LONDON STADIUM — There were 72 minutes on the clock when the Tottenham Hotspur showboating began.
Kudus’s every touch was still being roundly booed by the West Ham faithful, but the racket had subsided by that stage with Spurs 3-0 up with an extra man and more seats visible than people in the London Stadium.
An even first-half was followed by an embarrassingly one-sided second. West Ham not so much shot themselves in the foot as blew it off with a hand grenade.
Pape Matar Sarr heads home the Xavi Simons corner to give Spurs the lead! pic.twitter.com/Op56IE0C8B
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) September 13, 2025Spurs deserve credit for a professional job well done, though, and the Thomas Frank revolution is back up and running after being derailed by Bournemouth.
Xavi Simons was bright and influential on his first appearance for the club. Pape Matar Sarr (22) and Lucas Bergvall (19) were outstanding in midfield. Tel got a confidence-boosting 79 minutes after his Champions League snub.
Last season, Tottenham scored 10 goals from corners or free-kicks in the Premier League, a reasonable total matched by the champions Liverpool but bettered by 10 other teams in the division.
Spurs may have only scored one so far this campaign – the opener from Sarr on Saturday – but they had another goal ruled out for a foul and caused havoc with their in-swinging corners all afternoon, peppering poor Mads Hermansen all game.
Christian Romero has his goal ruled out for a foul after being judged to have pushed Walker-Peters out of the way in the build-up pic.twitter.com/SE97wE8Vod
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) September 13, 2025The result granted the PGMOL a reprieve after another contentious call. Cristian Romero was mightily unfortunate to be denied a derby goal for an alleged infringement from Micky van de Ven on Kyle Walker-Peters as Kudus’s corner was being taken.
Ultimately, it was inconsequential in the end.
Honestly the referees & VAR have had an absolute shocker of a start to the season. If that goal is disallowed for a foul you will never ever see a corner be taken without referee blowing for something ever again
— James Maddison (@Madders10) September 13, 2025West Ham may have survived that first set-piece scare, but it was no surprise that Tottenham’s opener came via that method.
“We know the set-pieces are just as important as the open-play,” Simons said. “At half-time we spoke about it and I found Pape [Matar Sarr].”
Tomas Soucek is sent off after his challenge on Palhinha pic.twitter.com/PQYoxzd2Kl
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) September 13, 2025Eight minutes later, Tomas Soucek made a reckless, sock-ruining challenge on Joao Palhinha that prompted a red card.
That goal will not count towards Tottenham’s set-play tally, but it was indicative of their urgency to maximise those situations by getting the ball forward quickly.
The Swede turned provider for the third, nudging the ball to Van de Ven who swept home a finish like a seasoned No 9. Even that had dead ball origins, with Frank pointing out it was a “second-phase set-piece”.
“You’re going down,” gloated the travelling fans. You wouldn’t have found many home fans disagreeing with that sentiment.
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“Obviously we want to score and play forward and play offensive football,” Frank said.
“The players and coaches, especially Matt Wells, deserve a lot of praise for driving that and I have a big, big focus on it.”
Under Postecoglou, Spurs scored plenty and conceded plenty. So far, Frank has struck a better balance between attack and defence, and they look all the better for it.
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