Published: 02:00, 21 February 2026 | Updated: 02:00, 21 February 2026

If asked to put £1 on which player was most likely to drag West Ham to Premier League survival, you would likely have picked the wrong winger.

The safe money was on Jarrod Bowen. Captain, talisman and, until recently, their main source of goals and that most precious of commodities: hope.

And yet it’s been Crysencio Summerville charging down the opposite flank with six goals in his last seven games, to give Nuno Espirito Santo’s side a puncher’s shot of staying up. It was Summerville who came off the bench to spare West Ham’s blushes at Burton Albion in the FA Cup.

If he can put Bournemouth to the sword on Saturday, and Nottingham Forest lose by a distance to Liverpool, West Ham could end the weekend outside the bottom three for the first time since November 30. They were seven points adrift when Summerville started his dramatic upturn in form.

But before his strike against QPR in the FA Cup, Summerville had one goal in his first 38 games since joining from...