Stockport County v West Ham: FA Cup 3rd round – live! – The Guardian

No word from David Moyes, who to be reasonable looked desperate for a hot shower prior to heading pull back south. No matter, however, since Jamie Jackson was at Edgeley Park tonight, and his decision on the last third-round tie of the weekend has actually landed! You understand what to do: clickity click! Thanks for reading this MBM. Stay safe, dry and warm. Nighty night!

A soaked however philosophical Jim Gannon speaks to BT Sport. “They are dissatisfied therein. However isn’t it a testament of how they played to come off dissatisfied to lose the video game? We needed to hold them out, however did truly well, and offered ourselves a possibility of getting an objective to win the video game, however it was constantly a stretch for us. The efficiency revealed they’re a cut above this level, and ideally will reveal that for the remainder of the league season. We were dissatisfied with our set plays, since they were going to be our chances to rating, however we attempted to play the ideal video game and I believe we revealed what we are everything about. We’re still growing together. We have actually had an actually great cup run, so the club is on properly. It’s a difficult year for everybody, however we wish to go one much better than last season and choose promo. If they play like they did tonight they’ll have a likelihood.”

A grim-faced David Moyes offers Jim Gannon a considerate nod. He understands his group were required to dig deep for that narrow triumph. Stockport look incredibly dissatisfied, not surprisingly so provided their efforts, and how close they pertained to taking West Ham to additional time. West Ham’s goalscoring hero Craig Dawson informs BT Sport it was a “difficult video game … the pitch was tough for both sides, however we adhered to our job … it’s been a while given that I used a pitch like that, however we moved the ball well and it was great to get an objective at the end … it was an excellent tidy sheet.”

Randolph declares a Hail Mary, and the last whistle goes. Craig Dawson’s late header sends out the Hammers into the 4th round, where they’ll host Doncaster Rovers. Stockport need to use the understanding that they pressed a Premier League side all the method. Superb at the back, they were reversed by one lapse in concentration.

90 minutes +3: Palmer almost loops a beast backpass over Hinchliffe’s head. The keeper does incredibly well to bring the ball below the sky and skelp clear.

90 minutes +2: Whatever occurs, this has actually been a brave effort by fifth-tier Stockport County. And it was most likely time for some West Ham success in the head-to-head. They have not beaten County given that 1958!

90 minutes +1: The very first of 4 additional minutes sees Rice step throughout Bennett to declare ownership on the corner of the West Ham box. Bennett declares ideally, frantically, for a charge, however he’s never ever getting one.

90 minutes: Benrahma will not be getting that very first West Ham objective tonight. He’s replaced, together with Antonio, Fornals and Odubeko taking their locations.

89 minutes: West Ham handle it quickly enough. “What a relief,” sighs Nick Boonstra. “Funny, however– very first idea is the elation of scoring; doubt is reflection upon the truth that Craig Dawson got his very first Hammers objective prior to Said Benrahma. Such is life in claret and blue.”

88 minutes: Kitching works his method down the left and wins a corner. Stockport send out everybody bar the keeper into package.

86 minutes: One corner causes another. Prior to the second can be taken, Stockport swap Rooney, Williams and Minihan for Hinchy, Thomas and Palmer. The 2nd corner is a non-event.

85 minutes: Soucek has actually made a huge distinction given that beginning. He barges his method into package down the right. Keane hangs out a leg. Soucek discusses. There’s contact. It must be a charge, however the referee is lax. Simply a corner.

A long ball down the right for Soucek, who wins a corner. The set piece is taken brief by Rice, with Stockport snoozing a bit. Bowen curls a scrumptious inswinger towards the far post. Dawson breaks from deep and heads downwards, into the bottom left. A great objective, and some really fast thinking, however the hosts will be kicking themselves for going to sleep.

82 minutes: Coufal curls in from the right. Soucek fires a header broad from 6 backyards. Aggravation composed all over West Ham deals with. Stockport change Jennings with Southam-Hales.

81 minutes: Cresswell wriggles into the Stockport box from the left however his low cross averts everyone. Absolutely nothing’s clicking for the Hammers in advance, though they have actually at least upped the rate at long last.

79 minutes: Hogan pieces in reverse, high into the sky. Hinchliffe hares out to capture, and misses out on the ball completely. Bowen can’t reach the loose ball, however, and Keane clears. A number of indications that Stockport are starting to feel the heat, stressed of undoing all of their night’s great.

77 minutes: Benrahma, to the right of the D, crosses to definitely no one. The ball bounces regretfully out for an objective kick. Additional time ends up being a growing number of a practical possibility. This is a great effort by County.

75 minutes: Stockport have actually looked nerveless all night, however here’s the very first indication of a wee jangle, as Hinchliffe shanks a clearance directly to Benrahma, who tries to return into a vulnerable web. His effort cruises broad right, a safe miss out on, though even had it been on target, Hogan was running back to cover and would have had over half a possibility of obstructing on the line.

74 minutes: Dawson is winning a foot race with Bennett down the Stockport left … then loses all rhythm, enabling Bennett to whip the ball off his toe. He searches for Rooney in the middle. Ogbonna, taking no possibilities, discovers to blooter out for a toss. From that toss, Rooney attempts to fox Randolph at his near post, however the keeper’s not to be beaten.

72 minutes: After a really outstanding very first 15 minutes, West Ham have actually attained the square root of naff all in attack. Stockport have actually been incredibly outstanding.

70 minutes: A tip that this goes to additional time if there’s no winner throughout the 90 minutes. “I’m really getting more of a Sunday League ambiance here,” composes Daniel Barnett. “Eagerly anticipating seeing Lanzini rested on Rice’s shoulders to take the internet down at the end.”

68 minutes: Stockport waste yet another set piece. They pack package for a complimentary kick on the right, an useless gesture provided the shipment that follows. On the touchline, Jim Gannon melts down yet once again. All that training-ground preparation, and for this?

67 minutes: David Moyes has actually seen enough. He changes Lanzini and the inefficient Yarmolenko with Bowen and Soucek.

66 minutes: Williams loops long from the left. Randolph succeeds to claim. He introduces long. Stockport return! Kitching breezes down the left and crosses low. Rooney tees up Williams with a charming backheel. Williams takes a photo. Ogbonna obstructs and clears. Stockport are starting to bring an appropriate risk. This might be on, you understand.

64 minutes: The rain continues to bucket down. The pitch ends up being much heavier and much heavier. All the conditions for a shock, right here. And hang on, what’s this? Jennings and Minihan integrating crisply down the right, the previous taking a crack at from a tight angle that’s obstructed by Dawson. A huge caution to West Ham, right there.

63 minutes: Rice curls a harmful ball in from the right. No One in West Ham black has actually bet on a run. Hinchliffe has actually had valuable little to do this night.

62 minutes: Stockport make their very first modification, changing Reid in advance with Bennett.

60 minutes: Something of a lull. Stockport will be pleased with the method this is panning out. West Ham will start to feel the nerves jangling quickly. “We require 3 replays truly to finish the 70s visual.” Richard Hirst making a reasonable point there.

58 minutes: An astonishing driving run by Rice, who chooses the ball up in his own half and rises down the right, powering into package and just being stopped from shooting at the really eleventh hour by a Hogan-Keane pincer motion. Great safeguarding, however what an objective that might have been!

57 minutes: The pitch is gradually becoming a peaty quagmire, offering this third-round match a noticeably Seventies feel. We simply require a couple of kids in parkas up a close-by tree to finish the visual.

55 minutes: Yarmolenko’s creative reverse give the right is totally misread by Coufal. The wing-back’s doubt presents Kitching the chance to clear.

53 minutes: In the dugout, Stockport manager Jim Gannon tosses a psychological fit, plainly not impressed by his group’s set-piece shipment. By all accounts they have actually been striving on their set pieces all week, so you can possibly comprehend his take on the outcomes up until now.

52 minutes: The hosts are looking dynamic. Jennings swaggers down the middle and slips a give the left for Williams. The ball shrieks to a stop in a puddle, enabling Williams to win a corner that’s consequently lost.

51 minutes: It wasn’t worth waiting on. Rooney curls it harmlessly into the arms of Randolph. The rain continues to lash down.

48 minutes: The corner is a waste of everybody’s time. Here’s Rick Parfett: “Possibly not a banquet of football for the neutral, however pleased with that very first half from a Stockport point of view; dogged and disciplined. The terrific thing is that this match is a bonus offer. After years of dropping the leagues, to the point where we were playing part-time football, County legend Jim Gannon and a dazzling group of gamers led us back to the National League. Now, with an enthusiastic and reasonable brand-new owner, some wise additions and Gannon still in charge, the future looks brilliant. So happy with the young boys tonight and each week.”

47 minutes: A sluggish start to the 2nd half. Then all of a sudden Coufal skitters down the right and makes the very first corner of the 2nd half.

West Ham get the 2nd half underway. No modifications. On the other hand, concerning those first-half fireworks: they were introduced in assistance of Khia Whirehead, a 15-year-old from Stockport presently in extensive care after being tore down by an automobile. Here’s to the boy improving soon.

Half-time home entertainment. A tip of tonight’s draw for the 4th and 5th rounds.

2 minutes of incredible fireworks; the rest has actually been a wet squib. Like Stockport will care: they have actually kept West Ham at arm’s length quickly enough. A tip that this will go to additional time and charges if no one can discover a winner.

45 minutes +1: An unusual Stockport attack sees Minihan require a corner down the right. Reid’s shipment is no great whatsoever and harmlessly submits right out of play, fluttering the side netting.

43 minutes: Rice wanders in from the left and searches for the leading right. Nope.

42 minutes: There’s really little seriousness in West Ham’s play at the minute. Stockport are rather pleased to let them have it, 30 backyards out. There’s no chance through.

40 minutes: Antonio drives throughout the face of the Stockport box, delegated right, and attempts a curler towards the bottom right. A deflection takes the ball off target and out for a corner. Ogbonna satisfies the set piece with a weak header that dribbles apologetically pas the left-hand post.

38 minutes: Some great end-to-end enjoyable as Antonio almost runs clear through the middle, just to miscontrol, enabling Kitching to take the ball off his toe. Reid increases the other end and wins a corner off Dawson. Absolutely nothing comes of the set piece.

37 minutes: Hogan attempts to play out from the back, and is shut down by Noble. The Stockport centre-back is incredibly delighted to see the ball deflected throughout the face of objective and out of reach of the close-by Antonio.

36 minutes: Benrahma attempts to launch Yarmolenko down the within right. There’s a little excessive rate on the pass; there’s a little doubt by Yarmolenko too. The net outcome is an objective kick.

35 minutes: Reid introduces a solo sortie down the right. West Ham are light at the back, however Reid has neither the speed nor smart to jink his method past Ogbonna, who holds his line and ultimately takes the ball off his challenger.