‘SO POOR FROM TEL!’ 😡 Have Tottenham OPENED the door for West Ham to potentially STAY UP? 🤔| ESPN FC

0:00 And the match would finish 1-1.

0:02 Spurs pegged back with that leads penalty from Dominic Calbert Lewin.

0:08 They are two points ahead of West Ham after 36 games played now and they

0:13 are not in the bottom three as it stands with two games left to play.

0:17 Stuart Robson was watching this game for us as well.

0:20 What stood out to you Stuart in this one?

0:21 I suppose Spurs will be upset that they didn't get the win

0:24 but a points are points still at this stage of the season.

0:29 It is, but this is a game they wanted to win.

0:32 This is the game that I think could have kept them safe.

0:33 I know there's six points still to play for, but this was

0:35 the game that would have put West Ham under lots of pressure.

0:38 And for until scored the goal, the game was very tepid.

0:42 Neither side played particularly well.

0:44 Spurs didn't play with the energy that I thought they might play with.

0:46 There was no understanding of how they were

0:48 going to get the ball from back to front.

0:49 When they did go from back to front quite quickly,

0:52 they didn't win the first ball.

0:53 The midfield players weren't pressing.

0:55 when they tried to play out from the back,

0:56 there was a lot of rotation and they didn't seem to know how to they were

0:58 going to get it from from there

1:00 into the midfield and then into the front players.

1:02 It was a very poor first 50 minutes,

1:03 but it all changed with the with the penalty

1:06 and the equalizer that last 20 minutes or so.

1:08 It was uh some good football.

1:10 There was a it was played with a passion.

1:12 It was played with a bit of tempo

1:13 and in the end probably be just about the right result.

1:16 One all but it's not I don't think good enough for Spurs

1:18 because they got I think two tough games coming up now.

1:21 Just before I bring it back into studio, Robo,

1:23 because we heard that both of the guys agreed with the leads penalty there.

1:26 Are you on the same page as these two?

1:30 Absolutely.

1:30 Tell it's it's a it's a terrible mistake by Tel because first of all,

1:33 the ball's up in the air for a long time.

1:35 And and Stevie said, you know, he he didn't see anybody around.

1:37 Wasn't aware.

1:38 He needs to be aware.

1:39 He needs to have a little look over his shoulder, see what's coming.

1:41 He didn't do that.

1:42 And once he saw that that that uh the center the center

1:45 midfield player was going to jump and go for the ball,

1:47 he's got to try and head it.

1:48 He's got to head it away.

1:50 That's the That's the only thing he could do by doing a bicycle kick.

1:53 There was there was only going to be one outcome and that was a penalty.

1:56 It was the right decision in the end.

1:58 It was Ethan Emperoo.

1:59 You said it straight away as well, Sh.

2:01 Yeah, it was a penalty and and and no question.

2:03 And then to to the point, why why does Tel try to go for a bicycle there?

2:08 This is a Premier League.

2:08 The game is far too quick to expect a ball to drop in the box from that height.

2:12 Um lesson learned for for for Matas.

2:15 It may prove to be a very costly lesson in terms

2:18 of what happened between now and the end of the season,

2:20 but that I I it was a it was an awful decision to start with.

2:24 Then though I have to say,

2:26 why does it take us as long as it does for VR to to come to that conclusion?

2:31 You could see that with one replay.

2:34 Stevie and I were sitting there,

2:35 you saw one replay and it was as clear apparently as ever.

2:40 But for some reason, and and I do not understand why this has to be,

2:45 VR looks at at at it from about three different angles,

2:49 four maybe five replays from each angle

2:52 to then tell the referee, go to the monitor.

2:55 And as a result, everybody's standing around for god knows how long.

3:00 We have 13 minutes added on the end of the game.

3:04 These are the things that I think that are most frustrating about VR.

3:08 I know we'll have a whole lot of conversations about VR and its impacts,

3:12 but these are the things I think that um force

3:16 people to question VR and what they're doing and and why.

3:22 Let's get to the other penalty that wasn't James

3:25 Madison brought down very late on by well Meta,

3:28 but you said it straight away, Stevie,

3:30 with this one that had been that slight touch on the ball.

3:32 Yeah.

3:33 And as I said, when you watch the replay and and and to be fair to the referee,

3:37 he's called it straight away because at the time

3:40 I thought it was a penalty and then I'm thinking,

3:42 well, it's Madison, so you know he's going to go down.

3:44 But then when you see the false replay and you watch the path of the ball,

3:48 it does change when the defender puts his leg

3:51 out and it does move the path of the ball.

3:53 And so, yeah, it's a it's an incredible first time spot from the referee,

3:57 but it is the right decision.

3:59 Here's the running then for the relegation battle.

4:01 Obviously it is Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham

4:05 in 17th and 18th as it stands right now.

4:07 Next up for Spurs at Chelsea on May 19th and then

4:12 it's Everton for the final game of the season for West Ham.

4:15 They're away to Newcastle on May 17th and then

4:18 it's Leads on May 24th to round things out.

4:21 What stands out to you here Stuart?

4:25 Well, Chelsea away has always been a tough place for Spurs to go and I

4:29 thought after their game against Aston Villa

4:30 when they played some really good football,

4:32 they looked to have an understanding, there was some combination play.

4:35 I was expecting the same again today,

4:37 but having watched that first 50 minutes today,

4:40 I'm not sure where Spurs are going here.

4:42 I'm not Derer's been a good manager,

4:44 but he's not going to be able to turn things around in s

4:47 such a short space of time and get his style of football.

4:49 So I think he's caught between the two between trying to play out from the back

4:52 by trying to go long and at the moment the players look uh low in confidence.

4:56 The two wide players tell he scored a good goal

4:59 but Moani just didn't look as though he had enough play

5:01 and the center forward rich I just I'm not quite sure

5:04 what he gave the team today and the same with Gallagher.

5:06 Gallala couldn't get in the game.

5:08 So I'm looking at Spurs and saying it's going

5:10 to be a tough couple of games for them.

5:12 And with West Ham having a bit of momentum

5:14 even though they lost the game against Arsenal,

5:16 I think they will get some confidence from that game

5:18 and they might just get something at Newcastle.

5:20 What you thinking, Shaka?

5:21 Um I'm I'm I'm with George on on uh on Spurs running.

5:26 Um difficult games, Chelsea, despite Chelsea being who they who they are,

5:32 final home game of the season, London derby.

5:35 I'm I'm struggling to see Spurs get anything there.

5:37 And then they finish off half uh at at home to to Everton.

5:41 And given how nervy they were,

5:43 particularly in the closing minutes of this one, um,

5:45 and who ever have shown themselves to be recently,

5:48 I I I can I can see Spurs losing that one quite easily as well.

5:52 Maybe it's because I've got my West Ham glasses on here.

5:54 But for for West Ham, I don't see them getting anything at at St.

5:58 James's Park.

5:58 Last home game again for for Newcastle.

6:02 I've I've been there for those.

6:03 Um, it's going to be like like nothing else.

6:05 But I made the point going into the Arsenal game.

6:08 West Ham have lost once at home since early January since

6:12 they lost to to Nottenham Forest at at the London Stadium.

6:16 And then you see the effort that they put up against Arsenal um to finish off

6:21 finish off the season uh at home

6:23 to leads who are safe whose holidays are booked.

6:28 Um, and those two games being played simultaneously,

6:32 I I could see I could see West Ham winning at least

6:35 and and and if if uh Spurs go and lose those lose those two,

6:39 this two points dropped becomes well defining.

6:42 Can you put in a little call as the mayor of Newcastle?

6:45 Uh I I can I'm not I'm not sure anybody will answer, but I'll

6:49 I mean, was that a leads on holiday tonight?

6:53 No.

6:53 Not on holiday yet.

6:54 Leads on holiday yet?

6:56 No.

6:55 It'll be on holiday in two weeks time.

6:57 No, we that's what it is.

6:59 We saw exactly what leads are and what they

7:02 will be in that last game against West Ham.

7:04 And the problem for West Ham is they're two

7:08 points behind Spurs and and and I don't disagree

7:11 that where's Spurs where's where's the win coming

7:15 from, but they've got a two-point advantage over West Ham.

7:19 So I think it's more important we go

7:21 where's the where's the points coming from West Ham?

7:23 And I don't see where the points come from them either.

7:26 So the fact that Spurs are two points ahead right now,

7:28 absolutely 100% they are in pole position.