The visiting Saints stunned the West Ham supporters into silence after a fast start in east London.<\/p>\n
Leo Scienza broke into the area and fired a shot straight at Mads Hermansen which then fell to Matsuki who was able to stroke the ball into the bottom left-hand corner.<\/p>\n
Saints then doubled their lead when Caspar Jander’s cross was tipped to the other side of the West Ham box by Hermansen.<\/p>\n
The clearance flew only as far as Bree who allowed the ball to bounce before brilliantly rifling his finish into the top corner of the net from a tight angle.<\/p>\n
West Ham sprung into life in the 24th minute when Walker-Peters showed some neat footwork before sending a brilliant strike into the top left-hand corner of the net.<\/p>\n
But Eckert’s side then scored again when they broke up the other end and Scienza had another effort saved from close range.<\/p>\n
On this occasion Dobbin was on hand to poke the ball home from a matter of feet, running off to celebrate in front of a shocked London Stadium.<\/p>\n
Taty Castellanos had a glorious chance to give the hosts a second just before the break but after Daniel Peretz spilled the ball, the West Ham forward somehow put his effort wide of the target.<\/p>\n
Saints came close to a fourth in the second half when Finn Azaz played a delightful pass to Dobbin whose low shot struck the outside of the right-hand post.<\/p>\n
After an hour of play Max Kilman came so close to getting his side back into the game, walloping a strike from the edge of the box towards the top corner.<\/p>\n
But his effort hit the woodwork before bouncing onto the diving Peretz and behind for a corner.<\/p>\n
Substitute Soucek made an impact late on when his injury time strike found the bottom right-hand corner in added time but ultimately it was not enough for the hosts with loud boos heard at the full-time whistle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The visiting Saints stunned the West Ham supporters into silence after a fast start in east London. Leo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-893304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}