{"id":525741,"date":"2026-03-10T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525741\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T01:27:10","slug":"west-ham-through-in-fa-cup-after-shocking-brentford-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525741\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham through in FA Cup after shocking Brentford penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brentford forward Dango Ouattara fluffed a Panenka-style penalty as West Ham United reached the FA Cup quarterfinals for the first time in a decade with a 5-3 shoot-out win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Burkina Faso international&#8217;s outlandish attempt was easily caught by Hammers goalkeeper Alphonse Areola before Konstantinos Mavropanos converted the decisive spot-kick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hammers captain Jarrod Bowen and Brentford top scorer Igor Thiago each scored twice during normal time as an entertaining fifth-round tie ended in a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Three-time FA Cup winners West Ham will host Leeds in the last eight, having last progressed to that stage of the competition during the 2015-16 season &#8212; their final one at Upton Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">England forward Bowen poked the hosts into a 19th-minute lead in an action-packed first half before Thiago levelled for the Bees with his 20th goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bowen doubled his tally with a 34th-minute penalty, only for Thiago to force extra-time by converting from the spot in the 81st minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ouattara was the only player to fail in the shoot-out as Brentford&#8217;s wait for a first quarter-final since 1989 was extended in agonising fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford forward Dango Ouattara fluffed a Panenka-style penalty as West Ham United reached the FA Cup quarterfinals for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-525741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}