West Ham reaction

West Ham United manager Alan Curbishley admitted his side rode their luck to beat Coventry City on Tuesday night.

“I wasn`t looking forward to extra time,’ he said after Carlton Cole’s last-gasp winner.

‘When you get a team playing as well as they can ? which was Coventry ? and with us putting in our worst performance of the season, it`s easy to explain how the game panned out.

“I`m a bit down but I will take the result. I`m going to have a good think about it and I hope the players do too.

“Coventry looked at it all night and I was just hoping we would fashion something out of it.”