Football: Winston Reid benched as West Ham draw with Bournemouth

All Whites captain Winston Reid was benched by his EPL side West Ham. Photo / Actionplus/Photosport

All Whites captain Winston Reid was relegated to the bench as West Ham fought to a 3-3 English Premier League (EPL) draw against Bournemouth on Wednesday morning (NZ time).

Sitting in 17th on the EPL ladder and struggling to move away from the relegation zone, manager David Moyes opted to start James Collins ahead of Reid, who watched the full 90-minutes from the sidelines.

Reid had been critical about West Ham's defensive frailties in their 3-2 loss against Newcastle on Sunday (NZ time) before the Bournemouth game.

"It was terrible, from our point of view, conceding three goals, giving goals away, and they could have had another two in the first half," he told West Ham's website.

"We didn't do the things that we'd been doing the last couple of weeks and we didn't take our chances as well, the chances that we had, so it wasn't good at one end and it wasn't fantastic at the other.

"Fortunately enough, we have another game on Tuesday, so we'll go again then. The games are coming thick and fast now and we need to go to Bournemouth and make sure we pick up some points."

He wasn't given the chance to make up for that, though, as West Ham still struggled to keep the ball out of their own goal.

West Ham led 1-0 through Collins but Dan Gosling equalised for Bournemouth before halftime.

Nathan Ake Bournemouth a 2-1 lead in the second half before two Marko Arnautovic goals - one from the penalty spot - had the Hammers up 3-2.

However, a controversial injury-time goal evened the ledger again when referee Bobby Maddly over-ruled his linesman in awarding a goal to Ryan Wilson with the Hammers' defence vainly appealing for hand-ball.

As a result, West Ham remain in 17th place, one spot outside of the relegation zone.

Fellow All White Chris Wood was also not sighted on the football pitch today, held out of Burnley's 2-2 draw against Manchester United due to injury.

Wood suffered a knee injury against Tottenham last weekend and was not risked for the clash at Old Trafford, however manager Sean Dyche was hopeful the Kiwi striker wouldn't miss much more time.

"We'll have to wait and see on Chris, He suffered a minor tweak to his knee on Saturday, which is not ideal, so we'll see how it settles down," Dyche told Burnley's website.