From the London Stadium – Jarrod Bowen’s tenth Premier League -goal of the season, West Ham United scored 1-1 against the rival Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday afternoon.
The visitors took the lead through the goal of Wilson Odobert from 15th minute and punished a blatant mistake by Max Kilman, but Poseteclous rotated team could not hold onto a western hamm team that still wanted to find her groove under Graham Potter.
Bowen’s equalizer from an acute angle was an enormous finish, but he proved to be a rare bright spark on another rather flat display in front of West Hams.
How the game unfolds
After WESTAM undoubtedly thought about the semi-finals of the Europa League against Bodo/Glimt on Thursday, it was perhaps no surprise that things took a while until it started in East London.
A pretty loyal 15 minutes and then not created individual piece because of a brilliant piece, rather an unnecessary mistake by Kilman, which summarizes a lot of season from West Ham. He caught Mathys Tel on the ball, was only able to watch the referee – the referee for a potential handball that was not present during further inspections – when Odobert was presented on a plate with the ball.
The French U21 international did the rest and hit the Countryman Alphonse Areola to achieve his first Premier League goal in spursed colors.
However, the advantage did not take long for the Verzecoglou team when West Ham struck back in front of the half -hour brand to achieve the procedure. A counter on the right made it possible Aaron Wan-Bissaka to get Bowen behind, and he brought the gate before he shot out of the closest corners between the legs of the goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario.
Although more than 60,000 were present, the goals could not bring the game to life, since both sides were missing the quality than was really important. Richarlison shot over the crossbar in the only other meaningful moment of the first half, and the second was not much better because both teams had canceled each other as soon as an attack was started in the last third.
It took the last ten minutes for another moment to bring them out of their seat in the stadium-Bowen’s carved header by James Ward-Prowsse ‘Set-Piece, which is excellent at the extensive Vicario.
Archie Gray then steered the ball that was near the post office, then when Bowen broke behind him again, but he would not have counted anyway when the flag was lifted outside the offside against it.
In the last action of the game, James Ward-Prowsse fired a trademark.
The strong rotation of Postecoglou was a certain sign that the encounter with West Ham does not matter in the great scheme of things. The Australian would have wanted to win that there was no question, but a back of Archie Gray, Kevin Danso, Ben Davies and Djed Spence is proof that the only most important thing for Spurs gains the Europa League.
If Spurs can do this, they earn the right to play in the Champions League in the next season – and increase their ability to attract first -class players and at the same time enjoy the financial windfall that arises from the playing of the Premier Club competition of European football.
In this game, Posetecoglou was shown that further strengthening will be needed in the next season if Spurs should have the squad depth to compete on several fronts. Richarlison rarely looked at the pace and ruffed west of West Ham with his movement, while there is no doubt that Yves Bissooma can be upgraded in midfield.
For a certain reason, Spurs are the 16th place in the Premier League and have not done anything here to point out that they are much better than a fighting West Ham.
The 2024/25 season for West Ham was a complete depreciation in every respect. The change, which the supporters demanded, bored and full of David Moyes’ playing style was not delivered, and instead the hammers had quite happy to be as far from the lower three. They would get into trouble in every other season.
Not even the appointment of Graham Potter has supplied West Ham with energy, which in reality was in reality very little to play. In the past four months it was about adapting to a new playing style, although not even the most optimistic supporters would say that it went well.
The fact that the two teams in the London stage went near Sille said – the musical forgotten that had forgotten to play the Premier League anthem when the players left the tunnel – and there was a clear lack of energy and pizza for a collision between two fiery London rivals.
There was the strange piece of unrest when handball screams and Bowen’s gate certainly increased the home mood. For West Ham, however, a complete reset is required to return at the level in the last seasons – the problems that this Blip coincided with Fulham, Bournemouth and Brentford if they are much better.
Tottenham’s desire to bring in a new striker led to the signing of Mathys Tel – a step that looked like a good business at that time because he was searched for by a number of top teams on the entire continent.
In this agreement, the option for Spurs is to make the deal permanently this summer by paying Bayern Munich in the region of 50 million GBP – a price that now seems to be generally classified for every player who seems to have talent.
It remains to be seen whether Tel is actually worthwhile to inject the money. The 20-year-old is clearly able to mix it at the highest level, but it is not entirely clear what his best position is. The Frenchman would argue that it is a central striker through the middle, while Posetecoglou decided to keep it left more often.
Since son Heung-Min fails, Tel was operated here again. He forced Kilman’s mistake to achieve the goal of Odobert, but did not have the kind of threat that you would like from a player to whom you could possibly commit a considerable part of your summer budget. Eating to think about who was understood in Spurs next season and for the controller of the wallet.
The formation of West Ham has changed completely under Potter, with Bowen and Mohammed Kudus being moved to central areas so that the width of WAN-Backs-Wan-Bissaka and Emerson comes, and there is no doubt that they look better from one form and structural site.
But there is no important ingredient for West Ham, which threatens to undermine everything that tries to achieve Potter, unless it is addressed. And that’s a player who grasps the midfield and dictates everything that happens.
Lucas Paqueta is in a team to perform this function and you cannot argue against his individual skills, touch and general weight of the pass. But one thing that lets the Brazilian down is the speed at which he starts things for the home team. Everything is a bit too tedious and a little too pedestrian for what West Ham needs, and he is sometimes caught in possession to really put the hammers under the cosh.
James Ward-Prowsse, on the bench for this game, is not the answer and there is every chance that Paqueta will leave this summer this summer anyway. With this in mind, you can bet that Potter and his employees work on goals to add and add a different dynamic.