Dimitri Payet put West Ham ahead with a free kick from 25 yards (meters).
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“To be fair, Dimitri has been there and scored goals but Emenike has come in for his first start and to get a couple of goals in the FA Cup is fantastic for him”, Noble told the West Ham website.
Earlier on Sunday, West Ham avoided an fifth-round upset with a comeback victory at second-tier Blackburn in a match that both sides finished with 10 men.
Palace’s fifth-round win at Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday means the Eagles will now play in the FA Cup quarter-finals across the weekend of 12/13 March when they were due to visit Old Trafford.
James Collins, West Ham United.
Reigning Premier League champions Chelsea, a huge 20 points behind shock leaders Leicester, overwhelmed City.
Last time out they beat Oxford United, who dumped out Premier League outfit Swansea in the third round, 3-0, while a year ago they reached the last-eight, where they were beaten in a replay by Liverpool.
You don’t have to just take the result and go away and hide, you have to learn from that, and they can learn a lot from it. “He is also doing the dirty work and on the ball he is up there with Luka Modric from the players I have trained so far”, said Bilic, who coached Modric at worldwide level for Croatia.
Faupala cancelled out Diego Costa’s headed opener before halftime but the visitors could not hold out after the break.
Emenike nearly completed his hat-trick but he could only rattle the outside of the post from close range, but Payet capped the victory with the goal of the game, as he skipped clear on the halfway line before surging to the edge of the area and slotting low past Steele in the dying seconds.
“Cheikhou Kouyate’s one-match suspension for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity has been withdrawn with immediate effect following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing today [Tuesday 23 February 2016]”, a statement from the FA read. “We played really great football and it looked easy”.
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West Ham had to play the final 15 minutes a man down after Mali midfielder Kouyate was shown a straight red card for a foul just outside the box on Adam Henley.
