Spurs pursuit of a Premier League title was dealt a massive blow earlier this year as Manuel Lanzini’s fierce finish earned victory for West Ham at the London Stadium back in May.
Spurs could have narrowed the gap on Chelsea to a point with a victory but the North London team bottled it and came off losers on the night at the former Olympic stadium.
The atmosphere of that London Derby was considered one of the best of the seas and the Hammers supporters really acted as a 12th man to spur their team on to get one over on Tottenham as we have done many times before.
Let’s do it again in terms of atmosphere at the stadium and the result on the pitch.
The fans and the players seem to really raise their game for this fixture and let’s hope we can do the same with the lunchtime kickoff on Saturday.
Admirable positive sentiments Sean, but how can we possibly do it with Slav selecting Andy Carroll as our no.1 central striker and shipping Chicharito out to the left wing?
My order of central strikers is Chicharito, Sakho, and then by a long distance, Andy Carroll.
If Slav selected Chicharito and Sakho as our central strikers (in a 3-5-2), we could also attack down the flanks with Cresswell/Masuaku/Arnautovic (left) and Antonio (on the right), and attack, through the middle, albeit with some danger, using Obiang and/or Kouyate.
Got to take this game by the scruff very early, and gain the all important initiative; can’t allow Sours to park themselves outside our penalty area otherwise it could be very ugly.