Newcastle United and West Ham United played out one of the games of the season on Saturday.
With both teams pushing for European football and trying to find some consistency amid their inconsistent performances, they threw blow after blow at St James’ Park.
From Alexander Isak’s opening penalty after six minutes to Harvey Barnes’ thunderous winner.
Lucas Paqueta was at the heart of it all for West Ham United, including providing the assist for Michail Antonio’s equaliser after 21 minutes, but he couldn’t stop injury-hit Newcastle from winning the game.
Over the international break, the Hammers star shared the same midfield as his fellow countryman – Bruno Guimaraes, including during Brazil’s 1-0 win over England at Wembley.
But the two slogged it out on the Premier League stage for their respective clubs, with Paqueta lauding his fellow Brazilian on Instagram.
Guimaraes posted on IG ‘St James’ Park makes things possible’, with Paqueta sending him the following message in the comments section.
Bruno Guimaraes helps Newcastle United beat West Ham United
Paqueta wrote to Guimaraes: ‘I love you, buddy. You play hard.’
Newcastle close the gap on West Ham
After a season of real struggle and constant injury issues, Eddie Howe will be hoping it can still end in European football – Andy Cole and Peter Schmeichel were annoyed with Newcastle’s win over West Ham.
Eighth-placed Newcastle are now one point behind David Moyes’ men, with a game in hand and a far better goal difference (+12 compared to -5).
Whilst they have the goals and power in them to blow any team away.
The clear issues lie with their defence, even before their injury issues and now it’s made matters worse with both senior centre-backs – Sven Botman and Jamaal Lascelles – out for the rest of the campaign.
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