Final score: West Ham 2-0 Sevilla (West Ham win 2-1 on aggregate) 120+3 mins: It’s all over! West Ham dump Sevilla out of the Europa League and march into the quarter-finals! 120+1 mins: Yarmolenko plays a really clever pass down the left towards Noble - slow, loopy and into space for maximum time-usage. Plus he gets kicked by Montiel as he plays it, so West Ham have a free kick. 120+1 mins: Ryan Fredericks replaces Antonio as we go into two minutes of stoppage time. They will start with Areola taking a free-kick. 120 mins: West Ham thoroughly deserve this. They have efficiently stamped out Sevilla’s attacking threat while retaining their own, and have worked like absolute hounds. 119 mins: The keeper comes up for the corner, but it’s headed away. 119 mins: Sevilla have a corner. Before they take it, Issa Diop comes on for Fornals. 118 mins: West Ham keep the ball near the left corner flag for a while, until Fornals is caught offside. 117 mins: Cresswell somehow appears to have managed to get booked for getting cramp. 116 mins: Cresswell goes down with a spot of cramp. It all seems to be going off in the crowd, a seething mass of occasionally shirtless humanity. 114 mins: Mark Noble was always going to come on for a penalty shoot-out, and he replaces Lanzini just in case there is one. 113 mins: Right, strap yourselves in, these next eight minutes or so are going to be interesting. Montiel starts them by shooting over the bar from the right side of the area. GOAL! West Ham 2-0 Sevilla (2-1 on aggregate)! Andriy Yarmolenko gives West Ham the aggregate lead! The ball is played across to Fornals, who comes onto his right foot and sends in a low, bouncing shot that Bounou pushes straight to Yarmolenko, who strokes it back into the net! 111 mins: One more substitution for Sevilla. Gudelj goes off, and Jose Angel Carmona comes on. 109 mins: West Ham break, and Antonio runs from left to right into Sevilla’s half, drags a couple of defenders with him, notices Fornals running free into a now-empty left half of the pitch, and plays a frustratingly useless pass that Bounou fetches. 106 mins: Thirty-three seconds later, the ball runs perfectly to Rice, just outside the D. He hammers a shot miles over the bar, and way wide of the post. 106 mins: For the final time, the ball is kicked off. Half time in extra time: West Ham 1-0 Sevilla (1-1 on aggregate) 105+1 mins: The three-quarter-time whistle blows. West Ham have spent much of extra time so far on the front foot, but the tie remains level. 105 mins: Kevin Nolan, West Ham’s first team coach, is booked for something, my guess would be overdoing his complaints to the fourth official about the lack of free-kick for Antonio (see 104 mins). 105 mins: Rice goes past a couple of players and finds himself a couple of yards outside the penalty area. Once there he seems unsure what to do next, so gives it to Antonio, who runs it out of play. 104 mins: Antonio goes down on the edge of the penalty area, but gets nothing. West Ham have had a good third half. 101 mins: Martial is not going to make the difference in extra time, because he has been taken off. Luis Cruz comes on. 99 mins: Cheers as Soucek heads the ball into the net from a Fornals corner, but it’s the side netting! Dawson headed it down and across goal, and Soucek dives and sends a decent chance wide! 97 mins: Rafa Mir is this close to ridiculously outsprinting Lanzini and running clear on goal, but the West Ham midfielder dives to push the ball away from the Israeli. 96 mins: Munir comes on for Corona. 95 mins: Martial has been pretty quiet all evening, which perhaps means he’ll be fresh enough to influence it now. Not right now, though, as he does a few lollipops and crosses straight to Areola. 93 mins: A lovely chipped pass to Antonio in the area, but he spins and leaves the ball behind. 91 mins: Peeeeep! Our bonus half-hour has begun! Sevilla bring Rafa Mir on for En-Nesyri before play restarts. It"s going to extra time! 90+3 mins: Zouma wins the header but the ball loops away from goal, and with that Clement Turpin blows for time. 90+2 mins: A roar goes up as it’s awarded. This is surely the last action of normal time. Cresswell jogs over... 90+1 mins: We are one minute away from extra time. West Ham have a corner. 90 mins: West Ham break and flood forward in numbers, but now Cresswell is at the other end producing a rubbish cross of his own. 89 mins: Finally a good cross from Sevilla, but Creswell defends it well at the far post. 87 mins: Yarmolenko replaces Benrahma. 86 mins: Benrahma cuts in from the left and curls a shot into Bounou’s arms. 85 mins: Sevilla try to find a way through the middle of West Ham’s defence, but there is none. On the touchline, Andriy Yarmolenko prepares to come on. 83 mins: ... from which Soucek heads over. Goal kick. 82 mins: After a spell of West Ham pressure, and a shorter one from Sevilla, an extra-time-shaped fog is starting to settle over this game. But hang on, West Ham have just won a corner ... 79 mins: Sevilla win a free-kick, 45 yards out. They play it out to the left, so someone else can send in a rubbish cross. 77 mins: Now Kounde gets forward on the right, but his cross is also poor. 74 mins: The wind seems to have escaped from the home side’s sails a little, and Sevilla have kept the ball for a while and sent in a few crosses, all well defended. 71 mins: Chance for Sevilla! A long pass through to En-Nesyri, who draws a defender and prods back to Jesus Corona, who spears over the bar when well placed. 70 mins: Another West Ham corner, but this time the referee spots a foul. They really need to capitalise on this period of dominance. 68 mins: West Ham win a corner. Everyone comes forward, gets into position. Referee stops it being taken to talk to a couple of defenders. Everyone gets back into position. Eventually Cresswell takes it and ... curls it straight out of play. 65 mins: Sevilla are reeling here. West Ham briefly have five against three, but Soucek passes to Fornals on the right, and his low cross is rubbish and hits one of the three. 63 mins: Save! Lanzini batters a left-footed shot from the edge of the area that Bounou beats away. Lanzini runs onto the loose ball and tries to turn it in but Bounou gets something on it again, and when Antonio tries to turn it over the line the flag goes up for offside. 61 mins: West Ham are having a moment, dominating possession and pushing Seville back, without really creating anything. 58 mins: A decent West Ham attack features Rice repeatedly ignoring cries of “shooooooot!” from the crowd when wide on the right and eventually sending a decent cross to the far post, where a defender beats Cresswell to the header and then falls over convincingly enough for the referee to give a free kick. 56 mins: Ivan Rakitic leaves the field, and Oliver Torres replaces him. 55 mins: The ball is chipped over the defence for En-Nesyri, who from the right-hand corner of the area lashes a half-volley wide. 53 mins: There are definitely more goals in this game. There’s a lovely air of wildness about it at the moment. 50 mins: West Ham boot the ball forward to Gudelj, who is then outmuscled by Antonio who executes a complicated spin-dive combo manoeuvre that the referee is unimpressed by. 46 mins: A shooting chance for Soucek, 22 seconds into the half, but from just inside the penalty area he lashes his effort straight at Bounou. He beats it away to Rice, wide on the left, who really has no business shooting from there. Goal kick. 46 mins: The home side get the second half under way. The West Ham players are back out and ready for more. They just need the opposition to turn up. As for West Ham, so far so good. There have only been two moments of genuine quality: Areola’s save from En-Nesyri, and West Ham’s goal a few minutes later. The tie is on a knife-edge now, but West Ham will feel a quarter-final place is within their grasp. The Everton protester has been cut free of the post and is now being literally carried from the ground by six security men, like he’s a canoe or something. Unusual.
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