What a game, what a goal.

Eric Dier, a twenty year old English center back making his debut for Tottenham, and who was forced out to right back due to an unfortunate red card being given to Kyle Naughton, deftly beat the West Ham defensive line and rounded the keeper to slot home the winner. The great play didn't begin there there though as Spurs calmly strung together eight or nine passes deep into extra time in order for Kane to send Dier through on goal and allowing Spurs to sneak their way out the backdoor of Upton Park with all three points in tow.

To go down a man so early and take advantage of the opportunity presented by Mark Noble's penalty miss to earn a victory couldn't be a better way to begin the campaign. The margins at the top are so fine. It's easy to see why fans live or die so much by every result during the course of the EPL season. A draw would have been nice, but a win was remarkable.

Some thoughts on the match:

Hugo Lloris is a complete spaz, but in a totally awesome way. His ability to cover for the defense is remarkable and his match saving stop on Stewart Downing in the 87th minute showed such great anticipation and a willingness to put himself in danger in order to prevent goals. It's a little disturbing how poorly Downing's run was initially covered as four or five Spurs player decide to just ball watch, but luckily Hugo Lloris happened.