Tottenham 1-0 West Ham
Substitute Roman Pavlyuchenko scored the winner as Tottenham overcame West Ham at White Hart Lane.
Darren Bent's close-range off-target header was the closest either side came in a fairly tepid first half.
But Pavlyuchenko replaced Bent early in the second half and had an instant impact when he turned his marker James Collins to fire into the bottom corner.
Robbie Keane went close to a second for Spurs at the death but Collins cleared his goalbound shot off the line.
For two sides with such a hotly-contested rivalry, the first half-hour of the game was remarkably tame, with Tottenham having the upper hand but failing to capitalise on their territorial advantage.
They had a penalty appeal turned down after Keane's volley bounced up and hit James Tomkins but there was no serious threat on either goal until around the half-hour mark when the West Ham defence allowed Huddlestone to advance unchallenged towards the box and
