Action from West Ham United's game against Tottenham Hotspur

Match Report | Tottenham win at London Stadium

West Ham United 0-3 Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League, London Stadium, Saturday 13 September 2025, 5.30pm BST

 

Three second-half goals condemned West Ham United to a 3-0 home Premier League defeat by Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.

Pape Matar Sarr, Lucas Bergvall and Micky van de Ven found the net in the space of 19 minutes after the break as Thomas Frank’s side took the derby honours at London Stadium.

In the midst of Spurs’ three-goal salvo, West Ham also had Tomáš Souček sent-off for serious foul play, completing a difficult evening for head coach Graham Potter and his squad.

The first half was a stop-start affair, with six goal attempts interspersed with ten free-kicks, including the one awarded for a foul by Micky van de Ven that caused Cristian Romero’s 18th-minute header to be disallowed by referee Jarred Gillett.

If not incensed, Spurs were disappointed by the Australian’s whistle for van de Ven’s push on Kyle Walker-Peters, which created space for Romero to nod Mohammed Kudus’s near-post corner past Mads Hermansen.

And the visitors were complaining again on 35 minutes when Mateus Fernandes and van de Ven wrestled in the West Ham penalty area as Kudus delivered another inswinging corner, but Gillett and VAR John Brooks both decided a foul had not been committed.

Before those two moments, West Ham had started the better, with El Hadji Malick Diouf and Crysencio Summerville – making his first start since January – repeatedly speeding down the Hammers’ left, and Walker-Peters and Jarrod Bowen doing likewise down the right.

On 14 minutes, Walker-Peters, Fernandes and Bowen combined to set up Lucas Paquetá, whose feint created space for a shot, only for the Brazilian to drag wide. Either side, delicious Diouf crosses just eluded Bowen and Fernandes.

West Ham’s threat receded, though, with Tottenham enjoying increasing spells of possession in the home half and looking dangerous from the eight corners they won in the opening 45 minutes.

From one, Maximilian Kilman blocked a Pape Matar Sarr header narrowly wide. From another, two minutes before half-time, Hermansen clawed Kudus’s initial delivery away, then produced a superb point-blank save to keep out Romero’s follow-up shot, keeping the game goalless going into the break.

Sadly, it did not remain that way for long and by the midway point of the second half Tottenham were out of sight and West Ham were down to ten men.

After Bowen had shot wide, an unmarked Sarr powered in Xavi Simons’ corner at the far post less than two minutes in.

West Ham briefly rallied, with Vicario saving from Bowen and catching Diouf’s header, and Kilman heading over, but the game was soon over.

On 55 minutes, Souček’s chest control let him down and, in his eagerness to recover, he slid and caught Palhinha high on the shin. Gillett immediately showed the Czech a red card on his 250th appearance for the Club.

Within 90 seconds, Romero picked out Lucas Bergvall and the Swede sent a header looping over Hermansen and into the net.

Then, minutes after Potter had sent on Soungoutou Magassa for his debut, teenager Bergvall squared and van de Ven swept home a third.

The remainder of the game was, predictably, played in the home half as the ten men in Claret and Blue sought to keep the score down, and Hermansen and substitute Andy Irving did their bit in added-time, both denying Kudus a goal on his return.

 

West Ham United: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Kilman, Diouf, Fernandes (Magassa 61), Ward-Prowse (Irving 90+1), Souček, Summerville (Luis Guilherme 61), Bowen ©, Paquetá (Wilson 68)
Subs: Areola (GK), Wan-Bissaka, Igor, Potts, Füllkrug

Sent-off: Souček 55

 

Tottenham Hotspur: Vicario, Porro, Romero ©, van de Ven (Danso 80), Spence (Udogie 71), Palhinha, Bergvall (Johnson 80), Sarr, Kudus, Simons (Richarlison 71), Tel (Odobert 79)
Subs: Kinský (GK), Davies, Bentancur, Kolo Muani

Goals: Sarr 47, Bergvall 57, van de Ven 64

Booked: Spence

 

Referee: Jarred Gillett

Attendance: 62,459

 

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