So relieved by this result, but we have to take some lessons from it. Wenger cannot play the likes of Giroud, Ramsey, Ozil into the ground and expect us to perform to the level our football requires. We need to muster more directness and tempo to put games to bed because for all our possession in the first half we were profligate and then West Ham - despite being down at the bottom of the league and finding it hard generally to score -should have been 2-0 up and we were unlikely to come back from that. Better teams would have punished us.

Poldi was a game changer but would he have been on the pitch but for Wenger's hand being forced by injury? Key players need resting and Newcastle will be a harder test than this lot.