Pape Matar Sarr on his celebration at West Ham: “It was for the coach - he’s over there!” | OneFootball

There was a lot of love for Andreas Georgson in the tunnel at London Stadium after our 3-0 win against West Ham on Saturday.

Pape Matar Sarr was just explaining why the players were pointing towards the bench after he headed home from Xavi Simons' corner to open the scoring at the start of the second half when no other than Andreas, our First Team Assistant Coach and set-piece expert, walked behind the SPURSPLAY camera!

“It’s (the pointing celebration) for the coach - he’s there! He’s there!” beamed Pape. “He spoke about it at half-time. He just told me when the ball arrives there, you will score. It was good timing. I scored - and it’s for the coach.”

We were a constant threat from set plays and crosses. Indeed, half-time stats showed West Ham had made 27 clearances in the first half alone – and that went up to 42 by the end of the game. Cuti Romero had a goal disallowed from a corner in the first half, Micky van de Ven may well have earned a penalty from another and had an effort saved point-blank by Mads Hermansen. So, it was no surprise to see Pape – who stood, static, while everything unfolded in front of him – power home his header, unmarked at the far post, for that crucial opening goal.

“We worked on it two days ago,” added Pape. “I told Xavi yesterday, ‘if you have the ball, put the ball in and I will score’. In the first half, we spoke together, I told him to cross the ball, and it was good timing, when the ball arrived, I headed it in. It was a nice goal, always nice to score in a derby.”

Lucas Bergvall looped home a gorgeous header from Cuti Romero’s pass for 2-0 and Micky wrapped it up with a clinical finish in the second phase of another corner after we recycled West Ham’s clearance with Mathys Tel, Pedro Porro, Joao Palhinha and Lucas.

Pape added: “You know, we lost (against Bournemouth) before we went into the international break and today was special for us to win this game, we did it and we are all happy.”