Tottenham on rampage, thrash West Ham 4-1

Tottenham roared back to beat West Ham 4-1 on Saturday, scoring three goals in eight frantic second-half minutes to ease the pain of their recent collapse against Brighton.

The teams were level at half-time at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after Mohammed Kudus’s opener against the run of play was cancelled out by the impressive Dejan Kulusevski.

But the match totally changed complexion early in the second half when Yves Bissouma, an own goal from West Ham goalkeeper Alphonse Areola and a fourth from Son Heung-min took the game away from West Ham.

A third win in four Premier League games lifted Ange Postecoglou’s men to sixth in the table ahead of the later kick-offs but heaps the pressure on new West Ham coach Julen Lopetegui.

Victory for Spurs comes after they blew a 2-0 lead in a 3-2 defeat at Brighton in their final league game before the international break.

“Second half was outstanding from the lads — good energy, good goals, good football, probably should have created a couple more,” said Tottenham’s Australian manager Postecoglou.

“That’s what you want to generate at home. The crowd played their part…. We’ve had periods so far this year when we haven’t capitalised but today we did capitalise and if we continue that then we will be hard to stop.”

– Spurs control –

Spurs were in control of the match early on but West Ham played their part in an absorbingly open contest, giving their hosts a scare when Jarrod Bowen surged down the right and cut back to Kudus, whose stinging shot was palmed away by Guglielmo Vicario.

Tottenham captain Son went close soon afterwards after creating space for himself but it was the visitors who broke the deadlock, making their opponents pay for not learning their lessons.

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