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West Ham midfielder Tomas Soucek sends message to Tottenham in wake of win over Leicester
There’s no love lost between West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur, two London clubs that have a pretty strong rivalry.
While Tottenham’s main rivals are fellow North Londoners Arsenal and West Ham 🌌are at loggerheads with Millwall, games between 𝓀Spurs and the Hammers tend to be fierce affairs.
F𒁃or instance, the last game between Tottenham and West Ham saw Mohammed Kudus sent off for raising his hands to both Micky van de Ven and ꩵPape Sarr.
Kudus received a five-match ba♎n for the incident in the game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which Spurs won 4-1.
In addition, Tottenham and West Ham are both around the same place in the Premier League table.
Spurs currently sit 13th in the standings, while West Ham are 15th𒅌, though they’re now level on points after their 2-0 win over Leicester City on Thursday night.
Tomas Soucek, who score🐻d in the win over the Foxes, spoke about Tottenham in his post-match interview.
Tomas Soucek says West Ham ‘want to be better’ than Tottenham
Souc﷽ek was interviewed by TNT Sports after the match, in which he spoke about a number of subjects including Graham Potter’s impact at the club.
After praising the new West Ham manager, Soucek said his team’s hope is to finish as high as possible and challenge the likes of Tottenham a𒐪nd Manchester United around them.
Soucek notedꦍ how West Ham fans saw the Tottenham fixture as a “big derby” and said he wants the Hammers to be “better than them”.
“It’s t♐ough to have this big impact in the half of the season but I think in these last two games what we showed we showed, good spirit, good team effort,” the birthday boy said, as transcribed by .
“I could see in the first half it wꩵas a very good performance, in the second 🃏we did a few mistakes but still we won 2-0 and it was a great result.
“I think that even this can help our manager believe in what were doing and we are all 𒅌so grateful for him.
“We know that the s𒆙eason is tough, this season we just want ꦚto stay as high as possible. We know we can challenge some big teams.
“Manchester Uni🦩ted, Tottenham are around us. Even for West Ham fans it’s a big derby with Tottenham so we want to be better than them.”
What West Ham icon Mark Noble has said about Tottenham rivalry
West Ham legend Mark Noble, now the club’s di🌞rector of football, spoke to TNT Sports in 2024 about the club’s rivalry with Tottenham.
“I don’t think Arsenal were a massive rival, they were winning titles and all that. There was just something wit💎h Spurs that made it such a big rivalry,” said Noble.
“I loved the rivalry, I loved playing in those games. I rem𝐆ember saying to the boys many times, ‘listen, you don’t need a team talk for these games. It is what it is, we’ve got to try and win’.
“I was brough𓆏t up as a West Ham fan and being around loads of West Ham fans myself, they always ingraine🅘d in me that ‘we’ve always got to beat Spurs’.”
Noble also recalled a disagreement in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium visitors’ changing room after West Ham gave Spurs thꦗeir first defeat at their new stadium in April 2019.
“I’ve come in and done the press, and the players wanted to take a photo toge🧸ther and I’m like ‘not a chance are we having a♛ photo here’, because I believed that we should expect to beat Spurs,” Noble said.
“It was probably a little bit of ego because I didn’t want a photo to come ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚout of us just because we beat Spurs 1-0. For me that wasn’t good enough, I needed to go on and be bett𝐆er as a club than that.”