Team news, key stats and prediction ahead of West Ham vs Tottenham in the Premier League as Jose Mourinho makes his Spurs debut in the dugout.
Team news
West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini has confirmed that captain Mark Noble and Michail Antonio will be available for the visit of Jose Mourinho and Tottenham .
Antonio has been out of action since sustaining a hamstring injury in the Carabao Cup victory over Newport County in September, while midfielder Noble suffered a twisted ankle at Burnley last time out, but both have trained without issue this week.
Roberto will continue in goal with Lukasz Fabianski recovering from surgery on a torn hip muscle.
Mourinho will be without the services of Erik Lamela, Hugo Lloris and Michel Vorm for his first match in charge of Tottenham.
Lamela and Lloris are recovering from respective hamstring and elbow injuries, while Vorm sustained a calf strain in training on Monday and is expected to return to training next month.
Tanguy Ndombele (groin) and Jan Vertonghen (hamstring) have returned to the training fold and will be assessed ahead of Saturday's match.
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Opta stats
- West Ham are looking to secure consecutive league wins over Spurs for the first time since beating them in both matches in the 2013-14 campaign.
- Tottenham have won three of their last five away league games against West Ham (L2), including the last two in a row. They've won never won three consecutive top-flight away games against the Hammers.
- In all competitions, the away side has won five of the last six meetings between West Ham and Tottenham (two wins for West Ham, three for Spurs), with the other ending 1-1.
- West Ham lost their last home league London derby, 1-2 vs Crystal Palace. They've not lost back-to-back such games at the London Stadium, last doing so in March 2015 at the Boleyn Ground (three in a row).
- Tottenham are winless in 12 Premier League away games (D3 L9), their third longest such run in the competition after runs of 14 between May 2000-January 2001 (under George Graham) and 13 between March-November 1997 (under Gerry Francis).
- Tottenham have dropped a league-high 12 points from winning positions in the Premier League this season - just two fewer than they dropped in the whole of 2018-19 (14).
- Tottenham have scored in both halves in just one of their 12 Premier League matches so far this season (2-2 vs Manchester City in August) - only Southampton (0) have done so in fewer games this term.
- Tottenham have gone 83 Premier League games without a 0-0 draw, the third longest such run in the competition's history after Manchester United (114 games between May 1999-May 2002) and Ipswich Town (87 games between August 1994-September 2001).
- Tottenham's Harry Kane has scored 28 goals in 45 Premier League London derbies - only Thierry Henry (43), Teddy Sheringham (32) and Frank Lampard (32) have netted more goals in such games. Kane averages a goal every 132 minutes in these fixtures, second only to Thierry Henry (one every 114 minutes, minimum 10 goals).
- Only against Liverpool (5) has West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini lost more Premier League games than he has against Spurs (3).
Charlie Nicholas' prediction
Normally you get a bounce with a new manager, but I don't know what a bounce is for Tottenham. West Ham love to turn Tottenham over more than any of the London clubs and there is something about the hostility between the two of these sides.
Manuel Pellegrini is under serious pressure and could be sacked with a heavy defeat. One manager is trying to save himself, while the other manager - Jose Mourinho - is trying to assert his authority on a side that has had an abysmal season thus far. He won't have any time to do it going into the weekend so they will have to batten down the hatches and get on with it.
It will be interesting to see who Mourinho picks. There are a lot of people who will be feeling down that Mauricio Pochettino has gone, but I expect a reaction from Tottenham. There will be fire in the belly and it will be feisty.
CHARLIE PREDICTS: 1-2 (15/2 with Sky Bet)