{"id":58124,"date":"2026-08-26T22:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/58124\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:54:40","slug":"west-ham-to-host-fulham-or-afc-wimbledon-in-carabao-cup-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/58124\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham to host Fulham or AFC Wimbledon in Carabao Cup third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">West Ham United will face either Fulham or AFC Wimbledon at the London Stadium in the third round of the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hammers discovered their next opponents in Wednesday night\u2019s draw after booking their place in round three with a 4-1 win away at Southampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">West Ham <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WestHam\/status\/2092729490745028777\" rel=\"nofollow\">confirmed the draw on their official channels<\/a>, with Fulham and AFC Wimbledon now set to battle for the right to travel to east London.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham handed home Carabao Cup tie<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo\u2019s side reached the third round in impressive fashion at St Mary\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joshua Ajala struck twice before Valent\u00edn Castellanos and Jarrod Bowen completed the scoring in a commanding victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can watch all the goals in <a href=\"https:\/\/readwestham.com\/2026\/08\/25\/southampton-1-4-west-ham-highlights-ajala-brace-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our full Southampton 1-4 West Ham highlights piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The performance also gave Nuno a much-needed response after a difficult start to the campaign, with the West Ham boss later praising the club\u2019s young players following the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">West Ham will now wait for Fulham and AFC Wimbledon to settle their second-round tie before their third-round opponent is confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whoever progresses will travel to the London Stadium, giving the Hammers home advantage as they look to extend their cup run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nuno admitted after the Southampton victory that West Ham still have plenty to repay their supporters for, with <a href=\"https:\/\/readwestham.com\/2026\/08\/25\/nuno-espirito-santo-admits-west-ham-owe-fans-badly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the manager saying his side \u201cowe\u201d the fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A home tie against either Fulham or Wimbledon now gives the Hammers another opportunity to build momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham United will face either Fulham or AFC Wimbledon at the London Stadium in the third round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2798,21862,21861,21869,21870,21871,21872,21873,285],"class_list":["post-58124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wimbledon","tag-afc-wimbledon","tag-carabao-cup","tag-fulham","tag-london-stadium","tag-nuno-espirito-santo","tag-west-ham-fixtures","tag-west-ham-news","tag-west-ham-united","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}