FOOTBALL Live

Saturday August 30, 2008 Finished Upton Park

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West Ham

  • Davenport 12’
  • Samba 20’ (o.g.)
  • Bellamy 90’
  • Cole 90’

Blackburn Rovers

  • Roberts 22’
  1. Rovers suffer late Hammer blows

    Rovers suffer late Hammer blows

    Paul Ince endured a miserable return to former club West Ham as his Blackburn Rovers side were beaten 4-1 at Upton Park. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • West Ham
    • Blackburn Rovers
    • 90+5' The final whistle has gone, and what a terrible final few minutes for Blackburn! Paul Ince nedures yet more misery at his former club! Thanks for joining us, stick around for Arsenal v Newcastle. Kick-off is at 1730 BST.
    • 90+4' GOAL!! It's another for West Ham! Valon Behrami does brilliantly to beat two men down the left and cut back for Parker, who tees up Carlton Cole for a simple tap in!
    • 90+3' GOAL!! Craig Bellamy puts the gloss on the result for the Hammers! The flag stays down as along ball was whacked upfield and the Welshman has time to line up the shot from a tough angle before blasting the half-volley past Robinson!
    • 90' A big boo goes aroud the ground as Paul ince kicks a wayward ball to a West Ham player! They haven't forgotten about him!
    • 89' Rovers are throwing plenty forward as they chase the equaliser, but the Hammers seem to be able to deal with it all. The referee's assistant signals FIVE minutes of injury time!
    • 86' Upton Park has gone quiet here as Reid prepares to take a corner. He swings it in for Samba... Headed behind for another corner. This one is met by NELSEN... The volley sails wide.
    • 80' West Ham make their final change now as Hayden Mullins comes on for Noble, who has been excellent today. Shame he's going to miss the next match through suspension.
    • 78' The cross comes into the rovers box and BELLAMY VOLLEYS... Saved by Robinson! They don't clear it now Cole controls a nother cross with his shot. He's being bear-hugged by Nelsen but still manages to SHOOT... Fantastic save by Robinson! The keeper was at full stretch as he dived to his left to palm to well-struck effort away! Two great saves in a minute!
    • 78' Reid picks up the ball in midfield and shoots first time! His shot swings wickedly outwards but Green gets both hands to it to save!
    • 72' Emerton has got in behind McCartney to get on the end of a cross... Saved by Green! Green made himself big the block Emerton's header at the far post.
    • 70' Carlton Cole twists and turns to try and beat Samba, and when he loses the ball he trips him up! Cole has not had the best afternoon of his career, that's for sure.
    • 68' There's a standing ovation for the ever industrious Dean Ashton as he goes off, and a big cheer for Craig Bellamy as he comes on to replace him.
    • 68' Reid blocks McCartney's cross and West Ham have another corner, but this time it doesn't beat the first man.
    • 66' Rovers field their second Keith of the afternoon as Treacy comes on for Morten Gamst Pedersen.
    • 64' Now it's Blackburn's turn to break forward and Derbyshire tries to chip Green... The ball lands on the top of the net!
    • 62' Confusion in the Rovers defence as Warnock's wayward header back to Robinson forces the keeper to palm it wide for a corner! The corner is only half-cleared and Noble lifts a ball over the top for Davenport. The defender brings it down with a great touch and SHOOTS... The shot flashes across the face of goal!
    • 60' West Ham make their first change of the afternoon now, as George McCartney replaces Julien Faubert.
    • 58' Noble's slide-rule pass finds Ashton and he gallops away! Ashton cuts onto his right and shoots... OFF THE FOOT OF THE POST!! The flag was up, he was offside anyway.
    • 55' Behrami goes down clutching his face as he tussled with Jason Roberts for the ball. Roberts hand did hit his face but contact with minimal and Roberts probably didn'tknow much about it.
    • 51' Brett Emerton is the latest Rovers player to get booked for a foul on Faubert.
    • 47' Roberts goes for the bottom right corner... SAVED BY GREEN! The former England keeper does brilliantly to get down and put a solid hand on the shot!
    • 47' Samba takes a free-kick for Blackburn. There's a handball in the wall... Blackburn have a penalty! Carlton Cole stuck his arm into the air to block the shot. Only he knows why!Jason Roberts steps up to take it.
    • 46' There's one change at half-time, with midfielder Keith Andrews comes on for vincenzo Grella at the start of the second half.
    • 46' Blackburn kick off for the second half.
    • 45+2' Half-time is called at Upton Park, and it's not been a great first return for Paul ince as a manager. It's been a good game so far though, let's hope for more of the same after the break.
    • 44' Carlton Cole hits the deck in the Blackburn box... NO PENALTY! In truth he tried to go through Samba to get at the ball, but found out just how solid the Congo defender actually is!
    • 43' The pace in this match has eased off as we close in on half-time. It's already been an incident-packed first half.
    • 41' Emerton sends in an inviting cross for Reid to head... knocked behind for a corner. Reid's corner clears everyone and curls out for a goal kick, much to the joy of the Hammers fans!
    • 38' West Ham break forward and Ashton knocks it out to Behrami who sprints down the right wing! Warnock slides across and fouls him. No booking, it looked as though he was going for the ball.
    • 37' Australia team-mate Lucas Neill and Brett Emerton tussle on the touchline in the West Ham, and the Hammers captain wins the throw-in.
    • 31' Andre Ooijer, bviously annoyed about that disallowed goal, is booked for a foul on Etherington.
    • 30' Warnock fires a long ball into the box that Samba nods down for DERBYSHIRE TO SCORE WITH HIS FIRST TOUCH!!! Wait, the flag's up! The equaliser's been ruled out! Replays show that Derbyshire was in line with the last defender when the ball was played in. A terrible decision!
    • 29' Bad news for Rovers fans here, as Roque Santa Cruz is subbed off for Matt Derbyshire. Apparently he hurt his ankle, but he's walking off.
    • 28' Carlton Cole has a right go at Mark Noble after the latter's ambitious through ball runs out of his reach. West Ham got a croner out of t though, so what's the problem? Blackburn clear the corner.
    • 27' Jason Roberts goes into the book now for dissent after he fouled Behrami.
    • 22' GOAL!! Blackburn pull one back through Jason Roberts! The striker gets his second of the season as he turns and fires a low shot across Green into the far bottom corner!
    • 20' GOAL!!! The Hammers are 2-0 up now! Noble's shot goes in off Samba! Ashton was in an offside position when his presence made Samba swipe at the ball to clear, but as he didn't touch the ball he technically wasn't affecting play! A future case study for reviewing the crazy offside laws if ever there was one!
    • 19' Great football from Blackburn as they try to build an attack through the midfield, lots of zipping accurate passes and Reid feeds ROBERTS... Shot is blocked by Upson!
    • 16' Pedersen STRIKES... Wide of the near post.
    • 15' Roberts turns Davenport and goes to run at goal but the goalscorer holds him back with both arms! Amazingly Mike Riley decides not to book him! Gamst Pedersen will aim to shoot from the free-kick...
    • 12' GOAL!!! West Ham take the lead! It's the first time Faubert has fired a corner in with real pace and Callum Davenport rises above two Blackburn defenders to head past the flailing Robinson!
    • 11' Robinson sends a HUGE throw upfield for Santa Cruz to chase. Behrami looks to have marshalled him out of danger but quick as a flash Santa Cruz nicks the ball off him! He plays it back for Roberts but West Ham have numbers back and clear. Almost a nightmare for Behrami on his debut!
    • 10' Ashton is fouled as he goes up for a header. Faubert will take the free-kick. He pitches the ball into the box and it's cleared for a corner. Another delicate Faubert corenr, and Robinson punches behind for another, and Blackburn clear their lines this time.
    • 7' It took all of seven minutes for Vincenzo Grella to earn his first yellow card in English football for a high tackle on Scott Parker, who is still down receiving treatment.
    • 4' A nice open start to the game, with Parker and Grella getting busy in midfield. Paul Ince is already on his feet in the dugout. West Ham have a corner. Casually chipped in by Faubert but headed away by Nelsen.
    • 2' The big talking point before the game was what kind of reception Paul Ince would get. Considering the abuse Glenn Roeder got when he came back to Upton Park with Newcastle, let's just say he shouldn't expect too many nice things to be shouted at him from the stands this afternoon!
    • 1' West Ham get this show on the road!
    • 14:59 West Ham team: Green, Behrami, Davenport, Upson, Neill, Faubert, Parker, Noble, Etherington, Cole, Ashton. Subs: Lastuvka, McCartney, Bellamy, Boa Morte, Mullins, Reid, Sears.
    • 14:59 Blackburn team: Robinson, Ooijer, Samba, Nelsen, Warnock, Emerton, Reid, Grella, Pedersen, Santa Cruz, Roberts. Subs: Brown, Mokoena, Andrews, Villanueva, Simpson, Treacy, Derbyshire.
    • 14:57 For Blackburn, Paul Ince give Aussie Vincenzo Grella his debut after signing from Torino in the week. His other new face, former MK Dons capatin Keith Andrews, starts on the bench.
    • 14:55 Plenty of interesting points in the team news for today; West Ham striker Craig Bellamy is fit but only makes the bench for Alan Curbishley's side, while a debut is handad to Swiss full-back Valon Behrami at the expense of George McCartney. Mark Noble plays his last game before the start of his suspension for that silly sending off last week.
    • 14:54 Good afternoon and welcome to Eurosport-Yahoo!'s LIVE coverage of West Ham v Blackburn Rovers!

  • Team Stats

    West Ham Stats Blackburn Rovers
    50% Possession 49%
    14 Shots 15
    5 Shots on target 5
    2 Saves 2
    10 Corners 4
    21 Fouls 14
    3 Offsides 2
    1 Yellow cards 5
    0 Red cards 0
    21 Tackles 23
    260 Accurate passes 237
    63 Bad passes 62

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • West Ham
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Robert Green 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 4 0
      27 Calum Davenport 1 3 1 1 2 0 0 14 1 1
      2 Lucas Neill 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 26 8 2
      15 Matthew Upson 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 22 6 1
      8 Scott Parker 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 45 8 3
      16 Mark Noble 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 37 4 2
      20 Julien Faubert 0 0 0 3 3 0 1 8 1 1
      21 Valon Behrami 0 0 0 2 6 0 0 28 2 4
      11 Matthew Etherington 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 20 13 1
      9 Dean Ashton 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 9 2 1
      12 Carlton Cole 1 6 2 7 1 1 0 15 8 2
      13 Luis Boa Morte 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      33 Freddie Sears 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      10 Craig Bellamy 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 15 1 0
      28 Kyel Reid 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      3 George McCartney 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 5 1
      24 Jan Lastuvka 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      17 Hayden Mullins 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2
    • Blackburn Rovers
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Paul Robinson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 3 0
      4 Christopher Samba 0 1 0 3 5 0 0 18 1 7
      3 Stephen Warnock 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 38 18 2
      7 Brett Emerton 0 1 1 3 2 0 0 23 1 0
      2 Andre Ooijer 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 18 0 2
      6 Ryan Nelsen 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 24 6 3
      11 Vincenzo Grella 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 17 5 2
      16 Steven Reid 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 20 3 1
      12 Morten Gamst Pedersen 0 2 0 4 1 0 0 17 7 1
      30 Jason Roberts 1 4 2 3 2 1 0 15 9 0
      9 Roque Santa Cruz 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 1
      19 Carlos Villanueva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      32 Jason Brown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      15 Aaron Mokoena 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      27 Matt Derbyshire 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 5 1 0
      17 Keith Andrews 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 17 2 2
      24 Keith Treacy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 4 2
      22 Danny Simpson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90+4' GOAL!! It's another for West Ham! Valon Behrami does brilliantly to beat two men down the left and cut back for Parker, who tees up Carlton Cole for a simple tap in!
    • 90+3' GOAL!! Craig Bellamy puts the gloss on the result for the Hammers! The flag stays down as along ball was whacked upfield and the Welshman has time to line up the shot from a tough angle before blasting the half-volley past Robinson!
    • 78' The cross comes into the rovers box and BELLAMY VOLLEYS... Saved by Robinson! They don't clear it now Cole controls a nother cross with his shot. He's being bear-hugged by Nelsen but still manages to SHOOT... Fantastic save by Robinson! The keeper was at full stretch as he dived to his left to palm to well-struck effort away! Two great saves in a minute!
    • 78' Reid picks up the ball in midfield and shoots first time! His shot swings wickedly outwards but Green gets both hands to it to save!
    • 72' Emerton has got in behind McCartney to get on the end of a cross... Saved by Green! Green made himself big the block Emerton's header at the far post.
    • 64' Now it's Blackburn's turn to break forward and Derbyshire tries to chip Green... The ball lands on the top of the net!
    • 62' Confusion in the Rovers defence as Warnock's wayward header back to Robinson forces the keeper to palm it wide for a corner! The corner is only half-cleared and Noble lifts a ball over the top for Davenport. The defender brings it down with a great touch and SHOOTS... The shot flashes across the face of goal!
    • 47' Roberts goes for the bottom right corner... SAVED BY GREEN! The former England keeper does brilliantly to get down and put a solid hand on the shot!
    • 47' Samba takes a free-kick for Blackburn. There's a handball in the wall... Blackburn have a penalty! Carlton Cole stuck his arm into the air to block the shot. Only he knows why!Jason Roberts steps up to take it.
    • 30' Warnock fires a long ball into the box that Samba nods down for DERBYSHIRE TO SCORE WITH HIS FIRST TOUCH!!! Wait, the flag's up! The equaliser's been ruled out! Replays show that Derbyshire was in line with the last defender when the ball was played in. A terrible decision!
    • 22' GOAL!! Blackburn pull one back through Jason Roberts! The striker gets his second of the season as he turns and fires a low shot across Green into the far bottom corner!
    • 20' GOAL!!! The Hammers are 2-0 up now! Noble's shot goes in off Samba! Ashton was in an offside position when his presence made Samba swipe at the ball to clear, but as he didn't touch the ball he technically wasn't affecting play! A future case study for reviewing the crazy offside laws if ever there was one!
    • 19' Great football from Blackburn as they try to build an attack through the midfield, lots of zipping accurate passes and Reid feeds ROBERTS... Shot is blocked by Upson!
    • 12' GOAL!!! West Ham take the lead! It's the first time Faubert has fired a corner in with real pace and Callum Davenport rises above two Blackburn defenders to head past the flailing Robinson!
    • 14:54 Good afternoon and welcome to Eurosport-Yahoo!'s LIVE coverage of West Ham v Blackburn Rovers!

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Mike Riley

  • West Ham

    Manager: Alan Curbishley

    Captain: Lucas Neill

    Starting line-up

    • R. Green
    • V. Behrami
    • C. Davenport Goal
    • M. Upson
    • L. Neill
    • J. Faubert Substitution Out (60′)
    • M. Noble Substitution Out (80′)
    • S. Parker
    • M. Etherington
    • D. Ashton Substitution Out (68′)
    • C. Cole Goal

    Subs

    • G. McCartney Substitution In60′
    • C. Bellamy Substitution In68′ Goal
    • L. Boa Morte
    • H. Mullins Substitution In80′
    • J. Lastuvka
    • K. Reid
    • F. Sears

    Injured

    • K. Dyer
    • N. Quashie
    • D. Gabbidon
    • J. Collins
    • J. Spector

    Suspended

    None

  • Blackburn Rovers

    Manager: Paul Ince

    Captain: Ryan Nelsen

    Starting line-up

    • P. Robinson
    • A. Ooijer Yellow Card
    • C. Samba Own Goal
    • R. Nelsen
    • S. Warnock
    • B. Emerton Yellow Card
    • S. Reid
    • V. Grella Yellow Card Substitution Out (46′)
    • M. Pedersen Substitution Out (66′)
    • R. Santa Cruz Substitution Out (29′)
    • J. Roberts Goal Yellow Card

    Subs

    • K. Andrews Substitution In46′
    • A. Mokoena
    • M. Derbyshire Substitution In29′
    • J. Brown
    • K. Treacy Substitution In66′
    • C. Villanueva
    • D. Simpson

    Injured

    • D. Dunn

    Suspended

    None