West Ham take on Tottenham in Saturday’s lunchtime kick-off.

But it is their Carabao Cup tie at Wembley next month that has got the players’ WhatsApp group chat flowing.

Slaven Bilic’s side were drawn against Tottenham in the fourth round of the cup.

Winger Michail Antonio revealed the players cannot wait for the next London derby - and he’s not the only one.

“It will be unbelievable,” he said, speaking exclusively to Mirror Football at the official EA Sports FIFA 18 launch.

“Every game we play against Tottenham, the atmosphere is unbelievable. There will easily be 90,000 fans there. What a draw.

Michail Antonio warms up in training (
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“When we saw it, the boys were buzzing. We’ve got a WhatsApp chat. I’ve read through it and honestly some of the replies… it’s amazing.”

The 27-year-old is focused on the job at hand first, however.

And he knows it will be a difficult game against a Spurs side who are still scorned from last season’s title-ending defeat by the Hammers.

“It’s a massive game,” he said.

Antonio was speaking exclusively to Mirror Sport (
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“But we’re feeling very positive. We’ve had three clean sheets from our last three games.

“We’ve definitely turned a corner. We believe we can go on a nice little run. In the first three games we conceded 10 goals.

“But now, in the last three games,we haven’t conceded any. So, we believe that if we don’t concede goals, we will score goals especially with the front six we have.

“Everything’s positive from here and we just want to build on it.”

Michail Antonio was speaking at the launch of EA SPORTS FIFA 18, which is out on September 29th on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and all other platforms. To pre-order your Deluxe Edition, head to https://www.easports.com/uk/fifa/buy/united-kingdom’