West Ham United F.C.Official Football Size 5 Ball RX,Brown

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As with the Liverpool game, there was a penalty miss, but this time it was Arsenal who were wayward, with Bukayo Saka sending the ball wide after Antonio was punished for a handball. West Ham capitalised on the uncertainty and Arsenal’s sudden fragility, which led to more questions about their mental toughness. The home side had a nightmare start when they lost key defender Martin Hinteregger to an early injury. The Scot also felt Tomas Soucek should have been given a penalty after Romain Perraud's "judo move" inside the box. The schedule we play and effort we play, sometimes you feel tired, but you just need to accept it and control our risk management. Fortunately, Paqueta kept his nerve to make amends for his earlier error and from then on West Ham's semi-final place was never seriously threatened. Rice can join West Ham legends

Moyes' side lost their home leg 2-1 but started brightly until Cresswell pulled down Jens Petter Hauge, who would have been through on goal. He was initially shown a yellow card but it was upgraded to a red after a video assistant referee review.Nevertheless, no-one will get too much pleasure from watching the replay of Gent's goal, which was a catalogue of home errors. Club record signing Lucas Paqueta was introduced for his Hammers debut after the hour mark despite not having trained with David Moyes' men since signing from Lyon. They went out of both the FA Cup and Carabao Cup, competitions they won last season, at the fourth-round phase and were hammered 6-2 on aggregate by Real Madrid in the last 16 of the Champions League.

The Hammers have enjoyed some great moments on this run to the last four, but their last European final remains the 1975-76 Cup Winners' Cup. Eredivisie side AZ were in their first European semi-final since losing to Sporting Lisbon in the last four of the 2004-05 Uefa Cup. Lincoln's Hakeeb Adelakun had a dangerous cross headed behind and Ethan Hamilton's strike from distance went high and wide before Soucek found a way through.Yet strong rumours of a summer move to Arsenal persist and while West Ham could secure a third successive European campaign, it will not be in the Champions League, which is where the 24-year-old really should be playing. It has been a tough season for Liverpool, who came second in 2021-22, losing out to Manchester City by one point as the title race went to the final day of the season. We've lost the game on our own actions and when you think about that, you can't look past the goals which is an obvious thing to say. Thereafter, Arsenal lost their way; the control surrendered, the creativity absent. It is difficult to remember them playing so listlessly over a period for as long as 60 minutes or so and West Ham were full value for the draw, their midfield trio of Declan Rice, Tomas Soucek and Lucas Paquetá outstanding to a man.