{"id":332191,"date":"2025-08-10T03:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332191\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T03:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:53:20","slug":"extended-highlights-west-ham-united-1-1-losc-lille-5-4-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/332191\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended Highlights | West Ham United 1-1 LOSC Lille (5-4 pens)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham United came from a goal down before Alphonse Areola\u2019s two penalty shootout saves secured a pre-season victory over French visitors LOSC Lille.<\/p>\n<p>It was a tale of two experienced international centre-forwards in normal time. First, old adversary Olivier Giroud returned to haunt West Ham with a well-taken goal in first half stoppage-time, then Niclas F\u00fcllkrug levelled with a clinical finish three minutes from the end of the second.<\/p>\n<p>Into the shootout and Areola denied Nathan Ngoy to take it to sudden death, then kept out Lilian Baret\u2019s spot-kick to secure a welcome and deserved win for Head Coach Graham Potter and his squad.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s victory brought an end to West Ham\u2019s five-match, four-country pre-season adventures, with the 2025\/26 Premier League campaign next up, kicking-off at Sunderland on Saturday 16 August.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the best of the action in the video player above.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.whufc.com\/kits\/all-kit\/?utm_source=whufc&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=homekitlaunch_2025&amp;utm_content=article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham United came from a goal down before Alphonse Areola\u2019s two penalty shootout saves secured a pre-season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-332191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115002448447682902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}