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Key occasions
31 min: Paqueta is in vary, and fancies this one. Bruno acts as draught excluder however Paqueta’s kick is low and heading in. Tremendous save from Nick Pope.
29 min: Newcastle wobbling, as indicated by Nick Pope punching clear in no little panic. Gordon has to return again to sort out Bowen. Summerville is fouled by Bruno.
27 min: The nook is cleared and finally goes again to Areola. There are important indicators from West Ham. Higher.
26 min: Thiaw delivers some discover defending once more, in some way getting the ball clear from Wan-Bissaka’s ball. West Ham have a nook.
24 min: Nick Pope comes out to move a Kilman ball smashed into Wilson. That was purest Route One. Paqueta wins a nook, following some respectable work from Wilson. Oh no, he was offside. Hammers look slightly higher, Newcastle not at it.
22 min: Potts loses the ball, after which fouls Bruno. He doesn’t get booked, and the tip result’s one other nook. It’s Summerville of all individuals who clears it.
20 min: Massive Dan Burn has a knock, Fernandes having leaned into him. Massive Dan is made from stern stuff so will forge on.
19 min: Woltemade and Murphy hyperlink up, and a advantageous save from Areola. Or at the least, sufficient of a save. The excellent news continues for West Ham by the nook being cleared. That’s virtually a novelty.
17 min: The sport at all times takes some time to reset after such delays. The mutterings from the gang proceed.
15 min: That was really a advantageous sort out by Thiaw, even when the locals are very sad. That took 4 minutes and 15 seconds to determine.
Penalty dominated ou!
14 min: Referee Rob Jones, he of the rectangular coiffure, has some VAR in his ear. Did Thiaw get a contact? Jones goes to the display screen. Thiaw touched the ball first. Lengthy lengthy delay. The person on the mic says the “no 12 clearly took the ball”. Boos however it was the suitable name.
Penalty to West Ham!
11 min: Gordon units off an tour, just for Wan-Bissaka to rob him. Bowen units off an a run after a advantageous cross. Thiaw steals in, and Bowen goes down.
9 min: Paqueta makes an attempt to make one thing occur. There have been indicators that Newcastle could be received at. Callum Wilson, from a slender angle, leather-based the ball and Nick Pope makes a save, punching the ball away from hazard.
7 min: Potts has the ball in midfield. That space of the Hammers crew was like an open gate in that purpose. The sound that may be heard is the Toon Military in full voice.
5 min: To say Diouf’s defending was lax is placing it mildly, he confirmed Murphy the best way to purpose. Bowen’s shot had smashed off the bar. The London Stadium curse continues.
Aim! West Ham 0-1 Newcastle (Murphy, 4)
Oh wow. Bowen hits a put up after advantageous work by Summerville, and 26 seconds later, Murphy smashes in for Newcastle.
3 min: Younger Potts is taking up the may of Bruno, Tonali and Joelinton. Powerful education for him.
2 min: Emile Krafth is at full-back within the Premier League for the primary time in ages. Newcastle are searching for to get Anthony Gordon on the ball.
Away we go on the London Stadium
1 min: Nuno stands in his ordinary vigil place, the bubbles streaming previous his shrouded kind. Emotionless as ever. Kick-off is right here. However there are fairly a couple of empty seats within the stands.
Sport faces on, bubbles being blown, we’re virtually go on the London Stadium.
Freddie Potts, making his Premier League debut right now, is the son of Steve Potts, long-serving Hammers defender, Mr Versatility, and American-born in Connecticut, Hartford, the insurance coverage capital of America. Possibly it was the AVCO insurance coverage that attracted Steve to the Hammers, who was a good centre-back regardless of being not the tallest.
His elder son Dan, a long-serving Luton participant, additionally performed a few video games within the Premier League for the Hammers again in 2013; I recall him getting a nasty head damage at Arsenal one time when he was simply 18. Freddie, although, is a midfielder of the West Ham mannequin, the Mark Noble, Alan Dickens sort. He’s 22 and has been on mortgage at Wycombe and Portsmouth.
Eddie Howe has been talking about Callum Wilson, a helpful participant for him at Bournemouth and Newcastle: “He’s nonetheless the identical individual right now as he was in the beginning of his profession, so for all these causes and seeing how arduous he has labored at his recreation, he’s completely proper up there.”
Chris Paraskevas is in: “G’day J.B. Hope you’re effectively! Simply ticked over midnight and I’m dwelling the dream: roughly 0 pages written out of a 10-page project – due date: this afternoon. I’m hoping for a medical, skilled, uncomplicated win right here to present me an instructional / life increase, however all of us know when Calum Wilson awoke this morning, there was an enormous pink circle round this fixture on his wall calendar (…that’s proper, I’m suggesting he nonetheless rocks a bodily calendar in 2025). An actual disgrace (for Newcastle followers) that West Ham’s central defensive rock ‘Dino’ Mavropanos is lacking, by the best way.”
Ian Sargeant will get in contact: “Because the Jubilee Line tube pulls into Stratford for the second recreation of my weekend, I’m not holding out a lot hope for my beloved Hammers. Hopefully the inverted full backs experiment might be ditched-but we’re threadbare on the bench in comparison with our opponents. After the huge excessive of yesterday (a 96th minute away derby winner at Maidstone for Tonbridge Angels), the place each one of many Angels left all the things on the pitch, one other abject easy dwelling efficiency from West Ham and issues will flip ugly. There’s purported to be a sit-in afterwards. One wag has mentioned its been organised by the board to maintain individuals within the floor longer than 70 minutes. We are going to see…”
Neither crew are precisely the place they’d prefer to be.
Newcastle haven’t gained an away recreation within the Premier League since April. Right here’s what Eddie Howe needed to say in his Friday information convention. “It might be big for us and I feel it’s only with back-to-back wins, if you happen to have a look at the league desk, that we’re going to propel ourselves again up. It’s so tight. There are loads of groups congested round the place we’re and you might be searching for one constructive outcome to try to elevate you. So this can be a large recreation for us. All video games within the Premier League are vital, however as we go to the subsequent worldwide break the subsequent two [at West Ham and Brentford] are big.”
Some feedback from Jarod Bowen, whose job this season has primarily been fronting up post-match, within the match day programme. “We have to actually pull our fingers out now. We’re in hassle now. We’ve not performed nice, however now we have received outcomes when now we have all been collectively.” Ooof.
Phrase is that Nuno is taking part in a again 4 for the Hammers. Jacob Steinberg’s j’accuse of absolutely the state of West Ham is a uncommon outdated paintstripping.
Yet one more switcheroo from the Nuno choice tombola. Callum Wilson strains up in opposition to the membership he departed in the summertime; the Hammers may have a striker, ultimately. Mateus Fernandes, who scored v Leeds, and Freddie Potts, who impressed, instead of Tomas Soucek and Andy Irving, who didn’t. Ollie Scarles has an damage.
That’s a powerful Newcastle crew, with their midfield trio again collectively. Eddie Howe has made six adjustments from the defeat of Tottenham in midweek. Nick Pope, Sven Botman, Joelinton, Anthony Gordon, Jacob Murphy, and Bruno Guimaraes all are available in.
Listed here are the groups
West Ham: Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman, Diouf, Potts, Fernandes, Paqueta, Bowen, Wilson, Summerville. Subs: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Igor, Mayers, Rodriguez, Magassa, Irving, Luis Guilherme, Soucek
Newcastle: Pope, Krafth, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Tonali, Guimaraes, Joelinton, Murphy, Woltemade, Gordon Subs: Ramsdale, Corridor, Schar, Barnes, Osula, Elanga, Ramsey, Miley
Preamble
Final Friday on the London Stadium was a depressing affair, effectively overwhelmed by Leeds. Nuno Espirito Santo is discovering life simply as tough as Graham Potter did. Possibly it’s the membership in any case, and there’s many a Hammers fan would agree with that. Wolves have taken steps, in sacking Vitor Pereira when the button has already been pushed on Potter, to little avail. Newcastle are having troubles of their very own, inconsistency their important concern, the problems of balancing the Champions League with the Premier League taking their toll. Nonetheless, it could possibly be worse, they could possibly be West Ham.
Kick-off at 2pm UK time. Be a part of me.