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…
Please football god, for the sake of peak comedy, please have Kane watch Richarlison lift the Prem trophy at Spurs
Bro, Kane made Spurs relevant again and made them a sexy era of football, gave it all to you. Why the hate?
Dont get it as well. I don’t care about him anymore but I hope we does win things Spurs are not involved in
because comedy
The ugly truth is that he was holding them back
If Kane was still here, he’d probably be top scorer but the club itself would be 4th or 5th
Nah, it was poor managers and defense holding them back. They just happened to fix all of that the same season he left.
It’s easy to hate on Kane, even for Spurs fans, because his personality is as flavorful as white bread. Combine that with him wanting out over the past few seasons I think it’s made people forget how important he was to the team.
It’s not hate, he left us
I think he made a mistake, he could genuinely seriously rival Haaland in our current system
We’ll see if he’s made a mistake when you guys don’t win a single title this season after all this.
Is what it is
If we do genuinely end up close it would be easy to look at Kane and think he could have been the difference. No use thinking about it now though, he’ll win the Bundesliga with Bayern
Just think there was a chance for an all-time PL season, a player of his quality in a functional attacking team, I genuinely believe he’d be hunting Haaland’s record
After all this… 9 games?
Because it’d be extremely funny
Jokes aside, the vast majority of Spurs fans still love Kane. I know I hope he wins trophies and golden boots at Bayern. Man deserves it
Fuck that, I don’t care how many trophies we haven’t won. We stood by him when he was a little fat ass, nurtured him and if he wants to go, fine, personal decision but we may be trophiless but we’re still proud and he can fuck off and swallow his own schnitzel.
L O L
Lmao, the schnitzel really got me. 😂💀
With the rest of the team doing dove dances
I’m in
April should be extremely interesting
Spurs are not going to be in the title race come April
Half ready for city to run away with it again, but hopefully it’s something more interesting
Without scoring a goal, it will be peak comedy
He’s scored a goal already though. Mind you, just one goal would still be comedy.
Where has hugo lloris been?
I think Vicario said last week he’s been helping him train and develop, and there’s few goalies in the world who you’d rather have training you than a World Cup winning captain. I’d love for Lloris to stay as a goalkeeping coach here. He’s a club legend as far as I’m concerned.
Third choice now. He was allowed to leave on a free this summer but couldn’t find a club. Contract ends in the summer.
Van de Ven and Maddison, what great signings.
Googly elmo as well. What a man he is
Googly elmo I’m wheezing
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.
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.
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.
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.
Agreed, absolutely nothing came off. Entire intensity of the game was gone, although tbf, we were 2-0 up
Unlucky from Fulham to not score, just lacked that edge tonight. Will be their main issue this year I think
Some superb saves from Vicario tbf. Beautiful finish from Son and Madison
Great atmosphere in the stadium as well. Outside of YNWA, hearing a crowd belt out “when the Spurs go marching in” always makes my hair stand up. One of my favs as a neutral
Yeah its been our problem all season - we are not a bad side on the whole but we have next to no cutting edge though, and us not signing a replacement for Mitrovic is why we won’t be competitive in these games and are struggling to score atm. Hopefully in January we can get someone in who’s a bit more dynamic than the Vinicius/Jimbo combination that toils but is ultimately not very threatening.
“If Kane goes, Spurs will be in the bottom half, guaranteed” HAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU PAUL MERSON.
Fucking sham of a Pundit stealing a fucking living.
Paul Merson is the worst kind of pundit, Souness was the same. Just stroll in with their wheelbarrow full of painfully outdated tropes, and mindlessly blurt out the first thought that has managed to struggle its way through the vast depths of stupidity that flood their minds.
Souness is liquid gold on RTE in Ireland, but you can get away with coming on smashed drunk and still have a pundit’s seat the following week there (Eamon Dunphy). I remember Souness’ first appearance on Irish telly, he didn’t know wtf was going on for the first 15 minutes, after the ad break he was laying into every cunt. Golden age of Irish football coverage.
Souness grilling Dunphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fvsg_Ct1cw
Actual decent discussion https://youtu.be/hwE0UnmkYMo?si=7mjSnuK-YJEYqVpb
Dunphy possibly pissed on a decent rant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqjQSk1PQ4o
Honestly when I lived in South East Asia I used videos like this to remind me of the pub back home lol
I mean if you lot kept Conte and sold Kane bottom half was definately doable.
Ahh yes, the season predictions included conte staying… when he left in late march? And kane didnt leave until a week before the season?
“Arsenal will dominate Spurs” hahaha and then he tried to walk it back saying he didn’t like the starting lineup.
yay
Madder and Son fit for CP. That’s the biggest result from this match
Mate, say Palace
Madder and Son fit for CP.
FBI OPEN UP!
Mate.
9 games into the Ange Postecoglu era, it is absolutely RIDICULOUS how quickly he’s made us such a good footballing side
We look okay better football than Arsenal this season, thought it would be a while before I ever got to say that
Should we start taking the Spurs seriously?
With Wemby, you have to.
Pop is the American Ange. We all know it
I knew tanking for Wemby last season wasn’t a bad idea.
Seriously for top 4, not for the title. Our depth is too shit.
Come the winter transfer window you should be able to get some depth in
I told you so
Not Bassey’s best game bit of an understatement like but hopefully he never has to play at right CB ever again, especially against such a high pressing team. Hopefully he can bounce back from this.
Overreaction FC out in full force
Feel bad for Bassey, our backline is decimated so he had to play out of position and plastics seeing him for the first time hammering him.
Well I will tell you that a lot of people on our side unironically rated his performance. He looked very solid in pure defensive tasks (off the ball) and he took it onto himself to try to play out from under pressure - maybe a mistake, but nobody else would, lol. He was also on his weak side, right? He didn’t look terrible, all I’m saying, he just got put into an extremely difficult situation.
Myself, I actually rated him way more than like 8 or 9 of your players at least who’ve done fuck all the the whole game. He has some potential, just for fucks sake play to his strengths.
Yeah he shouldn’t be the one playing out from the back, but on the other hand if we had our regular RCB he would be pairing with Diop which also shouldn’t be the one playing out the back.
Might just be random chance but he made some mistakes in your last televised game as well lol. Gave away a pen and got sent off at Arsenal.
He didn’t give away a pen and he got sent off stopping a counter which won us a point. Also it was a second yellow when the first was for time wasting on a goal-kick when Nketiah was standing in our box the entire time and the ref ignored them.
Alright my bad, misremembering
The whole team was very bad
