Analysis: Clean sheet the biggest positive
· Yahoo Sports
West Ham came into Saturday's game on their best run of form all season and almost took the lead inside the opening minute, with new loan signing Axel Disasi going close from a corner.
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The Hammers finished with twice as many shots as Bournemouth (20-10), their most in a Premier League game this season, but only three were on target and they carried little threat beyond set-pieces.
After scoring six goals in his previous seven games, Crysencio Summerville was being watched by Netherlands assistant coach Ruud van Nistelrooy and he posed the biggest problems from open play, beating two men before testing Djordje Petrovic from distance in the first half.
Otherwise, the hosts did not begin to open up the Cherries until the latter stages, with Taty Castellanos flashing an overhead kick narrowly wide before Callum Wilson came on with 18 minutes left to give the Hammers' new Argentina striker some company up front.
Wilson almost broke the deadlock moments later, only for Petrovic to claw out his touch at the near post, and Wilson finished with more touches in the opposition box than any other player (seven).
Summerville then found Jarrod Bowen during the six minutes of added time and the England forward blazed over on the stretch.
So on the day the Hammers fans unveiled a tifo tribute to their former goalkeeper and coach Ludek Miklosko, who announced 14 months ago that he had withdrawn from cancer treatment, it was a clean sheet that provided the biggest positive.
Current keeper Mads Hermansen has kept two clean sheets in three Premier League games, as many as West Ham had in their previous 35, and they will be crucial in their bid to avoid relegation.