West Ham vs Newcastle: Declan Rice and Mark Noble hand Hammers victory at the London Stadium
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Your support makes all the difference.West Ham returned to winning ways after beating Newcastle United 2-0 at the London Stadium.
After losing 1-0 to Manchester City earlier in the week, the hosts responded in fashion with a comfortable and largely controlled display in front of their fans.
It took just seven minutes for Manuel Pellegrini’s side to take the lead, with Declan Rice finding the back of the net for his second goal of the season.
Mark Noble doubled the lead from the penalty spot three minutes before the break.
After the restart West Ham continued to dominate proceedings as the visitors struggled to make their presence felt, aside from a late free-kick which struck the woodwork. The result sees the Londoners move up to ninth in the table on 39 points.
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Newcastle have threatened at times, and were it not for three pieces of brilliance from Issa Drop defensively for the home side may have scored themselves.
But Miguel Almirón has barely touched the ball, and Rafa Benitez's side have on-the-whole looked too withheld to consistently threaten.
Might the Spaniard be considering a change?
Indeed he will!
Ex-Hammer Mohamed Diame (sporting a black and white plaster above his left eye) replaces Sean Longstaff in midfield.
He'll add more attacking threat.
47 minutes
Isaac Hayden and Salomon Rondon exchange passes on the edge of the box, the former looking to curl to the far corner.
He scuffs his effort, and Lukasz Fabianski watches it all the way as it trims the grass three yards past his left-hand upright.
48 minutes
Another chance for Newcastle!
Better footballing play, Ayoze Perez beating Angelo Ogbonna to the ball, finding Rondon inside and moving beyond Ogbonna to get to Rondon's return ball toed through.
Perez chops down onto what looks to be a shot, and the ball evades two waiting teammates and rolls well wide of the far post. A bit of a waste in the end, but a brighter start to the second half for the visitors.
50 minutes
A misunderstanding between Mark Noble and Arthur Masuaku, the former anticipating the replacement left-back continuing his run and remonstrating with Masuaku as the ball trickles harmlessly out of play.
53 minutes
Better again from Newcastle, winning their fourth corner of the night down the left.
It fails to beat Felipe Anderson at the near post with the box backed. Disappointing.
56 minutes
A fantastic recovering tackle from Florian Lejeune, just about sprinting back in time to cut out Manuel Lanzini's ball across the edge of the box with Robert Snodgrass all alone at the far post and Javier Hernandez free, too.
58 minutes
Salomon Rondon shows strength to back into Angelo Ogbonna (by no means a small man) and work the opening to turn the Italian, notching Newcastle's first shot on target from eight attempts but failing to truly test Lukasz Fabianski, who flops to his right and gathers in relative comfort.
59 minutes
Ryan Fredericks bursts away from Florian Lejeune with Matt Ritchie taken out of the picture as Robert Snodgrass finds his teammate charging down the right touchline.
Fredericks' low cross finds Javier Hernandez at the far post but the Mexican cannot hook the pace pass back towards goal, only succeeding in ballooning it into the air and over the crossbar.
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