Winning start for Jose at West Ham

A new era under Jose Mourinho began with a 3-2 win at West Ham United on Saturday lunchtime.

In a fixture that nearly always throws up passion, intrigue and drama, we deservedly went in two up at half-time thanks to Heung-Min Son's third goal in two games at the London Stadium and a determined finish from Lucas Moura - one of three players restored to the starting line-up by our new Head Coach.

Lucas missed a sitter just after the restart but Harry Kane quickly added our third with a header that also took him above Martin Chivers as our third-highest scorer of all-time as we dominated for the bulk of the game.

The Hammers, also struggling of late, made a late rally with Michail Antonio lashing home and Angelo Ogbonna scoring with practically the last kick of the contest deep in added time, but it was too little, too late for Manuel Pellegrini's side as we clinched our first Premier League away win since January and our first in six games in the competition, rocketing up to sixth in the table before the rest of the day's action.

Kane lashed home inside three minutes but was flagged off-side as we made a lively start in our return to action following the last international break of 2019, while Sebastien Haller's header for West Ham hit Davinson Sanchez and was caught by Paulo Gazzaniga. We were dominating the play, though, and after Son's 20-yard curler was beaten away by goalkeeper Roberto, our South Korean forward bagged the first goal of the Mourinho era on 36 minutes with a typical Son finish from the left angle in the box after being played in by Dele. It was his sixth goal in as many games for us.

Dele was finding pockets of space in West Ham territory and dragged just wide before playing a key role in the build-up to our second goal two minutes before the interval. There were two cute touches, one initially from Son, then another from Dele as he swivelled on the floor to keep Eric Dier's pass in play and release Son down the left, whose cross was converted by Lucas at the far post, the Brazilian international showing great desire to get ahead of Aaron Cresswell and poke home.

Sanchez saw a header tipped over by Roberto in first-half stoppage time while Lucas fluffed his lines when through on goal after a rapid break involving Son three minutes into the second period. But his blushes were spared by Kane less than 60 seconds later as the striker headed home Serge Aurier's superb cross to underline our authority in the game.

Kane was denied another by a fine last-ditch tackle from Issa Diop just past the hour mark but the hosts upped their game and pulled a goal back on 73 minutes when Cresswell's delivery came out to Antonio, who drilled low past Gazzaniga from the edge of the area.

Declan Rice found the net from close range in the last minute of normal time but was clearly off-side - VAR confirmed that and ruled the goal out. West Ham were having their best spell of the game as the clock ticked down and Antonio's low driven cross almost deflected in off Toby Alderweireld in added time, only for it to hit Gazzaniga and spin behind. Ogbonna scored from the resulting corner but the last of the six added minutes were up and victory was ours.

Key moment

Lucas Moura's goal shortly before half-time gave us a two-goal advantage, which was certainly reflective of the way the game was going.

Ultimately, though, Kane's goal was the decisive one. He produced a excellent header from Aurier's fine delivery to make it 3-0 - a crucial goal to see us over the line after the Hammers' late double.

Jose's view

Jose Mourinho told Spurs TV: "You have to look to the conditions, national team players – one arrived Monday, one arrived Tuesday, another one Wednesday, another yesterday - new manager, a little bit of new ideas, of course, I select the information, the ideas and the work, but it’s still different. The emotions related to that.

"I think the added pressure of not winning a Premier League match away, it’s normal you cannot perform the best way for 90 minutes but even in difficult periods you could see sacrifice, you could see players wanted to do it for the team, Moussa and Danny in physical problems with injuries but they stayed on the pitch because we had no more changes to make. So great spirit, great football, I’m so happy with what we did in the positional and dynamic point of view, especially in possession."

Reaction on Spurs TV

Match data

Goals: West Ham - Antonio 73, Ogbonna 90+6; Spurs - Son 36, Lucas 43, Kane 49.

Yellow cards: West Ham - Diop 11, Fredericks 39, Snodgrass 87; Spurs - Davies 69, Kane 87.

Referee: Michael Oliver.

Venue: London Stadium.

Weather: Light rain, gentle breeze, 11 degrees.

Attendance: 59,930.