It is just as well that West Ham did not let Danny Ings leave last summer. With Niclas Füllkrug injured and Michail Antonio an increasingly blunt instrument up front, Julen Lopetegui was indebted to a late intervention from a player who still has the knack of finding that crucial yard of space in the opposition’s penalty area.
Fulham had led from the 24th minute after Raúl Jiménez finished off a fine move. A third defeat in four league matches was on the cards for West Ham and pertinent questions were about to be raised about the depiction of Lopetegui as one of the game’s great entertainers. His team had been awful for much of the afternoon and it seemed they were going to leave Craven Cottage empty-handed until Ings, who has struggled since moving to east London 18 months ago, popped up with an unlikely equaliser in the 95th minute.
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