Postecoglou aiming to break ´negative connotations´ surrounding Tottenham

Ange Postecoglou wants to rewrite the “negative narrative” astir Tottenham this season, with a travel to West Ham adjacent up successful the Premier League.

Spurs beryllium 16th successful the league array connected 37 points, and person endured a three-match losing tally successful the competition, which has seen the unit heap connected Postecoglou erstwhile more.

However, the agleam spark successful their play has been the Europa League, and they recorded a 3-1 triumph implicit Bodo/Glimt successful the archetypal limb of their semi-final connected Thursday.

Postecoglou is hoping to enactment a affirmative rotation connected the mindset surrounding the club, among some fans and neutrals.

“I’ve said before, the communicative astir the nine is not affirmative astatine all,” Postecoglou said.

“Whether you travel the nine oregon not, there’s ever immoderate benignant of antagonistic connotations to everything that happens astatine the club, but that’s existed for a precise agelong clip – you request to interruption done that.

“[Winners] don’t deliberation astir what could perchance spell wrong. They person a existent clarity astir what they request to bash to win, and I’m trying to make that with this radical of players.

“If you expect thing to spell wrong, it will. So, you effort to obstruction against that, but however you bash that is conscionable a clear-eyed absorption connected what’s important.”

A travel to East London is next

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West Ham beryllium 1 constituent and 1 spot beneath Spurs successful the table, with Graham Potter struggling to physique immoderate momentum since joining the club.

They are winless successful their past 7 matches successful the Premier League, letting a 2-1 pb gaffe past clip retired against Brighton, conceding successful the last infinitesimal to suffer 3-2.

“We request points and wins,” Potter said. “We’ve done immoderate things right, but not enough.

“It’s hard present to speech excessively positively, but we conscionable request a front-footed show that shows who we are.

“We cognize we’re successful a atrocious infinitesimal results-wise, but I deliberation the players person been honest, disappointed and frustrated, which I deliberation is good, and they realise we person to instrumentality together.”

PLAYERS TO WATCH

West Ham – Jarrod Bowen

Jarrod Bowen’s 2 assists successful the 3-2 nonaccomplishment astatine Brighton took him to 37 Premier League assists for West Ham, the outright astir of immoderate subordinate and 2 wide of Mark Noble (35).

He was the archetypal subordinate with 2 assists successful a decision for the Hammers since Dimitri Payet successful September 2016 against Watford.

Focus turns to Sunday

— West Ham United (@WestHam) April 30, 2025

Tottenham – James Maddison

James Maddison has provided 2 assists successful his past 3 Premier League games, arsenic galore assists arsenic successful his erstwhile 20 matches successful the competition.

MATCH PREDICTION: WEST HAM WIN

West Ham are unbeaten successful their past 4 Premier League location games against Spurs (W2 D2), their longest tally since a tally of six betwixt 1995 and 2001.

However, since Potter’s archetypal Premier League crippled successful complaint of West Ham connected January 14, lone Southampton (14) person dropped much points from winning positions than the Hammers (12), who person failed to triumph immoderate of the past 4 erstwhile they person gone up (D3 L1).

Spurs did triumph the reverse fixture 4-1 and are looking to implicit the league treble implicit West Ham for the archetypal clip since 2019-20.

Postecoglou’s broadside person mislaid 19 Premier League matches this season, their associated astir successful a play on with 1993-94 and 2003-04. They past suffered much successful a league play successful 1991-92, erstwhile they mislaid 20.

Tottenham person mislaid their past 4 distant league matches, their worst distant losing tally since six successful a enactment betwixt February and May 2019. They person shipped 4+ goals successful their past 2 (2-4 vs Wolves, 1-5 vs Liverpool), past doing truthful successful 3 distant league games successful a enactment successful October-November 1976.

OPTA WIN PROBABILITY

West Ham – 45.2%

Draw – 25.1%

Tottenham – 29.7%