That was impressive from Tottenham, who are starting to look a very good side indeed. They should have scored another couple, as a minimum. Kane’s low drive, after a really bad error from Tomkins, and a nice Kyle Walker goal added to those two first-half strikes; if anything, a thumping late goal from Lanzini flattered West Ham, who didn’t really have a change of tack after falling behind. Spurs are now on the coat tails of the top four, and haven’t lost since the opening day. The only blot on their copybook, really, was Alli’s booking, which keeps him out of the game with Chelsea a week from now. That is all set up to be a cracker! Maybe we’ll see you then – for now, thanks a lot for your company and enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
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Full-time: Tottenham 4-1 West Ham
An absolutely fair result.
90+2 min: Nearly icing on the cake as Dembele fights to the byline and drills across, Reid diverting the ball narrowly over his own goal.
90+2 min: Three minutes added, by the way. Nearly there.
90+1 min: A final change, designed presumably for Kane to get an ovation. The double goalscorer, who could easily have had three, is replaced by Tom Carroll.
89 min: Mason hits the post! Fed by Eriksen, he takes aim from 25 yards and hits a swerving shot that beats Adrian to his left but pings off the upright!
Goal! Tottenham 4-1 West Ham (Lanzini 87)
Well, that wasn’t really on the cards. Walker is actually at fault here, allowing Jelavic possession. He feeds Lanzini, at an angle on the left, and the in-form Argentinian fairly thuds the ball into the roof of the net. It won’t matter.
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85 min: Son comes off, replaced by Josh Onomah.
Goal! Tottenham 4-0 West Ham (Walker 83)
A lovely goal from an unlikely source! Yet again, Walker has a stupid amount of space on the right. Eriksen is overlapping and it seems Walker should use him but he uses the fact that the Dane has taken a man away and passes to Son, who is deep inside the box with his back to goal. Walker continues his run inside and receives the return pass, finishing beautifully with the outside of his foot!
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83 min: Sakho wants a penalty, I think, after a to-do with Vertonghen but nobody else seems too interested.
82 min: This match finished some time ago though, really.
82 min: Mason nearly adds to the scoring, seeing a volley smartly stopped by Adrian before seeing the rebound hit him and dribble towards goal. Adrian manages to recover and gather.
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80 min: Alex Song comes on for his first game of the season, replacing Noble. Obligatory boos from the Spurs faithful.
77 min: West Ham look moody and frustrated, though, let’s make no mistake. And you can understand it: they’ve been thoroughly outplayed.
75 min: More anger! This time it’s Sakho vs Walker. Both are booked. Having seen a replay, it seems Walker went back for seconds with a meaty challenge after he felt Sakho had barged him when trying to retrieve the ball for a throw in down the right.
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74 min: Adrian receives the Most Awkward Backpass Of All Time from Jenkinson, really right by the byline after a Dembele run, and juggles the ball out for a corner, which he catches.
73 min: Lanzini now takes aim from 20 yards and it’s deflected...I think off Vertonghen...and drops wide. Lloris would not have had a chance if that had been on target. Reid heads towards goal from the corner but it is straight at the Frenchman.
71 min: In the meantime, Walker has half of the pitch to run into and whips a ball across from the right, which really deserves reward. But Son can’t get there. Now Mason replaces Alli, who has done well yet again but looks glum about that booking.
70 min: Ryan Mason is now putting a nice clean match shirt on.
68 min: Kane takes aim low and from range again, but this one is easy for Adrian.
68 min: Alli misses the Chelsea game next week because of that, which is not good for player or club. He’s still a really nice guy though, trust me.
66 min: A lull in proceedings. Spurs might just see this one out as is. As I type – minor potential fisticuffs! I think it was Alli and Kane having a little row with Noble, which causes a few to get involved and leads to Noble and Alli being booked.
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63 min: Yes, here is Jelavic. He and Zarate are on for Carroll and Moses. A bit harsh on Moses, who has been one of his side’s better players, but West Ham need a new broom here.
62 min: “In reply to your query on 55 mins - from a Spurs fan - do please shut up,” is a succinct request from Sean O’Neill.
62 min: West Ham have decided to follow the Jelavic road in their bid for a comeback. The Croatian is being readied...
61 min: Rose is very brave to get ahead of Sakho, lurking on the end of a good Moses cross, at the back stick. He took a hefty thump for his troubles, but is fine.
60 min: Dembele, who has remembered what a good player he ought to be in recent weeks, drives forward well and feeds Kane, whose shot from the left corner of the area is well off target.
58 min: Jenkinson then has to deny Alli at the last after a through pass from Dier seems for a moment to have sent him clear.
58 min: Walker lays the ball inside to Son after Spurs switch from left to right. He has a lot of space but waits too long and Reid blocks the shot. Then Carroll heads Eriksen’s corner away.
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57 min: A bit of interest for West Ham, Carroll heading across a Lanzini free kick at the back post, but Reid cannot get onto it.
55 min: Tottenham, then. Could they become the best team in London – or even England? – this season? If you’re a twitchy Gooner I’m asking, not opining.
52 min: Double save from Adrian! Son tests him from an angle on the right first of all and the rebound reaches Eriksen, who thrashes a volley into the ground and up – only for the goalkeeper to save well again. Spurs are rampant.
Goal! Spurs 3-0 West Ham (Kane 50)
The free-kick comes to nothing, but it doesn’t matter. That’s so poor from Tomkins, who receives the ball short from Adrian and proceeds to pass straight to Eriksen, who swiftly finds Kane. He’s 20 yards out and drills the ball hard beneath Adrian, who might perhaps have done better given that it wasn’t exactly in the corner. Clinical from Spurs but incredibly unnecessary from a West Ham perspective.
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49 min: Dele Alli, the lovely Dele Alli, tries a shot after good work by Eriksen but it’s blocked. Spurs applying the early pressure though and zipping it about slickly. Now Noble concedes a free kick just to the right of the area...
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47 min: Reid is back up and play continues.
46 min: Reid is down after a high foot from Kyle Walker that has displeased West Ham’s players. It was a bit of a follow-through kick on the shin really. Sakho was nowhere near it but seems particularly affronted.
Peeeeeep!
Spurs commence the second period.
Well, no changes, they’re back out and Slaven Bilic gave Mark Noble some sort of inspirational pep talk that included clenched fists.
Would you change anything at half-time, Hammers fans? A West Ham fan sitting very near me would bring Zarate on for Carroll.
While I grab a coffee, think on this from Shaun Wilkinson: “There has rightly been a lot of praise for West Ham so far this season, but let’s not forget where they were this time last year. They are without Payet now, and looking very shaky here - without wishing to jump to conclusions, do you think their season could end up having exactly the same trajectory as last season?”
Half-time: Tottenham 2-0 West Ham
There you go. West Ham were fine for 20 minutes, really squeezing the life out of things, and it looked as if we were in for a real slugfest. Then Kane finished well after the ball broke to him in the box, Alderweireld added a second and Spurs could easily have scored a couple more after that – Alli hitting the bar and Kane missing a sitter when through. West Ham have flickered at times and Kouyate hit the bar with an overhead kick at 1-0. He was offside, but no flag went up and it would seemingly have stood. It’s a long way back for them now: can Bilic muster up a proactive approach in the second half that doesn’t result in their being picked off on the counter?
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45+1 min: Sakho touches through and Carroll, for a second, seems to be in on goal on left of the six-yard box but Vertonghen recovers well to outmuscle him.
45 min: Spurs having plenty of the ball, still, and Moses has to track back well to thwart an interplay between Eriksen and Kane.
43 min: Tomkins puts a decent ball in for Carroll on the 18-yard line and he controls well enough, but had far better options than his eventual half-turn and wild shot over the bar.
42 min: Now Kane gets away again, down the right, and has Alli screaming for it in the box. Kouyate manages to deflect the cross behind. The corner is played to Alli, who shoots, and Kouyate again deflects out for a corner. Adrian claims it, but West Ham desperately need half-time, they have fallen apart here.
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39 min: Eeeeewwww, what a miss by Kane! Sent clear by a slightly lucky bounce off Reid, he is one-on-one with Adrian and has plenty of time to pick his spot with his left foot. He takes aim ... and completely miscues, skewing horribly wide. This game should be over.
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38 min: Sakho, now appearing on the left, cross-shots more in hope than expectation and Lloris gathers. Bilic has his arms folded and looks suitably concerned at the path things have taken.
36 min: How is it not three?! Son manages to fool most of the West Ham defence by delaying his shot and has clear space to crack one at Adrian from 15 yards. The ‘keeper saves well but the ball loops up and Alli, winning the header, nods towards goal ... but it comes back off the bar!
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35 min: It will be very hard to West Ham to score two now.
Goal! Tottenham 2-0 West Ham (Alderweireld 33)
It’s two! Spurs win a corner when Tomkins steps in to deny Son. Eriksen’s first delivery of the match was poor but this, his second, is excellent – whipped in from the left quadrant and met perfectly by Alderweireld, running across to the near post, to flash an unstoppable header home!
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32 min: Rose fires successive low crosses in but they’re cleared, not all that convincingly. The spell of Spurs pressure ends when the left-back fouls Lanzini.
31 min: Kane flicks Moses’ outswinger away and then Eriksen does really well to force West Ham’s possession all the way back to Adrian.
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30 min: But now the Argentinian finds Jenkinson in space and his cross is decent, but Son intervenes. West Ham are still hunting in packs and then almost win the ball back on the edge of the area with men free. And now Sakho, by chasing a direct ball, wins another corner. Good response from them....
29 min: Worth noting that we haven’t had a peek out of Lanzini yet. Probably not the game for him so far.
West Ham not been behind before in one of these tough away games this season. Changes the way they want to play.
— Jacob Steinberg (@JacobSteinberg) November 22, 2015
Truth.
28 min: Vertonghen lashes an excitable 30-yarder over with his left foot.
25 min: West Ham almost equalise straightaway! A superb overhead kick from Kouyate strikes the bar, although he seemed a mile offside after a deflected shot reached him and there would have been a big to-do had that gone in. Then they win a corner and Carroll heads to Lloris. This has hotted right up.
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Goal! Tottenham 1-0 West Ham (Kane 23)
Seven goals in five games for Harry Kane! It’s a good move from Spurs, Son working the ball to Alli, whose shot spins off Reid. It reaches Kane, who rolls Jenkinson – a little too easily perhaps – and lashes home from 10 yards. Spurs lead!
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21 min: Close! For the first time in the match, Spurs have an opening around the edge of the area and Eriksen, 20 yards out, forces Adrian into a full-stretch save to his right with a left-footed drive. His subsequent corner is poor.
20 min: Moses has started well, actually, and seems to have beaten Walker down the left touchline but Alderweireld helps out.
19 min: Spurs are, as ever, being patient and neat but West Ham are absolutely smothering the space. Carroll, Sakho and Moses are doing a very good job defending from the front at the moment.
17 min: Sakho beats Rose much, much too easily at the other end and has plenty of space. He crosses with the outside of his right foot – he has no left foot – but it’s nodded away.
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16 min: Safety first from Tomkins, conceding a throw near the corner flag. Eventually Walker receives the ball at right back and has two crosses in quick succession cleared.
14 min: But Jenkinson does have to clear ahead of Eriksen there, before Tomkins stops a Dier ball running through to Kane. West Ham are forming a wall in front of the 18-yard box though and it’s working.
13 min: West Ham are certainly sharper to the ball here so far, even if they aren’t using it all that well. Tottenham yet to really get close to their goal.
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11 min: This one is dinked inventively to Cresswell, who is just inside the area, and he goes well to control and cross but it’s too close to Lloris.
10 min: ....of which little arises directly, but the ball does end up with Moses on the left and he does well to get to the byline and cross before Dier hacks away. Seconds later he wins another corner.
9 min: And now Jenkinson gets forward from right-back; Rose deflects his shot for a corner...
9 min: Dier is penalised for a foul on Carroll and now West Ham have their first chance to toss a set piece into the box. But it’s played short to Cresswell, a whose implausible 40-yarder exasperates everyone who’s jogged upfield as it flies over.
7 min: A quiet start here, really. It’s cautious and scrappy.
6 min: Hammers fan Phil Ames, who is at pains to stress he is no relation (how do you know that, Phil, eh?), opines: “Actually, no hatred here at all. 5 of my bestest friends are rabid Spurs fans. I like them, they (seem to) like me. Guess it helps that most of us are in New York.”
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4 min: Only one or two touches for Dele Alli so far, but isn’t he just on track to become everyone’s favourite footballer? He will cost somebody a lot of money one day. He’s a lovely lad too, I interviewed him in March and he was an absolute delight.
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3 min: A spell of possession for Spurs comes to an end when Alderweireld’s diagonal ball goes out for a goal kick. He’s been good this season though, hasn’t he?
1 min: Diafra Sakho had an excellent game in the 2-2 here last season, I remember, running the channels like a man possessed. He is involved early on down the right here but can’t get his foot around the ball to cross.
Peeeeeeeeep!
Aaaaaaand we’re off. West Ham begin proceedings for us. If you were watching this on telly, they’d be shooting from left to right.
Before we begin, the players stand together for a rendition of La Marseillaise.
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The teams have emerged. Cold, sharp November evening, crackling atmosphere, it’s going to be fun.
Maybe this is quite a big deal after all, then.
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@NickAmes82 Believe me Nick, we hate each other so much. Any Spurs fan that says this doesn't matter is lying to themselves!!! #COYS
— Garry Bacon (@gbacon85) November 22, 2015
From Tom Shaw: “How big a derby is this? As a Hammers fan take it from me, it’s huge. We detest each other.”
So we already have an element of disagreement. Interesting.
Adam Griffiths on the very dapper appearance of Sky’s pundit this afternoon: “Why has Scott Parker turned up dressed as a butler? I didn’t think footballers needed second jobs nowadays, austerity biting everywhere by the looks of it.”
@NickAmes82 asymmetric Derby this one. Hammers hate us more than we hate them, though that hate gap narrowing fast, esp in Spurs boardroom
— The Spurs Report (@crg_yeah) November 22, 2015
Ah, ok, so a bit like Ipswich v Colchester.
At White Hart Lane, where they're currently playing Summertime by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. Wishful thinking, I fear
— Simon Burnton (@Simon_Burnton) November 22, 2015
Jazzy Jeff is now 50, when did that happen?
Can a Spurs or West Ham fan tell me: how big a derby is this to you? Actually? It’ll be even more of one, geographically, when West Ham move to the Olympic Stadium but to the neutral this one has always felt like a “half-derby” in terms of how much people actually care. It does tend to throw up a good game though.
It’s bitter out, no? I was at Stamford Bridge yesterday and positively – well, negatively really – froze. Be thankful you aren’t in Berlin, though: it’s currently one solitary degree there, the snow is coming down in Hertha v Hoffenheim, the orange ball is out and it’s quite a sight.
Here for your email chat, by the way, as ever. Enjoy the weekend’s football so far?
A result from the Championship: Burnley 1-1 Brighton. The latter are still unbeaten. Both goals came in the first four minutes of the game.
The teams
Tottenham Hotspur: Lloris, Walker, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Rose, Dier, Alli, Son, Dembele, Eriksen, Kane. Subs: Mason, Vorm, Trippier, Townsend, Onomah, Carroll, Davies.
West Ham: Adrian, Jenkinson, Tomkins, Reid, Cresswell, Kouyate, Noble, Moses, Lanzini, Sakho, Carroll. Subs: Song, Zarate, Ogbonna, Jelavic, Antonio, Spiegel, Oxford.
Referee: Anthony Taylor
You like what you see, Spurs and Hammers fans? Erik Lamela is suspended for this one so perhaps that cancels out the Payet loss a little bit, for the purposes of this match at least. Couple of interesting things on the benches: Andros Townsend is back from being a Bad Boy, and Alex Song is fit enough to be in contention for his first appearance of the season for West Ham.
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We can pretty much call this one already. Can’t we? West Ham, away at one of the Champions League contenders? They win, don’t they – like they won at Arsenal, Man City and Liverpool. It’s not like they’re playing Watford. They lost to Watford.
In all seriousness, this looks a finely-balanced encounter and another that will certainly give us an inkling as to whether Slaven Bilic’s team, currently fifth and only behind Spurs on goal difference, can hack this kind of pace in the longer term. There is still a feeling that they are capable of absolutely any kind of result, while Spurs are emitting an air of stability and control at the moment. The home team have not lost in the Premier League since the opening day, and that was one they shouldn’t have let Manchester United get away with. It’s been good, controlled, methodical football from Maurico Pochettino’s side with enough flair to put most opponents away. They look impressive just now and, like West Ham, would move two points behind Arsenal and Man City with a win today.
Last season, West Ham threw away a two-goal lead to draw this one late on. Their approach was rather more artisanal back then under Sam Allardyce and it might be that they need to dig in today. This season’s shining light, the excellent Dimitri Payet, will miss the next three months after that challenge by Everton’s James McCarthy two weeks ago. It’s a big blow, and with Enner Valencia also sidelined they’re looking a little stretched in attacking areas.
But you can’t imagine them not giving this a go, and this has all the ingredients to be an intensely fought-out London derby – with a great deal more at stake than might have been the case in years gone by. Stay with us...
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Nick will be here soon. In the meantime, here’s David Hytner on West Ham’s Manuel Lanzini.
It was a struggle for almost everybody to look beyond Manuel Lanzini’s previous club. The Argentinian attacking midfielder arrived at West Ham United in July on a season-long loan from al-Jazira in Abu Dhabi and facts needed to be faced. When had a player last moved from the Arabian Gulf League to light up the Premier League?
West Ham had taken a cast-off from the Gulf last February and nobody remembers Nenê’s three-month spell at Upton Park with particular fondness. The Brazilian striker had been released in January by the Qatari club al-Gharafa.
Lanzini joined during a window in which West Ham welcomed a clutch of higher-profile signings, most notably another attacking midfielder, Dimitri Payet, from Marseille for £10.7m, not to mention the new manager, Slaven Bilic, and at a time when the club was slogging through an underwhelming Europa League qualifying campaign.
To say that the diminutive 22-year-old slipped under the radar was an understatement but it has only added further sheen to his rise, which has seen him emerge as an early contender to be considered as the bargain signing of the season.
He scored on his debut at Astra Giurgiu – after three minutes – as the club exited the Europa League but it was his goal in the 3-0 win at Liverpool – also after three minutes – on his full Premier League debut that lit the touchpaper.
