West Ham 2-3 Tottenham: Jose Mourinho wins first game as Spurs boss

Mourinho's 11-month absence from the game ended this week when he replaced Mauricio Pochettino on Wednesday and he needed only three days to lift Spurs' misfiring stars.

GOAL HIGHLIGHTS

First-half goals from Son Heung-min and Lucas Moura - both incisive attacks - were added to by Harry Kane's header after the break as Tottenham won away in the Premier League for the first time in 308 days, even though late goals from Michail Antonio and Angelo Ogbonna skewed the scoreline.

It extended the 56-year-old's incredible record of not losing a first game in charge of a club since his first job as Benfica's manager way back in 2000.

Mourinho had stuck to his pledge of not changing too much from how Pochettino had set them up, but they played with confidence and intent, something that was missing in the latter part of the Argentinian's spell in north London.

There will be far bigger challenges ahead than this for Mourinho, but the way the front four linked up will give great promise that Spurs can climb up the table and challenge for a top-four spot.

Dele Alli, someone who Mourinho had told to start playing like himself, was back to his best, Son was electrifying, Moura played with purpose and Kane led the line superbly.

West Ham had been a mere footnote in the build-up to the game as the focus had unsurprisingly all been on the Portuguese's return, but Manuel Pellegrini's position at the London Stadium will come into focus after a dismal display, despite the late goals.

This was their sixth defeat in eight games in all competitions, with no wins since September, and with the home fans jeering their side and manager, Pellegrini must fear for his job.

The Hammers were not helped by their social media team posting a video - that was eventually deleted - goading Mourinho about previous poor results against the London club.

There was never any danger of this being another Red Letter Day as Spurs, with Mourinho prowling the touchline, controlled the game from the first whistle.

Kane thought he had given them a perfect start inside the opening 10 minutes but he was offside after being played in by Alli.

After Son and Moura had gone close Spurs took a deserved lead in the 36th minute after a spell of pressure.

Alli played in Son down the left and the South Korean continued his penchant for scoring big goals by firing through the hands of Roberto, though the West Ham goalkeeper should have done better.

Spurs had Mourinho producing a knee-slide nine minutes later as they doubled their lead with an impressive goal.

Alli did well to keep the ball in, setting Son free at the same time, and the latter's cross was rammed home at close range by Moura.

It was a big afternoon for Moura, who was named in the starting line-up after Mourinho had revealed he tried to sign him when he was in charge of Real Madrid, and he delivered an important goal.

Moura had already missed a great chance to add his second by the time Kane made it 3-0 in the 49th minute as the England captain notched his 21st goal of the season for club and country.

He was picked out superbly by Serge Aurier's cross and planted a header in the back of the net to leave Mourinho chuckling on the sidelines.

For a period of time it looked like it could have been as big a win as Spurs wanted, but West Ham at least restored some pride in the 73rd minute.

Antonio - a half-time substitute - got on the scoresheet with a rifled effort into the bottom corner from Mark Noble's pass.

The hosts, who had been dreadful for so much of the game, looked like setting up a grandstand finish when Declan Rice swept home Sebastian Haller's header, but VAR ruled that he was offside.

Ogbonna did get one back for West Ham with the very last action, scoring from a corner, to skew the scoreline, but this was Spurs' day.

This was Mourinho's day.

OPTA Stats

• Having lost his first ever competitive game as manager, with Benfica in September 2000, José Mourinho has gone unbeaten in his first game in charge at each of his eight clubs since, including two different spells with Chelsea (W5 D3).
• Jose Mourinho won as many points today vs West Ham, as Mauricio Pochettino mustered in his final 12 away Premier League games with Tottenham (W0 D3 L9).
• West Ham United have picked up just two points from their last 21 available in the Premier League (W0 D2 L5).
• Tottenham have won three consecutive away league games versus West Ham for the first time in their history.
• All four of Michail Antonio's Premier League goals for West Ham against Spurs have come at different venues - Upton Park, White Hart Lane, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and London Stadium.
• West Ham’s Michail Antonio is one of four players to score at four different venues for a single club against a single opponent in the Premier League, alongside Steed Malbranque (Fulham v Man City), Dele Alli (Tottenham v Watford), Christian Eriksen (Tottenham v Everton).
• Tottenham’s Harry Kane has scored eight goals in his last nine Premier League games versus West Ham. Indeed, Kane has scored 29 goals in 46 Premier League London derbies – only Thierry Henry (43), Teddy Sheringham (32) and Frank Lampard (32) have netted more goals in such games.
• Harry Kane has now scored 175 goals in 269 appearances in all competitions for Tottenham - only Jimmy Greaves (266) and Bobby Smith (208) have netted more for the club.
• Son Heung-min (19) is Tottenham's leading goalscorer in all competitions in 2019, netting one more than Harry Kane (18) so far this calendar year.

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Full time: West Ham 2-3 Tottenham

Jose Mourinho wins his first game in charge of Tottenham, but will be annoyed that Spurs got lazy at the end and their defence looked poor for the two goals they let in late.

That's Tottenham's first away win since January in the league and Spurs go to sixth in the table on 17 points, above Arsenal on goal diffeence

For West Ham it is now eight games without a victory in all comps, and four defeats out of five in the league. They are five points off the relegation zone, although one point better off than this time last season.

95: West Ham 2-3 Tottenham

Ogbonna

Just as I spoke, West Ham do get another back. From a corner Ogbonna heads in

94: Two to go

Two minutes left and Spurs have done well to slow West Ham down again now. Apart from the offside goal, West Ham have failed to create another clear chance in injury time

92: Another corner to West Ham

All Hammers now and Snodgrass, who has done well today, wins a corner. Comes to nothing

90: Six minutes added on

Could you imagine if that goal had counted and we had six minutes of injury time with one goal in it.

Tottenham are lucky boys

89: Disallowed - West Ham 1-3 Tottenham

VAR rules it out correctly.

Corner from the right, headed down to the far post and Rice taps in from a foot out. But he is offside. Not clear if ball was going in anyway, but looks like it would have just gone wide if Rice hasn't touched it

Huge let off for Spurs.

89: GOAL: West Ham 2-3 Tottenham

West Ham have another back. But could be offside - VAR

88: West Ham pushing

Tottenham have been poor and lazy since going 3-0 up. West Ham now pushing for the second goal to make a granddtand finish. They have a corner

85: Fight

Well, as much of a fight as you can get on a football pitch, so it isn't actually a fight, just a bit if hugging.

Kane goes in slightly late on Snodgrass. He reacts by bear hugging the England captain from behind and Kane jumps up in the air in theoretical style, which was not needed and looked silly.

Yellow for both