West Ham United v Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League, London Stadium, Saturday 13 September 2025, 5.30pm BST
Tomáš Souček makes his 250th appearance for West Ham United in Saturday’s Premier League fixture with Tottenham Hotspur at London Stadium.
The 2021 Hammer of the Year and 2023 UEFA Europa Conference League winner becomes the 54th player to reach the milestone, and just the second non-British and Irish player to do so, following his Czech compatriot Luděk Mikloško.
Souček will appear in the Premier League for the 198th time since debuting in a 3-3 home draw with Brighton & Hove Albion on 1 February 2020, three days after joining from Slavia Prague.
The 30-year-old has been a huge presence in the West Ham midfield over the previous five-and-a-half seasons, scoring 42 goals and assisting 13, while making numerous important clearances and interceptions and winning hundreds of aerial duels.
Today’s game marks Souček’s 13th career appearance against Spurs, and he will be looking to replicate the goal he scored here against our north London rivals in August 2022.
He will line up in midfield alongside Mateus Fernandes and James Ward-Prowse as head coach Graham Potter makes one change to the team which kicked-off the 3-0 win at Nottingham Forest nearly a fortnight ago.
Crysencio Summerville makes his first start since January after impressing as a substitute at Forest on his return from injury, setting up Jarrod Bowen’s opener, winning the penalty for Lucas Paquetá’s second and being part of the move for Callum Wilson’s third.
Niclas Füllkrug moves to the substitutes’ bench in the only switch from the victory in the East Midlands.
Mads Hermansen, who kept his first clean sheet for the Club at the City Ground, continues in goal.
Kyle Walker-Peters and El Hadji Malick Diouf will fill the full-back positions, with the latter looking to make it back-to-back appearances with an assist after setting up Wilson’s late goal in Nottingham. Walker-Peters has also registered an assist since arriving in the summer, crossing for Souček to score in the Carabao Cup tie at Wolverhampton Wanderers in August.
Dinos Mavropanos and Maximilian Kilman will form the centre-back partnership. Kilman enjoyed four Premier League wins over Tottenham during his time at Wolves.
Portugal U21 star Fernandes makes his home debut, having impressed in his first appearance for the Club at Nottingham Forest, while Ward-Prowse continues his record of having appeared in every game under Potter since returning from a loan spell at the City Ground in early February.
Paquetá will seek to continue his outstanding start to the 2025/26 campaign. The No10 has scored three goals in four appearances for West Ham, including one in each of the previous two Premier League games against Chelsea and Forest and one at Wolves in the Carabao Cup. The 28-year-old also found the net for Brazil in a 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying win over Chile during the September international window.
Captain Bowen also scored at the City Ground in our previous Premier League fixture. The England international has three goals against Spurs to his name, including one in a 2-1 victory in north London in December 2023.
The substitutes’ bench looks strong, with City Ground goalscorer Wilson and fellow centre-forward Füllkrug, who has recovered from the calf injury he suffered while on international duty with Germany, both included.
Potential debutants Soungoutou Magassa and Igor are also among the potential replacements, as are Alphonse Areola, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Freddie Potts, Andy Irving and Luis Guilherme, who has recovered from a shoulder injury.
Returnee Łukasz Fabiański will warm-up with the goalkeepers, but is not included in the matchday 20, while Ollie Scarles, Jean-Clair Todibo and Guido Rodríguez miss out after being unused substitutes at Nottingham Forest.
West Ham United: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Kilman, Diouf, Fernandes, Ward-Prowse, Souček, Summerville, Bowen ©, Paquetá
Subs: Areola (GK), Wan-Bissaka, Igor, Magassa, Potts, Irving, Luis Guilherme, Wilson, Füllkrug
Tottenham Hotspur: Vicario, Porro, Romero ©, van de Ven, Spence, Palhinha, Bergvall, Sarr, Kudus, Simons, Tel
Subs: Kinsky (GK), Danso, Udogie, Davies, Bentancur, Odobert, Richarlison, Kolo Muani
Referee: Jarred Gillett
