West Ham 3 Sp#rs 4

Curbishley finally decided to give Mark Noble his first Premiership start this season and the youngster took just fifteen minutes to repay the manager's faith. Kurbishley crossed the ball from the left to Tevez on the edge of the box, Tevez chested the ball down for Noble who volleyed the ball into the bottom left of the goal.

However West Ham were only on level terms at this point due to some outstanding keeping from Green. A minute before West Ham's opening goal Berbatov was twice in quick succession denied by the West Ham keeper.

In the 40th minute West Ham doubled their lead when Tevez finally opened his account at West Ham. Tevez won a free-kick on the edge of the box and chipped the ball over the wall and over a diving Robinson to score off the underside of the crossbar.

If the first half belonged to Noble and Tevez the early moments of the second half belonged to Aaron Lennon. In the 49th minute Lennon ran into the box and was taken down by Bowyer. Defoe scored from the resulting penalty. In the 62nd minute Sp#rs crossed from the right wing and the ball flew over the box to Lennon who back-flicked the ball to Tainio who scored from 8 yards.

Towards the end of the second half West Ham started to come forward a little more and in the 84th minute won a free-kick out wide on the right. Tevez crossed the ball into the box where Zamora scored with his head from 6 yards with his first touch.

However West ham were unable to hold onto the lead for long. In the 87th minute Ferdinand needlessly gave away a free-kick on the edge of the West Ham box and Berbatov scored despite Konchesky's despairing attempted headed clearance.

In the 95th minute Sp#rs broke from a West Ham corner and Defoe ran into the West Ham box and shot. Green saved the shot but in doing so palmed the ball into the path of Salteiri who slotted the ball home to win the game for Sp#rs. So for the second time this season West Ham were beaten by a goal that came a minute after the official added on time was over.