David Moyes has admitted that he could not even 'use the words he would like to' when describing his side's defending for Joelinton's first goal in Newcastle United's 5-1 win against West Ham.
It was Joelinton who doubled Newcastle's advantage after Callum Wilson opened the scoring in the early stages of the game. There were 13 minutes on the clock when Fabian Schar's diagonal ball caught West Ham's sleepy defence napping and Joelinton latched onto his team-mate's pass.
Although West Ham appealed for offside, Joelinton smartly played to the whistle and rounded Lukasz Fabianski to put Newcastle 2-0 up. There was a lengthy VAR check, but referee Craig Pawson duly awarded the goal after the Brazilian was played onside by Emerson.
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West Ham did manage to get back into the game before half-time, though, with Kurt Zouma pulling a goal back, and captain Declan Rice revealed there was a 'real belief' at the break with the players 'really pushing each other' to 'give everything'. Yet it was Newcastle who landed a killer blow just a few seconds into the second half when Jacob Murphy dispossessed Nayef Aguerd and squared the ball to Wilson.
Substitute Alexander Isak scored a fourth late on, after Fabianski was caught in no-man's land after failing to deal with Bruno Guimaraes' ball over the top, and Joelinton added a fifth at the death. Moyes was the first to admit that West Ham had been 'given a spanking' with his side making defensive errors for the majority of Newcastle's five goals.
"When you make individual mistakes, you don't need to be told," the West Ham boss explained to reporters. "If you said there were huge tactical errors in it...even the first goal, we head it out for a corner. We defend the corner quite well. We don't defend the second bit particularly well.
"The second goal? I couldn't even use the words I would like to use with my thoughts on the second goal. The centre-half can kick it right through and somebody can run off the line and run through and get in."
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