Tottenham targeting West Ham win to pile pressure on Chelsea

“More wins, more goals, the best defence, the best of everything”.

And it means that, with just four games of the season remaining, the gap between the two sides is just four points, but Spurs have the chance to narrow that gap to one when they visit West Ham on Friday night.

“We are in the race for the title”, Pochettino told reporters at White Hart Lane.

But Arsenal’s success during the late 1990s and early 2000s, followed by the rise of Chelsea and Tottenham and decline of Manchester United’s league standings has seen southern clubs reduce the deficit to become the dominant force over the last three years. “It was a very important game for us – I think the most important of the season”. Talking of consecutive, we have now won 9 consecutive league games (for the first time since 1960), 13 consecutive home league games, and 16 consecutive games in all competitions at White Hart Lane. Dele Alli seized possession and passed to Christian Eriksen, who weaved past Laurent Koscielny before striking at goalkeeper Petr Cech. Only Manchester United stand in our way in a quest to remain unbeaten in a home league season for the first time since 1964-65, and to equal our league record of 14 consecutive home league wins.

Sunday’s win was Spurs’ ninth in a row in the league and Pochettino hailed his players after watching them see off Arsenal with some ease.

Meanwhile, second-placed Spurs fuelled debates of a power shift in north London with a convincing 2-0 victory over Arsenal. “If you ask me about Swansea, I don’t know”. There will be more games to play next season, and more chance for rotation. All is possible in football. We have got four games in front of us and we feel like we can win all four.

One point separates the three sides and Arsenal are still not out of it either.

“The points are the points”, said the Frenchman, who tasted defeat for only the eighth time in 50 north London derbies.

Goals came easily for the Baggies when they won this fixture 4-0 at home but Tony Pulis said his players needed a break after a fourth straight loss and a fifth without scoring. You earn them on the pitch.

Coming into the season off the back of a collectively poor team performance for England at the Euro’s, Cahill started the campaign, understandably, low on confidence and probably disheartened from all the negative attention. ‘It’s not my feeling that we’re safe yet, ‘ he said.

“We have a cup final”. Football fans are no strangers to Friday nights spent in the pub, so adding a live top flight game into the mix sounded like a match made in heaven – at least on a superficial level.