{"id":17614,"date":"2025-08-27T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17614"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:04:19","slug":"wolves-inflict-more-woe-on-west-ham-leeds-crash-out-league-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17614","title":{"rendered":"Wolves inflict more woe on West Ham, Leeds crash out League Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Newcastle target Jorgen Strand Larsen fired Wolves to a 3-2 League Cup win over West Ham on Tuesday as Premier League Leeds and Sunderland crashed out on penalties to lower league opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves have reportedly rejected a \u00a350 million ($67 million) bid from the Magpies for Larsen, who could prove to be a replacement for Alexander Isak.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian was only introduced 17 minutes from time as Vitor Pereira made eight changes after losing both his side&#8217;s opening two Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p>Larsen produced two blistering finishes in three minutes to turn the tie around at Molineux and heap more pressure on West Ham boss Graham Potter.<\/p>\n<p>Tomas Soucek and Lucas Paqueta had given the Hammers the lead after Rodrigo Gomes put Wolves in front.<\/p>\n<p>But West Ham, who have conceded eight goals in losing their opening two Premier League games, remain without a win this season.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds have splashed nearly \u00a3100 million on new players after returning to the Premier League, while Sheffield Wednesday fans have worried for the club&#8217;s survival as wages to players and staff have regularly been paid late.<\/p>\n<p>The home fans were encouraged not to attend by the club&#8217;s Supporters&#8217; Trust in a protest against club owner Dejphon Chansiri.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was Wednesday who could celebrate at Hillsborough as Leeds missed all three of their penalties after a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland were also embarrassed by League One Huddersfield on spot-kicks after a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Brentford won the other all-Premier League tie of the night with a 2-0 victory at Bournemouth thanks to goals from Fabio Carvalho and Igor Thiago<\/p>\n<p>Burnley needed a stoppage time winner from Oliver Sonne to beat second tier Derby 2-1.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle target Jorgen Strand Larsen fired Wolves to a 3-2 League Cup win over West Ham on Tuesday as Premier League Leeds and Sunderland crashed out on penalties to lower league opposition. Wolves have reportedly rejected a \u00a350 million ($67 million) bid from the Magpies for Larsen, who could prove to be a replacement for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}