Man City knocked out of Carabao Cup for first time in five years as West Ham triumph on pens

The high flying Hammers ended an era of Pep Guardiola dominance in the competition, with his side having won the competition for the past four seasons.

Before tonight, the last time City lost a Carabao Cup game was on October 26, 2016 - five years and one day ago.

Phil Foden missed from the spot for City while West Ham scored all five of their penalties to reach the quarter-finals.

Club captain Mark Noble, handed an increasingly rare start in what is his farewell season, enjoyed a fine match and also netted his penalty, as did Jarrod Bowen, Craig Dawson and Aaron Cresswell.

Joao Cancelo, Gabriel Jesus and Jack Grealish converted for the visitors.

Said Benrahma smashed home the winning penalty before City were called upon to take their fifth.

It was Noble who had the first effort on goal with a drive from the edge of the box which was punched clear by City keeper Zack Steffen.

At the other end of the career scale, City's 19-year-old striker Cole Palmer started up front in a team showing nine changes but still packed with internationals.

Palmer, who followed up his goal against Wycombe in this competition with one in the Champions League at Club Brugge, could have added to that tally when he received a cut-back from Riyad Mahrez, but his shot was too close to Alphonse Areola in the West Ham goal.

As the first half drew to a close Palmer saw a shot deflected over and Nathan Ake headed a Mahrez free-kick wide.

West Ham came close to breaking the deadlock when Masuaku stung the palms of Steffen, with Andriy Yarmolenko delaying his attempt to bury the rebound allowing Oleksandr Zinchenko to block.

At the other end the impressive Palmer teed up Ilkay Gundogan, whose shot fizzed across goal, before Kevin De Bruyne's deflected effort was scrambled wide by Areola.

From the corner, the Hammers' back-up keeper made a stunning point-blank save to keep out a header from John Stones.

It seemed neither team fancied the idea of penalties, with both attacking at will. Tomas Soucek was next to try his luck for West Ham but sidefooted wide when he should have hit the target.

Hammers boss David Moyes sensed his side, who beat Manchester United in the last round, could possibly record another statement win and made a triple substitution on the hour with Bowen, Benrahma and Pablo Fornals all sent on.

But City were still the more threatening and Palmer squandered a glorious chance when he lashed Raheem Sterling's pull-back over before Areola saved with his feet to deny Gundogan and tipped Zinchenko's drive away.

Foden, Jack Grealish and Gabriel Jesus had been summoned from City's star-studded bench, and after Soucek curled another chance wide for the hosts, Areola held Sterling's header to take the tie to the shootout.