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Football is ultimately a game of chance. West Ham United fans will know that more than others when it comes to watching The Hammers on the pitch.

While the sport is very much data-driven, given the use of statistics in the modern game, what happens on the pitch can be very different to what many may expect to happen. You can look at a piece of paper, analyze all of the data, make a prediction based on it, and then see something entirely different happen when the players are on the pitch.

The Hammers struggled to find anything from the game from start to finish on the Monday evening.

A game full of prodding and poking got us chances here and there, but when it came to those chances, they would all end with nothing.

In the first minute of the game, the ball was fizzed in by Kudus but would find Row Z after a Tommy attempt from close range.

Eyes covered in misery before the break as the best chance of the first half fell to Kudus, who was running through on goal but didn’t even manage to get a shot off, another underwhelming game from the Ghanaian.

West Ham: Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman, Cresswell, Scarles, Alvarez, Ward-Prowse, Soucek, Bowen, Kudus.
Subs: Fabianski, Soler, Paqueta, Guilherme, Ings, Emerson, Rodriguez, Ferguson, Mavropanos.

Newcastle: Pope, Trippier, Schar, Burn, Livramento, Joelinton, Tonali, Bruno, Barnes, Isak, Murphy
Subs: Dubravka, Targett, Willock, Krafth, Wilson, Neave, Longstaff, Osula, Miley.