Gent 1-1 West Ham RECAP: Visitors weather the storm in Belgium to secure a draw, after Hugo Cuypers cancelled out Danny Ings' opener in their Europa Conference League quarter-final first leg
Follow Sportsmail's live blog for the Europa Conference League quarter-final first-leg clash between Gent and West Ham, with coverage from Max Mathews.
Here's Sportsmail's match report from Kieran Gill, below.
Wow. And breathe. 1-1 in the end! West Ham are angry about a couple of refereeing calls but for my money the ref and VAR got all the big calls right, and probably even favoured West Ham with the little decisions.
An entertaining draw that sets up the second leg nicely! But David Moyes and Co will know it could have been a lot worse. Gent had 20 shots to their four!
Match report dropping shortly...
Bloody hell. How do I even describe this? David Okumu, who's been brilliant, in stoppage time loses the ball on the halfway line and Lucas Paqueta bursts through one-on-one.
Piatkowski screams across the pitch, makes an all-or-nothing slide tackle, ref rules red card (for stopping a clear goalscoring opportunity) and free-kick (JUST outside the box). West Ham are incensed and want a penalty.
But replays show he somehow won the ball! The ref cancels his decision, we play on, West Ham are (again) furious. And then...
86: Gent should REALLY be ahead! They break quickly and it's suddenly two on two. Sub Tissoudali finds Samoise, who shapes to shoot but plays it back to the Moroccan first time.
The goal looks gaping... but his first time left footed shot is shanked horribly wide. HAVE to hit the target there.
Vladimir Coufal is booked, then Aaron Cresswell replaces Emerson. It's all happening here!
82: Oh my good gracious God. What a flipping effort that is. Out of nothing, Nigerian star Gift Orban runs onto a lofted through ball, controls it, holds off Ben Johnson, and unleashes a wonderful improvised, acrobatic overhead kick.
It cannons off the crossbar. SO CLOSE. What a player he looks. It's his last action, though, as he's replaced by Tarik Tissoudali.
Will he be at Gent next season? Potentially not. Would love my club Crystal Palace to sign him...
75: Oh, lovely pass from Paqueta, almost an instant impact.
He takes the ball off Declan Rice's toe and measures a beautifully weighted slide rule pass through to Jarrod Bowen, fooled the whole defence.
Goalkeeper Davy Roef is off his line quickly, though, and Bowen chips it over him... but it dribbles wide. Close.
74: That's harsh, that. Gent defender Piatkowski steps in to make a fine tackle on Benrahma, wins the ball clean as day, slightly slips and makes small inevitable contact with Benrahma on the follow through.
Benrahma screams in pain and rolls around on the floor like a badger in heat. It turns out he's fine, though. A medical miracle! Piatkowski is booked. As I say, harsh.
Lucas Paqueta is on for the booked Downes.
67: Gent are right on top now! The crowd are behind them, and West Ham look rattled, making poor decisions, losing the ball. It feels like Gent's triple change has revitalised them, a bold and proactive move to make the most of their dominance.
Gift Orban was played in down the channel - West Ham committing too many players forward - and does Ben Johnson with a nice bit of skill and is fouled.
The visitors almost stop but the ref plays a good advantage, wing-back Alessio Castro-Montes crosses it into sub Matisse Samoise... but he screws it narrowly wide! Good chance!
61: Moyes does respond with a double change, bringing on Antonio and Benrahma for goalscorer Ings and Lanzini.
For Gent, Odjidja-Ofoe replaces the silky Hong, with Samoise replacing wing-back Fofana and Nurio Fortuna on for Torunarigha. Triple swap!
57: GENT LEVEL! AND THEY DESERVE IT! WHAT A FINISH from Hugo Cuypers!
West Ham switch off defensively. Castro-Montes plays a nice one-two with Gift Orban, and finds Cuypers with an incisive pass.
The Belgian, top scorer in the Belgian Pro League, is not being closely marked at all. He takes it in his stride, takes an extra touch past a defender, and hammers it left footed past Areola.
The stadium erupts. How will David Moyes react? Antonio and Benrahma look like they're coming on...
52: Gent fans, still loud, still on song, could be getting a bit restless. Gent are enjoying plenty of possession but West Ham are dealing with it fairly easily with a low block.
The Hammers race up the other end and Lanzini finds Coufal down the right hand side with a lovely little flick... but the cross is poor.
47: Julien De Sart slightly mistimes a tackle on Flynn Downes, catching the former Swansea man on the follow through as they challenged for an aerial ball.
He is booked. Interesting, though, that Downes - who had made a whole stroppy arm-flopping protest at being (correctly) booked in the first half, intimating he wanted a more physical game - was a few seconds ago rolling around in apparent agony to ensure De Sart was booked.
46: Here we go then. Can Gent find an equaliser?
By the way, the winner of this tie will face Anderlecht or Dutch side AZ Alkmaar.
That's the interval! Gent have had nine shots, two on target. West Ham have just had one. But theirs went in - that's all that counts!
Ings was nearly offside but just about kept himself on and VAR gave it the green light.
David Moyes will know 1-0 flatters his side here - they need to improve.
45+5: It counts! And against the run of play, the Hammers lead in first-half stoppage time!
It was really poor defending from Gent. They cleared the ball out for a throw in and two defenders stood congratulating each other and high-fiving for getting it away.
But Vladimir Coufal grabbed the ball quickly and threw it in immediately fast and deep to Bowen, who was on the edge of the six-yard box. He simply squared it to Ings for a tap-in and the goal poacher was never going to miss that.
His first strike in Europe!
45+3: Goal? Maybe! Danny Ings taps in after a Jarrod Bowen cross, but VAR is checking it for offside...
45+1: Decent chance, that!
First Malick Fofana gets in down the left, Cuypers is free in the middle, he bends in a cross early which looks like it's getting there... but Rice gets back and clears.
Then from the corner, the 6ft 4in Gent defender David Okumu, nicknamed 'Crouch' at school for his height, climbs highest... but nods it wide.
40: West Ham think they're ahead... but they're NOT! Goalkeeper Davy Roef has not had a single shot to save and it's an absolute howler from him.
He catches the corner and under no pressure, drops it into Nayef Aguerd. It hits Roef, hits Aguerd again and THEN goes in, with the Hammers celebrating sheepishly.
It's not a foul from Aguerd, but replays show the ball hits his hand and VAR quickly disallows it. Right decision. 0-0 a couple of minutes before the break!
West Ham have woken up now and they look on top (finally). Six minutes added on after Ogbonna's injury...
35: That's got the crowd going! Gent work it nicely, moving West Ham around, and the move ends with deep-lying playmaker Sven Kums picking out a lovely chipped pass to Hugo Cuypers.
His first touch has the right idea but it's too heavy, and Ben Johnson pokes it behind. A few minutes later, the ball is worked to Malick Fofana inside the box, but he can't sort his feet out and eventually West Ham clear.
The hosts on top here!
34: A bad few minutes for Ogbonna. Perhaps looking to seek revenge on Orban for the (firm but fair, in my book) tackle that saw him pick up a knock, the Italian veteran jumps into little Gift Orban a bit too aggressively.
His arm/elbow does make contact with Orban, who yowls in pain, with Ogbonna picking up a yellow. That will see him miss the second leg. Frustrating.
28: Oh dear, this doesn't look good. Angelo Ogbonna, who's had plenty of troubles with injuries, is down and receiving lengthy treatment on the pitch after a challenge with Orban.
The Gent fans are absolutely bouncing, by the way. So loud! Looks like a cracking atmosphere. Bet the beer in Belgium is good too.
By the way, new Belgium boss Domenico Tedesco is in the crowd, keeping an eye on the 12 Belgians in Gent's squad.
I think Ogbonna will be OK, he's coming back on imminently.
Zero shots from West Ham so far, by the way...
21: First, West Ham right back Vladimir Coufal dallies with a lot of space in front of him and then overcooks the cross.
Then Flynn Downes is a booked after catching Hong on the follow through of a sliding tackle. To more over-exaggerated, hugely dramatic protests for what, ultimately, was the right decision. Grow up.
Finally, Gent work it really nicely and find De Sart in loads of space outside the box, but he can only dribble a left footed shot straight at Areola.
16: West Ham are fuming after the ref blows up for a foul on Hong. It looked like Flynn Downes got a toe on the ball but it definitely didn't warrant six Hammers players surrounding the ref, gawping and pleading with him wide-eyed like it was a massive travesty of justice.
Anyway. Gift Orban lines it up menacingly... but it's straight into the wall. Anticlimax.
13: West Ham have generally started on the front foot, but Gent are showing a few signs of possessing an attacking and set-piece threat.
Nice move from the visitors, Declan Rice cuts inside and bends in a teasing cross towards Jarrod Bowen but it's just over his head. Unlucky!
8: Gent with some nice attacking play and they win a corner. Cleared, but they win a second and play it short. Fofana with some nice footwork but it ends with a tame shot from 30 yards out or so by Julien De Sart. Easy for Areola.
4: Around four minutes in and, perhaps typically for the early stages of games, nothing much has happened. West Ham swung a free kick in but it was headed away, and Gent are looking for star striker Gift Orban a lot up front. He looks quick.
Danny Ings - on just his second ever European start - is looking for his first ever European goal. Declan Rice then wins a very soft free-kick. Hopefully the ref isn't too disruptive to the flow of the game.
Ref Anastasios Sidiropoulos gets us underway!
Nearly there...
T-minus half an hour until kick-off!
From their match graphic, it looks like a back three, De Sart and Sven Kums in central midfield, two dynamic wing-backs and then Hong behind Gift Orban and Hugo Cuypers.
18-year-old forward Malick Fofana is at left wing-back. Could be one to watch!
Well, I wouldn't say 'famous', but they do have former Huddersfield striker Laurent Depoitre, former Middlesbrough defensive midfielder Julien De Sart, former AC Milan winger Jens Petter Hauge on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt.
Plus former Norwich midfielder Vadis Odjidja-Ofoe.
Leading the line for the hosts tonight is a 20-year-old Nigerian striker called Gift Orban.
He only signed for Gent on the last day of January but already has nine goals in eight domestic games and five in four in the Europa Conference League, including a second-leg hat-trick against Istanbul Basaksehir which fired them into the last eight.
Belgian radio commentator Peter Vandenbempt told the BBC: 'Gift came out of nowhere and took the league by storm. Football is tough in Belgium and strikers are not given spaces like in the Dutch league, but he just thrived. I have never seen a player who entered the competition so smoothly.
'He is extremely self confident and managed to solve the problems that Gent had scoring goals. Gift is an open character too and wasn't shy to turn on loud music in the dressing room early in the morning.
'He says that he dreams of playing in the Premier League or Bundesliga - and he could make it. The couple of games against West Ham are like two job interviews for him.'
Watch out!
So, for the Hammers, No 2 Areola starts in goal. In defence, Cresswell and Zouma drop out, with Johnson, Aguerd and Emerson coming in to make a back five.
In midfield, Flynn Downes replaces Tomas Soucek, while Antonio and Fornals drop out, with Lanzini, Bowen and Ings in attack.
Fairly conservative from Moyesy compared to the 4-4-2 which brought a 1-0 win away at Fulham. But no easy games away in European quarter-finals...
Gent XI: Roef; Piatkowski, Okumu, Torunarigha; Castro-Montes, Kums, De Sart, Fofana; Hong; Cuypers, Orban.
Subs: Nardi, Ofoe, Hauge, Lagae, Samoise, Fortuna, Depoitre, Godeau, Tissoudali.
The line-ups are OUT.
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