Southampton’s Armando Broja ensures FA Cup fifth-round win over West Ham

West Ham will have to make do with competing on just the two fronts for the remainder of this season after Southampton advanced to the FA Cup quarter-finals at their expense. A trip to Seville in the Europa League next week and their tilt for a top-four berth in the Premier League will no doubt soften the disappointment of defeat here but there will be a lingering frustration for David Moyes given how his side allowed a game in their grasp to get away from them.

Romain Perraud rocked West Ham with a phenomenal, rasping strike from outside the box – it was some way to his open his account for the club – before the former Southampton loanee Michail Antonio levelled in the second half. But James Ward-Prowse restored the hosts’ advantage with a no-nonsense penalty before the substitute Armando Broja secured passage into the next round, wriggling clear of three defenders before slotting home into the far corner.

It was a minor miracle that Southampton were not trailing when Perraud rifled a shot into the top corner beyond the West Ham goalkeeper Alphonse Areola, one of two changes made by David Moyes. His opposite number, Ralph Hasenhüttl, elected to make sweeping changes, the captain Ward-Prowse and Kyle Walker-Peters the only players to keep their place from Friday’s comfortable victory over Norwich.

Southampton, perhaps unsurprisingly then, looked awkward and were haphazard until Walker-Peters shifted the ball from right to left on 31 minutes. Perraud took one touch to move the ball out of his feet before dispatching a left-footed effort that flew in from 25 yards, whistling diagonally across Areola. Hasenhüttl could not hide his delight, running on to the pitch in celebration, and the Southampton substitutes stood to