West Ham Vs Manchester City: The Citizens' Dream Of Winning The League Cup For 5 Consecutive Seasons

JAKARTA - West Ham United buried Manchester City's dream of winning the Premier League Cup five seasons in a row after stopping the defending champions in the fourth round.

Entertaining City at London's Olympic Stadium, on Thursday morning, the Hammers won the quarter-finals through a 5-3 penalty shootout victory after normal time ended in a goalless draw.

Launching Antara, the result ensures that City has no chance of setting a new record for winning the League Cup for five consecutive seasons. Pep Guardiola's team had to be content with sharing the record for winning four consecutive seasons, as Liverpool had already done in 1981-1984.

City actually almost opened the scoring at the end of the first half when Riyad Mahrez's free-kick was met by Nathan Ake, but the Dutch defender's header was still off the side of the net.

Then in the 53rd minute, Ilkay Gundogan threw away Cole Palmer's cooked bait with a sideways kick from the target.

Two minutes later Andriy Yarmolenko almost gave West Ham the lead when he grabbed the ball from Arthur Masuaku's shot, but Olexandr Zinchenko was smart enough to block.

City then had two chances in succession from Kevin De Bruyne's shot and John Stones' header, but both were denied by goalkeeper Alphonse Areola's brilliant save.

The 0-0 score lasted until the dispersal of normal time accompanied by four minutes of injury time so that the winner had to be determined by penalty shootout.

West Ham captain Mark Noble successfully carried out his duties as the host's first executioner with a penalty that went into the middle of the goal.

A different scene occurred when Phil Foden became City's first kicker and his penalty deviated from the right of goal.

After that, the seven executioners took turns scoring the ball into the goal, until it was Said Benrahma's turn to be West Ham's fifth kicker and successfully ensured his team's move to the quarter-finals.

West Ham will find out their opponents in the quarter-finals after the draw is made on Saturday.