Manchester City hammered in London

Manchester City succumbed to a 2-1 defeat against West Ham United at the Upton Park in London.
The premier league match kicked off during lunch time on Saturday 25th October 2014 with both sides in the top four.

Manuel Pellegrini's men were placed second before the match while Sam Allardyce's London club were fourth.

Morgan Amalfitano put the home team in front after 22 minutes of action in which Joe Hart had made a couple of saves for City.

Enner Valencia's cut back was converted by Morgan from close range.

Despite having 67% of the ball possession,  Manchester City failed to break down the Hammers and went into the break by a goal down.
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After the restart,  the hosts managed to prevent the league champions from breaching their defence.

Diafra Sakho made it 2-0 to West Ham in the 75th minute after going close three minutes earlier.

Aguero's effort came off the crossbar in the 65th minute before Sakho scored his sixth consecutive league goal.

David Silva scored a brilliant goal in the 77th minute, but that was not enough to deny West Ham United a famous victory.

Jelavic and Toure failed ti equalise for the visitors during injury time.

The Londoners defeated Liverpool by 3-1 a month ago.

West Ham United v Manchester United preview

The third round of the English FA cup will be played across the United Kingdom. Manchester United will be the visitors of West Ham United at the Upton Park on Saturday. United won their first EPL match of 2013 by crushing Wigan Athletic by 4-0 while West Ham United also defeated Norwich City by  2-1.

POSSIBLE LINE UPS
West Ham United
Jaaskelainen-Demel,Collins,Reid,O'Brien-Noble,Taylor-Vaz Te,Nolan,Jarvis-Cole

Manchester United
De Gea-Rafael,Smalling,Vidic,Buttner-Scholes,Cleverley-Welbeck,Kagawa,Young-Chicharito

The Hosts
On-loan Liverpool striker, Andy Carroll is expected to miss the game due to a long term injury. Mohammed Diame will be replaced by Michael Taylor or Jack Collison.

James Collins and Kevin Nolan will be available after serving completing their suspension in the macth against Norwich City.

The Visitors
Danny Welbeck and Javier Hernandez are the available senior strikers for this match. Sir Alex Ferguson is expected to rest some of his first team players ahead of next week's EPL clash against Liverpool. Robin Van Persie, Patrice Evra and Michael Carrick are all expected to watch their team mates from the sidelines.

Shinji Kagawa and Cleverley are likely to start for Sir Alex Ferguson's men. Phil Jones has recovered from injury and he will be expected to feature in today's fixture.

FA CUP TROPHY

Quick Facts
The last meeting between these two sides ended in a 6-0 win for United while Michael Carrick was still playing for the hosts.
West Ham's last victory over Man United was in the year 1980.
The Hammers have lifted the title on three occasions, but they failed to increase their tally whe n they lost to Liverpool on penalties in 2006.

Manchester United is the most successful club in the history of the FA Cup with 11 titles.
The Red Devils are trailing West Ham by 3-4 wins in FA cup actions at the Upton Park

KICK OFF TIME: 17:15 GMT
Our prediction: West Ham United 1-3 Manchester United