Lucas Paqueta on target as West Ham stun Newcastle with first win under Nuno

West Ham won their first home game since February, and their first under new boss Nuno Espirito Santo, by beating travel sick Newcastle 3-1.

Lucas Paqueta’s strike, Sven Botman own goal and Tomas Soucek’s goal at the death saw the Hammers, who have looked relegation certainties over their first nine matches, register probably the shock of the weekend in the Premier League.

It was so long ago that that West Ham last won at home – 248 days to be precise – that even Newcastle had tasted victory at the London Stadium more recently than them.

Unfortunately for the Magpies, they have won only once on the road since then, a rotten run of their own stretching back to March.

Some mutinous West Ham fans planned to stage a sit-in after the match in protest against the club’s owners, and for once the team gave them a reason to stay until the end.

Yet it began in familiarly calamitous fashion for the Hammers, who hit a post through Jarrod Bowen and promptly fell behind 26 seconds later.

For reasons best known to himself, £40million centre-half Max Kilman was caught well out of position, deep in Newcastle’s half, as Bruno Guimaraes sauntered up the pitch before playing the ball out to Jacob Murphy.

In the face of absolutely no pressure whatsoever from West Ham’s defence, Murphy cut inside and slotted the ball home from 20 yards.

Radio pundit Clinton Morrison called it “under-12’s defending”, which was an insult to 11-year-olds everywhere.

So far this season, conceding an early goal at home has been the cue for West Ham to capitulate, with Chelsea, Tottenham and Brentford all leaving Stratford with handsome wins under their belts.

But Newcastle, it seemed, had not got the memo and instead of going for the throat, the visitors retreated