Obviously there’s no stream or audio from Andorra tonight but ClaretandHugh will bring you the major highlights as they happen. Stay tuned in to the site over the next 90 minutes!
LIVE SCORE Lusitans 0 West Ham 1 (Lusitans 0 West Ham 4 on aggregate)
West Ham: Randolph, Tomkins (c), Jarvis, Sakho, O’Brien, Amalfitano, Poyet, Oxford, Lee, Page, Cullen
Lusitans: Gerardo, Acosta, M San Nicolas, Munoz, Romero, Dos Reis, Aguilar, Molina, L San Nicolas, Soares, Maciel
Match kicked off at 6.30 UK time Come on you Irons!
Close to an opening goal for Lusitans on five minutes! Left wing-back Dos Reis lifts in a cross that nearly catches out Randolph. Side netting! Phew!
First corner to West Ham after seven minutes after a Matt Jarvis Free kick
West Ham down to 10 men after Sakho is sent off after 13 minutes. He was sent off after being involved in a disagreement with his marker and the Lusitans player went down on the floor. Sakho was sent off for physical contact with a defender in an off the ball incident.
GOAL!!!! Elliot Lee to the rescue 1-0 to the Cockney boys on 21 minutes
Maltese team Birkirkara won 3-1 this evening so West Ham are off to Malta in the second round if we don’t concede five goals in the next hour.
West Ham have another corner four minutes before half time.
Half time: Lusitans 0 West Ham 1
Second half kicks off at 7.32pm UK time with no changes for either side. Come on you irons!
West Ham are cruising the game despite being down to ten men and retain the majority of the possession.
Free Kick to West Ham on 58 minutes taken by Matt Jarvis. Not much going on at the moment by all accounts.
First change for West Ham as Reece Burke replaces Joey O’Brien on 61 minutes who made his 100th appearance today
Three yellows for the Andorrans in the first leg, and four more here tonight. Dos Reis hacks down Amalfitano as the winger got away from him.
Morgan Amalfitano is booked for coming back on without the referee’s permission.
Lewis Page and a Lusitans player fall on the far touchline and tangle. Enforcer Slaven Bilic intervenes and it ends peacefully.
Lusitans finally have the ball in the net on 71 minutes! A header from San Nicolas flies into the top corner, but he has been flagged offside!
Josh Cullen slides in and catches Romero from behind and gets booked.
Lusitans have their first registered shot on target of the tie on 74 minutes. They didn’t manage it at the Boleyn Ground, it is easily collected by Randolph
Morgan Amalfitano is replaced with West Ham’s second change for Djair Parfitt-Williams on 75 minutes
A first-team debut for Amos Nash, who is on for Josh Cullen on 86 minutes.
Elliot Lee curls an effort a couple of yards wide of the far post on 88 minutes. The Andorran drummer is stunned into silence.
Captain James Tomkins clears a ball off the line to keep a clean sheet on 91 minutes
Full Time: Lusitans 0 West Ham 1 (Lusitans 0 West Ham 4 on aggregate)
We should of scored more goals in both legs obviously.
Nerves in the first leg and a very dirty cynical opposition (but what were we to expect when the gulf in class was so extreme) and the sending off stunted our threat.
To be honest it was almost perfect, if we had won 6-0 and 5-0 in both the legs we would be going ape about what we were going to achieve this year.It will keep the youngsters especially grounded. They will still have to work hard to impress Slaven and that is what we want more than winning by a mile.
For the 1st leg at home Westley has said 1 or 2 more 1st team players will play.We also have a couple of friendlies around both legs.
I think we need a couple of strong players around the youngsters,who I think we should keep in the line up.Morgan and Jarvis can play in the friendlies at home. They are not strong enough to protect and stand up against lower teams who will come to kick and fall over to intimidate the ref.
Let’s put out a team that will settle the tie in the first leg in front of another sell out
My team
Adrian
O’Brien
Tomkins
Burke
Page
Kouyate
Poyet
Noble
Payet
Lee
Zarate
subs
Randolph
Oxford
Cresswell
Cullen
Parfit-Williams
Reid
Maiga
Agreed there, it was an experimental team with youth players involved. So it was never going to be an onslaught, especially given that most of the first team are in Ireland and with the first team coaches and Bilic until the other evening.
Also, we did the job. No point in getting tired punching out in the early rounds. Will need more energy going forward for the later rounds and start of the season.
Yeah would have been nice to create a few more chances but if people want the youth to play then we aint going to steamroller teams,if they want to see 5 or 6 goals in these matches then you need the first team.Cant have it both ways 😉
Job done is the best way of describing that,lol,people wanted youth in the team so they cant rattle on about it only being 1-0,though against a load of part-timers more than one shot on target wouldnt have been asking too much 😉
I reckon it’s not heritage but they were kicked out of Portugal for cheating and that’s saying something considering who their champion diver is. Slav needs to say Xavi some of that you goat botherer lol
Lol Stingray,think you have logged into the wrong site.Time to get out of Andorra in one piece before the dirty sods cripple someone.Hope Slav shows their manager some respect,with a right hook to the chops 😉
& then in injury time we score an own goal when Randolph throws it into his own net.Im stressed big time!!
Hope we dont have another two players sent off & they score 4 goals in 10mins.Im really worried about this tie now.What if all our players get injured or we could be down to 8 men or they could get 4 penalties.Anything could go wrong!!
Following the best I can Cullen could prove a asset this season in midfield,
Sounds like the red card could be cancelled as well,
Looks like a nice summer trip to Malta,who did not want to be in Europe
****ing Sakho sent off,should never have been on the pitch in the first place.3-0 up against a load of pig farmers & ****ing goat milkers & we stick him in the team.All this **** about him needing game time from the dribble leg experts,well he got game time didnt he,13 ******* mins of game time!
Lol,i aint been there,i can just guess 😀
I have been keeping up a little Quick but really cant be arsed to sit looking at a bloody news feed waiting for something to happen.I will leave that to wetpants & their OCD issues,lol 😉
Haha I’ve looked there too they’ve already figured out Diafra was sent off wrongly and discussed how long the ban is!
This Spoonie-ing terrible,bring back teletext! Official sh!te is hopeless
Haha,i didnt want Sakho playing because of injury not ****ing suspension 😉
Same as that lol
WHAT HAPPENED??? SAKHO SENT OFF!!!
they used middle name instead of the usual First name we know them by…
Anyone notice that they got the names wrong? Tomkins has his middle name and they got Elliot Lee confused with his dad? lol