West Ham United have been struggling in the league, but their cup form has been excellent and they breezed past a Derby team who failed to catch light. twoht
Arsenal are out. Liverpool are out. Chelsea are out. The 2022/23 FA Cup is starting to open up a little, and this raises the question of which other Premier League clubs might be able to exploit these relatively early eliminations. Since the turn of the century, these three clubs alone have won the trophy 16 times out of 22.
And that history has repeated itself this season. While they’ve failed to get any momentum going at all in the league – their recent win against Everton was their first in the league since October 24 – the cups have been West Ham’s happy place.
A goal at the start of each half rendered West Ham’s trip to the East Midlands a fairly comfortable affair. They took less than ten minutes to settle. And for once, they struck early. This was the first time that West Ham have scored inside the first ten minutes of a game, in any competition, Derby County will likely walk away from this game a little disappointed at not having given a better account of themselves. Two divisions is a big gap to have to bridge, but they’ve been going extremely well in the league and will have gone into the game fully aware of the extent to which a win against a Premier League team in the FA Cup on live television would have marked a hugely symbolic milestone on their recovery from their near-death experience. But this proved to be a step too far.
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