Ben Johnson has been called up to the England U21s and he had an excellent performance against Anthony Martial last night.
I am really pleased for Ben, he has done a great job and he is an improving young player and we are pleased, he deserves it. There is good competition in the U21s at right-back and he has done well for us.
None of the remaining teams in the Europa League are going to want to play West Ham are they?
They might all want to play West Ham because they see us as novices in this competition. They might see us as a side without much experience in Europe I think if you're going to play us, you know you're in for a game. We always want to challenge the best teams and we are certainly getting a good group of teams now and we challenged a really good team last night against Sevilla and over the two legs just about did it.
Whoever we get, we're looking forward to it. We'll challenge anybody who comes along. After seeing London Stadium the way it was last night, it would be good to have the second leg at home. I think that would be very good for us.
Spurs have an extra day's rest, how big is that?
We're a resilient group of players and we hope that we'll all be fine and we'll go again.
I think an extra day would help anybody, but we're pleased we're in the Europa League and that we've qualified. I'd have taken that any day and now we'll get ready for the Tottenham game.
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Another goal for Andriy Yarmolenko, is there an argument to start him on Sunday?
He's been really important to us in the last two games. He's scored two vital goals. There's no doubting the quality he's got. He is a really good footballer and we're pleased he's helping the team with the contributions he's making at this time.
Looking at the table how important is this game?
They're all important, whether it is a team at the bottom or the top. It's a derby for West Ham and Tottenham, so we know it'll be a difficult game.
Is the Europa League your priority now?
Always the priority is the Premier League. Where you finish in the league gets you the chance to qualify for Europe if you do well. It's your bread and butter as far as I'm concerned. Being in cup competitions adds to what we're trying to do and teaches us how to be better make strides forward. At the moment, we've got a big game coming up - it's a hard game - and we know we're going to be tested to the maximum.
How much did the win yesterday galvanise the team going into a big game against Spurs?
The team have been galvanised by the performances, we played well vs Liverpool and Aston Villa and there are signs our form is improving. Last night I was not surprised by us getting the result as I felt we could do it against a really good Spanish team but overall we go into Tottenham like any other game but we know the importance of it.
You are level on points and three behind Arsenal, how competitive a match are you expecting on Sunday?
Against Spurs you are always expecting a competitive game, we will dust ourselves down and get ready, we are recovering from last night's game and I think this press conference has come around a bit quickly but we will get ready and hopefully we will be ready to perform against Tottenham.
Declan Rice appeared to be limping, will he make the game on Sunday?
We have a few limping but you expect that from a tough game and we'll assess them all this morning and see how they are. It's a bit early to know a lot about the team.
