for dodgy appointment times; it turns out that Graham ‘we need to improve’ Potter started to become a rather unpopular figure within the club and the dressing room.