BURNLEY CHEATED OUT OF CUP CLARETS 0-2 WHU

West Ham scored two late undeserved penalties at Burnley to reach the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup.

The visitors rarely threatened during the game, with Championship leaders Burnley having the better chances and dominating large periods of the game.

In-form Burnley would have fancied their chances of causing an upset going into the game having won 12 of their 15 league matches this season - a run helped by the impressive form of strikers Sam Vokes and Danny Ings, who have scored 21 goals between them so far, And In contrast, the Hammers have managed just eight goals in nine Premier League games and some of the scoring responsibility at Turf Moor was handed to Carlton Cole, who was making his first start since rejoining West Ham earlier this month.

It was the Clarets who more than carved out the better of the early chances.
Junior Stanislas's low shot was pushed behind by West Ham keeper Adrian, before the Spaniard produced a fine one-handed save soon after to keep out Ings's rising effort from inside the area.
The Hammers seemed devoid of ideas going forward and their rare forays into the opposition half often ended with the final ball going to a Burnley player.
They did not manage an effort on target until 10 minutes before half-time, when James Tomkins sent a tame header into the hands of home keeper Tom Heaton.

In the Second Half, Tomkins fouled Danny Ings 25 yards from goal and Kieran Trippier's resulting free-kick smacked against the top of the crossbar.
Allardyce responded by taking off Tomkins and bringing on Nolan before switching to a 4-3-3 formation.
The change improved the Hammers's attacking play almost instantly and Ben Mee had to be alert to head away Maiga's cross with Stewart Downing lurking.

But with less than 15 minutes remaining, West Ham were gifted the lead by a scanldlous refereeing decision when Maiga flicked the ball into the area for Nolan and the midfielder was adjudged wrongly by referee Rob Madley to have been brought down by Shackell as the Clarets captain CLEARLY got the ball and to add insult booked Shackell wrongley too, giving Taylor the chance to score from the spot and give West Ham a lead frankly they did not deserve.

Burnley tried to regroup and went close to snatching a quick leveller when Vokes managed to get his head to Michael Kightly's cross, but Adrian saved.

West Ham ensured there would be no way back for the hosts when they scored a second in stoppage time.
Heatons clearance was picked up by Collison, who raced into the box and was adjuged to have been brought down by Treacy when in fact Treacy didnt touch him at all and Collison conned the ref by blatening diving not just to win the penalty but to have Treacy wrongley red carded.

Collison picked himself up to side-foot the penalty beyond Heaton to add further undeserved insult to the Clarets and cement West Ham's place in the last eight.which they did not deserve over the game.

As for Burnley they played well and can take a lot of pride from a very good performance. The same i'm afraid can't be be said about Referee Madley's performance.

CLARETS MAN OF THE MATCH- Keiran TRIPPIER
Had his usual brilliant game was brilliant not just in defence but atttacked well and was unlucky his brilliant free-kick hit the bar at 0-0.

VILLAIN OF THE MATCH - Rob MADLEY (Referee)
Made Four of the poorest decisions you ever see for giving the two pens which were never pens then the added insult of wrongly booking Shackell and wrongley sending off Treacy not only that he was dire throughout. Inept performance and i'm being kind there!

BURNLEY MANAGER SEAN DYCHE ON THE REFEREE
"[On the first penalty] I asked the referee and he said he was happy with his view; I wasn't as happy with his view,i also felt there was not enough contact either."

TEAMS
CLARETS
01 Heaton
02 Trippier
06 Mee
15 Edgar (Noble - 92' )
28 Long
05 Shackell (c)
26 Treacy
22 Stock
09 Vokes
10 Ings
11 Stanislas (Kightly - 84' )

SUBS (Not Used)
Lafferty, Duff, Howieson, Hewitt, Liversedge (GK)

BOOKED- Shackell, 75 mins.
SENT OFF- Treacy, 90+3 mins.

WEST HAM
13 Adrián
37 Chambers
17 O'Brien
05 Tomkins (Nolan - 71' )
27 Potts
33 Ruddock
26 Cole
14 Taylor
24 Cole (Downing - 60' )
11 Maiga
21 Diamé (Collison - 45' )

SUBS (Not Used)
Morrison, Spiegel, Tombides, Fanimo

SCORERS - Taylor 76 (pen), Collison 90+4 (pen)
BOOKINGS - None
SENT OFF - None

REFEREE- Robert MADLEY (Marks out of 10) - 0
The less said about this imposter of a referee the better!


NEXT GAME
Millwall (a)
Sat November 2nd
Kick Off 3pm GMT.