Key occasions
51 min: Antonio barges his means down the left and attracts a foul from Romero. Ward-Prowse sends a protracted in-swinger in the direction of Soucek, who can’t maintain the ball in play to the appropriate of aim. The stress on Spurs is launched.
50 min: Now Paqueta spins and whistles a rising shot inches huge of the highest left. West Ham have began this half brilliantly.
49 min: … Mavropanos heads down and goalwards. Vicario scoops bravely off the road. Antonio ought to slam dwelling from shut vary, however takes a fresh-air shot. Spurs clear, then the whistle goes, as Antonio had been impeding the keeper.
48 min: Bentancur ships possession carelessly simply exterior his personal field. Ward-Prowse tees up Antonio, whose highly effective roller in the direction of the underside proper is tipped out by Vicario. And from the ensuing nook …
47 min: Below no stress in any respect, Romero needlessly permits a speculative lengthy ball to hit his arm. Play goes on, however the defender was the final man and nicely, it’d have been dreadfully tender, however you’ve seen selections given for much less.
46 min: The rain’s stopped once more.
West Ham get the second half underway. No adjustments.
Half-time postbag. “Anybody else get the sensation that James Ward Proust is desperately looking for a remembrance of set-pieces previous?” – Brian Withington
“If Zouma does that once more, would it not be the highest flight’s first vertebrace?” – Grant Tennille (in an e mail headed “Spinal Faucet-in”)
Half-time leisure.
HALF TIME: West Ham United 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur
The whistle goes to finish an open and entertaining end-to-end first half. It’s began raining once more, by the best way.
45 min +3: West Ham solely half clear the nook, and from the sting of the D, Bentancur sends a roller in the direction of the highest proper. It’s huge. Undecided Fabianski had that lined.
45 min +2: A second nook results in a 3rd. Maddison will take this one as nicely, if there’s time.
45 min +1: Johnson dribbles purposefully down the appropriate and wins a nook off Kudus. Porro’s outswinger is hooked clear by Emerson …. however Spurs come once more by Maddison, whose jinky run earns one other nook. Maddison will take this one himself.
45 min: … and it’ll are available two minutes.
44 min: Maddison then barges Paqueta to the ground on the subsequent alternative. Up goes the warmth. Then Antonio tries to take a fast throw down the left wing, just for Van de Ven to cheekily flick the ball away. Van de Ven turns into the primary participant to earn a spot within the referee’s pocket book. Just a few tempers abruptly rising. Half time can’t come rapidly sufficient.
43 min: Paqueta barges into Maddison. Shoulder to shoulder, however exhausting. The referee provides Paqueta talking-to. Paqueta provides Maddison a hand of apology. It’s brushed away, to pantomime boos.
42 min: Ward-Prowse curls right into a packed mixer. Udogie eyebrows away to the appropriate flank. Coufal sends it again in. Bentancur attracts a foul from Paqueta and the stress that had been constructing on Spurs is launched.
41 min: One more West Ham nook … however this time it’ll are available from the left, Kudus having received it. Ward-Prowse to take this one.
40 min: Bowen hits this one lengthy. Below excessive stress from a couple of claret shirts, Vicario fingertips away from hazard.
39 min: Udogie heads this one clear … however as soon as once more Bowen comes once more, and as soon as extra wins a nook on the appropriate. Right here we go.
38 min: Coufal flings a protracted throw in from the appropriate. Bissouma heads it clear, however Bowen comes again at Spurs down the identical flank and wins one other nook. He’ll take it himself.
36 min: Bowen is skittled 25 yards from aim by Romero. One other Spurs participant who’s lucky not to enter the e-book. Referee John Brooks doing his finest Anthony Taylor impression right here. Ward-Prowse takes the free kick, and goes for aim, aiming in the direction of the top-right nook. Vicario ideas it away confidently.
34 min: Spurs have loved 91 % of possession over the last 5 minutes. The London Stadium is a bit subdued in consequence.
33 min: The rain has stopped.
32 min: “The large query for West Ham followers is whether or not Kurt Zouma meant it? Did he again himself to attain there?” Justin Kavanagh with the zinger, as a result of any person needed to make it.
30 min: TNT flash up one other instructive stat: Spurs have made 193 passes to West Ham’s 77. Johnson practically makes it 194 however his ball from the appropriate, despatched by the Hammers six-yard field, evades Werner, who doesn’t trouble to gamble by making a transfer, although most likely ought to have.
28 min: Porro sends a vicious cross in from the appropriate. Fabianski punches clear spectacularly, and barely luckily, the ball slicing off his fists and away from aim. It wasn’t a clear connection, and the ball might simply have flown the opposite means and into the online.
27 min: Porro has the prospect to launch Maddison in the direction of aim, however overhits his go. Each groups are going for this, hell for leather-based.
26 min: Paqueta busies himself down the inside-left channel. He lays off to Bowen, who from the sting of the D sends the ball goalwards after a bizarre ricochet. It practically squirts into the underside proper, however Vicario adjusts rapidly to scramble and collect.
25 min: Bissouma comes by the again of Bowen and is pretty lucky not to enter the e-book. Maybe the situations performed an element within the referee’s determination to restrict the punishment to a peep of his whistle.
24 min: Bowen barrels down the appropriate and, only for a second, appears like tearing infield in the direction of the Spurs field. However the speedy Van de Ven sticks to his shoulder and ultimately eases him off the ball. Bowen desires a free kick, however he’s not getting one; it was glorious defending. Nice play all spherical, in actual fact.
22 min: Paqueta floats a diagonal ball in from the left. Antonio practically executes a wonderful chest down on the sting of the D, however earlier than he can flip and shoot, he slips and handles as he falls. Ah nicely. The London Stadium is bouncing, and no marvel: it is a actually entertaining recreation!
20 min: Informed you this wouldn’t finish 0-1. It received’t finish 1-1 both. I’m actually not going too far out on a limb right here.
GOAL! West Ham United 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Zouma 19)
Bowen curls the nook deep. Zouma rises highest and meets the ball, six yards out. It flies into the highest left … of the defender’s again. What an odd end, slapping in off Zouma’s quantity 4, however the groups are stage and the place erupts!
18 min: The Coufal-Bowen mixture down the appropriate appears West Ham’s finest wager. They trade passes once more and win one other nook. It’s West Ham’s third of the sport already. And from it …
17 min: Paqueta, who has been West Ham’s most distinguished and efficient defender to date this night, and that tells a story, heads the free kick clear.
16 min: Paqueta nudges Udogie to the bottom because the marauding Spurs left-back makes good down his wing. Free kick. Everybody piles into the field. Maddison to ship it in.
15 min: That probability for Son was the results of Fabianski and Mavropanos dithering below no stress over a low Johnson cross from the appropriate, permitting Werner and Udogie to step in and steal the ball. It was then labored to Son, the keeper making up for his preliminary mistake. The house followers sound involved. West Ham look super-shaky on the again, their confidence shattered by the Toon final weekend.
13 min: A little bit of house for Son, 20 yards out. He drops a shoulder and goals for the highest proper. He doesn’t fairly catch it and Fabianski claims.
12 min: Maddison steams down the center and finds Son on the appropriate. He retains going and may get the ball again, however as he prepares to enter the world, Paqueta intercepts Son’s careless go.
10 min: Spurs work the ball this fashion and that. Porro then arrives from the appropriate and sends a low diagonal screamer inches huge of the left-hand publish. Fabianski most likely had that lined, but it surely was hellishly shut. No means is that this recreation going to finish 0-1.
9 min: TNT with the stat bomb: West Ham have now conceded 4 targets of their final 28 minutes of soccer. That’s not going to make David Moyes very joyful, is it?
7 min: West Ham reply nicely to falling behind. Coufal earns a nook down the appropriate and the set piece isn’t correctly handled by Vicario. The ball drops to Kudus, who tries to high-kick goalwards from 12 yards. The ball pings off the close by Romero’s elbow, but it surely’s simply one other nook, not a penalty in 1,000,000 years. Nothing comes of the second nook.
6 min: That was ever so easy however a beautiful workforce aim nonetheless. Maddison’s go was completely weighted, and Werner set it up on a plate for Johnson, who had timed his run in from the opposite flank completely and couldn’t miss.
GOAL! West Ham United 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Johnson 5)
Werner elegantly dribbles down the inside-left channel, having been despatched clear by Maddison. He whips a low cross in the direction of the close to publish, the place Johnson arrives to flip into the bottom-left nook from shut vary. Simple as that!
4 min: Kudus makes a nuisance of himself down the left, stealing the ball off a dithering Porro. A low cross someway will get by a crowded field and reaches a stunned Bowen, who can’t modify in time and bats a poor effort nicely huge left from six yards. That was an honest probability.
3 min: Bowen’s cute backheel down the appropriate practically releases Coufal … however not fairly. A quick begin to this match on a slick floor.
2 min: Soucek clatters into Bissouma. Derby Problem #1.
1 min: Spurs begin within the no-nonsense type, Maddison nearly instantly making an attempt to launch Son down the center. Emerson is on level to intercept and put a cease to their scheme.
Tottenham Hotspur get the ball rolling. It’s tipping down.
The groups are out! West Ham in claret and blue, Spurs in lilywhite, fairly bubbles popping within the rain, the super-seventies sound of that squelchy bassline. A high quality ambiance below the lights, and we’ll be off in a minute or two.
Our pre-match postbag is teeming with an e mail. Right here it’s! “Between Son, Johnson, Maddison, Richarlison and Emerson on the workforce sheet, Spurs are giving the Iceland nationwide workforce a run for his or her cash. Thunderclap please!” OK women and gents, let’s do what the person says and put our arms collectively for Peter Oh. Húh!
David Moyes takes his flip to talk with the great people of TNT. “Hopefully we are able to get the sport from Saturday out of our system and present what we are able to do tonight … with the brief turnaround it’s exhausting to get an excessive amount of work accomplished … once we had been successful [at Newcastle] I’d have preferred us to have been a bit harder … we’ve been conceding a couple of targets which we have now to eradicate … Tottenham’s type is excellent … they’re an thrilling workforce … we have now to ensure to show the ball over and trigger issues on the counter … we’re up in opposition to a workforce who’re excellent in possession … once you’re a participant and also you’ve had a [bad] end result, you wish to come out and get the prospect to indicate you are able to do it … they’re getting that chance tonight … an incredible recreation to play in, a giant London derby, so let’s hope we flip up and present what we are able to do.”
Ange Postecoglou talks to TNT Sports activities. “It’s alternative to freshen our workforce up … it’ll be a tricky problem tonight … the lads have tempo which I believe we’ll want … I’m a bit of little bit of an outsider however I’m nicely knowledgeable in regards to the rivalry between the golf equipment … I’m trying ahead to it tonight … we’ve obtained to be actually cautious however our soccer is about imposing ourselves … our press and exhausting work has been fairly good … Son [who is making his 400th appearance for Spurs tonight] is excellent and can go down as a legend at our membership … he’s obtained such excessive requirements … he’s an excellent individual as nicely … targets, assists and once you want them, too … I’m not dismissing Champions League soccer however I don’t wish to see us making that the tip aim and considering it’s going to assist us subsequent 12 months … finally the one factor that provides us is a platform to enhance … I need us to complete the season sturdy and maintain enhancing, then strengthen within the low season … if we end the season sturdy that units us up for a much bigger 12 months subsequent 12 months.”
A reminder, not that you simply want it, however right here it’s anyway, that 4 different Premier League matches are being performed this night. A few them are beginning proper about now, and John Brewin has all it is advisable to know. Don’t neglect to come back again right here, although. Our tech consultants advocate the implementation of a two-tab-toggling studying system.
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Newcastle v Fulham (7.30pm)
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Nottingham Forest v Fulham (7.30pm)
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Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (7.45pm)
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Burnley v Wolves (7.45pm)
West Ham make only one change to their beginning line-up within the wake of the 4-3 defeat at Newcastle. Alphonse Areola hasn’t recovered from the groin harm that ended his day prematurely at St James’ Park; Lukasz Fabianski continues to face in. Poor outdated Kalvin Phillips, chided and derided, can’t catch a break proper now: he’s on the subs’ bench once more.
Spurs make three adjustments after their slender 2-1 win over Luton City. Micky Van de Ven, Rodrigo Bentancur and Brennan Johnson get the nod forward of Radu Dragusin, Pape Matar Sarr and Dejan Kulusevsk, all of whom drop to the bench.
The groups
West Ham United: Fabianski, Coufal, Mavropanos, Zouma, Emerson Palmieri, Soucek, Ward-Prowse, Bowen, Lucas Paqueta, Kudus, Antonio.
Subs: Johnson, Cresswell, Phillips, Cornet, Ings, Ogbonna, Earthy, Mubama, Anang.
Tottenham Hotspur: Vicario, Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Udogie, Bissouma, Bentancur, Johnson, Maddison, Werner, Son.
Subs: Hojbjerg, Dragusin, Richarlison, Emerson, Lo Celso, Kulusevski, Sarr, Davies, Austin.
Referee: John Brooks (Leicestershire).
Preamble
These two groups, boy oh boy. So let’s see. West Ham are coming off the again of a match they managed to lose regardless of having been 3-1 up with 13 minutes to play; Spurs in the meantime misplaced their final away fixture 3-0, and received the one previous that by 4 targets. So good luck predicting which means tonight’s recreation goes to go. Chances are high, although, it’ll be a doozy. Kick off on the London Stadium is 8.15pm. Mayhem ahoy! It’s on!