Tottenham Hotspur 2 - 0 Fulham
Tottenham scorers: Son Heung-Min (36’), James Maddison (54’)
Venue: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, England
Referee: Anthony Taylor
| Starting XI | Notes | Subs | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guglielmo Vicario | Fraser Forster | ||
| Cristian Romero | Eric Dier | ||
| Micky van de Ven | Ashley Phillips | ||
| Pedro Porro | Giovani Lo Celso | 81’ | |
| Destiny Udogie | 56’ | Oliver Skipp | 62’ |
| Pape Matar Sarr | 62’ | Emerson Royal | 56’ |
| Pierre-Emile Højbjerg | 35’ | Brennan Johnson | 81’ |
| Dejan Kulusevski | Bryan Gil | ||
| James Maddison | 54’ | Alejo Véliz | 81’ |
| Richarlison | 81’ | ||
| Son Heung-Min | 36’ 81’ |
Manager: Ange Postecoglou (Australia)
| Starting XI | Notes | Subs | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bernd Leno | Marek Rodák | ||
| Calvin Bassey | Fodé Ballo-Touré | ||
| Tim Ream | Luc De Fougerolles | ||
| Timothy Castagne | Tom Cairney | 82’ | |
| Antonee Robinson | Harry Wilson | 62’ | |
| João Palhinha | 82’ | Alex Iwobi | 46’ |
| Saša Lukić | 72’ | Harrison Reed | 72’ |
| Andreas Pereira | 46’ | Rodrigo Muniz | |
| Bobby Decordova-Reid | 62’ | Raúl Jiménez | 46’ |
| Willian | |||
| Carlos Vinícius | 46’ |
Manager: Marco Silva (Portugal)
1’: We’re off!
1’: Decordova-Reid fires one in the first fifteen seconds but it goes well wide.
2’: SAVE! Leno sticks out a leg and blocks Son! Being pulled back for a free kick for a foul in the buildup.
7’: Van de Ven’s sidefoot volley goes over the bar from eight yards out.
8’: Penalty for Spurs??? Big decision for the ref here… it’s outside the box! Just a free kick. Antonee Robinson got lucky there.
12’: SAVE! Palhinha doesn’t even jump and thumps a scary header towards goal, but Vicario just gets his hand behind it.
27’: Højbjerg lets one fly down the middle, right at the keeper for a comfortable save.
30’: Richarlison goes for the bottom corner from outside the box, a decent counter but it ends with the shot going wide.
34’: Maddison whips a shot towards the far side, doesn’t have the power to beat Leno.
35’: Pierre-Emile Højbjerg goes into the book for a late challenge on Willian he couldn’t pull out of in time
36’: GOAL TOTTENHAM!! Bassey fires a bad pass in the back that’s picked up by Spurs! They get it to Son Heung-Min who skips past a couple defenders and fires a shot that Leno is never getting to.
40’: Spurs somehow don’t score a second. A couple desperate blocks leaves them with only a corner even though they seemingly had an open net right in front of goal.
45+1’: Højbjerg goes down after a collision with Bassey, Spurs wants a penalty, none of the officials agree.
HT Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Fulham Spurs wrecking Fulham right now, probably should be up by more.
46’: Fulham double sub: Raúl Jiménez and Alex Iwobi on for Carlos Vinícius and Andreas Pereira
46’: We’re back!
52’: Richarlison gets a cross from Son and puts it wayyyyyyy over the net.
54’: GOAL TOTTENHAM!! Son decides to lay it over for James Maddison who rushes forward and puts it into the far side! Bassey playing everyone onside.
56’: Tottenham substitution: Emerson Royal on for Destiny Udogie
62’: Tottenham substitution: Oliver Skipp on for Pape Matar Sarr
62’: Fulham substitution: Harry Wilson on for Bobby Decordova-Reid
72’: Fulham substitution: Harrison Reed on for Saša Lukić
81’: Tottenham triple sub: Brennan Johnson, Giovani Lo Celso and Alejo Véliz on for Richarlison, Son Heung-Min and James Maddison
82’: Fulham substitution: Tom Cairney on for João Palhinha
84’: SAVE!! Raúl Jiménez stabs a shot at goal but Vicario keeps it out! Vicario has had nothing to do but that woke him up!
87’: SAVE! Cairney’s shot is caught by the keeper, probably going a bit wide of the near post anyway.
FT Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Fulham Spurs still top of the table. Hmmmm…
The last 20 minuts were painful to watch, so much sloppiness in everything. Terribly clear most of those players either don’t play alot or are returning from injuries.
Can’t help seeing the other way; only 2-0 up and we bring on a ton of subs, play the Snooze Patrol greatest hits and really manage to keep them at arm’s length. Being that casual and vaguely competent is very pleasing
I’d also see it this way if we really managed to keep them at arm’s length. If they had a competent striker it could easily be more dangerous. It’s good our bench is getting some minutes, they clearly need them.
weak bench
Don’t think so, Lo Celso can be a brilliant player, Johnson is very talented, Skipp was great before his injury (and is the 2nd, maybe third off the bench there, as Hoj would be on the bench too alongside Bentancur), Veliz is supposedly very talented, Dier can be shit but can also be damn good, Royal is defensively very solid…
We’ve got decent depth but they all need to fit in the team better than right now. I’ll give it time.
They’re good players, but GLC and Johnson have both barely played this season and just came back from injuries, while Veliz have barely played PL football at all. Putting all three at once was a bit too much, but they should all be good enough when they’re up to speed and get some minutes.
Agreed, absolutely nothing came off. Entire intensity of the game was gone, although tbf, we were 2-0 up
Foot well and truly off the gas. Got to be fit enough for the stupid friday fixture.
Honestly Ange’s game management is really good, you can almost tell the point where he’s like “we need these lads for next week”
When next week is this week.