An entertaining first half finishes with the scores level. Tottenham have had the vast majority of the ball and chances, but, unsurprisingly, they are vulnerable at the back. Mohammed Kudus, who opened the scoring for West Ham, was a threat for the entire first 45 minutes, drifting in from the left and beating players. Similarly, Dejan Kulusevski is giving the visiting team a hard time and it was the Swede who equalised. There was one amusing moment when Michail Antonio looked like he was going to try to out-run Micky van de Ven, but put the brakes on when he saw who he was up against. Van de Ven then casually barged him off the ball before taking it away. Watch for Antonio to try to get some sort of revenge in the second half.
This is a familiar sight for Spurs fans: their team seeing all of the ball and enjoying all of the territory at home, but making hard work of breaking down a deep defence.
It might take a shot from distance, and Areola produces a superb save after Porro’s effort from range was deflected. The West Ham goalkeeper had started to dive right and had to change direction.
Spurs have yet another corner, their 11th of the game. They are not really threatening though, and then Kudus holds off Maddison to win a foul and relieve the pressure.
Spurs with another corner, delivered to the back post by Maddison from the left but West Ham defend. A little loopy and lacking in pace from Maddison. Paqueta then leads West Ham forward on the break, but Spurs sprint back in numbers.
But the first big chance of the game goes to West Ham! Bowen pulled a low cross behind the retreating Spurs back four, and Kudus had plenty of time to line the shot up. Connected well, but a little too close to Vicario who made an impressive stop. A warning for Spurs.
Ange Postecoglou and Totttenham had a fortnight to stew on their second-half capitulation at Brighton but are firm favourites to get back to winning ways against West Ham United this lunchtime.
After taking just four points from their first four Premier League games of the season, including a north London derby defeat against Arsenal, Spurs were enjoying a mini-revival until their optimism was punctured at Brighton.
In their last game against Champions League contenders, West Ham were cut to ribbons by Chelsea but a 4-1 victory over Ipswich before the international break lifted some of the pressure on Julen Lopetegui. West Ham won at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last season and often save their best for this fixture.
West Ham are without summer signing Niclas Fullkrug because of injury, but Spurs are hopeful that Son Heung-min and Richarlison will be available. Spurs’ underlying attacking metrics and general level of dominance in matches has been impressive, but there remains a sense they suffer from a glass chin.
Speaking about the collapse at Brighton, Postecoglou said: “I mean you can’t just dismiss what happened in the first half and just focus on the second half. It would be different if it was a really poor performance all round.
“Then, it’s not easier, but the analysis can be straightforward. The question is, ‘why were we so good in the first half and so poor in the second?’.
“The second half was more around we just didn’t look anything like ourselves. We were really passive with and without the ball. We lacked real conviction and courage in everything we did. It was almost like we felt like we had done enough.
“I hadn’t seen that before in us and it is a good lesson for the whole group that you need to make sure, irrespective of how a game is going, you stick to the core principles of your football.”
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