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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62 minutes
Manuel Lanzini is starting to purr.
A delicious back heel finds Arthur Masuaku on the left, who chops inside and diagonally finds Javier Hernandez.
The flight of the ball takes him close to the byline and his touch further still, and thus the angle is rather acute when Hernandez unfurls his volley.
Side netting.
63 minutes
Ayoze Perez stays down after Angelo Ogbonna firmly but fairly slides the ball away from the Spaniard, but as soon as West Ham put the ball out Perez is back on his feet to remonstrate with Chris Kavanagh, aggrieved with the no foul decision.
Kavanagh glares at the Newcastle attacker, and he trudges away, shaking his head.
65 minutes
A second substitution for Rafa Benitez, and a formation change, too.
Paul Dummett replaces Fabian Schar and will go to left-back, with Matt Ritchie pushed further on with Newcastle going to a back four.
66 minutes
Mohamed Diame's shot is deflected wide, earning Newcastle another corner.
Arthur Masuaku is booked as the corner is prepared, presumably for an earlier infringement perhaps missed by the cameras.
67 minutes
Isaac Hayden is booked for hauling down Robert Snodgrass as West Ham look to counter after clearing the corner.
Masuaku's booking was for a tug of Salomon Rondon's arm as the Newcastle striker moved away from the left back.
69 minutes
Marko Arnautovic's illness has subsided in the last few days, and he'll get 20 minutes from the bench.
Javier Hernandez has put in a good shift and is applauded off.
71 minutes
Javier Manquillo is fed the ball in space on the right by Salomon Rondon and looks for the early cross.
Ayoze Perez is in considerable space at the far post and should really be found by his compatriot, but Manquillo puts too much loft on a relatively simple pass.
72 minutes
Finally a chance to head towards goal for Salomon Rondon.
Arthur Masuaku gets his melon in the way to prevent Rondon finding the bottom corner.
From the resulting set-piece, Lukasz Fabianski is fouled as he comes to claim.
75 minutes
Manuel Lanzini just seems to be tiring a little.
He gives the ball away 35 yards from the Newcastle goal with players well-placed either side of him.
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