Five memorable West Ham wins against Man City
Historically speaking, West Ham and Manchester City have been evenly matched and produced some competitively contested encounters.
Since the turn of the century, however, Manchester City’s success has taken a meteoric rise courtesy of a major financial investment.
This inevitably means that Manchester City – who have won the Premier League twice in recent years – enter the game against the Hammers as overwhelming favourites. But with Slaven Bilic at the helm, building a well-drilled and talented West Ham side that have already taken three points from Arsenal and Liverpool away, the possibility of an upset is not unfeasible in the slightest.
Manchester City have started the season impeccably by picking up maximum league points and they deservedly sit top of the league. The Hammers are not too far behind; our three wins and two losses mean that we go into this weekend’s clash in 5th place.
Ahead of this fixture, I relive five of our best victories over the Citizens in the Premier League era…
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5. West Ham 1-0 Man City – 1 March 2009
City’s side featured big names in Vincent Kompany, Nigel de Jong and Robinho but it was West Ham who controlled most of the play and three points was certainly deserved. The best chances of the match both fell to Robinho.
The Brazilian somehow poked wide from three yards following build-up play from Bellamy and Ireland having already seen a cheeky close-range flick acrobatically parried away by the superb Robert Green.
Then West Ham made City rue their missed chances; record signing Savio cut inside and his shot forced Shay Given to push the ball away but it fell right into the path of Jack Collison who looped a side footed volley over the scrambling ‘keeper to secure all three points.
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4. West Ham 3-0 Man City – 17 December 1994
In December of the 1994/95 Premier League season, West Ham were keen to avenge their 3-0 loss inflicted by Manchester City earlier in the season.
City’s side featured future Hammer Steve Lomas but the Irishman could not do anything to prevent heavy defeat for the away side. West Ham got off to the dream start as Tony Cottee controlled the ball in the box and stroked home on the rebound after seeing his first effort saved by Andy Dibble.
Three minutes later and our lead was doubled – Tony Cottee once again the scorer. The sprightly number 27 produced a sublime dummy in the box to lose his defender before poking it past Dibble for his second of the afternoon.
And Cottee proved to be the hat-trick hero in the second half, latching on to a through ball, cutting back and unleashing a left footed drive which hit the back of the net via the inside of the post.
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3. West Ham 3-1 Man City – 1 November 1993
The first encounter between these two sides in the new Premier League looked poised to be a close match.
As it happened, West Ham emerged comfortable victors. After just 3 minutes, defender David Burrows opened the scoring for the home side. On 29 minutes, striker Lee Chapman made it two.
Matty Holmes strike put us 3-0 up as we cruised to a fairly comfortable win. City managed a consolation goal as Keith Curle converted from the spot but we managed to see out the victory with relative ease to claim the points in our first ever Premier League clash with Manchester City.
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2. West Ham 4-1 Man City – 11 November 2000
At half time, the score was 1-0 to the visitors though – Spencer Prior with the goal as boos rung around the stadium. But the Hammers returned more motivated and were soon level as Steve Lomas scored against his old club after Frank Lampard mishit Trevor Sinclair’s cross.
Five minutes later Sinclair had a goal of his own following good work from Michael Carrick and we found ourselves ahead.
The good football continued to flow and Ian Pearce’s goal ensured that we took advantage of our dominance to go 3-1 up. Paolo Di Canio completed the rout with a well-taken penalty late on in the game.
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1. West Ham 2-1 Man City – 25 October 2014
Everyone had written the Hammers off but Sam Allardyce’s side were in a fine vein of form and entered the game full of confidence. 20 minutes into the game, Morgan Amalfitano put the Hammers into the lead as he converted Enner Valencia’s cutback from close range.
A gritty defensive, counter-attacking performance was executed to perfection as Diafra Sakho leapt tremendously above Gael Clichy to head us into a 2-0 lead. It was the Senegalese striker’s sixth goal in his sixth game for West Ham. David Silva’s solo goal ensured a nervous last fifteen minutes for the Hammers but we held firm to rise to 4th in the Premier League.
Post-match celebrations included the unforgettable moment of Russell Brand gatecrashing Allardyce’s interview to give him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
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