West Ham hit back at The Sun story on Jesse Lingard

Player ratings

Newcastle: Dubravka (6), Clark (6), Fernandez (7), Dummett (7), Ritchie (6), Longstaff (7), Shelvey (7), Murphy (7), Almiron (8), Saint-Maximin (8), Joelinton (8).

Subs: Wilson (6), Willock (7), Carroll (n/a).

West Ham: Fabianski (5), Coufal (6), Dawson (4), Ogbonna (6), Diop (6), Johnson (7), Noble (6), Soucek (6), Fornals (6), Lingard (7), Bowen (6).

Subs: Benrahma (n/a), Lanzini (n/a), Fredericks (n/a)

Man of the match: Allan Saint-Maximin.

Sky Sports’ Graeme Souness on West Ham:

“It’s been a great season for them.

“After the very first game against Newcastle, which they lost, you are thinking it could be another difficult season for them, but he’s got them together and they play as a team.

“He will look at this game and say three avoidable goals, a man sent off and they were feeling sorry for themselves. But they bounced back in the second half and showed real character.”

WHAT THE MANAGERS SAID:

Newcastle manager Steve Bruce: “I’ve always said this job comes with a government health warning. I couldn’t have been more pleased at half-time when we played the way we did. We were arguably better against 11 than we were 10, and how often do you see that.

“The situation, the human nature is to defend what you’ve got and go deep, and we were wasteful just after half time. We had two or three opportunities and were wasteful and that gave West Ham the opportunity, and to be fair to them, they’ve got themselves back in the game and made it one of those awful afternoons.

“But thankfully we’ve redeemed ourselves. It was difficult but I’m relieved.”

West Ham boss David Moyes: “I thought the players showed great character. They came from 2-0 down with 10 men and got right back into the game. There are a lot of good things from it.

“Obviously, we gave away a couple of really poor goals in the first half, then the sending off adds to it as well, but we kept at it and we didn’t change.

“We altered things a little bit at half time, but I thought the players put up a great effort, I really did.

“There’s no drama. We’re not getting too down about it. We’ve had a couple of really good results, we’re doing ok. We think that’s probably a chance lost to pick up some points, but it is very hard with 10 men.

“I thought the players did a great job to get back into it. Probably the disappointment is that when we got to 2-2, we couldn’t see that last little bit out.

On if this was a missed opportunity: “There’s no frustration whatsoever. The players are doing brilliant, we’re at it, we came, and we put on a good performance. We didn’t get the result we wanted but overall, the players are doing a good job.

“We’re without a few injured players and we’ve put on another decent show. We want to keep trying to score goals, but we need to stop conceding them as well.”