WEST HAM UNITED v BURNLEY
FA CUP SPONSORED BY EON, FIFTH ROUND
MONDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2011
KICK-OFF: 8PM
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• West Ham United welcome Burnley for Monday night's next step on the road to Wembley. The Clarets are their third straight Championship opposition at home in this season's FA Cup. However, Eddie Howe's team - like the Hammers - have league concerns on their mind - in their case as they push for promotion to the Barclays Premier League.
• West Ham were 3-2 quarter-final winners against the Clarets on route to winning the 1963/64 edition. The only other cup clash between the clubs was a 3-1 Hammers away win in January 1968 - meaning a 100 per cent record for the London club in the FA Cup head to heads.
• The Hammers were kept off the bottom of the top flight after West Bromwich Albion's late 1-1 draw at basement club Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday, while Burnley are in eighth in the Championship - just six points off the play-offs with a game in hand.
• Burnley have only lost once in their last nine games in all competitions, including five wins.
• Avram Grant guided Portsmouth to last year's final, aided by Paul Groves and David Coles. Frederic Piquionne was part of the Pompey team.
• The Hammers have scored three goals in three of their last four matches but have not kept a clean sheet in eight.
• The Hammers reached this stage by virtue of a 2-0 win against Barnsley in the third round and a 3-2 defeat of Nottingham Forest in the fourth round.
• Burnley reached this stage with 4-2 and 3-1 home wins against Port Vale and Burton Albion respectively in the previous two rounds.
• New Hammers signing Gary O'Neil is cup-tied but Thomas Hitzlsperger will make his Hammers debut - although Avram Grant has not revealed if he will start the contest.
• Burnley's two January signings Charlie Austin and Marvin Bartley are also cup-tied.
• The last Boleyn Ground meeting between the two sides was a 5-3 Barclays Premier League win by the Hammers on Saturday 28 November 2009. West Ham raced into a 5-0 goal lead just after the hour only for their visitors to score three goals in the final 22 minutes.
• The teams that day were:
West Ham United: Green, Gabbidon, Spector, Ilunga, Da Costa, Parker, Kovac, Collison (Faubert 78), Stanislas, Cole (Hines 45), Franco (Jimenez 59)
Subs not used: Kurucz, Tomkins, Noble, Nouble
Goals: Collison 18, Stanislas 33, Cole 43 pen, Franco 51, Jimenez 64 pen
Burnley: Jensen, Mears, Jordan (Nugent 55), Carlisle, Bikey, Caldwell (sent off 90), Eagles, Alexander (McDonald 70), Elliott, Blake (Kalvenes 55), Fletcher
Subs not used: Thompson, Duff, Penny, Gudjonsson
Goals: Fletcher 68, 74, Eagles 90
• West Ham have enjoyed an excellent run of form against the Clarets, with eight wins and two draws from their last eleven meetings - although lost the most recent. Before a 2-1 league defeat at Turf Moor on 6 February 2010, you had to go back more than three decades to find Burnley's last victory over their hosts on Monday - a 3-2 home win on 9 September 1978.
• This will not be the first time West Ham have played an FA Cup match at the Boleyn Ground on a Monday night. On 11 March 1991, Colin Foster and Stuart Slater both scored in a 2-1 quarter-final triumph against Everton.
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• Should a replay be needed it will take place at Turf Moor on Wednesday 2 March, kick-off at 7.45pm.
• Stoke City lie in quarter-final wait for the winners on 12/13 March after Sunday's draw set up a potential third meeting with the Potters this season for the Hammers. Avram Grant missed the 1-1 league draw at the Britannia Stadium on 18 September because of Yom Kippur. There was then a Carling Cup fourth round triumph for Grant's men at home the following month, 3-1 aet. The return league match with Stoke is set for the Boleyn Ground on 5 March.
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Last time out
Saturday 12 February 2011
Barclays Premier League
West Bromwich Albion 3-3 West Ham United
West Ham: Green, Jacobsen, Bridge, Da Costa, Reid, Parker, Noble, Boa Morte (Piquionne 57), O'Neil (Spector 78), Cole, Ba
Subs: Boffin, Faubert, Kovac, Hitzlsperger, Hines
Goals: Ba 50, 83, Cole 58
Tuesday 25 January 2011
nPower Championship
Cardiff City 1-1 Burnley
Burnley: Grant, Mears, Fox, Duff, Carlisle, Wallace, Marney (Alexander 89), Eagles, Cork, Iwelumo (Austin 67), Rodriguez (Thompson 74)
Subs not used: Jensen, Elliott, Bikey, Bartley
Goal: Thompson 83
Previous meeting
The last meeting came just over a year ago at Turf Moor, when Burnley won 2-1 in a relegation 'six-pointer' on 6 February 2010 only for them to ultimately be relegated and the Hammers to survive. Goals in each half from David Nugent and Danny Fox put the Clarets on top before a late Ilan effort gave the Hammers some hope.
Burnley: Jensen, Mears, Fox (Edgar 86), Carlisle, Bikey, Cort, Elliott, McDonald, Nugent (S. Thompson 88), Blake (Paterson 73), Fletcher
Subs not used: Weaver, Duff, Eagles, Cork
West Ham: Green, Upson, Spector, Tomkins, Parker, Noble (Ilan 77), Behrami, Faubert, Collison (Stanislas 62), Cole, McCarthy (Mido 45)
Subs not used: Stech, Da Costa, Kovac, Ilunga
Background
• West Ham last played at Wembley 30 years ago in the 1981 League Cup final. They were eleven minutes from a return in the Carling Cup this season before Birmingham City levelled the Carling Cup semi-final and went on to win 4-3 on aggregate after extra time.
• West Ham have won the FA Cup three times in their history - in 1964, 1975 and 1980 and finished as runners-up twice - in 1923 and 2006.
• Beaten finalists by Liverpool on penalties in 2006 in Cardiff, the Hammers have not lost to a lower league team since a defeat by Tranmere Rovers in the 1999/00 FA Cup third round.
• The 2006 runners-up are chasing a place in the last 16 for the second time since losing on penalties to Liverpool at the Millennium Stadium five years ago.
• West Ham United's record win over Burnley came at the Boleyn on 26 August 1968, when a Martin Peters goal and braces from Geoff Hurst and Trevor Brooking secured a 5-0 win that briefly sent the Hammers to the top of the table.
• Burnley's record in the FA Cup includes lifting the trophy back in 1913/14. They were also runners-up in the 1946/47 and 1961/62 seasons.
• The last time Burnley reached the quarter-finals was when they lost 2-0 at Watford on 9 March 2003, having beaten Fulham in the fifth round. That was the season that Wayne Bridge was a losing finalist for Southampton as they went down 1-0 to Arsenal in Cardiff.
• Burnley have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last 13 FA Cup matches.
Head to head
• Last six meetings (Premier League unless stated)
6 February 2010 Burnley 1-0 West Ham United
28 November 2009 West Ham United 5-3 Burnley
5 April 2005 Burnley 0-1 West Ham United (Championship)
28 August 2004 West Ham United 1-0 Burnley (Championship)
2 March 2004 Burnley 1-1 West Ham United (Championship)
18 October 2003 West Ham United 2-2 Burnley (Championship)
• Overall record v Burnley (all competitions) W30 D16 L30
Team news
• Thomas Hitzlsperger will make his debut for the Hammers, having played two reserve matches away to West Bromwich Albion (62 minutes) and Chelsea (73 minutes) in the last 12 days. Der Hammer has been injured since a thigh injury on Germany duty three days before the Barclays Premier League start, although this will not be his Boleyn bow. He played for 75 minutes of the SBOBET Cup against RC Deportivo La Coruna on 7 August in a three-man midfield with Scott Parker and Mark Noble. It remains to be seen whether he will start, although Gary O'Neil is cup-tied.
• Danny Gabbidon and James Tomkins could both be in contention after returning to full training. Fellow central defender Matthew Upson is still on the sidelines with a lingering achilles problem suffered in that Birmingham City match in the League Cup on 26 January.
• Kieron Dyer and Robbie Keane have thigh and calf injuries respectively and are thought to be at least two and four weeks away.
• Jack Collison (knee) is also running fully and doing some ball work but is still possibly three weeks away from a full training return. Goalkeeper Peter Kurucz (knee) is not expected to play at all this season.
• Junior Stanislas is still recovering from surgery on an abdominal hernia while Victor Obinna's sore foot that kept him out of the West Brom trip has left him a doubt against Burnley.
• Avram Grant has been keeping a close eye on Australia U17 striker Dylan Tombides, after his recent impressive form for the reserves. The tall Academy product was on target in the 1-1 draw against West Bromwich Albion on 2 February.
• Burnley are without the cup-tied Charlie Austin and Marvin Batley. However, the Clarets are without long-term absentee forward Martin Paterson (thigh) and midfielder Chris McCann.
Referee
• The match referee will be Martin Atkinson, who was in charge when the Hammers won 1-0 at home to Tottenham Hotspur on 25 September and for the 1-0 defeat at Sunderland on 5 December.
• He was the man in the middle for Ivory Coast's 1-0 win against Italy at the Boleyn Ground on 10 August.
• A referee since the age of 16, Atkinson was promoted to the Football League list of assistant referees in 1998. In 2000, Atkinson was promoted to the Select Group of assistant referees, allowing him to run the line in Premier League matches.
• Atkinson joined the National List of referees for the Football League at the start of the 2003/04 season before taking charge of his first Premier League fixture on 20 April 2005 when Manchester City entertained Birmingham City.
• Atkinson was the man in the middle at the 2006 FA Community Shield between Chelsea and Liverpool at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. He also took charge of the 2008 FA Trophy final between Ebbsfleet United and Torquay United at Wembley Stadium.
• Atkinson refereed two West Ham games last season - the 2-1 defeat at Stoke City on 17 October and the 2-0 home loss against Arsenal on 20 March 2010.
Old boys
• Burnley defender Tyrone Mears played six games during a one-season stay at the Boleyn Ground in 2006/07, before being sold to Derby County in July 2007.
• Other players to have represented both clubs include Reg Atwell, Frank Birchenough, Herman Conway, Tommy Green, William Jenkinson, Jon Harley, Walter Pollard, Alan Taylor, Jack Tresadern, David Unsworth and Ian Wright.
General information
• For ticket information, click here. For details on getting to the Boleyn Ground, click here. The Hammers are next in action on Sunday when Liverpool arrive for a 1.30pm kick-off.
Weather
• The forecast is for a damp evening in east London, with temperatures peaking at round the 7C mark.