After the midweek Carling Cup game against Arsenal, ‘Arry made 10 changes to the starting line up to face West Ham. In came Crouch, van der Vaart, Bale, Lennon, Huddlestone, Jenas, Lennon, Corluka, Hutton and Cudicini.
With a first half performance best to be forgotten, the second was much better.
Both Jenas and van der Vaart forced Green into action with some good saves before a corner for West Ham saw them take the lead with a looping header from Piquionne who found the back of the net from an unmarked post, error one from Spurs.
A few good attacks from saw us come close. A good run from Lennon down the right beating Noble and Boa Morte put in a good cross for Modric who forced Green to pull off a fantastic save, pushing it onto the woodwork to keep it at 1-0 West Ham.
1-0 West Ham at half time.
A good start to the second half with a couple of good chances, Huddlestone with probably the best of the game. With Crouch to his left and just Green to beat, Huddlestone took the shot on himself. After going past Green he put it wide.
Into the second half ‘Arry made some changes. Keane come on for Lennon, making his 300th appearance for the club, Giovani on for van der Vaart who was having a good game and had created most of our chances and a bit later on Pavlyuchenko also made an appearance replacing Crouch.
Noble forced Cudicini to make the save of the came with just 20 minutes to go.
1-0 West Ham full time, fully deserved. Cudicini;
Hutton, Bassong, Corluka, Bale;
Lennon (Keane, 66): Jenas, Huddlestone, Modric;
Van der Vaart (Giovani, 78);
Crouch (Pavlyuchenko, 80).
Unused: Pletikosa, Kranjcar, Sandro, Palacios.
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By Kirstie Teversham
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