West Ham boss David Moyes is under no illusions facing Newcastle today.
West Ham rate the Toon among the best performing teams in Europe.
He said: "This team has played a lot of the games and we feel as if they have done well enough. Many of them have been good results so hopefully we can do it again today.
"We are enjoying it [Europe] but it [the fixture schedule] is part of being in Europe. We have a squad good enough and big enough to rotate and we did it the other day.
"I think they [Newcastle] are playing as well as any team in Europe at the moment. They have had a great couple of seasons. It was hard for us here last year so hopefully we can improve and get a result."