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

77 minutes: Benrahma, to the right of the D, crosses to definitely no one. The ball bounces unfortunately out for an objective kick. Additional time ends up being increasingly more a reasonable 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 an opportunity 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 opportunities, stumbles upon 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 an extremely remarkable very first 15 minutes, West Ham have actually attained the square root of naff all in attack. Stockport have actually been exceptionally remarkable.

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 webs down at the end.”

68 minutes: Stockport waste yet another set piece. They fill 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 futile 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 an unsafe 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 happy with the method this is panning out. West Ham will start to feel the nerves jangling quickly. “We require 3 replays actually to finish the 70s visual.” Richard Hirst making a reasonable point there.

58 minutes: A spectacular 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 developing into a peaty quagmire, providing 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 smart 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 maybe comprehend his take on the outcomes up until now.

52 minutes: The hosts are looking vibrant. 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 awaiting. 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 delighted with that very first half from a Stockport viewpoint; dogged and disciplined. The terrific thing is that this match is a perk. After years of dropping the leagues, to the point where we were playing part-time football, County legend Jim Gannon and a fantastic group of gamers led us back to the National League. Now, with an enthusiastic and practical brand-new owner, some wise additions and Gannon still in charge, the future looks brilliant. So pleased with the kids tonight and weekly.”

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 released in assistance of Khia Whirehead, a 15-year-old from Stockport presently in extensive care after being tore down by a vehicle. 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 delighted to let them have it, 30 backyards out. There’s no other way 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 exceptionally delighted to see the ball deflected throughout the face of objective and out of reach of the neighboring 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.