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Ange Postecoglou and Totttenham had a fortnight to stew on their second-half capitulation at Brighton but are firm favourites to get back to winning ways against West Ham United this lunchtime.

After taking just four points from their first four Premier League games of the season, including a north London derby defeat against Arsenal, Spurs were enjoying a mini-revival until their optimism was punctured at Brighton. 

In their last game against Champions League contenders, West Ham were cut to ribbons by Chelsea but a 4-1 victory over Ipswich before the international break lifted some of the pressure on Julen Lopetegui. West Ham won at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last season and often save their best for this fixture. 

West Ham are without summer signing Niclas Fullkrug because of injury, but Spurs are hopeful that Son Heung-min and Richarlison will be available. Spurs’ underlying attacking metrics and general level of dominance in matches has been impressive, but there remains a sense they suffer from a glass chin. 

Speaking about the collapse at Brighton, Postecoglou said: “I mean you can’t just dismiss what happened in the first half and just focus on the second half. It would be different if it was a really poor performance all round.

“Then, it’s not easier, but the analysis can be straightforward. The question is, ‘why were we so good in the first half and so poor in the second?’.

“The second half was more around we just didn’t look anything like ourselves. We were really passive with and without the ball. We lacked real conviction and courage in everything we did. It was almost like we felt like we had done enough.

“I hadn’t seen that before in us and it is a good lesson for the whole group that you need to make sure, irrespective of how a game is going, you stick to the core principles of your football.”

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Source: telegraph.co.uk