West Ham mounted a stirring comeback last night, roaring back from two goals down against Tottenham Hotspur to reach the League Cup quarter-finals
West Ham mounted a stirring comeback last night, roaring back from two goals down against Tottenham Hotspur to reach the League Cup quarter-finals.
Slaven Bilic's side were trailing 0-2 at the break after an insipid first-half display but a brace from Andre Ayew and a third from Angelo Ogbonna shocked the Wembley crowd and completed an astonishing turnaround for the Premier League strugglers.
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A dejected Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli after his team’s 2-3 defeat to West Ham at Wembley Stadium in London last night
Spurs, who made multiple changes, were quickly in control thorough an early goal from Moussa Sissoko, who strolled through the middle of the defence and stroked the ball past West Ham goalkeeper Adrian after a pass from Son Heung-Min.
They doubled their lead with about eight minutes remaining in the first half when Dele Alli curled the ball into the net via a deflection off the head of the unfortunate Declan Rice, again following good work down the left from the impressive Son. But the game came alive within 10 minutes of the re-start when Ayew pounced to poke home from close range after Spurs keeper Michel Vorm failed to hold a powerful Edimilson Fernandes shot from the edge of the area.
West Ham were level just five minutes later when Ayew applied the finishing touch to a cross by Manuel Lanzini and astonishingly took the lead when Ogbonna rose to head home Lanzini's corner with 20 minutes to go.
Spurs made seven changes to the side that thumped Liverpool 4-1 at the weekend, while Cheikhou Kouyate and Lanzini were the only survivors for West Ham from their weekend defeat to Brighton.
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