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77 min: A couple of loose Spurs passes. Loud groans. It\u2019s going to be a long final 13 minutes plus stoppages for the denizens of N17.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n 75 min: GOAL! West Ham 2-0 Leeds. In N17, Kolo Muani lashes a long-range shot over the bar. Meanwhile across London, Jarrod Bowen doubles West Ham\u2019s lead against Leeds. They\u2019re doing all they can to stay up. Can Spurs see it out?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 73 min: Spurs \u2013 the beneficiaries of another tactical seminar by Roberto De Zerbi during the drinks break \u2013 make a double change. Tel and Richarlison are replaced by Sarr and Kolo Muani. When Richarlison takes his seat in the dugout, does he have a face on, do you think?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 72 min: Drinks break!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 71 min: Tel dribbles fast and hard down the inside-left channel. Iroegbunam takes the ball off his toe, adroitly on the edge of the box. Perfectly timed. It had to be. Everton<\/a> counter, Garner and Barry briefly threatening to open Spurs up down the right, only for both to drop the pace and turn tail. Danger over.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 69 min: \u2026 so this is how the table looks now. \u201cAll Spurs have to do is not panic and concede twice in the last 30,\u201d notes Hugh Molloy. \u201cRemind me what this \u2018Spursy\u2019 thing means again?\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 67 min: Kinsky doesn\u2019t really deal with Garner\u2019s corner. But Spurs eventually clear their lines. Everton<\/a> making most of the running now.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 66 min: Everton<\/a> enjoy some more possession \u2026 and Ndiaye wins a corner down the left. The change in atmosphere is pointed. A goal now for Everton would send everyone off into a flat spin.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 64 min: GOAL! West Ham 1-0 Leeds. Taty Castellanos has broken the deadlock at the London Stadium \u2026 and the mood suddenly darkens in N17. Spurs are still in the box seat, and there\u2019s no need to panic yet, but the nerves are going like the clappers now.<\/p>\n Oh, hello! Taty Castellanos scores for West Ham. Photograph: Nick Potts\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.35 EDT<\/p>\n 62 min: Everton<\/a> make a double change, replacing Rohl and O\u2019Brien with George and Armstrong.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 61 min: Tel is down getting a spot of treatment. Time for an impromptu drinks break.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 59 min: Bentancur knocks Garner to the ground on the right flank. The resulting free kick leads to some head tennis, and an awful lot of murmuring in the stands. Spurs eventually clear their lines, but at some cost to their fans\u2019 nerves.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 57 min: Garner comes sliding in on Palhinha, then gives him a sly little upwards flick-kick as they continue to tangle. VAR has a look, but waves play on. Everton<\/a> have got away with a couple of challenges on the edge of legality this afternoon.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 55 min: More sterile Everton<\/a> domination. It causes Roberto De Zerbi to come to the touchline and tell it as he sees it.<\/p>\n Wonderful scenes on the touchline from Bobby De Zerbi. Photograph: Chloe Knott\/Tottenham Hotspur FC\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.29 EDT<\/p>\n 53 min: Everton<\/a> enjoy a relatively long period of possession, but achieve nothing with it. A reminder, though, that only Arsenal (35) and Manchester City (33) have so far won more points away from home than Everton (26) this season.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 51 min: Dewsbury-Hall makes off down the left and is skittled by Van de Ven. He sends in a harmless free kick that Tarkowski tries to make something out of, but fails. Everton<\/a> have been awfully toothless this afternoon. \u201cThe White Heart Danes is certainly a great name for a Spurs supporters\u2019 club in Copenhagen and would be difficult to beat,\u201d writes Kevin Thomson. \u201cJust thinking that a Hearts supporters club in Russia\u2019s Volga-Ural region could be called The Jam Tartars.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 49 min: \u2026 and doubly fortunately for Pickford, nothing comes of the resulting corner.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 48 min: Spence cuts in from the right and aims for the bottom right. His shot is a dribbler, but Pickford, in an attempt to scoop it up, nearly shovels it into his own goal! The ball squirts inches wide of the right-hand post. Pickford blows out in relief. So close to a humiliating gaffe.<\/p>\n Photograph: Frank Augstein\/APShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.20 EDT<\/p>\n 47 min: Spence battles his way down the right and wins a corner off Mykolenko. The linesman \u2013 the same one with the knackered battery pack \u2013 doesn\u2019t see the Everton<\/a> man\u2019s final touch, and awards a goal kick! That\u2019s put the tin lid on it. The PGMOL, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Spurs finally get the second half started. Apart from the linesman\u2019s battery pack, there have been no changes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The West Ham v Leeds game has now reached the 51st minute. What nonsense.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Seems they were waiting to synchronise the second-half kick-off with the West Ham game. At which point the game at West Ham were given the go-ahead to start \u2026 only for this technical issue with the assistant referee to crop up. The fans whistle in irritation. This is a fiasco.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Spurs are left hanging for a minute or so by Everton<\/a>, who emerge from the tunnel late, having presumably been given a full-fat bollocking for their first-half performance. They were abysmal. Then everyone has to wait while one of the linesman gets his walkie-talkie battery replaced. Dear me.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n HALF TIME: West Ham United 0-0 Leeds United. So with Leeds holding the Hammers at the London Stadium, and with apologies to Simon McMahon\u2019s liver (26 min), here\u2019s the table AS IT STANDS. West Ham will be playing Championship football next season.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>HALF TIME: Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Everton<\/p>\n A deserved lead for Spurs on the balance of play. Will it stop the nerves jangling in the second half? Of course it won\u2019t! But the mood is a whole lot better since Palhinha headed against the post and rammed home the rebound. A whole lot better.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min +5: Mykolenko requires some treatment after being caught late by Spence. But with the half-time whistle so close, he\u2019s staying on, for now at least.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min +3: The sub keeper Vicario is in a very strange mood this afternoon, incidentally. That row with Seamus Coleman, and now there\u2019s footage of his celebrating the goal by taking De Zerbi in a headlock from behind.<\/p>\n Guglielmo Vicario chooses violence. Photograph: Vince Mignott\/MB Media\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.36 EDT<\/p>\n 45 min +2: The stadium is now bouncing, by the way, like that\u2019s breaking news given what\u2019s just happened! Roberto De Zerbi reacted to the goal by wheeling around in a heightened state. Can you blame him?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min +1: The first of four additional minutes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min: A long Everton<\/a> throw comes in from the right. Bentancur barges into the back of Tarkowski, but though VAR has a quick look, there\u2019s not going to be a penalty. Garner drags a poor shot wide right.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 44 min: That goal was a proper mess, but Spurs won\u2019t care! Barry had hooked Palhinha\u2019s shot from just behind the line. Danso followed it up, ramming home, but that\u2019s Palhinha\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Everton (Palhinha 43)<\/p>\n After a shaky few minutes, Spurs are finishing the half strongly \u2026 Richarlison dribbles down the left and wins an actual corner this time. Tel sends it to the far stick. Palhinha heads against the right-hand post. The rebound falls to him, and he pokes over the line. Bedlam!<\/p>\n Photograph: Andrew Couldridge\/Action Images\/ReutersJoao Palhinha scores! Photograph: Andrew Matthews\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.56 EDT<\/p>\n 41 min: Gallagher is going nowhere near the left-hand corner flag. But Rohl gifts him a free kick by needlessly barging into his back. A free kick that\u2019s almost the same as a corner. Porro sends it long \u2026 and Pickford punches it clear likewise.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 40 min: Tel, just inside the Everton<\/a> box on the left, drops a shoulder and looks for the top-right corner with a curler. It\u2019s heading in, and it\u2019s not clear that Pickford will get to it, so Tarkowski does exceptionally well to block. Tel spins around in frustration, suggesting he knew he\u2019d hit a good one there, and the shot was on its way.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 38 min: Ndiaye wins the ball and makes good down the right. His cross is deflected into the air. Palhinha tries a weird back-flicked header across the face of his own box that nearly drops to Barry. He\u2019s fortunate it doesn\u2019t, and Everton<\/a> clear their lines. Those anxiety levels are rising and rising.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 36 min: Rohl finds Dewsbury-Hall down the left. A ball\u2019s slipped into the box along the channel in the hope of finding Barry. Kinsky claims. Everton<\/a> are beginning to grow as an attacking force, albeit from a very low starting point.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 35 min: Palhinha romps down the inside-right channel and shoots. Deflection. Corner. The set piece is sent in, and Danso wins a free header on the penalty spot. He flaps a weak effort down and straight into the arms of Pickford. Spurs have had their chances. Danso has now had two of them. Will they end up regretting these misses?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 33 min: Dewsbury-Hall swings the corner into the six-yard box. Spurs let the ball sail all the way through. They\u2019re fortunate that there\u2019s nobody in blue to poke home. Eventually Spence clears. Audible anxiety as the volume dropped through all of that.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 32 min: Dewsbury-Hall tries a curler towards the top left from the right-hand edge of the Spurs box. It\u2019s blocked. But Spurs come again, Ndiaye dribbling in from the right but not quite making enough space to get a shot away. He makes do with winning a cornner. From which \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 30 min: The xG so far: Spurs 0.38, Everton<\/a> 0.03. Which tells quite a few stories, on both micro and macro levels.<\/p>\n It\u2019s all a bit cagey from both sides. Photograph: Vince Mignott\/MB Media\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.38 EDT<\/p>\n 28 min: \u2026 though having said that, Everton<\/a> have just spent a couple of minutes in Spurs territory, and there are a few frustrated groans from the home fans as a result. All of which will be music to the ears of David Moyes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 27 min: Dewsbury-Hall advances down the left and wins a throw, which Mykolenko prepares to hoick long \u2026 but then throws short to Ndiaye. There goes another chance to dispatch the ball into the Spurs box. What on earth are Everton<\/a> up to?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 26 min: The game restarts. \u201cIt\u2019s partly cloudy and 20 degrees in Dundee, Scott, which qualifies as a heatwave in my book,\u201d begins Simon McMahon. \u201cFear not, though, as I am having regular drinks breaks while watching the drama unfold, including a single malt every time the \u2018as it stands\u2019 table is shown. It\u2019s been a long hard season, so why not? Good training for the World Cup too.\u201d<\/p>\n Hey, have a nippy sweetie on us.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 25 min: A drinks break, and it\u2019s time for some tactical instruction as well. Roberto De Zerbi talking ten to the dozen. A lot of beneficial advice to impart.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 23 min: Spence gets the run on Mykolenko down the right. He crosses, hoping to find Richarlison in the middle for a tap-in. Pickford reads the danger and punches clear. Spurs looking far more dangerous than Everton<\/a>, though that won\u2019t stop the nerves jangling.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n