West Ham go through, despite a furious late rally from Chelsea. The hosts just about deserved it: they were the better side for most of the game, and it was only really when Costa and Hazard were introduced that Chelsea perked up. The visitors played OK, but left themselves too much to do. West Ham go through to the last eight, and who knows: maybe a first League Cup title isn’t that far away.
Thanks for reading. Goodnight.
That’s it! There was barely time for West Ham to kick off.
Chelsea pull one back! But it’s surely too late. We’re almost at full time.
90 min+3 Terry heads down for Pedro, but Feghouli is in bravely to win it.
90 min +2 Payet to wrap it up … but Begovic turns it over! Payet should have scored, really.
90 min +1 And it looks like there’s trouble behind Randolph’s goal. Stewards and police having to get involved.
90 min Costa goes down on the edge of the box, but there’s no whistle. Four minutes of stoppage time.
89 min Fair play to Chelsea: they’ve really pushed West Ham back in this last 10 minutes. But it looks as though time’s run out.
88 min Hazard went through, cut back, and Reid hung out a leg, and Hazard went over – but there wasn’t any contact, and Craig Pawson said no penalty.
87 min Terry’s header … but it’s wide of the post. He got free, but couldn’t get the direction. Randolph might have been struggling if it were on target, though.
86 min Still time for Chelsea. Almost everyone is in West Ham’s half. Costa is fouled, and Chelsea have a free kick 45 yards from goal.
85 min That was a great run from Costa, but he just lifted it the wrong side of the post as Randolph came out. I can’t quite believe he missed the target.
84 min Zaza is on for Antonio, by the way. But Chelsea come again, and Hazards slips it through for Diego Costa … who puts it wide! Oh, what a chance!
83 min There’s definitely another goal in this. Kouyaté is down momentarily, but he’ll be OK to continue.
82 min Ayew heads wide! That perhaps should have been three. Wonderful cross from Payet, but Ayew just couldn’t crane his neck to direct it at goal.
81 min Randolph gets a palm to it when Pedro looked ready to score! Then Hazard hits one against the angle of post of bar! Really unlucky for Hazard. Chelsea pressing hard.
80 min Serious Chelsea pressure here. But time is on West Ham’s side.
79 min David Luiz nearly gets on to it, but Obiang is there to mop up. Another corner, and Hazard can’t sort his feet out on the edge of the box.
78 min Good cross from Costa, and Reid heads behind for a corner.
77 min Andre Ayew, who hasn’t played since the opening day, replaces Manuel Lanzini.
76 min Winston Reid is booked for a foul on Costa, although there didn’t seem to be too much contact. David Luiz goes for goal from 40 yards, but it’s straight into the wall.
74 min Big chance for Chelsea, and Willian couldn’t take it! Diego Costa timed his run perfectly, brought down a long ball from David Luiz, fed Willian, who had time and space … but the Brazilian got the shot all wrong. Chelsea’s best chance of the evening.
72 min Costa can’t stop it running out for a goal kick, and the Hammers fans are lapping it up. The crowd tonight, incidentally, is 45, 957.
71 min West Ham still working hard to deny Chelsea the space they need. Feghouli went in clumsily on Pedro just inside the box, but no whistle, and it’s safely through for a West Ham goal kick.
69 min Twenty minutes left for Chelsea. All their big attacking stars are on. There’s still hope.
68 min Oh, close from Oscar! Hazard fizzed a corner in at pace, and Oscar flicked it goalwards, but it was just the wrong side of the post. Unlucky.
67 min Begovic catches Payet’s corner from underneath the bar.
65 min And Chelsea make their final change: Pedro is on, Ola Aina is off.
64 min Payet goes through on the left, but Cahill comes across to block. Edmilson Fernandes is replaced by Sofiane Feghouli.
63 min Mark Noble is booked for clattering Hazard. Welcome to Stratford, Eden.
62 min Oscar is called for a careless offside. Antonio Conte can’t wait any longer: Eden Hazard is on for Nathaniel Chalobah.
59 min Antonio has been an extremely willing runner for West Ham tonight, but this time David Luiz does enough to win it from him.
57 min Obiang escapes a booking for dragging back Willian. From the free kick, David Luiz dinks it in, but Diego Costa can’t reach it, and home fans love it.
56 min Ola Aina hits one, but it’s well wide. Just on that Chelsea penalty claim, it definitely hit Kouyaté on the hand, but it did come at him from extremely close range. We’ve seen them given, etc.
54 min Diego Costa is on for Michy Batshuayi.
53 min Payet finds Antonio, who streaks clear but then finds himself crowded out. Noble hits one from 22 yards, but it’s just wide.
52 min Penalty to Chelsea? Craig Pawson says no. Did it strike a West Ham hand?
51 min Begovic catches cleanly.
50 min Chelsea try to respond immediately, but West Ham do enough to funnel it clear. Could Begovic have done better on the goal? Fernandes hit it accurately, but without a great deal of pace, and Begovic seemed a little slow to go down. Antonio’s shot is deflected behind for a corner.
49 min What a sequence. Payet was denied initially by Begovic, but Chelsea just couldn’t clear, and it came out to Fernandes on the right side. He checked inside Aina, and hit a left-foot shot that beat Begovic and found the corner. What a start to the second half!
Two-nil West Ham!
47 min There was some talk at half-time about the Payet penalty shout in the first half: he did appear to be jostled by Kanté, but the ball ran kindly for Antonio, and I think Craig Pawson probably felt the advantage was worth playing.
46 min We’re back. No changes from either side. West Ham 45 minutes away from a place in the last eight.
Good stuff: West Ham on top, but Chelsea not out of it. Frenetic, and appealing to watch. More of the same please! See you in 15.
That’s the whistle, and a really good 45 minutes of football comes to an end.
45 min Then Oscar goes close! That went just past the post. I don’t think Randolph would have saved that.
44 min Oh, that should have been the equaliser. Chelsea sliced West Ham open then: it was initially a beautiful through ball from Chalobah, and then Oscar crossed it low, first time, to Batshuayi, who was in the clear, and he put it over the bar! He was pressured belatedly, but he should have scored.
42 min What a hit from Obiang! And Begovic saved well! It was headed clear, and Obinag just creamed one on the half-volley from about 30 yards, which Begovic did very well to keep out. What a super strike.
40 min Aina fools Fernandes with a nice piece of skill by the left touchline, but the ball in from Oscar is too long for everybody.
38 min Lovely run from Lanzini, and he nearly gets the return from Antonio, but Aina is there to hack it away.
36 min Fernandes tries to Begovic with one from the edge of the box, but it’s straight at the goalie.