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 are cooking this season!
We need World Cup Richarlison back
Mate.
i’d be so pressured if i was ange right now. things are flowing way too well to be true
“too well to be true” 💀 yes literally since VAR gifted them at least 2 pts against Liverpool.
How’s that champions league trophy looking in the cabinet?
Domt worry we will replay that game if we do the funniest thing
Some of you Liverpool fans make your club look like a bunch of cheesed exgirlfriends. My lord, everywhere I go I see you guys bringing this up. Go for a walk.
Not joint top now are we ya cunts.
We never were to be fair
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.
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.
How is Kalvin for England?
He’s become unplayable at City.
He’s low energy for city because he basically sleeps on the bench.
Agree, that 3 is insane.
Overreaction FC out in full force
Just started playing for us and already a Tottenham legend. Bassey what a player
Bassey is going to be seeing Madison in his nightmares for years to come.
Main man in Bassey’s nightmares
Gave me Sanchez PTSD
Please football god, for the sake of peak comedy, please have Kane watch Richarlison lift the Prem trophy at Spurs
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.
Bro, Kane made Spurs relevant again and made them a sexy era of football, gave it all to you. Why the hate?
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
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
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
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
Our bench is absolutely dire. The last 15 mins was a tough watch.
Nah we changed 5 players, that’s half the team. We just lost all shape. Look at how everyone said we were screwed if Bisoouma got injured and then PEH was really good
Yeah it feels like we’d actually be able to handle a 1:1 replacement situation better than expected given how PEH stepped in today. Changing over the whole side is how you end up losing to Fulham like we did in the cup though.
Tbf PEH is about as skilled of a sub as you’d hope to have though
*dier
Where has hugo lloris been?
Third choice now. He was allowed to leave on a free this summer but couldn’t find a club. Contract ends in the summer.
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.
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 like KDB. Kane, Maddison and Son in the same team is lights out for the opposition
Just fucking lol.
I mean just take every moment you’ve seen Richarlison this season and imagine Kane in those positions. The amount of damage that he would be able to do
Sure. But those numbers are absolutely ridiculous.
They are, but he got 30 in a team that genuinely could not play football. Still have no fucking idea how
So he’d break/reach all records, both goals and assists, and you know that after 9 rounds. Ridiculous.
Look at what Kane was able to do in a team that had no ability to create anything, he basically just snuck in a half chance every game, it was ridiculous. Him with service, with competent players around him, the amount he’d worry defenders and open up space for other players, it’s night and day
It’s cruel irony that he left just as we finally stopped the negative football disaster streak we were on
He has never covered ground like Richarlison does though so he wouldn’t be in those positions.
If anything he’d be taking up the positions that Maddison did
He would, he’s a top 3 striker in the world, no side wouldn’t want him imo
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.
With Kane, you have to ask Son to cover more ground and less playmaking/goalscoring.
Output could be the same but the implementation is indeed wilk be different.
I get that, but remember just how well Kane and Son combined for 2 seasons in a row, add a proper creative midfielder like Maddison to that- insane
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
He only did this because every manager since Poch refused to purchase a creative midfielder. He literally added a new dimension to his game to cope with it.
He also does it in the NT, it’s become a bad habit of his. Actually I’m fine with him dropping deep but the fact is after he gives the pass he doesn’t sprint back to original position. He’d alter Ange ball
Guess there’s no proper AM there either :/
Son has lot more freedom and opportunity now Kane is gone.
This was from 3 seasons ago but Son’s stats when Kane wasn’t playing were on par with the other golden boot winners
The shackles from Conte are off too.
Ahh, the Benzema special.
I had a sneaking suspicion that Kane leaving would eventually improve the squad but fuck me I wasnt expecting this
Kane leaving didn’t improve this squad. The addition of Maddison and Mickey have been enormous. The proper use of Bissoumaand just …Ange-ball improved the squad.
The link-up between Kane, Son and Maddison would be unstoppable. Kane would be running riot in this team. It’s a real shame that he left.
The bar is so, so high for taking 30 goals out of a team and improving it.
Well when you basically quadruple the number of shots you take as a team, that’s one way to make that gap up.
The more important thing is just 8 goals conceded.
That’s just from getting rid of llenglet
And Dier and Sanchez and Lloris
Sanchez is sad. I thought he looked so promising when Ajax played against United in the Europa finals. Never evolved.