Son Heung-min can strike first against the Hammers (Picture: Getty Images)
Tottenham can use their exhilarating Angeball approach to beat West Ham and reignite their quest for Champions League football next season.
Spurs, fresh from their spectacular fightback in Sunday’s 3-3 draw with Manchester City, will go into the match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium seeking their first victory since their 2-1 win at Crystal Palace at the end of October.
Since then, they have lost 4-1 at home to Chelsea when poor discipline meant they played the last half-hour with nine men, and crashed 2-1 both at Wolves and at home to Aston Villa.
There have still been enough positives to take from those defeats to vindicate Ange Postecoglou’s full throttle attacking philosophy, however, and Spurs can profit against a Hammers side receiving mixed reviews from its own supporters despite last season’s Europa Conference League success.
Ange Postecoglou has Spurs playing well even with injuries(Picture: Getty Images)
It won’t be easy as the Cockney Boys have won five of their previous six matches in all competitions but they last won at Tottenham in 2019 and their 2-0 defeat to Spurs in February contributed to an astonishing run of nine defeats in their last ten London derbies.
Angeball creates multiple chances and if Tottenham have their shooting boots on they should emerge victorious at 5/6 with BetMGM and BetUK in a splendid occasion which should provide a fistful of goals.
West Ham have scored in all but one of their 21 matches this season and Spurs have found the net in each of their 15 outings while there have been over 2.5 goals in Tottenham’s last five games and in five of the Hammers’ last eight Premier League fixtures.
Let’s be a little more ambitious and take over 4.5 goals at 14/5 with Paddy Power and a 3-2 Tottenham victory at 20/1 with William Hill and bet365.
Son Heung-min has scored nine goals in the top flight this season and is the clear choice to open the scoring at 9/2 with Betfair, Paddy Power and BoyleSports as Spurs have a habit of taking the lead.
Meanwhile, a pretty penny has been made by putting money on Jarrod Bowen to score at any time as he has troubled the scoresheet in five of his last eight Premier League starts and the England international is 11/4 with the first two firms to reply for the visitors.
• Everton will be buoyed by Saturday’s 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest but Newcastle have to be backed at 7/5 with Unibet, BetUK and BetMGM to triumph at Goodison Park. Alexander Isak is 5/1 to notch the first goal with William Hill and 41/20 with the three aforementioned firms to score at any time.
• Jacksonville Jaguars running back Travis Etienne Jr cashed in for us at 5/1 when he trundled in a four-yard run for the first touchdown in Monday’s NFL thriller with the Cincinnati Bengals and Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens is 10/1 with bet365 to chalk up the first TD against the floundering New England Patriots in the Thursday Night showcase. He’s 3/1 with the same firm to reach the end zone at any time.
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