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Sat 04 January 2025, 14:40|Tottenham Hotspur
A lively, lively functionality deserved even greater ended up empty-handed, while Newcastle United took the trouble with a 2-1 win at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium at midday in an hour’s time.
Having to contend with a long injury list and an illness which swept through the squad this week, we still produced a display full of character and commitment, with Academy graduate Brandon Austin epitomising the manner of the display with an assured and composed performance in goal on his Spurs debut at the age of 25. This was Austin’s 50th appearance in a Premier League matchday squad and his first competitive game in our colours.
We took an early breakthrough through a lovely dive head through Dominic Solanke before Newcastle retaliated through Anthony Gordon, Alexander Isak applying the finishing touch to a well-crafted resolution to give the visitors credit at Halftimearray, we were the dominant team by the maximum of half the moment. , Solanke ends up with another pair, but we may not give shape to this possibility of matching.
It was an explosive start to the game with two goals in the opening six minutes to warm everyone up on a freezing afternoon. We took the lead in the fourth minute, Solanke’s diving header from Pedro Porro’s cross beating Martin Dubravka but the visitors responded almost immediately, Gordon with an angled drive past Austin, although what seemed a clear handball from Joelinton in the build-up was cleared by VAR and the goal stood.
A very good run from Brennan Johnson led to some other chance for us in the 11th minute, the ball broke for Solanke whose shot was well blocked through Sven Botman, while Austin made a clever save at the other end to spare another Gordon effort from Gordon. .
A wonderful opportunity took advantage of the Magpies’ position just after the run hour, Jacob Murphy’s low ball through the box from six yards only reaching the far post through Isak with Gordon waiting at the back post to kick home. However, they took the lead. Within 38 minutes, Murphy went back to the back on the right and this time his cross deflected through Radu Dragusin towards Isak and was burned again. Football and Timo Werner almost reached the end of some other damaging cross from Pedro Porro when the part was over.
With just a goal deficit, we were still in the game and almost level at 10 minutes at the time Dubravka goes down to save Pape Matar Sarr’s shot with Johnson firing the rebound from the post from a very tight angle. , Archie Gray blocked Sandro Tonali’s fierce career with Gordon opening the rebound on the bar.
We made a triple replacement just after the hour with the son Heung-Min, James Maddison and Yves Bongo to Werner, Lucas Bergvall and Sarr when we were back in the game and in fact we had the advantage for a large component component of the period of moment . Maddison almost attracted us the point of us in the 82nd minute, only a wide curling of a short corner before a race in the region saw Johnson shining the ball through the purpose without touching before the replacement Sergio Reguilon selects it And put it when I passed through the lens, there is no one by hand to touch it at home.
With 10 minutes of stoppage time added on, we continued to be the team playing the better football and Solanke was just over the bar with a looping header from Dejan Kulusevski’s cross, although Austin had to be on guard to push away a shot from Harvey Barnes at the other end. Another Solanke header brought a diving save out of Dubravka as the clock ticked down but that proved to be our last chance of the afternoon.
Objectives: Spurs – Solanke 4; Newcastle – Gordon 6, Isak 38.
Yellow cards: Spurs – Reguilon; Newcastle – Burn, Joelinton, Botman, Isak.
Referee: Andrew Madley.
Place: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Climate: soft clouds, soft winds, 4 degrees.
Attendance: 61,293.