Charlton maintained their perfect start to the Championship season with a 2-1 victory at West Ham in a pulsating London derby to pile more pressure on the Hammers manager, Nuno Espírito Santo. Lloyd Jones and Tyreece Campbell put Charlton 2-0 ahead before Joel Piroe, signed on loan from Leeds, marked his first appearance for the home side with a goal that set up a frantic finish. Taty Castellanos then missed a stoppage-time penalty for West Ham that would have salvaged a point.
West Ham have not won their past 10 derbies, losing nine of them, but Hammers head coach Nuno defended the decision for Castellanos to take the spot-kick instead of Jarrod Bowen. He said: “We trust Taty to take the penalties. I don’t know [if he will take the next one], we will have to decide.
We got punished from a situation where we know Charlton create problems. It became much harder but we still created a lot of situations but were not accurate enough in the boxes. Football is this – to be accurate in the offensive box and we have to defend much better.
We should have finished better. Of course, I feel under pressure. West Ham is pressure every day – it is a big club.
You see that with 62,000 fans in the stands and we let them down. This is the more disappointing feeling. The boys tried until the end.
We are going to repeat, repeat and repeat in training, in the final third, to create situations that allow us to score. We will keep the belief and the process.” Fer López bagged a double as Wolves secured their first victory of the season with a convincing 3-1 success over Preston at Deepdale. The Spaniard put Wanderers ahead with an eighth-minute rocket and substitute Adam Armstrong tucked home a 71st-minute second, just four minutes after stepping on to the pitch.
Extract — continue reading at the source.
