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…
Spurs looked like absolute shit at the end there, Ange needs to do something about these substitute players
Tbh, I agree but to give some nuance -
Lo Celso just came back from injury, hasn’t played since August. Johnson hasn’t played in a month due to injury. Veliz could do more but hard to do much without the ball getting to him.
Skipp and Emerson could have been a bit better tbf. But they were largely unproblematic.
Emerson had some good defensive plays but didnt look good with the ball
Emerson also out of position and barely played this season.
Watch his post-match. He’s fuming
Should we start taking the Spurs seriously?
Seriously for top 4, not for the title. Our depth is too shit.
Possibility of getting bodies in Winter if you are around there like Arsenal did last season? You guys still have that Kane money amirite?
We can definitely afford £100M+ in Winter if we wanted to. We’re incredibly profitable.
The problem has never been about the money, its getting players to join us as bench options. Thats the issue, we aren’t going to get a starting quality CB joining us, even if we’re 1st because they know they’re going to be on the bench until there is an injury. If there isn’t, they wont play.
Like, even a CM, someone like Eze from Palace would suit us IMO but i dont know if he’d want to play 2nd fiddle to Bentancur/Maddison for most of the season.
I still think we missed out big time on Connor Gallagher in the summer, he would be a great player coming off the bench 70 mins for us, constantly running and pressuring and good enough to fill in on the starting lineup as well.
With Wemby, you have to.
Pop is the American Ange. We all know it
Please dont. Just let us enjoy in silence until the season is over.
Mate.
I haven’t watched Tottenham live other than against Liverpool so honest, but possibly stupid, question…would Kane improve this team if all else roster & manager-wise was the same, or are they now fundamentally playing differently in a way where he couldn’t fit in and be this good?
Seems so unlikely that he would leave and they would immediately get way better, but that seems to be what is happening.
It’s hard to imagine how arguably the world’s best striker wouldn’t improve Spurs. But the problem would be that Sonny would have to play on the left (where Richarlison is playing now and doing quite well). He began there at the beginning of the season and while he was decent, he’s clearly a bit wasted in that spot. Meanwhile, he’s thriving in the central role now and many have said he’s the ideal Angeball striker.
Switching Richie to the left is also as important move as switching Sonny to the 9. Richie on the left means extra pressing machine. It’s also his position at Everton, where he play his best, playing off DCL.
He doesn’t need to be the main man. He can play a Firmino position from the left. Extra pressing, less play making but still as goos nonetheless.
The truthful answer is he’d get 40 goals and 20 assists. I’m not kidding. I’ve seen the chances we are creating and they are ridiculous for someone who converts half chances and pings the ball as well as he does. Kane, Maddison and Son in the same team is lights out for the opposition
I love Kane, but Ange ball demands a high pressing fast and efficient striker. Kane would have struggled to press high like Son did in this game. If you look at today’s game Son run in a way that cut off the left side of the field forcing GK to only pass to the right, and then everyone else presses the right leading to the turnovers and the 2 goals. It is no coincidence that Son leads the league in sprinting distances. Look at Burnley game where Son had 52 presses leading to 12 turnovers, one of them resulting in Madder’s goal just like the second goal today. Kane is a high volume striker, relatively slow. Son is a better fit for Ange ball
He’s world class at scoring and passing but there’s one dimensionalness to his playstyle. Whenever he drops deep to linkup/give passes, he’s removed from the play and comes into the box late unlike Son who would sprint to stretch the defense. We might still get same results with him but it won’t look like the high octane Ange ball we are seeing now for sure. So unlike the other answers you got, there’s no guarantee. Personally I think he will make us worse for the reason above, plus we won’t feel like a family who play 120% for their brothers like we do now. Instead it’ll be a toxic environment of 10 players trying to please someone who keeps threatening to leave every year
Without any question, yes.
Son has lot more freedom and opportunity now Kane is gone.
I hope Spurs challenge till the end and hopefully win it. Don’t want to see city win 4th one in a row. Ain’t asking much🙏🏻.
Where has hugo lloris been?
Gugo is superior now
Finito
We need World Cup Richarlison back
Maddison is the smartest English footballer
High volume #8 that can drop deep, be effective in all phases of the game and is a sexy looking dude on top. My favourite player in the PL
I said it in the match thread, Maddison is different gravy to your usual English 10. He looks like he has little more edge and style to him. I hope southgate keeps southgating him out of the team.
To be fair, he hasn’t played that well for England so far and Bellingham is better in that position. Maddison plays only if Bellingham can’t, that’s just how it is
Don’t get me wrong, I definitely rate Madders, and as an England fan having two world class options for the no.10 spot is pretty sweet
He’s FARt too good to leave him out, you have to adapt the team to fit them both in the 11.
You don’t even have to adapt too hard. Declan Rice is a quality player, gooner cunt or no. A central midfield of Rice-Bellingham-Maddison is up there for the best in the world. But of course Southgate prefers a double pivot with Kalvin “10 seconds of first XI playing time” Phillips or Jord al-Henderson
Damn England are flush with talent
They really are, they should be favorites for both Euro 2024 and the King George III Cup.
How is Kalvin for England?
He’s become unplayable at City.
Agree, that 3 is insane.
Amazingly, we hit 23 points October 15 last season. Still say I’d maybe prefer this campaign.
Winter World Cup really made things odd.
We might be 5 points clear by the time anyone else plays again. Madness
angeball is crack
Looked great for most of the match, if not sloppy. To be expected after national break haha! Great result! 😃
Honestly wasn’t amazing but we got the quality to shine through
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.
really manage to keep them at arm’s length.
We did not do that though. Wilson fucked one, Vicario saved one more 1v1. Royal blocked two as well. Could have been 2-2 just off the last 15 mins alone.
Romero had another great game, solid in defense, many good forward passes too.
He’s at a top 5 defender in the world this season. The game against Ecuador was the best game I’ve ever seen a CB play, and his games with Tottenham have been flawless
He and Micky are going to be stapled to that backline together for 5+ years. 25 and 22 respectively.