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West Ham 2-2 Brentford - Hammers win on penalties Bowen prods home opener before Thiago equaliser Bowen restores lead from penalty spot before Thiago penalty levels Listen to live commentary on this page and on BBC Radio 5 Live Winners will host Leeds in quarter-final Get Involved: Comment on this page, via Whats App on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply) Michael Emons Mathias Jensen (Brentford) And score they do. Hammered down the middle. Brentford have to score or it is all over. Tomas Soucek (West Ham) Another unstoppable penalty in the corner. Click 'Get Involved' on this page to have your say Outtara hasn't had the best game, I truly don't know where he found the confidence to try a Panenka. Harry Keane Lewis-Potter (Brentford) Good penalty. Low and hard to the keeper's right. Callum Wilson (West Ham) That's how you take a penalty. Top right corner. Glenn Murray Former Crystal Palace and Brighton striker on BBC Radio 5 Live It was almost like Ouattara was stuck thinking about what he was going to do and Areola read it perfectly. Dango Ouattara (Brentford) Absolutely awful Panenka attempt. A dink straight down the middle, Areola doesn't move and it is a simple catch. Click 'Get Involved' on this page to have your say As a Leeds fan, I'm leaning towards hoping Brentford win the shoot out Bob, Wakefield Nuno can't watch. Taty Castellanos (West Ham) Hard and straight down the middle. Igor Thiago (Brentford) Never in doubt. Thiago rolls the ball right as the goalkeeper dives the other way. Jarrod Bowen (West Ham) No problems. Fired home to the keeper's left. West Ham 2-2 Brentford West Ham to go first, with the kicks at the end where the Brentford fans are, to the side of the goal. West Ham 2-2 Brentford Remember, the winner of this one plays Leeds at home in the quarter-finals in the first week of April and the winner of that one is in the semi-finals at Wembley. West Ham 2-2 Brentford Alphonse Areola had disappeared down the tunnel, maybe getting some last-minute advice on how Brentford take their penalties. Click 'Get Involved' on this page to have your say I dare say, neither of these teams deserve to lose this game. Harry, Manchester West Ham 2-2 Brentford West Ham's Axel Disasi flings himself at a shot from Igor Thiago to charge it down. And that's that. Penalties it is. West Ham 2-2 Brentford Glenn Murray Former Crystal Palace and Brighton striker on BBC Radio 5 Live It isn't far away from Disasi, it was a long way out and it whistles over Kelleher, who is fully stretched as he flies to his top right corner. West Ham groan as it sails over the top of the bar. West Ham 2-2 Brentford Axel Disasi with a 30-yard piledriver and what a hit. It nearly flies into the top corner, but thankfully for Brentford it skims over the top. Nearly a wonderful winner for the Hammers. This video can not be played West Ham into quarter-finals after beating Brentford on penalties At a glance Bowen puts West Ham ahead, Brentford level through Thiago Hammers lead again through Bowen penalty Thiago forces extra time with 82nd-minute penalty 2-2 aet, West Ham flawless in shootout to win 5-3 on penalties West Ham will host Leeds United in the quarter-finals - full draw PLAYER RATER West Ham United put their relegation worries to one side to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time in 10 years by defeating London rivals Brentford 5-3 on penalties. Dango Ouattara was guilty of a terrible miss while attempting a Panenka before Konstantinos Mavropanos struck the winning kick to book the Hammers a last-eight home tie with Leeds United. In a dramatic game, Jarrod Bowen's 19th-minute close-range finish - after Brentford failed to deal properly with a corner - put the Hammers ahead before Igor Thiago equalised eight minutes later with his 20th goal of the season. Captain Bowen restored West Ham's lead by sending Caoimhin Kelleher the wrong way from the penalty spot in the 34th minute following Michael Kayode's foul on Adama Traore. It looked like the Hammers were closing in on victory until in-form Brazilian forward Thiago forced extra time from the spot after Crysencio Summerville's 80th-minute foul on Kayode. There were no further goals in extra time, with Kelleher producing an outstanding one-handed save to keep out substitute Callum Wilson. But West Ham, coupled with Ouattara's poor attempt, held their nerve during the spot-kicks to go through. This video can not be played Ouattara's Panenka saved as Brentford lose to West Ham in penalty shootout Is there a right time for a Panenka - as Brentford pay the price? Have your say on West Ham's performance What did you make of Brentford's display? Will West Ham use this win as a springboard in their battle to stay in the Premier League? With a home match to come against title-chasing Manchester City on Saturday, the Hammers made seven changes - yet it was a trusted and familiar face who helped send them through. Bowen has served West Ham tremendously during his six years at the club and the England attacker will be required to play a huge part over the next few weeks if his side are to avoid relegation. Eighteenth - level on 28 points with 17th-placed Nottingham Forest - West Ham have nine league games to save themselves. But this latest win, after last week's crucial victory at Fulham, suggests they are on an upward trajectory compared to Tottenham, who sit just two places and one point above them in the table. This season has been littered with low moments like the 5-1 home defeat by Chelsea back in August and the 3-0 surrender at rock-bottom Wolves in January. Yet a campaign that started with Graham Potter at the helm could astonishingly end with a Wembley appearance. Beat Leeds in the sixth round and West Ham can look forward to a day out at the national stadium in the semi-finals of a competition they last won in 1980. Brentford have never advanced further than the quarter-finals in the FA Cup - and their run in this season's competition ends at the fifth-round stage. Thanks to a highly impressive first season in charge by Keith Andrews, the Bees are daring to dream about playing in Europe. It has been a campaign of highs in the Premier League, yet there will be disappointment among their 5, 500 away following at London Stadium that they were unable to overcome a West Ham side that has struggled all season. Andrews' starting line-up - and the involvement of Thiago and Schade - suggested he saw this as a great opportunity to go deep in the FA Cup. Brentford showed great character to twice come from behind to force extra time, while they will feel aggrieved they were not awarded a penalty after Mateus Fernandes' foul on Schade towards the end of the first half. But former Bournemouth winger Ouattara will be haunted by his miss in the shootout. With West Ham leading 2-1 on penalties, he took an age before stepping up to take his kick - and hit a tame effort straight at Alphonse Areola much to the delight of the home fans. West Ham host title-chasing Manchester City at London Stadium on Saturday (20: 00 GMT), while Brentford have a full week to prepare for their Premier League home game with bottom side Wolves next Monday (20: 00). After the opportunity to rate players has closed, the score displayed represents the average from all the submissions by BBC Sport users. Comments can not be loaded To load Comments you need to enable Java Script in your browser Manager: Nuno Espírito Santo Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Keith Andrews Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Nuno Espírito Santo Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Keith Andrews Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 FA Cup All competitions All competitions All competitions Brentford have won seven of their 10 games against West Ham United in all competitions since becoming a Premier League side in 2021 (D1 L2); they haven’t beaten a side more often during that period. This is just the third time that West Ham and Brentford have been drawn against each other in the FA Cup – the Bees progressed in a fourth round replay in 1926-27 while the Hammers won 1-0 in the third round in 2022-23 via a Saïd Benrahma strike. West Ham United have been eliminated from their last three FA Cup fifth round ties – they last reached the quarter-final in the 2015-16 campaign, winning 5-1 away at Blackburn in that season’s fifth round. This is the first time since 2018-19 that Brentford have reached the fifth round of the FA Cup, though the Bees have failed to progress beyond this stage on the previous three occasions since beating Blackburn 2-0 in 1988-89 and going out to eventual winners Liverpool in the quarter-finals. Crysencio Summerville has been involved in all three of West Ham’s FA Cup goals this season (2 goals, 1 assist) and he has six goal involvements in his last five FA Cup appearances overall (3 goals, 3 assists). Brentford have kept a clean sheet in both their FA Cup matches this season, as many as in their previous 20 games in the competition. Indeed, they last did so in three successive matches in the competition in 2004-05. Copyright © 2026 BBC. 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