Sheffield United substitute Ollie McBurnie scored a penalty deep in stoppage time to give the bottom side a deserved 2-2 Premier League home draw with sixth-placed West Ham United on Sunday in a game that saw both sides have a man sent off late on.

The home team started brightly but their shoddy finishing was punished when Hammers Ivorian winger Maxwel Cornet pounced on a deflected Danny Ings shot and fired the ball into the net first-time in the 28th minute.

Playing his first league game since arriving on loan from Villareal on Jan 5, Ben Brereton Diaz got the Blades back in the game just before the break as West Ham goalkeeper Alphonse Areola parried a header from William Osula and the England-born Chile international took a touch before thumping the ball home.

West Ham’s James Ward-Prowse then scored from the spot in the 79th after Ings was upended by Gustavo Hamer and both sides had a man sent off before Areola fouled McBurnie, who slammed the ball past substitute keeper Lukasz Fabianski in the 13th minute of stoppage time to grab a draw.