West Ham United eased the stress on new supervisor Julen Lopetegui with a shock 2-0 victory away to in-form Newcastle United within the Premier League on Monday.
Thomas Soucek gave West Ham the lead within the tenth minute with a header and the guests reached halftime nonetheless in entrance regardless of the hosts having a succession of excellent possibilities.
Newcastle started the second half on prime however have been rocked on their heels when Aaron Wan-Bissaka broke ahead to fireplace West Ham’s second after 53 minutes — his first objective for the membership.
West Ham grew in confidence and completely deserved their finest victory of what has been a disappointing season to date beneath Spaniard Lopetegui. They continue to be 14th place with 15 factors whereas Newcastle are in tenth place with 18 factors.
Former Spain and Actual Madrid supervisor Lopetegui’s model of play has struggled to win over West Ham’s followers and two poor performances earlier than the worldwide break left his facet solely three factors above the relegation zone.
Some media stories urged Lopetegui was two video games from shedding his job however the his facet responded with an lively show and scientific show to ship the away followers dwelling glad.
“I mentioned we wanted a efficiency earlier than the sport and I mentioned we wanted to exit and present it and I feel we did that,” West Ham captain Jarrod Bowen mentioned.
“Newcastle all the time rating at dwelling so to maintain a clear shoot and rating twice. We needed to be courageous. I feel this was extra like the extent that it takes to play for this membership.
“I feel it is a actually massive turning level within the season.”
Had Newcastle not had an early objective by Alexander Isak dominated out for offside, it may have been a troublesome evening for West Ham.
However shortly afterwards, Soucek was left fully unmarked in a crowded penalty space to plant a header into the objective from a nook and West Ham have been instantly galvanised.
Newcastle, who had received three successive video games in all competitions, ought to have levelled with Sean Longstaff heading a good probability straight at West Ham keeper Lukasz Fabianski and Lewis Corridor driving a shot throughout the face of the objective.
Anthony Gordon additionally ought to have accomplished higher than to shoot straight at Fabianski after a defensive error whereas Isak volleyed an opportunity simply large after nice work by Bruno Guimaraes.
West Ham’s second objective took the sting fully out of the hosts. Wan-Bissaka made a robust run ahead from deep and was performed in on objective by Bowen’s astute cross earlier than putting his shot previous Nick Pope and in off the submit.
Newcastle didn’t muster a lot of a response as they missed the prospect to maneuver into sixth place.
“We have been the dominant group at halftime and the sport would have been very totally different if we had equalised within the first half,” Newcastle supervisor Eddie Howe mentioned.
