Ange Postecoglou was there to see another defensive implosion, but this time he was not the coach who will have to deal with the fallout. For Tottenham, there was merely glee in becoming the latest side to expose a multitude of flaws in Julen Lopetegui’s so-called revolution at West Ham.
The idea of Lopetegui as a tactical mastermind was never harder to take seriously than during a game in which his plodding, identity-free team were obliterated by three goals in the space of eight second-half minutes. The implosion was astonishing, any semblance of shape or organisation disappearing as Son Heung-min and the outstanding Dejan Kulusevski ran riot for Spurs, and it is in no way premature to wonder if West Ham have replaced David Moyes with the right coach.
