Eddie Howe has revealed that ruthless Newcastle United want to be a team for 'all moments' following the Magpies' big win against West Ham.
Newcastle recorded their joint-biggest away victory in Premier League history on Wednesday night following a 5-1 win at the London Stadium. Newcastle have played even better over the course of 90 minutes this season - Howe was not happy with how his team let West Ham back into the game in the first half, for instance - but the clinical visitors took their chances in the capital. Newcastle ultimately scored five goals from just eight shots on target and the black-and-whites took advantage of a series of defensive errors.
Newcastle raced into a 2-0 lead after just 13 minutes, following goals from Callum Wilson and Joelinton, and the Magpies' second came courtesy of a diagonal from Fabian Schar that caught West Ham's backline napping. Although Kurt Zouma pulled one back before half-time, Wilson made it 3-1 seconds after the restart after Newcastle again punished a mistake at the back after Jacob Murphy dispossessed Nayef Aguerd before squaring the ball to his team-mate.
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West Ham continued to shoot themselves in the foot and Lukasz Fabianski failed to deal with Bruno Guimaraes' ball over the top, after deciding to race out of his goal, in the 82nd minute. The West Ham goalkeeper merely teed up substitute Alexander Isak, who lifted the ball into the net, before Joelinton bagged Newcastle's fifth at the death.
It means Newcastle have now scored 11 goals in their last four league games after netting just two goals in their previous four top-flight fixtures. This ruthlessness in front of goal has reignited the club's Champions League dream and served as a statement of what Newcastle can do to sides in their own backyard even when they are not at their absolute best.
"We wanted to be [ruthless]," Howe told reporters. "Whether or not it's the Newcastle way? Time will tell. That's how we want to be.
"We want to be a team for all moments in the game, whether that's transitional, whether that's building up and producing pressure that way. Some of our goals were great to see. We were clinical when we needed to be."
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