Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 West Ham United
Two sensational second-half strikes lit up Wembley Stadium as West Ham won an unlikely point to frustrate Spurs’ assault on the top four.
Pedro Obiang hit a screamer to put the Hammers in front, and then Heung-Min Son repaid in kind for Spurs. These were goals to grace any top-flight match, but this was one dominated by Mauricio Pochettino’s team, as football betting pundits fully expected. But for all the hosts’ possession and shots, there’s only one statistic that counts.
The Hammers came into the match with 11 points from their last six league football games, and David Moyes has pulled them from the drop zone by making them a difficult unit to beat. After a first half with 73 percent possession and 11 shots to none, Spurs may feel they should have gone into halftime with a lead. But every time they managed to breach the Hammers’ defence, they couldn’t beat keeper Adrian: he turned away a curler from Harry Kane and made tipped a deflected shot from Dele Alli over the bar a minute before.
Spurs continued to press without any success before the game was turned on its head on 70 minutes. Pedro Obiang picked the ball up inside the left touchline and, with the Hammers’ first shot of any kind, unleashed a howitzer into the top left corner from 25 yards. He gave Hugo Lloris no chance and sent the visiting fans wild.
While Spurs huffed and puffed in search of an equaliser, Heung Min Son had clearly learned from Obiang’s example and fired his own beauty, swerving into the top right corner with five minutes remaining.
That was the only way Adrian was going to be beaten and the Hammers deserved their point. Spurs hoped for more but, in the end, they had Son to thank.
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