On 37 minutes di Michele doubles his tally with great move. His shot is stopped brilliantly by Given only to loop up. Di Michele then recovers the ball eight yards out, controls by dinking it over Taylor's head, sets up his shot, and drills the ball passed a recovered Given at the near post.
Brilliant individual goal.
West Ham go into half-time 2-0. Derservedly so.
52 minutes and di Michele's cross/shot picks out Matty Etherington who slides the ball home.
3-0 West Ham. It could be a massacre.
58 minutes and di Michele blasts a good chance over the bar.
66 minutes gone and Michael Owen shows his class bending the ball beautifully into the West Ham goal from 18 yards. Game on?
Pressure from Newcastle, penalty claims and a Duff shot.
A period of scrappy play eats fifteen minutes off the clock.
The last ten minutes. Newcastle need to score quickly if they are to steal a point.
Good end to end play but no more goals. Boa Morte should have scored in time added on.
3-1 to West Ham, could have been more. They played some lovely, fast flowing football.
West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola:
"In one week I'd like to say we did something to these guys but to be fair to them it's down to them and what Alan Curbishley did so far. The attitude has been incredible."
"We knew already that in the last 20 minutes our condition had gone a bit down, but even in those moments, we kept the shape and tried to maintain good position - I'm very proud of them."
"My duty is to make things work on the pitch, me and all my staff will be working on that, then we need support from (technical director) Gianluca Nani and the board, who will need to do their part - I trust them, they trust me."
Acting Newcastle coach Chris Hughton:
"I thought we came out very well in the second half and once Michael Owen got the goal I genuinely thought we had a chance of getting back in."
If we were going to get something it was from wide, Geremi and Damien Duff. You can't afford to concede so early on, we got back in and played some good stuff but they were soft goals."
"I was very pleased that we had a real go in the second half, it was a spirited performance, we could have got something out of the game.
"The situation's no different to how it was a week or so ago. It'll be best for all when a manager comes in but that's not the situation at the moment but I can't fault the application of the players."
West Ham: Green, Behrami, Upson, Neill, Ilunga, Faubert, Noble, Parker (Mullins 72), Etherington (Boa Morte 73), Di Michele, Cole (Sears 87). Subs Not Used: Lastuvka, Lopez, Davenport, Reid.
Booked: Neill.
Goals: Di Michele 8, 37, Etherington 53.
Newcastle: Given, Edgar (Bassong 59), Taylor, Coloccini, N'Zogbia, Geremi, Cacapa (Gonzalez 81), Butt, Duff, Owen, Xisco. Subs Not Used: Harper, Ameobi, Tozer, Doninger, Donaldson.
Booked: Taylor, N'Zogbia.
Goals: Owen 67.
Att: 34,743
Ref: Phil Dowd (Staffordshire).
