{"id":109060,"date":"2026-08-23T03:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/109060\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:59:18","slug":"okonkwos-charlton-deliver-blow-to-hammers-with-london-derby-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/109060\/","title":{"rendered":"Okonkwo\u2019s Charlton deliver blow to Hammers with London derby triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlton maintained their perfect start to the Championship season with a 2-1 victory at West Ham on Saturday that added to the pressure on Hammers boss Nuno Espirito Santo.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd Jones and Tyreece Campbell Charlton 2-0 up in the London derby before Joel Piroe, on loan from Leeds, pulled one back on his West Ham debut.<\/p>\n<p>Taty Castellanos missed a stoppage-time penalty for the Hammers, relegated from the Premier League last season, as Charlton made it two wins from two.<\/p>\n<p>Southampton bounced back from defeat by Watford as Divin Mubama scored a dramatic late goal on his home debut to help the Saints secure a 3-1 victory over former club Stoke.<\/p>\n<p>Almost a year ago, the Manchester City loan striker was sent off for Stoke at St Mary\u2019s for diving.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Manning scored an injury-time penalty after Svante Ingelsson was sent off for bringing down Samuel Edozie.<\/p>\n<p>Cyle Larin bagged his third goal in as many games to give Tonda Eckert\u2019s side an early lead but Stoke hit back through Ethan Galbraith.<\/p>\n<p>Southampton have been deducted four points and were expelled from the Championship play-off final after being found guilty of spying on a training session of Middlesbrough, the side they beat in the semi-final in contravention of league rules.<\/p>\n<p>Fer Lopez scored two goals as\u00a0Wolves\u00a0secured their first win of the season with a 3-1 success away to Preston.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn\u00a0stunned\u00a0Middlesbrough\u00a0with two goals in six second-half minutes to earn a 2-1 victory at Ewood Park, while Wrexham\u00a0drew 1-1 with\u00a0Watford\u00a0in front of Hollywood owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff remain unbeaten two games into their return to the second tier after Cian Ashford and Yousef Salech\u2019s goals secured a 2-2 draw at\u00a0Derby.<\/p>\n<p>Tairyk Arconte scored his first two goals for\u00a0Millwall\u00a0as they overwhelmed 10-man\u00a0Norwich\u00a03-0 to earn their second successive win.<\/p>\n<p>Norwich, who\u2019ve now lost both of their opening games, had defender Jose Cordoba sent off in the second half at The Den.<\/p>\n<p>Portsmouth\u00a0claimed their first win of the campaign with a 3-1 success at\u00a0Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>Demarai Gray rescued a point for\u00a0Birmingham\u00a0with a late penalty in a 2-2 draw at home to\u00a0Bristol City.<\/p>\n<p>QPR drew 0-0 with Bolton\u00a0at Loftus Road and it was a similar story for Sheffield United, under threat of a 12-point deduction for unpaid debts, as they played out their second goalless stalemate of the season at Swansea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlton maintained their perfect start to the Championship season with a 2-1 victory at West Ham on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[27,15474],"class_list":["post-109060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-london","tag-west-ham"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117142825495474054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}