Newcastle United beat West Ham United 3-0 at St James' Park to pick up their first Premier League points of the 2017-18 campaign.
New signing Joselu marked his full debut with a goal, tapping home from close range following some good work from Christian Atsu down the left.
Goals from Ciaran Clark and substitute Aleksandar Mitrovic followed in the second half to give the Magpies lift-off on their return to the top flight.
Relive how the 90 minutes of action unfolded with Sports Mole's live text coverage below.
STARTING XI: Elliot; Manquillo, Lascelles, Clark, Mbemba; Merino, Hayden; Atsu, Ayoze Perez, Ritchie; Joselu
SUBS: Murphy, Diame, Aarons, Saivet, Jesus Gamez, Woodman, Mitrovic
STARTING XI: Hart; Zabaleta, Collins, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Noble, Rice, Antonio, Fernandes, Ayew, Hernandez
SUBS: Adrian, Fonte, Kouyate, Lanzini, Obiang, Sakho, Masuaku
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Rafael Benitez: "When I said I would stay, it was because of the city, the fans, the stature of the club, the Premier League and it was close to my family. I had a meeting with Mike [Ashley] and I was expecting we could be in a better position than we are now. We are not. We will see if we can improve as much as we can this week. I will try to do my job. How much can I improve the team? It depends on how well we work and how much the players can learn."
Slaven Bilic: "They are not happy with the transfers but they spent more money than we have spent in this transfer window, if we are talking about net money. They won the league and now it was 'now we are going to rule the world' or whatever. What I think happened is they tried but maybe they were unable to get those targets that they wanted. Maybe they were thinking too big and those players, they didn't want to come."
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NEWCASTLE UNITED SUBS: Murphy, Diame, Aarons, Saivet, Jesus Gamez, Woodman, Mitrovic
WEST HAM UNITED SUBS: Adrian, Fonte, Kouyate, Lanzini, Obiang, Sakho, Masuaku
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