United win derby; Chelsea get 'Hammered'
. (October 26 2016)
A review of Wednesday night's action in the EFL Cup as United won the Manchester derby and West Ham beat Chelsea.
Juan Mata scored the only goal of the Manchester derby as United defeated City 1-0 at Old Trafford to reach the EFL Cup quarter-finals.
Clashes between rival supporters marred West Ham's fourth-round win over Chelsea at the former Olympic Stadium.
Skirmishes broke out towards the end of the Hammers' impressive 2-1 fourth-round win as police and stewards battled to maintain segregation behind the goal being defended by West Ham.
This derby was billed as the biggest footballing test for the London Stadium so far, on a night when basketball and track cycling competitions were also taking place on the former Olympic Park.
The capacity is capped at 57,000 and 45,957 were in attendance, along with a heavy police presence.
Chelsea sold out their allocation of 5,182 tickets and, with the Hammers 2-0 up, trouble broke out.
Sofiane Boufal marked his St Mary's debut with a stunning strike to fire Southampton into the quarter-finals.
The club's record signing, whose introduction to English football has been delayed by injury, curled in sensational effort to sink Sunderland 1-0.
It was just a shame that so few were there to see it, with Saints' ground half empty and an entire stand shut for the fourth-round tie.
The stay-aways looked to have made the right decision, however, as an hour desperately short on quality ticked painfully by.
But in the 66th minute Boufal, the £21million summer signing from Lille, scored a fabulous winner to pile on the misery for Sunderland.