Pablo Felipe joined the Hammers<\/a> late last week, meanwhile, and there was also a maiden English football appearance for him off the bench.<\/p>\n Taty Castellanos showed promise but his stats were underwhelming\u2026\ud83e\udd10 <\/p>\n What did YOU make of his debut?<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n Those two new faces were not enough to secure West Ham United<\/a> a vital win \u2013 Morgan Gibbs-White\u2019s 89th minute penalty means the gap between themselves and 17th place Nottingham Forest now stands at seven points \u2013 but Nuno Espirito Santo<\/a> liked what he saw from the duo on an otherwise miserable evening at a half-full London Stadium.<\/p>\n Nuno Espirito Santo hails West Ham United newbies Taty Castellanos and Pablo Felipe<\/p>\n \u201c[Castellanos and Pablo were] good,\u201d Nuno told BBC Sport<\/a>. \u201cThey have settled in with the team. They have qualities and they have come to help.\u201d<\/p>\n Castellanos said he would bring \u2018incredible\u2019 energy<\/a> to West Ham, and he was as good as his word. Pressing ferociously and drawing applause with one flying sliding tackle on Forest defender Nikola Milenkovic.<\/p>\n Pablo was a little more withdrawn off the bench, but the former Gil Vicente hotshot did create a fine chance for Kyle Walker-Peters at 1-1.<\/p>\n All that promise was undone though when Alphonse Areola \u2018whacked\u2019 Gibbs-White<\/a> in the face, earning Forest a contentious late penalty. Tomas Soucek called the decision a \u2018joke\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nuno didn\u2019t go that far, but he certainly wasn\u2019t happy.<\/p>\n What did YOU make of the penalty which gifted Forest the win? <\/p>\n What defence could Areola have?<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n \u201c[This sort of collision] happens so many times during the matches that you get confused about the rules honestly,\u201d Nuno adds. \u201cHow many times has this happened and penalties have not been given? I don\u2019t quite understand. <\/p>\n \u201cAreola goes for the ball, Soucek takes the ball out and then he cannot stop his movement. So, hard to explain.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to keep believing and sticking together. It\u2019s not over yet. We keep on going.\u201d<\/p>\n Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n Receive a digest of our best West Ham content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nuno Espirito Santo was impressed by the Premier League debuts of Pablo Felipe and Taty Castellanos despite West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,115,45733,83807,221,101,56,54,55,135887],"class_list":{"0":"post-357088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nottingham-forest","10":"tag-nuno-espirito-santo","11":"tag-pablo","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-valentin-castellanos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Taty](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Taty-Castellanos-819x1024.png\")
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