Pochettino vows that Spurs will keep fighting for league title

It took 20 minutes for Spurs to register their first shot on goal at West Ham’s cavernous London Stadium – and then three came along in the same move.

They will secure the title if they beat Middlesbrough at Stamford Bridge on Monday and West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on Friday.

“We’re still fighting, we’re disappointed with the result”, the 45-year-old told Sky Sports after the game.

“Now we have to try to be ready for the next game”. “We have to wait but are thinking that it will be hard to catch Chelsea”, said Pochettino. We didn’t play with the same…not intensity, but how we always play.

However, Tottenham have a big day ahead next Sunday as they host Manchester United in the last-ever match at White Hart Lane.

“And then it was so hard, they play so deep with 5-4-1. We didn’t show the same performance as against Arsenal”.

But with West Ham content to defend deep, Spurs needed to find that last extra push – and it just wasn’t coming.

“We were a little but unlucky, I don’t think we deserved to lose but we lost”.

“I’m very gutted, in the way we played especially”, he said.

After seeing their long pursuit of Leicester last season end in failure, the same thing looks set to happen to Tottenham this season.

“Today is that game that winning would mean a lot to the team and the club, so hopefully we can do that”. Slaven Bilic will have Manuel Lanzini at his disposal, a big boost as eight of his 13 goals this Premier League season have come within the confines of the English capital.

After nine wins in a row and with West Ham struggling, Spurs would have been confident of extending that run and putting serious pressure on Antonio Conte’s side by extending that winning run.

Noble’s pass sent Lanzini clean through and when Lloris raced off his line to block, West Ham saw their appeal for a foul turned down while Kouyate’s weak follow-up was scrambed away. “I’m calm on the touchline, focused on the game to help the team. That wasn’t a problem, the problem was that we didn’t perform in the way we usually perform”.