EPL Roundup: Newcastle rout Tottenham, while West Ham bury Bournemouth
NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Newcastle surprised Tottenham in a 6-1 rout within the Premier League on Sunday.
In a conflict between two groups hoping to safe Champions League qualification for subsequent season, Newcastle raced to a 5-0 lead inside 21 minutes at St James’ Park.
Jacob Murphy and Alexander Isak each scored twice in an explosive opening, with Joelinton including one other.
Harry Kane pulled one again for Spurs, however Callum Wilson struck once more for Newcastle.
“It’s not often you have a start like that in a game, especially one of such importance,” Newcastle supervisor Eddie Howe stated. “I’m delighted with the whole group, a real team effort.”
The win moved Newcastle as much as third place forward of Manchester United on objective distinction, and 6 factors forward of Tottenham. Newcastle has performed a sport lower than Tottenham.
Tottenham has solely received as soon as in 4 video games since former supervisor Antonio Conte left the membership by mutual settlement final month and his assistant Cristian Stellini was appointed as interim coach.
“It went so badly because we were not prepared enough to play an important match,” Stellini stated. “We have a good squad but today no one showed how good we are. It was my responsibility to decide the system we play.”
Murphy fired Newcastle forward within the second minute and Joelinton doubled the house crew’s lead within the sixth.
Murphy made it 3-0 within the ninth, earlier than Isak struck twice within the nineteenth and twenty first.
Tottenham managed to make it to halftime with out conceding any additional objectives and Kane received on the rating sheet 4 minutes after the break to make it 5-1.
Any ideas of an unlikely fightback had been ended when Wilson scored within the 67th.
To add to Tottenham’s issues, goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was changed at halftime with a hip drawback.
“My injury does not sound good,” Lloris stated. “I don’t know if it’s a muscle but (it was) around the hip when I kicked.”
West Ham 4, Bournemouth 0
In Bournemouth, West Ham’s hopes of Premier League survival had been boosted on Sunday with a 4-0 rout of fellow relegation strugglers Bournemouth.
The win moved the Hammers six factors away from the drop zone as much as thirteenth place within the standings.
First-half objectives by Michail Antonio, Lucas Paqueta and Declan Rice put the guests in management at Vitality Stadium and substitute Pablo Fornals added a fourth after the break.
Antonio struck a fifth-minute opener for his twelfth objective of the season from an Aaron Cresswell nook.
The Hammers doubled their lead eight minutes later by Paqueta’s header on the again publish.
Bournemouth mounted one thing of a fightback, however West Ham made it 3-0 two minutes earlier than halftime when Rice fired house through a deflection to make it back-to-back objectives this week.
The Hammers captain was serenaded by the away followers quickly after with chants urging him to remain amid discuss his future may lie away from London Stadium after this marketing campaign.
West Ham’s fourth got here when Fornals again heeled Jarrod Bowen’s cross into the far nook within the 72nd.
Bournemouth is 5 factors away from the relegation zone and performs backside of the desk Southampton on Thursday.
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