Everton gives himself air by defeating West Ham

Still 8th with 12 points, the Londoners could well see the train from the European squares away after a bit biting performance.

The only real opportunity for the Londoners came from a deviation of the head of Sebastien Haller for Angelo Ogbona on corner in the 83rd. But the deviated recovery of the Italian defender rebounded on the chin of the international goalkeeper Jordan Pickford for a parade little academic but effective.

Everton had taken things by the right end thanks to a goal from his Brazilian Bernard in the 17th minute, and what a goal!

Although launched by Theo Walcott at the edge of the offside, the pocket attacker (1.64m for 60 kilos) had turned on himself, eliminated two opponents before sliding the ball under the belly of goalkeeper Roberto.

Roberto made several miraculous parades, including Tom Davies, in the 8th minute or in front of Alex Iwobi (77th).

He was also saved by a pole on Richarlison's shot and by the crossbar, which for a long time quaked after Walcott's magnificent recovery (64) bouncing off the line.

The French left-back Lucas Digne was particularly in view of the quality of his set-pieces, but also defensively in the second half against Andriy Yarmolenko, on the bench at kick-off.

It was finally the Icelandic Gylfi Sigurdsson, four minutes into the game earlier, who killed all suspense with a nice shot from the left 20 meters in the skylight at the very beginning of extra time (2-0, 90 + 1 ).