West Ham Vs Tottenham: Match Thread

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West Ham 2 - 3 Spurs ​

Carroll, Cole Bale (2), Sigurdsson​

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Spurs: Lloris, Walker, Dawson, Caulker, Vertonghen, Parker (Livermore), Dembele (Carroll), Lennon, Bale, Holtby (Sigurdsson) & Adebayor
Subs: Friedel, Assou-Ekotto, Gallas, Naughton

West Ham: Jaaskelainen, Demel, Reid, Collins, O'Brien, O'Neil, Diame, Nolan, Jarvis, Carroll, Joe Cole.
Subs: Spiegel, Carlton Cole, Collison, Vaz Te, Taylor, Pogatetz, Chamakh.

Ref: Howard Webb

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20:08 YELLOW CARD - West Ham 0-0 Tottenham
More applause rings out around Upton Park as we enter the sixth minute. Mousa Dembele then gets a silly booking for clattering into Kevin Nolan seconds after he thought he was fouled. Every free-kick conceded is a chance for West Ham to put the ball into the box but Tottenham defend this one well.
20:14 GOAL - West Ham 0-1 Tottenham - Gareth Bale
Guy Demel what have you done? The West Ham man commits a cardinal sin, miscuing a pass straight to the red-hot Gareth Bale, who breezes past James Collins before planting his shot into the corner from 20 yards. This man is in extraordinary form. He hit the shot so early that it gave Jussi Jaaskelainen no real chance.
20:26 PENALTY TO WEST HAM - West Ham 0-1 Tottenham
More good play from West Ham down their left sees a cross find Kevin Nolan, he lays the ball off to Andy Carroll, who is caught by Scott Parker as Parker flung himself to block the shot. Referee Howard Webb takes his time before pointing to the spot.
20:26 GOAL - West Ham 1-1 Tottenham - Andy Carroll
With no Mark Noble in the side, Andy Carroll steps up and confidently batters the ball into the roof of the net. Fine spot kick.
20:50 HALF-TIME - West Ham 1-1 Tottenham
21:17 GOAL - West Ham 2-1 Tottenham - Joe Cole (58 mins)
West Ham lead! Joey O'Brien lifts a long ball over the top, Jan Vertonghen steps up but plays Joe Cole onside and the former England man controls it superbly before scuffing a left-footed shot across goal and into the far corner. Not the cleanest of strikes, but a big goal.
21:26 GREAT SAVE! - West Ham 2-1 Tottenham
Jussi Jaaskelainen 3-0 Steven Caulker. The Spurs defender is again free from a corner, again he should score really, but again Jaaskelainen is agile enough to turn his header away!
21:35 GOAL - West Ham 2-2 Tottenham - Gylfi Sigurdsson (76 mins)

Gylfi Sigurdsson made his name at Reading, and then Swansea, scoring beautiful, fabulous long-range strikes which showed off his superb technique. This is nothing like that. He finally opens his Premier League account for Tottenham with a horrible, scrappy goal but he will not care at all. Gareth Bale's free-kick from the right is headed down by Joey O'Brien, it hits Steven Caulker on the back and bobbles into the path of Sigurdsson, who scrambles the ball in off the post from two yards out. Game on!​

21:49 GOAL - West Ham 2-3 Tottenham - Gareth Bale
We are witnessing something special at the moment, we really are. Against a goalkeeper who has been in inspired form, Gareth Bale finds a winner of superb quality. The Welshman takes aim from a full 30 yards and just smacks the ball into the top corner. It was Cristiano Ronaldo-esque that one. Such a clean hit.

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Barclays Premier League​

Venue: Upton Park Date: Monday 25th Febuary​

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West Ham defenders James Collins and Joey O'Brien have returned to training and are in contention to play Tottenham at Upton Park.
Collins has been out because of a hamstring injury, while O'Brien was sidelined with a thigh problem.
Tottenham keeper Hugo Lloris is in line to return after being on the bench for Thursday's Europa League draw at Lyon.
Striker Jermain Defoe (ankle), Younes Kaboul, Sandro and Tom Huddlestone (all knee) are unavailable.

West Ham boss Sam Allardyce has hinted that Tottenham are overly reliant on in-form winger Gareth Bale ahead of Monday's clash at Upton Park.
Bale has scored in each of Tottenham's last three Premier League games and has 17 goals for Spurs this season.
Jermain Defoe scored twice to fire Spurs to victory in the corresponding fixture, when Bale was also on target, but the former Hammers striker is absent through injury this time.
"Recently they've lost their leading goalscorer, who is Jermain Defoe, and (Emmanuel)Adebayor has been away at the Africa Cup of Nations, so from a goalscoring point of view they've had to rely on one man and one man only to come up with the goods," said Allardyce.
"That's Gareth Bale and he's been the major difference between Tottenham and the teams they've played recently."
While Allardyce admits it's a case of stop Bale, stop Tottenham, he acknowledges it's easier said than done.
"Not only has he scored very important goals, but they've been stunning goals at that," he added. "He's going to need some looking after on Monday night."
West Ham have moved to try and avoid any repeat of the anti-Semitic chants that marred the corresponding fixture in a match in which the 20th anniversary of Bobby Moore's death will be honoured.
For Spurs the game comes hot on the heels of securing their Europa League progression on Thursday with a 1-1 draw at Lyon but manager Andre Villas-Boas is unconcerned about any European hangover.
"We've been having some great, great results," he said. "After Europa League games we've always been good in the Premier League. I think it puts us in a good position to face West Ham.
"I don't think it's a distraction, I think it's an inspiration and I hope it can be exactly that against West Ham."

Head-to-head

• Two goals from former West Ham frontman Jermain Defoe saw the Hammers lose 3-1 at White Hart Lane earlier in the season - their 11th consecutive Premier League trip to North London without a win.
• The Hammers have only won one of their last 11 league games against Tottenham -1-0 in September 2010 thanks to Frederic Piquionne's goal.
• This is the 137th meeting of the two sides. Tottenham lead by 58 wins to 44.

West Ham

• West Ham are unbeaten in their last three Premier League home games, with wins against Swansea and Norwich and a 1-1 draw with QPR.
• Six of the Hammers' eight league wins this year have come at home, where they have earned 22 of their 30 points. They have lost their last six away games.
• The last time West Ham scored more than a single goal in a league match was their 2-1 win over Norwich on New Year's Day.
• Leading scorer Kevin Nolan is one goal away from notching his 100th club goal.
• Jussi Jaaskelainen could start his 500th English league game, while Sam Allardyce will take charge of his 350th Premier League match.

Tottenham

• Spurs are unbeaten in their last 10 Premier League games and have only lost once in 14 - a 2-1 defeat at Everton on 9 December.
• Tottenham are one of two Premier League clubs unbeaten in 2013 - the other is Manchester United.
• Only Manchester United and Chelsea have a better away record than Spurs this year. Victory at West Ham will be a club-record eighth Premier League win on the road.
• Tottenham have lost 16 points from winning positions this season, losing four and drawing two games they had previously led.
• Gareth Bale has scored four goals in his last three Premier League matches, taking his overall tally for the season to 17.

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[spurs]

I fear this could get nasty inside and outside the ground. It's an evening kick off so people will have been drinking and there was the racist incidents last time.

i was on kumb yesterday: about half the posters thought they should be able to call us Yids. They said there were rumours that there would be plain clothed coppers in the stands - most of the posters were genuinely upset that they wouldn't be able to sing rascist songs. I know many WH fans are decent people - but the idiotic miniority seems larger than most clubs.

(In my opinion, when we use the Y word - it is a term of love, respect and kinship - but if other teams use it - it normally has negative connotations and hence is racially offensive.)

I hope we win; the fans are safe outside the grouns and the Spurs fan don't sink to their level. The dream result would be for us to win and they get docked points for rascist chanting. They are 2nd bottom for the form guide for the last 15 gamesand doing the prem predictor - i had them relegated.

 

[thfc1989]

Feeling quite pessimistic about this one

 

[Lukasz]

I am quite anxious about tomorrow; with the possibility of widening the gap between us and Arsenal and overtaking Chelsea for the 3rd place it has "Typical Spurs" written all over it.

 

[riggi]

Im going, feel very pesemistic to be honest.

 

[Show Pony]

The Bobby Moore Anniversary should have the Knuckledraggers up for this....my fear is we will pay Carroll far to much respect and let him run the game.

 

[PT]

Are you lot kidding? West Ham have a very poor side and certainly not capable of posing any real threat to us so long as we turn up and do our number on them.
Luckily our away support is made of strong stuff and wll act as 12th man tomorrow night.

3-1 Spurs. COYS

That puts us third until next week when we face the pikeys and even then they cant go above us if they fluke three points.

 

[worcestersauce]

The clue to this is on the thread write up. I was going to post that fat Sam would look at the stats see that a high percentage of our goals involve Bale and set his team out to stop Bale and then I read in the write up he has hinted we are over reliant on Bale.
Be prepared they will stop Bale any way they can and Mark my words with an allerdyce team it will bloody nasty and violent.

 

[dn013]

The Bobby Moore Anniversary should have the Knuckledraggers up for this....my fear is we will pay Carroll far to much respect and let him run the game.

We normally keep Carroll in our back pocket though. I am pessimistic because it is Tottenham - reminds me of the Villa match at the end of last season...

 

[Blackcanary]

The clue to this is on the thread write up. I was going to post that fat Sam would look at the stats see that a high percentage of our goals involve Bale and set his team out to stop Bale and then I read in the write up he has hinted we are over reliant on Bale.
Be prepared they will stop Bale any way they can and Mark my words with an allerdyce team it will bloody nasty and violent.

The good news about Bale now being a free kick- meister is that they'll be nervy about diving in with tackles though, i'm hoping. I mean, Lyon kept him quiet all throughout that first leg and lost because of a couple of moments of indiscipline.

 

[nightgoat]

Be prepared they will stop Bale any way they can and Mark my words with an allerdyce team it will bloody nasty and violent.

Going to need a strong ref as they will set out to kick Bale at every opportunity. Unfortunately we have Howard.

 

[double0]

We have to be ready for this because it will be West Ham's cup final, no disrespect (Maybe just a little), also it's Bobby Moore's remembrance which I hope our fans respect regardless of the growing hatred between the two sets of supports so I suspect they'll be pumped up and hoofing the ball to Carroll.

We need Lennon and Adebayor on fire.

 

[CJMurray]

The clue to this is on the thread write up. I was going to post that fat Sam would look at the stats see that a high percentage of our goals involve Bale and set his team out to stop Bale and then I read in the write up he has hinted we are over reliant on Bale.
Be prepared they will stop Bale any way they can and Mark my words with an allerdyce team it will bloody nasty and violent.

United tried to completely nullify Bale, which they did well, but they ignored Lennon who absolutely tore them apart. If they want to stick 2/3 men on Bale then thats fine by me.

 

[worcestersauce]

United tried to completely nullify Bale, which they did well, but they ignored Lennon who absolutely tore them apart. If they want to stick 2/3 men on Bale then thats fine by me.

They won't do that they will kick him to kingdom come.

 

[dooey123]

For me this fixture has overtaken arsenal and chelsea in terms of pure hatred, Although the NLD is the game I love winning the most west ham is the one I'd hate to lose the most. We seem to face bus parking teams more often than not these days and I don't expect West Ham to be any different so it would be nice if we had a few more ideas to break through because I don't find relying on some piece of individual brilliance too reassuring. I think they'd be happy with a draw but we need to make sure of the 3 points if only to help us have a safety net for the arsenal game.

 

[thinktank]

Need Dembele to play his normal swashbuckling game and need Parker to find our players with his passes and pass early and stop the ballet shit.

 

[Mr Pink]

I'm really nervous. Not because its West Ham, but because of the significance of this week starting tomorrow night - what a week it is, and lets be honest it could well be, potentially, season defining or at the very least have a big bearing on how and where we finish.

There were defintely signs of Adebayor sparking against Lyon, second half etc, and I hope to see him looking hungry tomorrow night - he's such a great player when he's in the mood. They'll probably be getting after us right from the whistle, challenges fying in etc and they'll be hoping for some set pieces. If we can ride out the frantic opening 20 mins or so I think we'll take over and the more they push forward the more vulnerable they'll be.

Its their cup final so anybody thinking this will be a walk in the park is in for a shock I reckon. That said I think come the end we'll have the points, 2-1 for me.

 

[SteveH]

Squeaky bum time and it will be for the next 11 games....
Its going to be tough from here on in.........
COYS