West Ham vs Tottenham LIVE: Premier League team news and line-ups as Micky van de Ven starts

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Jarrod Bowen is the man in-form for West Ham. The winger scored at the weekend against Newcastle and now has 15 Premier League goals this season. Only Paolo Di Canio (16 in 1999-00) has ever netted more in a single campaign for West Ham United.

Can the Englishamn bag another tonight?

Spurs have not won at London Stadium since 2019, their longest run without a win against West Ham since a run of six between 1995 and 2001.

The Hammers are looking to achieve the Premier League double over Tottenham for the third time, previously doing so in 1998-99 and 2013-14.

Last time out between these two sides in December, it was a performance to forget for Spurs as Jarrod Bowen and James Ward-Prowse struck after half-time to help West Ham earn a memorable 2-1 win.

Cristian Romero had put Spurs ahead in the 11th-minute and had Ange Postecoglou’s side on course for a first victory in five games. David Moyes’s men had other ideas and after Bowen scored for the seventh away Premier League game in a row, Ward-Prowse capitalised on an error at the back with 16 minutes left.

Here’s how it went down:

Kick-off coming up here in east London in 45 minutes.

Spurs, meanwhile, make three changes following their 2-1 win against Luton. Van de Ven returns in central defence as January signing Dragusin drops to the bench. In midfield, Bentancur replaces Sarr while the impressive Johnson is preferred to Kulusevski on the right wing.

Tottenham XI: Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Bissouma, Bentancur, Maddison; Johnson, Son, Werner.

Just the one change for West Ham tonight as Fabianksi replaces the injured Areola in goal. The impressive attacking trio of Bowen, Kudus and Paqueta starting behind Antonio who looks for his third goal in as many league games.

West Ham XI: Fabianski; Coufal, Mavropanos, Zouma, Emerson; Ward-Prowse, Soucek, Paqueta; Bowen, Kudus; Antonio.

Both starting XIs should be landing any minute now – are we in for any selection surprises?

West Ham boss David Moyes is hoping to get the fans onside early at the London Stadium as they look to improve upon their poor league start in 2024.

The Hammers have won just twice in the Premier Leeague since the turn of the year and are now three games without a league win following their 4-3 away defeat against Newcastle last weekend.

Heading into this encounter, the Scotsman is hoping to steady the ship and re-energise their bid for European football: “Tottenham have done well this season, so it’s going to be a difficult game.

“We’ve tried over the last few years to challenge the big teams at home. There are a lot of big teams, and we always want to give our fans something to shout about.

“This is a big game and it’s very important to us.”