Match Report | Hammers reach Carabao Cup third round with hard-fought AFC Bournemouth win

The match was nonetheless finely poised as each side chased a winner, with Ouattara blazing a free-kick over the bar, whereas, on the different finish, Bowen’s fierce long-range drive compelled a diving save from Neto. 

Simply when the match was crying out for a little bit of high quality, and with penalties approaching, Bowen and Mohammed Kudus mixed to offer it. The previous performed the ball into Kudus, whose shot took an enormous deflection off the Hammers’ captain and wrong-footed Neto. 

With that, West Ham battened down the hatches, the Cherries’ menace was lastly repelled and the Londoners booked their spot within the third spherical.
 

West Ham United: Fabiański, Wan-Bissaka, Todibo (Mavropanos 46), Kilman, Coufal, Álvarez (Rodríguez 60), Ward-Prowse (Paquetá 60), Souček, Bowen ©, Summerville (Emerson 74), Füllkrug (Kudus 74)
Subs: Foderingham (GK), Irving, Guilherme, Antonio

Purpose: Bowen 88

Booked: Todibo, Wan-Bissaka, Fabiański

AFC Bournemouth: Neto ©, Smith, Huijsen, Senesi, Hill, Ouattara (Araujo 87), Scott (Prepare dinner 79), Christie, Tavernier (Kluivert 68), Sinisterra (Semenyo 68), Jebbison (Evanilson 46)
Subs: Travers (GK), Kerkez, Dennis, Zabarnyi

Booked: Scott, Evanilson 

Referee: Peter Bankes  

Attendance: 47,381