Craig Burley
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West Ham, I think they've got Arsenal their strongest game.
Any game after that, you could see potentially West Ham taking a point from the majority of the games.
So they're running out of games.
They're now in the bottom three, which will affect confidence.
I've certainly been there when you're 4-4-5 bottom and a team wins on a Friday night like West Ham have done tonight in a brilliant win in a pressure game that they had to win.
And then all of a sudden, the Spurs players will be, just before they go to bed tonight, waking up tomorrow, prepping for the game, in the bottom three.
And that is a massive extra pressure on their shoulders.
Going to the Stadium of Light, which is a hard place to go anyway, against a fit Sunderland side, what a test.
You know, there's an extra responsibility as well here on...
the Spurs players and the defenders, you know, not to try and take the easy option and go back to the goalkeeper all the time.
Yeah, I agree with you on that one.
Give the young guy a hospital ball where he's under pressure and maybe a bit of a bobbly pitch where Sunderland do press.
A lot of their success this year, particularly early on, they had a good side, but their physicality, their pressing and how they went about it.
Think about Arsenal who went up there.
They really didn't stand off Arsenal.
They went toe-to-toe with Arsenal.
So don't take that easy option of turning back and going back to the goalkeeper and putting him in a difficult position.
So, you know, I think he can be helped by his teammates not putting him in that scenario.
And Don, I'm sure Don will let us know.