West Ham United vs Tottenham Hotspur
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Who won: Spurs 4-3
Tottenham Hotspur beat West Ham United 4-3 on Sunday, March 4, 2007 at Boleyn Ground. Goals for West Ham: Mark Noble (16'), Carlos Tevez (41') and Bobby Zamora (85'). Goals for Spurs: Jermain Defoe (51' pen), Teemu Tainio (63'), Dimitar Berbatov (89') and Paul Stalteri (90'+6').
Play by play
- 94'
FULL-TIME: West Ham are applauded for their efforts but if you lose a match in this way you are surely doomed. Everyone around this club must surely know that they will be playing their football in the Championship next season. How many of these players will they be able to hold on to? An astonishing result. Full credit to Spurs who took their chances ruthlessly when presented with them.
- 94'
GOAL - Unbelievably, Spurs score straight from a West Ham corner. With all the West Ham players up for the corner, Spurs break through Defoe whose shot is saved by Green. He can only deflect the ball in to the path of Paul Stalteri who hits it in to an empty net. Incredible stuff.
- 93'
Konchesky's deflected free-kick gives the Hammers a corner. Surely the last attack of the game.
- 91'
Ferdinand has to be quick to get across to stop Lennon reaching Defoe's pass.
- 89'
Carlos Tevez holds his head in his hands as his shot skims the Spurs post. So unlucky.
- 87'
GOAL - Berbatov has broken West Ham hearts stroking the free-kick home over the head of Paul Konchesky who was guarding the right hand post. A disaster for West Ham but the goal was straight out of the top drawer.
- 87'
Lennon does well to get through a throng of West Ham players before winning a free-kick twenty yards from goal when Ferdinand takes him down.
- 86'
Chimbonda comes off for the seventeen year old Frenchman Adel Taarabt.
- 83'
GOAL - Zamora goes one beter than Kepa, scoring with his first touch when a free-kick is floated in to the Spurs penalty area by Tevez. He rises highest in the crowded penalty area to bullet home a wonderful header. Upton Park erupts again.
- 82'
They waste it though and now West Ham make another substitution, Etherington coming off to make way for Bobby Zamora. West Ham now have four strikers on the pitch.
- 82'
Noble puts in a good challenge on Tainio and Spurs have a corner.
- 81'
Tevez fouls Dawson and the big defender is definitely winning their personal battle in this second half.
- 79'
The corner comes over and Kepa gets to it first but his header goes wide. Not the worst first touch ever though.
- 78'
Quashie looks to be seriously injured as he is helped off and Kepa Blanco replaces him.
- 78'
Quashie's shot is deflected behind for a corner and that could well be Quashie's final contribution as he came off worse when Stalteri challenged him.
- 77'
Good challenge again on Tevez by Dawson who has handled the Argentinian well in the second half.
- 75'
Quashie has taken out Tianio who is now writhing around on the floor holding a rather delicate part of his anatomy it would seem. The Hammers player is booked for high feet.
- 73'
Tevez appeared to kick out at Dawson a little bit, perhaps in frustration at his side's failure to hold on to the lead he had done so much to inspire.
- 70'
Etherington has the ball in the back of the net but he was well offside and was spotted by the linesman.
- 69'
Quashie is up now and, indeed, just helped the ball along to Konchesky.
- 68'
Lennon whips in a deep cross but he whips a little too hard and the Hammers have a goal-kick.
- 67'
Quashie is down injured but West Ham are playing on, either oblivious to his plight or they are just not too fond of him.
- 66'
Berbatov is at the front post though and easily heads the ball away when the corner is hit in.
- 65'
But there is always Carlos Tevez who has won the Hamemrs a corner.
- 64'
You would now fancy Spurs chances of winning this and, if they do, they may as well relegate the Hammers today.
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