Steep hill to climb in cup quest

Posted by Sean Whetstone on October 15, 2014 in Whispers

haydockThe Hammers development squad lost 5-3 to Bilbao Athletic tonight at the Boleyn ground in the first group game of the Premier League International Cup. West Ham got off to a poor start after a defensive mix up which allowed Jorge Luis Garcia to score for Bilbao after two minutes. On 19 minutes a cross from Lewis Page found Fanimo who beats his man and fires a vicious shot across goal, his shot is deflected to make it 1-1. Bilbao scored two more goals to make it 3-1 at half time. On 77 minutes Elliot Lee pounced on a Pask’s knock down from a Bywater’s free-kick to make it 2-3 and it it was game back on.  On 91 minutes Garcia scores from a free-kick to make it 2-4 to Bilbao Athletic. In the remaining crazy 90 seconds both sides scored late on to make it 5-3, the West Ham goal from Bywater with a curling shot from the edge of the box.

West Ham United Team : Spiegel, Knoyle, Page, Whitehead, Onariase, Pask, Fanimo, Lletget, J. Brown, Lee, Parfitt-Williams
Subs: Makasi, Boness, Nasha, Bywater, Akinola, Diangana

The other groups are as follows…

Group A: Chelsea, Norwich, Porto & Borussia Monchengladbach

Group C: Leicester City, Manchester City, Benfica & Schalke

Group D: Everton, Sunderland, Celtic & Villarreal

The Hammers are in Group B alongside Athletic Bilbao, Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven (Wednesday 19th November, Boleyn Ground) and Fulham (Friday 12th December, Rush Green).

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About Sean Whetstone

I am Season Ticket Holder in West stand lower at the London Stadium and before that, I used to stand in the Sir Trevor Brooking Lower Row R seat 159 in the Boleyn Ground and in the Eighties I stood on the terraces of the old South Bank. I am a presenter on the West Ham Podcast called MooreThanJustaPodcast.co.uk. A Blogger on WestHamTillIdie.com a member of the West Ham Supporters Advisory Board (SAB), Founder of a Youtube channel called Mr West Ham Football at http://www.youtube.com/MrWestHamFootball, I am also the associate editor here at Claret and Hugh. Life Long singer of bubbles! Come on you Irons! Follow me at @Westhamfootball on twitter