{"id":364902,"date":"2026-01-11T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364902\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:05:08","slug":"west-ham-2-1-aet-qpr-valentin-taty-castellanos-scores-first-goal-as-hammers-edge-through-in-extra-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364902\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham 2-1 (aet) QPR: Valentin &#8216;Taty&#8217; Castellanos scores first goal as Hammers edge through in extra time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was not a free-scoring victory to boost confidence and provide a template for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was scrappy and uncomfortable at times but far better than the alternative for West Ham, who sit seven points from safety in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Castellanos, playing his second game for the club, will steal the headlines. His header was clinical but, in truth, it was Summerville who provided the spark the Hammers required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts, who made six changes including leaving out Lucas Paqueta while retaining Jarrod Bowen, did not have a shot in the first 32 minutes until Summerville tested QPR goalkeeper Joe Walsh. He then powered beyond Walsh with effectively the last kick of the opening half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To their credit, West Ham responded well to QPR&#8217;s equaliser, though the travelling fans were still singing: &#8220;Premier League, you&#8217;re having a laugh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As the game stretched, Summerville tested Walsh with a curling low strike and then produced a clever turn to put himself in down the left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It allowed him the space to tee up Castellanos, who was not to be denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was not a free-scoring victory to boost confidence and provide a template for the remainder of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-364902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364902","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=364902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}