Chelsea cup visit to test new London Stadium crowd control measures

Southampton lost their opening two road games at Old Trafford and somewhat unfortunately at The Emirates but will come to the Olympic Stadium a much more confident side following three consecutive victories in three different competitions, including their first win in the league under Claude Puel. I think we deserved to win.

By inheriting a Big Sam side, Slavan Bilic received a well organised but rather unimaginative West Ham team.

At least they were saved the humiliation of playing extra time against (albeit creditable) League Two opponents in the EFL Cup. “It is logical after the last couple of weeks and it’s only with wins that we’ll get it back”.

But in the context of West Ham’s season, such a scenario last night didn’t lead to ecstasy on the London Stadium terraces.

“But the one good thing about that game is that it is four or five weeks from now”.

Jordan Clark also bundled Sean McConville’s cross into the six-yard box beyond the far post, before John O’Sullivan then curled wide from the edge of the area, while Matty Pearson underlined the Stanley spirit, emerging from the touchline with a bloodied, bandaged head to thwart anything West Ham United tried to throw at him.

Dimitri Payet rescued the Hammers with an injury-time free-kick to see off Stanley 1-0 in the third round on Wednesday and Bilic’s side will now face Chelsea in a London derby in the fourth round.

“We wanted a striker that’s going to score us 20 goals a season”.

“We wanted to progress and that’s why we brought Dimitri, and Manuel Lanzini and Michail Antonio on”. People will say they haven’t played well tonight, but that would be disrespectful to us. We put the pressure on them, it was a great moment from a great player at a really great time for us. We came here to win and we matched them for most of the game.