Tottenham Hotspur missed the prospect to maneuver into fourth place within the Premier League following a 3-0 loss at Fulham.
The hosts nullified their guests all around the pitch and had been wonderful worth for the win, ending Spurs’ run of seven straight league wins at Craven Cottage.
The loss additionally introduced an finish to Tottenham’s run of scoring in each league recreation underneath Ange Postecoglou and a streak that went again 39 video games in complete.
Fulham maintained their late push for a European place and at the moment are solely 5 factors off the highest seven.
How the sport unfolded
Fulham went near going forward inside two minutes as Tottenham turned the ball over in midfield. The preliminary shot from simply contained in the field from Rodrigo Muniz was blocked by Cristian Romero earlier than Andreas Pereira’s rebound deflected simply previous the publish.
A low cross from Alex Iwobi was intercepted by the stretching arm of Spurs goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario and Pereira was once more first to the free ball, however Romero was as soon as extra readily available to offer the essential block.
One other probability went begging for Fulham when a low cross from Antonee Robinson went via the legs of Muniz, whereas Tottenham countered to create their first opening of the night, leading to Son Heung-min firing narrowly over.
One other swift Spurs transfer noticed James Maddison feed via Brennan Johnson down the left, however his first-time shot was simply held by Bernd Leno. Moments later, an analogous probability fell full-debutant Radu Dragusin’s approach, however his cross-cum-shot trickled broad.
Tottenham had been clicking via the gears and went closest to breaking the impasse within the opening half hour when Future Udogie’s cross was directed in direction of objective by Maddison, whose effort bounced broad and again off the publish off of Leno’s water bottle.
Simply earlier than the break, Fulham went forward. Robinson burst away down the left and his superb cross discovered Muniz, who had time to take a contact and set himself earlier than discovering the far nook.
On the opposite facet of half-time, the hosts doubled their lead. A cross as soon as once more caught Tottenham napping, with Timothy Castagne’s ball being turned in off the knee of Sasa Lukic.
Fulham grabbed their third from a nook after an hour. Calvin Bassey’s preliminary effort slammed again off the publish earlier than Muniz scrambled the rebound over the road.
Moments later, the Whites thought they’d a fourth. Joao Palhinha’s depraved strike ricocheted previous Vicario, however Raul Jimenez was in his line of sight and in an offside place.
Down the opposite finish, Spurs ought to have pulled one again when Johnson met Son’s pushed cross, however his flick bounced broad. Replays urged it might have been dominated out for offside.
Seconds after, Johnson turned supplier for Timo Werner, who got here up with an analogous miss from a few yards out.
A knockdown from Dejan Kulusevski dropped to Richarlison however the Brazilian’s half-volley flew broad whereas Harry Wilson introduced one additional save out of Vicario earlier than time was up.
GK: Bernd Leno – 6/10 – Made some relatively routine saves however was largely untroubled for a lot of the night.
RB: Timothy Castagne – 7/10 – Bought right into a spot of gamesmanship with former Leicester Metropolis teammate Maddison. Offered the great cross for Fulham’s second objective.
CB: Tosin Adarabioyo – 7/10 – A relatively quiet night attempting to tame Spurs’ often potent frontline. Simple to see why Tottenham had been so eager to carry him in final summer time.
CB: Calvin Bassey – 7/10 – Endured a nightmare within the reverse fixture however went some approach to exorcising these demons with a effective efficiency right here.
LB: Antonee Robinson – 9/10 – Excellent at each ends of the pitch. By no means let Kulusevski have his personal approach and put Tottenham in spots of trouble along with his crossing.
CM: Joao Palhinha – 7/10 – Introduced in regards to the muscle Fulham wanted to waltz via the midfield battle. In some methods it was slightly bit overkill.
CM: Sasa Lukic – 8/10 – Rewarded for his late runs into the field with the objective that noticed Fulham take complete management of the competition.
RM: Alex Iwobi – 7/10 – Weaved his approach inside and outside to open Spurs up in their very own defensive third.
AM: Andreas Pereira – 7/10 – Pressured a few blocks out of Tottenham early on however wasn’t as concerned as their different attackers. Nonetheless performed nicely earlier than succumbing to harm.
LM: Willian – 7/10 – Like Iwobi was afforded the liberty to do what he needed, seamlessly flittering between the strains.
CF: Rodrigo Muniz – 9/10 – Sensational. Now scored seven targets in his final seven Premier League video games. Gave Dragusin actual issues earlier than too selecting up an harm. Fulham have now paid Chelsea £4m for not beginning Armando Broja sufficient, however that is not a foul commerce for locating a striker on this form of type.
Substitutes
SUB: Raul Jimenez (64′ for Muniz) – 6/10
SUB: Harry Wilson (72′ for Pereira) – 6/10
SUB: Kenny Tete (82′ for Castagne) – 6/10
SUB: Harrison Reed (82′ for Lukic) – 6/10
SUB: Bobby De Cordova-Reid (82′ for Iwobi) – 6/10
Subs not used: Marek Rodak (GK), Tim Ream, Tom Cairney, Adama Traore
Supervisor
Marco Silva – 9/10 – Fulham had been wonderful throughout all areas of the pitch. In this type of type, they’re actual European contenders.
GK: Guglielmo Vicario – 5/10 – Could not do a lot about any of the targets and nonetheless made some respectable saves to maintain the scoreline down regardless.
RB: Pedro Porro – 4/10 – Did not get tight sufficient to Robinson to cease his crosses. Failed to offer a lot of a spark going forwards both.
CB: Cristian Romero – 5/10 – Tottenham’s finest and most authoritative defender, although the bar wasn’t significantly excessive.
CB: Radu Dragusin – 4/10 – Started brightly with the flexing of muscle in opposition to Muniz, however misplaced him too simply for the opener that obtained the ball rolling for Fulham. By no means actually obtained his head again within the recreation from that time.
LB: Future Udogie – 5/10 – Responsible of some clumsy fouls however wasn’t atrocious in his personal third at the least. Introduced thrust to Spurs’ assaults within the transient interval they had been within the ascendancy.
CM: Pape Matar Sarr – 4/10 – Gave away the ball a good bit greater than standard, although wasn’t helped by the wandering defensive midfielder subsequent to him and the forwards simply ready for it to succeed in them.
CM: Yves Bissouma – 3/10 – Tottenham’s lack of urgency was personified by Bissouma, who regularly misplaced his runners and left Sarr stranded in central areas.
RM: Dejan Kulusevski – 4/10 – Manner too usually needed the ball to toes and stood round ready for it to reach. Tried to kick and run previous Robinson however had the ball routinely slammed in his face.
AM: James Maddison – 5/10 – At all times tried to make issues occur in his 66 minutes of the pitch. Picked up a knock following a heavy problem from Palhinha.
LM: Brennan Johnson – 4/10 – Skipped by his full-back lots at Aston Villa final week however had no such luck this time round.
CF: Son Heung-min – 4/10 – Tottenham might surprise how the sport would have gone if Son had transformed his early probability. Subdued from there on in.
Substitutes
SUB: Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (66′ for Bissouma) – 5/10
SUB: Rodrigo Bentancur (66′ for Maddison) – 5/10
SUB: Timo Werner (66′ for Sarr) – 4/10
SUB: Richarlison (80′ for Johnson) – 5/10
SUB: Giovani Lo Celso (87′ for Son) – N/A
Subs not used: Brandon Austin (GK), Emerson Royal, Ben Davies, Oliver Skipp
Supervisor
Ange Postecoglou – 4/10 – Tottenham had been woeful out of possession and weren’t exhausting accomplished by with the scoreline.
Participant of the match – Rodrigo Muniz (Fulham)
