Jose Mourinho will begin his Tottenham tenure with a London derby at West Ham and talkSPORT will bring you all the action exclusively live on GameDay.
It’s been a turbulent week at Spurs following their quick-fire decision to sack Mauricio Pochettino on Tuesday and replace him with ex-Chelsea chief Mourinho a day later.
The Portuguese, who left Manchester United last December, will now return to the top-flight touchlines on Saturday lunchtime.
Tottenham have only won three times this season and are currently fourteenth in the table. They make the short trip to Stratford this weekend to take on a West Ham side who have also struggled this term.
The Hammers have been linked with sacking their boss Manuel Pellegrini as well and he’ll need a big performance on Saturday to silence his doubters.
talkSPORT will bring you all the action from the London Stadium.
West Ham vs Tottenham: How to listen
The Premier League clash will get under way at 12:30pm on Saturday, November 23.
Full commentary from east London will be live on talkSPORT, with our coverage starting at 11am.
Reshmin Chowdhury will bring you all the build-up before handing over to Clive Tyldesley and Trevor Sinclair for live and exclusive commentary.
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West Ham vs Tottenham: What has been said?
Manuel Pellegrini: “Of course I think that the philosophy of Pochettino is not the same as the philosophy of Mourinho, but he’s just in charge of the team.
“I don’t think that in two days he will try to change anything properly.
“So we will see Tottenham playing a similar way, of course with some touches of what Mourinho’s football is but that is not the most difficult problem to solve during the game.
“The important problem is to have a good performance as a team.”
Jose Mourinho: “I will bring passion, real passion. Passion for my job, but also passion for my club, that’s the way I have been all my career and I want to try, obviously, everything to bring happiness to everyone who loves the club.
“It’s a privilege when a manager goes to a club and feels that happiness in relation to the squad he is going to have.
“It didn’t happen many times. To be honest, the majority of the times we go to clubs and we always think ‘we like some, I don’t like enough’ and you think immediately about what to do to change, what to do to make an approach between your ideas and the profile of the players.
“This is a completely different case. I really like this squad.”
West Ham vs Tottenham: Match stats
- Tottenham have won three of their last five away league games against West Ham, including the last two in a row. They’ve won never won three consecutive top-flight away games against the Hammers.
- In all competitions, the away side has won five of the last six meetings between West Ham and Tottenham.
- West Ham lost their last home London derby, 1-2 to Crystal Palace. They’ve not lost back-to-back such games at the London Stadium, last doing so in March 2015 at Upton Park.
- Tottenham are winless in 12 Premier League away games, their third longest such run in the competition.
- Spurs have dropped a league-high 12 points from winning positions in the Premier League this season – just two fewer than they dropped in the whole of 2018-19.
- Only against Liverpool has West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini lost more Premier League games than he has against Spurs.
West Ham vs Tottenham: Team news
West Ham will have captain Mark Noble available for the London derby.
Michail Antonio has also returned to fitness having been out since he sustained a hamstring injury against Newport in September.
Lukasz Fabianski remains absent with a long-term hip injury.
Tottenham, meanwhile, will be without Jan Vertonghen and Erik Lamela for Mourinho’s first game.
Both will miss out with hamstring issues, joining Hugo Lloris and Michel Vorm in the treatment room.
Record signing Tanguy Ndombele is a doubt with a groin problem and will be assessed.
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