West Ham's woes are cautionary tale for Tottenham
By Martyn Herman
LONDON, May 4 (Reuters) - Title-chasing Tottenham Hotspur want look most effective as a long way as London rivals West Ham United for a reminder of the way quickly fortunes can alternate in football.
While Mauricio Pochettino's crew will arrive at West Ham's London Stadium searching for a 10th successive Premier League victory to close the distance on leaders Chelsea to a point, their opponents are still anxiously looking over their shoulders.
West Ham left their historical vintage Upton Park floor on a excessive a year in the past having finished seventh however all the optimism generated by using taking over the previous Olympic Stadium has evaporated all through a season of war.
They have gained simplest six league video games at their new home and simplest once in 10 domestic and away as they limp in the direction of protection.
Injuries and an acrimonious fall-out with pinnacle player Dimitri Payet, who became offered again to Marseille in January, have not helped supervisor Slaven Bilic's cause, however the lack of momentum because of a stadium switch has proved most hard to restoration.
It is a cautionary tale for Tottenham.
They confirmed remaining week they'll flow out in their White Hart Lane citadel on the stop of the season to permit work on their new sixty one,000-seat stadium to be completed in time for the start of the 2018-19 season.
In the meantime, they will be tenants at Wembley Stadium, wherein they performed their Champions League home suits this yr, with little achievement. They additionally misplaced to Chelsea there final month within the FA Cup semi-final, meaning they've won simplest once at their "adopted domestic" in their final 9 visits.
Pochettino is properly aware of the perils of moving to Wembley - mainly as Tottenham's identify bid has been built on an unbeaten domestic league record at White Lart Lane, in which they have got won their ultimate 13 fits.
"We can see from out of doors however we do not know the reality," Pochettino stated of West Ham's issues at domestic at some point of a Thursday news conference. "Sure they suffered a little bit.
"We are aware the following season will be very important to us, our willingness needs to be bigger than this season, we need to be geared up for the whole lot.
"It's crucial that every one body of workers, the membership, the players recognise next season may be more difficult than others, exceptional, we want all the people giving their first-class to try to arrive at the new stadium in excellent situation."
Bilic was flavour of the month remaining season and even masterminded a 1-zero victory over Pochettino's Tottenham - a end result that undermined Tottenham's identify hopes last yr. Now the Croatian is beneath pressure.
"He's a extraordinary man and great manager," Pochettino said.
"Always it's hard when you pass to a new stadium, the Olympic Stadium, absolutely one-of-a-kind. We begin to see this at Wembley, what takes place while we played there.
"We have to make Wembley our home and it's so difficult." (Reporting with the aid of Martyn Herman, enhancing via Larry King)
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