West Ham 3 – 1 Newcastle

West Ham clinched their first home win since February as they recovered from a goal down to beat Newcastle 3-1.

The home fans looked set for another long afternoon when Jacob Murphy fired in Newcastle’s fourth-minute opener from outside the box, 26 seconds after Jarrod Bowen had struck the post at the other end, but Nuno Espirto Santo’s side staged a fightback.

Lucas Paqueta brought them level when his long-range effort beat Nick Pope at his near post and the turnaround was completed when Sven Botman inadvertently diverted Aaron Wan-Bissaka’s low cross into his own net in first-half stoppage time.

Substitute Tomas Soucek added the third in the final seconds of the game when he bundled home from close range after Bowen’s diagonal shot had squirmed through Pope’s legs.

The victory is only West Ham’s second of the season and their first under Nuno. It comes after a run of nine home games without a win dating back to a 2-0 victory over Leicester on February 27.

Newcastle faded badly after their early opener and only mustered one shot on target in a flat second-half display despite Eddie Howe making three substitutions at the interval.

Earlier, they had needed Pope to be on his toes to save a Paqueta free-kick and a Max Kilman header but the Newcastle goalkeeper should have done better for the equaliser, with West Ham going on to lift the mood around the club with a deserved victory.

The result puts them above Nottingham Forest, into 18th place, and only three points from safety. Newcastle remain 13th, the defeat meaning they are now winless in eight Premier League away games.

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West Ham’s overdue fightback – Opta stats

• West Ham won a Premier League game in which they trailed for the first time since a 3-1 victory over Luton Town in their final home game of the 2023/24 campaign, ending a run of 32 league games without coming from behind to win three points.
• West Ham picked up their first Premier League home win since February against Leicester, ending a run of nine without victory at the London Stadium. Before today, only bottom of the Football League Newport County were on a longer winless run at their home stadium in England’s top four tiers.
• Newcastle have gone winless in eight consecutive Premier League away games for the first time since a nine-game run from the start of the 2021/22 season, with Eddie Howe only overseeing the final three matches of that streak.

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