McBurnie wins a point for Sheffield United against West Ham as they both finish on 10 | first division

This ended up as the last announcement of the first division in all its frenetic, unpredictable glory as added time included red cards for Rhian Brewster and Vladimir Coufal, as well as the penalty awarded for Alphonse Areola's challenge on Oli McBurnie.

Before this happened, there was more: after a stop for treatment on the West Ham goalkeeper, Areola was unable to continue and Lukasz Fabianski went to confront McBurnie. He instructs the attacker to caress the ball and the Sheffield United support to reach ecstasy, taunting the traveling fans with: “Who are you, who are you?”

The outcome was about to have another chapter when West Ham ran up the field and Jarrod Bowen and Anel Ahmedhodzic met in the home area. Michael Salisbury rejected strong calls for what would have been the third penalty of the match, with David Moyes particularly upset with the referee, as he was later when he claimed Areola had been fouled before McBurnie's shot.

The latter's decisive shot in the 103rd minute of a match that had exploded from the moment, 24 minutes earlier, when James Ward-Prowse caused delirium among the visiting fans just behind Wes Foderingham's goal by taking the penalty that seemed secure victory and plunge their hosts into deeper darkness.

Danny Ings won the penalty with a burst into the area, first breaking up a challenge from Jack Robinson and then causing Gustavo Hamer to foul which caused Salisbury to award the penalty. The number 8 barely complained to the referee (often a sign of guilt) and was lucky not to be sent off, as he had been cautioned earlier.

Earlier, Ben Brereton Díaz made the headlines: on his Premier League debut, in front of his own home crowd, there's nothing better than scoring and that's what the striker scored, beating Areola to equalize as half-time approached. From the left the ball was headed diagonally into the area by Auston Trusty for William Osula. He also headed Areola, who pushed wide and the hungriest was Brereton Díaz, who forced himself to find the visiting goal.

This responded to Maxwel Cornet's opening goal which, like Brereton Díaz's for Sheffield United, was his first goal for West Ham, the Ivorian having joined two summers ago. Here, a touch of quality was present, in a fluid play that took the ball directly to Coufal and in the full-back's pass to Ings: the striker, inside the area, unloaded, a rebound passed the ball to Cornet and beat Foderingham. with aplomb.

What the Blades certainly don't do well is defend: this was their 50th goal conceded in the league, which, in their 21st game of the season, puts them second in Premier League history, ahead of only Barnsley. .

At the start of the second half, the Blades dominated, as they did in the same phase of the first half. The ball was thrown between Andre Brooks, Hamer, McBurnie and James McAtee in impressive fashion and one sequence featured the latter's split defense pass that put Brereton Diaz on the right. Here was a chance to win, but he threw the ball wide.

That was on time and Chris Wilder referenced this by saying that Brereton Diaz was getting tired just at the time he was planning to replace him, which the manager did, with Cameron Archer. If Brereton Díaz, who joined Villarreal on loan on January 5 until the end of the season, can put together some kind of decent performance in the Blades' remaining 17 games, they may have a chance of avoiding the drop.

Even if he does (and the Chilean international missed a golden opportunity after the break to score a second), the odds are high against what would have to be a bigger breakout than the so-called Great Escape of the 2004-05 season. West Brom. At the start of this match, Wilder's men had nine points from 20 games, while the Baggies had 11 at the same point in their campaign. Now they're at 10, even before the last show, their frustration seemed encapsulated by Brewster taking down Emerson Palmieri. This provoked the ire of the visitors (Coufal was headed over by McBurnie as he approached the substitute) and Salisbury went to the VAR monitor and, looking, the red card was shown and the Blades were a man and a goal down.

After the restart, Ings, to Moyes' despair, turned down an opportunity to end the contest and it proved costly. Coufal, booked for his protests in Brewster's challenge, received a second yellow card for a stamp and then came McBurnie's equalizer. Wilder was told his team's score was worse than West Brom's 19 seasons ago. “The only thing I'm focused on is trying to win the next game,” he said.