Very important victory for West Ham on the Newcastle pitch and now the bench of Julen Lopetegui is more firm: “I congratulated all the players because they did an excellent job. Today we showed an identity, I think we did well with and without the ball. Above all we were a team, and we fought for each other the other, and that’s what you need to compete in matches like this,” he said after the 0-2 postponement.
“I think we showed a lot of personality and we were very good at managing a difficult match at the home of a team like Newcastle. We tried to take advantage of the break for international matches: even though we had several players called up to the national team, we worked on certain situations and today we reaped the rewards. The most important thing is that we managed to bring home three points against a very good team.”
The fans: “They’ve all made a very long journey from London to get here and unfortunately we haven’t been able to give them many days like this this season. So we’re happy for them and hope they’ve had a great evening. Hopefully we can give many more days like this in the future. It is important that we use this result and this performance and apply them in the next matches. It was important to win, but the way we played and fought as a team can be useful for the future.”