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Mauricio Pochettino was proud of his team Tottenham after defeating West Ham to reserve a quarterfinal of the Carabao Cup against Arsenal.
His Heung-min scored his 150th game for the Spurs with his first two goals of the season to offer a 3-1 win.
Lucas Perez briefly reduced the deficit to half, but Fernando Llorente conceded a rare defeat. Harry Kane is rested. He won the victory for the Spurs.
Of course, visitors were already in action 48 hours earlier against Manchester City on a terrible Wembley field. Pochettino therefore made 10 changes in his training with Davinson Sanchez, the only survivor.
The Spurs boss said: "I am very happy to play two competitive games in 48 hours, Manchester City and then a London Derby. I'm very proud.
"The performance was very good, we always try to play better but we have to be happy under different circumstances.
"Some players are working so hard, trying to wait for their luck, then Davinson Sanchez played two games in 48 hours – and he was fantastic. I can not rent it enough. "
Pochettino will now meet a familiar face when he takes the Spurs to their rivals in North London over the last eight.
"Now it will be an exciting game, exciting to play at Arsenal and face Unai Emery," added Pochettino.
"He's a great leader and a good friend, and he's doing a great job. I think he's one of the greatest managers.
"Of course, it's a bit ironic that it's our worst enemies in West Ham, then Arsenal, but I adore Manuel (Pellegrini) and Unai and we have very good relationships."
His goal opened the scoring after 16 minutes and was gifted a second shortly after half-time making West Ham's defenseman Arthur Masuaku tremble.
When Perez nodded from a corner, the Hammers came back 2-0 to impose on Wembley at the same stage last season.
Llorente quickly extinguished it. Angelo Ogbonna had just blocked the first of two field invaders, but he let the Spaniard give him the green light to sweep Tottenham.
Hammers boss Manuel Pellegrini refused to blame fans who rushed into the field to lose their concentration.
"I do not think it's good for football," he said. "One of the most important things in the Premier League is that it's still organized, so I think it's not good for football.
"When you lose a goal like this and that there is a match, it's not good to try to find excuses.
"The first goal also came after we dominated the match and they scored. After that, we also made mistakes for the second goal.
"It was important to continue in this cup, but we could not. But we must always think that the Premier League is more important on Saturday. "
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