Hello and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE digital coverage of Newcastle United and West Ham United at St James' Park. All the facts, stats and team news will be coming your way over the next hour with kick-off at 14:00 GMT.

CHANCE! Off the bar!!! Saint-Maximin at the heart of everything Newcastle are producing. He picks out Almirón in space, who's shot is deflected off the off a West Ham player and goes out for a corner

CHANCE! Right up the other end Shelvey finds Wilson with a long ball and the striker improvises with a clever back heel shot which almost catches Fabianski out

CHANCE! Bowen dances his way through the Newcastle team and gets one on one with Woodman, who stays on this feet and blocks the shot

West Ham now in the driving seat and force Newcastle back with decent build up play

GOAL! The VAR check is over and the goal is given. Cresswell's cross was judged to have not come off Bowen's foot so it's 1-1

VAR CHECK! West Ham have the ball over the line, but the linesman flag goes up. Cresswell sends a low cross which nearly took a touch off Bowen.

CHANCE! Benrahma does well to break into the box, but his cross is over hit and he can't find a claret shirt

West Ham now looking to settle after a frantic opening with some possession football

Ritchie sends in a deep corner which cleared away and West Ham turn defence into attack with a quick counter attack, but a poor ball to Antonio goes out of play

Brilliant work from Wilson who has his back to goal and manages to win a corner

Newcastle flooding forward now as the home crowd cheers them on. This is what they have been waiting for

Newcastle have got the wind in their sails as they push for a quick second

GOAL! Wilson gets his head onto an Saint-Maximin cross after the Frenchman dazzled Rice with some dancing feet. A brilliant start for the home side

It's another out swinging corner that is causing Newcastle issues, but they manage to clear the ball away

Brilliant deliver and Almirón clears Soucek's header off the line to give West Ham another corner

West Ham have won an early corner

West Ham launch the ball forward to Newcastle under pressure early on

Referee Martin Atkinson blows his whistle and the game gets underway with West Ham kicking off

Kick off is less than five minutes away as both sets of players get ready to make their way out into the pitch

Despite Newcastle's poor league form of late, they have an impressive record of opening games, they have won three of their last four Premier League games (L1). They could well secure three consecutive league victories for the first time since November 2018.

The Hammers travelling fans are out in full force!!!