West Ham vs Tottenham LIVE: Latest Premier League updates

Each beginning XIs needs to be touchdown any minute now – are we in for any choice surprises?

West Ham boss David Moyes is hoping to get the followers onside early on the London Stadium as they appear to enhance upon their poor league begin in 2024.

The Hammers have gained simply twice within the Premier Leeague because the flip of the yr and are actually three video games and not using a league win following their 4-3 away defeat towards Newcastle final weekend.

Heading into this encounter, the Scotsman is hoping to regular the ship and re-energise their bid for European soccer: “Tottenham have performed effectively this season, so it’s going to be a troublesome recreation.

“We’ve tried over the previous couple of years to problem the massive groups at residence. There are a whole lot of massive groups, and we at all times need to give our followers one thing to shout about.

“This can be a massive recreation and it’s crucial to us.”

Ange Postecoglou has dismissed considerations over Tottenham’s lack of first-half targets.

Spurs have now fired a clean in six consecutive first halves however produced a rally after the break on the weekend to say an important win towards Luton like in current outcomes towards Aston Villa, Crystal Palace and Brighton.

Postecoglou’s aspect haven’t scored within the first half at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in 2024 – a run of seven matches since Pape Matar Sarr’s ninth-minute aim towards Bournemouth on New Yr’s Eve – however the 58-year-old is unfazed by the statistic.

“The disappointing factor in regards to the first half is the aim we conceded,” Postecoglou insisted. “Our soccer was good. We created good possibilities, one-vs-ones, we hit the publish, they blocked fairly a couple of photographs and so they defended desperately.

“I feel general there was nothing incorrect with our soccer. The aim we conceded, that was poor and that’s one thing we have to handle. With a whole lot of our soccer, it turns into a conflict of attrition. We have to put stress on the opposition as a result of we all know we’re going to run our video games actually strongly.”

We should always have confirmed workforce information in about 25 minutes. Here’s a take a look at how we predict each side could line up:

West Ham predicted XI:Fabianski; Coufal, Mavropanos, Zouma, Emerson; Ward-Prowse, Soucek, Paqueta; Bowen, Kudus; Antonio.

Tottenham predicted XI: Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Bissouma, Sarr; Johnson, Maddison, Son; Richarlison.

Away from build-up to this recreation and to some fast managerial information because the end-of-season reshuffle hots up.

The widespread feeling from trade figures straight working on this summer season’s frenetic managerial market had been that Amorim would go to Barcelona and Alonso to one among Liverpool or Bayern Munich, with the Anfield membership extra more likely to get the Basque tactician.

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The 28-year-old was captured apparently giving a middle-finger gesture in direction of followers who had criticised him as he boarded the workforce bus.

However Moyes refused to sentence Phillips’ actions and urged the London Stadium crowd to get behind the England worldwide.

“Kalvin’s a human being and may do issues which all of us do at troublesome occasions,” mentioned the Hammers boss.

“What he wants is help behind him, individuals to assist him and we’re going to face with him and assist him as a lot as we presumably can. Clearly we want all our supporters to provide all our gamers, whoever it’s, their help.”

Our focus will probably be on the happenings on the London Stadium however there are 4 different Premier League video games occuring tonight which all kick-off a bit earlier. Right here’s a take a look at them:

Newcastle v Everton (7.30pm KO)

Nottingham Forest v Fulham (7.30pm KO)

Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (7.45pm KO)

Burnley v Wolves (7.45pm KO)

Ange Postecoglou has talked up Brennan Johnson’s rising affect and is impressed with how he has dealt with his debut season at Tottenham.

Johnson joined Spurs on switch deadline day in September for a £47.5million payment from Nottingham Forest and initially struggled to make his mark, with just one aim in the course of the first half of the marketing campaign.

The Wales attacker has flourished since December although, scoring in comeback wins over Brentford and Brighton and likewise making key contributions off the bench towards Crystal Palace and Luton in current weeks.

Forward of Tuesday’s journey to West Ham, Postecoglou mentioned: “Brennan was tremendous on the weekend.

“He’s nonetheless younger, he’s creating. He’s moved to an enormous membership the place there’s massive expectations when you may have an enormous switch payment, however for probably the most half I feel he’s dealt with it very well.”

The Brazillian could possibly be again within the beginning lineup tonight and final week opened up on his battle with despair following the 2022 World Cup, and says talking about his struggles along with his psychological well being “saved my life”.

The 26-year-old was his nation’s prime scorer in Qatar and starred for Brazil with three targets in 4 video games, however revealed that he struggled mentally after getting back from the match and wished to “hand over”.

“I’d simply performed in a World Cup, man, at my peak,” Richarlison mentioned. “I used to be reaching my restrict, ? I don’t know, I’m not going to speak about killing myself, however I used to be in a despair there, and I wished to surrender.

“Even I, who appeared to be mentally sturdy. After the World Cup it appeared prefer it all fell aside.

“I feel the therapist, prefer it or not, saved me, saved my life. I solely thought garbage. Even on Google, I solely looked for garbage, I solely wished to see garbage about dying.”

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