West Ham produced the right away efficiency as objectives from Tomas Soucek and Aaron Wan-Bissaka secured a 2-0 victory over Newcastle to ease the strain on head coach Julen Lopetegui.
It’s a win that Lopetegui will hope kickstarts his Hammers reign, having warned his facet couldn’t use a congested fixture schedule as an excuse for failing to ignite their season.
“We played with an identity, and were able to overcome a very good team in a difficult stadium,” stated Lopetegui.
“We’re happy for the players, the team and most of all the fans, because more than 3,000 came here and have to go a lot of miles home. Now we look forward to the next challenge.”
The Irons headed to Newcastle for Monday Evening Soccer having misplaced two of their final 4 Premier League video games. The highlight was firmly on Spanish coach Lopetegui and the route of his staff – with residence followers having vented their frustrations on the again of a irritating goalless draw in opposition to Everton earlier than the worldwide break.
Lopetegui, who took over from David Moyes in the summertime, continues to close out all of the noise, and all through the encounter on Tyneside his gamers confirmed their finest face.
Soucek’s well-placed header after 10 minutes was protected at giant by Lukasz Fabianski between the posts on the different finish, with the veteran goalkeeper denying Anthony Gordon from point-blank vary.
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Soucek heads in West Ham’s first likelihood of the sport to open the scoring at Newcastle
Newcastle – who drop a spot to tenth on objective distinction – had began properly, denied the opener when Alexander Isak was fractionally dominated offside earlier than producing a composed end. The Sweden worldwide then blasted huge, whereas Gordon flashed one other alternative off beam after the restart when fed by substitute Harvey Barnes.
It could show a expensive miss as, simply two minutes later, Wan-Bissaka collected Jarrod Bowen’s go inside to arrow his low shot past Nick Pope by way of the far submit.
A resurgent Arsenal are the following guests to the London Stadium on November 30, which is swiftly adopted by a midweek journey to Leicester after which successive Monday night time fixtures in opposition to Wolves and at Bournemouth. Together with his facet now six factors away from the relegation zone, Lopetegui will hope that is simply the beginning of higher issues to come back.
“I don’t talk about [Europe], only about what we have to do today,” the West Ham boss added. “Tomorrow we’re looking at the next challenge and going step-by-step. Not thinking about the long future, it doesn’t help.
“West Ham needs to be staff. We’re going to have the ability to do good issues, however our huge problem is to be staff, a powerful staff.”
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Aaron Wan-Bissaka’s shot bounced in off the submit to increase West Ham’s lead at Newcastle
Carragher: Huge consequence for Lopetegui
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Jamie Carragher says West Ham’s 2-0 victory in opposition to Newcastle needs to be their ‘blueprint’ going ahead within the Premier League.
Sky Sports activities’ Jamie Carragher talking on Monday Evening Soccer:
“It’s a brilliant result for West Ham – but for any team going away to Newcastle on a Monday night, you know how tough it’s going to be.
“That may be a troublesome recreation for Man Metropolis and for Liverpool. The percentages had been stacked in opposition to them to win this recreation, however they’ve received it.
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Newcastle’s Bruno Guimaraes finds Alexander Isak within the field however he misses the goal
“They’ve now got to use this as a springboard going forward. It’s more important for the manager than for West Ham.
“There is not any doubt had they misplaced after which once more in opposition to Arsenal, they’d have been nearer to the underside three.
“There’s no doubt about it, the situation with the crowd and the owners, it would have got very twitchy for the manager.”
West Ham deadly with Paqueta patrolling midfield
Lucas Paqueta was the standout performer
Sky Sports activities’ Ben Grounds:
Disaster? What disaster? That is what West Ham followers have been crying out for this season: a staff filled with battle, grit and a leading edge going ahead.
Soucek and Wan-Bissaka mixed to burst Newcastle’s bubble at hand Lopetegui respiratory area with a priceless Premier League away win.
Eddie Howe’s males had been culpable for each objectives, but in addition responsible of not utilizing the wealth of possession they loved successfully sufficient on an evening when probabilities went begging and with it their hopes of climbing into the highest six.
In contrast, the guests had been deadly on the break and produced essentially the most fluent passages of play.
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Newcastle’s Anthony Gordon jumps on a Jean-Clair Todibo error however fires straight into the arms of Lukasz Fabianski
Joe Willock whipped a shot simply huge of Fabianski’s left submit however, with Carlos Soler linking properly with player-of-the-match Lucas Paqueta within the centre of midfield and Bowen and Crysencio Summerville taking a direct strategy from the flanks, the Hammers had been a continuing menace on the counter.
The hosts had been in disarray on the again and it took a sequence of blocks and Pope’s saves from Soucek and Soler to protect their hopes of a fightback.
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Eddie Howe reacted to Newcastle’s 2-0 defeat to West Ham and blamed particular person errors from his gamers for each the objectives which he stated was very uncharacteristic of them on account of their latest defensive shows
Howe stated: “The last half an hour I didn’t like, we lost our way a bit and were a bit too desperate to score. We made some bad decisions with the ball, and it’s a game we’ll rue when we watch it back.
“For each objectives, we’ll know we made particular person errors. You possibly can’t give a participant the standard of Soucek’s aerial skill that area within the field. It is disappointing from our perspective, having began the sport so properly and put them beneath intense strain, after which the second objective is just too straightforward. It is uncharacteristic from us, as a result of we have defended so properly in latest weeks.”
Callum Wilson’s penalty appeals, to his astonishment, were waved away on his first appearance of the season following a clumsy challenge by fellow substitute Konstantinos Mavropanos. It was the slice of good fortune West Ham’s performance deserved.
Bowen: Big turning point in our season
Tomas Soucek has scored 4 Premier League objectives in opposition to Newcastle (in opposition to no facet has he scored extra within the competitors) with all 4 of his strikes in opposition to the Magpies placing the Hammers into the lead
West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen chatting with Sky Sports activities:
“I said we needed a performance and we did that. Newcastle always score at home so to keep a clean sheet and score twice, it’s a tough place to come to.
“We did that completely. You all the time play to win the video games. It was right down to us to get the second objective, in case you decide on a lead it may possibly come again to hang-out you.
“That was the level it takes to play for this club. The desire, work rate and quality shown from everyone. It is important that we rest up. It’s a massive game on Saturday [vs Arsenal].
“They’re a high, high facet. We will take lots from this recreation. The group we’ve got had are so good. There’s a actual togetherness however generally you’ll be able to fall off with new gamers.
“It’s down to me to show what it means to play for this club. Every one understood the assignment. We have been disappointed with our standards this season but that was more like it.
“We needs to be pushing for European soccer each season.”
Why West Ham love Mondays – Opta stats
Two of Wan-Bissaka’s three Premier League objectives have come in opposition to Newcastle at St James’ Park, whereas this was his first objective within the competitors since netting for Man Utd in opposition to Southampton in February 2021
- West Ham have received eight of their final 9 Premier League video games on a Monday, with the one exception on this sequence being 3-1 loss at Arsenal on Boxing Day 2022.
- Newcastle have misplaced two of their final three Premier League residence video games (W1), as many defeats as of their earlier 20 league matches at St James’ Park (W13 D5).
- Since making his Premier League debut (01-02-2020), solely Jarrod Bowen (46) and Michail Antonio (41) have scored extra top-flight objectives for West Ham than Tomas Soucek (30). In the meantime, solely Gabriel Magalhaes (16) and James Ward-Prowse (15) have scored extra objectives from set items (excl. penalties) than the Czech midfielder (14) throughout this era.
- Jarrod Bowen’s help for Aaron Wan-Bissaka was his 79th Premier League objective involvement for West Ham (46 objectives, 33 assists), overtaking Paolo Di Canio (78). Certainly, solely Michail Antonio (101) and Mark Noble (82) have extra objectives and assists mixed for the Hammers within the competitors than Bowen.
