Four things we learnt from West Ham's 0-0 draw against Everton
West Ham and Everton both take part in a minutes silence in honour of Remembrance day prior to kick-off. (Photo by Harriet Lander/Getty Images)
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West Ham welcomed Everton to the London Stadium, which ended up being a rather dull encounter as neither side could get on the scoresheet.

The Hammers needed to bounce back after their 3-0 defeat to the Nottingham Forest last weekend, but again put in a rather uninspiring performance.

Crysencio Summerville had the best chance of the game when his second half strike came off the Everton post, as well as that Jordan Pickford acrobatically saved Danny Ings’s strike deep into stoppage time making sure the game would end 0-0.

Everton hardly troubled Łukasz Fabiański in the West Ham net, so were evidently much happier with the result, whereas boos could be heard from the home fans at the full-time whistle, clearly showing how they felt about the result and the team’s performance.

Here’s what we learnt from the Hammers third draw of the season:

Rodríquez who was brought off in the second half, produced another poor display and showcased that he lacks enough pace for the Premier League.

On multiple occasions, the 30 year old was dribbled past with ease and struggled to track back, leaving the pitch wide open for Everton to attack.

The central midfield has been a talking point for the Hammers this season as they have struggled the most in the team and has lacked any chemistry. Edson Álvarez, Tomáš Souček and Rodríquez all lack mobility causing the midfield to constantly get caught out.

Carlos Soler was brought on for Rodríquez, which showed that Lopetegui thought that the Hammers midfield clearly needed more creativity.

There is no doubting the Argentine’s technical ability, and it could be argued he’s one of the best passers of the ball at the club, but the midfielder must work on his mobility and speed, otherwise he’ll find himself out of the starting eleven.

The 23 year old shined once again for the Hammers and proved to Lopetegui why he should always be involved, especially after being subbed off at half-time last week in their away defeat to Forest.

With Mohammed Kudus being suspended, West Ham needed someone to fill his void and Summerville has done exactly that, from scoring his first goal for the club a few weeks ago to constantly being an attacking threat, which the Hammers are especially lacking recently.

Summerville had the best chance of the game when his shot cannoned off the Everton post and was the biggest threat for West Ham going forward. The winger also produced a last ditch tackle on Abdoulaye Doucouré to stop the midfielder from scoring.

With how poor West Ham have been recently, Summerville has been the only positive. He isn’t afraid to take on his man and is constantly drawing in fouls. The Dutchman is exactly the type of forward player the Hammers fans love.

The winger will most likely start the next two games with Kudus being suspended until West Ham’s away fixture against Leicester on December 3rd. However it will be interesting to see if the Ghanian comes straight back into the side considering how Summerville has been performing.

The forward has only featured five times this season for the Hammers, with all his appearances coming off the bench and has picked up a goal and assist in those five appearances.

Apart from Summerville hitting the post, Ings has the best chance deep into second half stoppage time when his strike was tipped over the bar by Pickford.

The Englishman proved a nuisance when he came on, running in behind on multiple occasions and linking up with the likes of Jarrod Bowen and Summerville to create more of an attacking threat for the home side.

With Niclas Füllkrug being out injured since early September, it has come as a surprise that Ings hasn’t featured more considering when he has played, he has looked decent and is something different to Michail Antonio upfront.

Ings will be thinking what more does he need to do to get into the starting eleven especially with how poor Antonio has been recently, so with some big games coming up for the Hammers, the striker will be hoping Lopetegui could pick him in the starting eleven over the Jamaican.

It was reported before the game that if West Ham were to lose Lopetegui’s position would be under review, however the Hammers didn’t lose but didn’t exactly put on a great performance.

After only winning three games out of his first 11 games as West Ham Head Coach, the Spaniard is under a lot of pressure especially from the clubs fanbase who are questioning whether he was the correct appointment from the start.

Hammers fans were expecting more attacking football after parting ways with David Moyes but so far, they haven’t seen that and are arguably playing worse football than they did under the Scotsman.

Questions are being asked of Lopetegui as well as Technical Director Tim Steidten after the club spent a lot of money in the summer on players the new Head Coach wanted but so far only one or two of them are living up to expectations.

With two big fixtures coming up after the international break against Newcastle United and Arsenal, Lopetegui could potentially find himself without a job by the start of December if he doesn’t pick up points from either of those games.