#FT: Crystal Palace 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur
Venue: Selhurst Park
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Crystal Palace
Sam Johnstone, Marc Guehi, Joachim Andersen, Tyrick Mitchell (Nathaniel Clyne), Joel Ward, Will Hughes (Naouirou Ahamada), Jefferson Lerma (Matheus França), Cheick Doucouré, Odsonne Édouard (Jean-Philippe Mateta), Jeff Schlupp (Jesurun Rak-Sakyi), Jordan Ayew.
Subs: Chris Richards, Jairo Riedewald, Rob Holding, Remi Matthews.
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Tottenham Hotspur
Guglielmo Vicario, Micky van de Ven, Cristian Romero, Ben Davies (Emerson Royal), Pedro Porro, James Maddison (Bryan Gil), Yves Bissouma (Pierre-Emile Højbjerg), Pape Matar Sarr, Son Heung-Min, Richarlison (Brennan Johnson), Dejan Kulusevski (Rodrigo Bentancur).
Subs: Eric Dier, Fraser Forster, Oliver Skipp, Giovani Lo Celso.
MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN
45' Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Emerson Royal replaces Ben Davies.
53' Own Goal by Joel Ward, Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace 0, Tottenham Hotspur 1.
60' Substitution, Crystal Palace. Jesurun Rak-Sakyi replaces Jeffrey Schlupp.
64' Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg replaces Yves Bissouma.
64' Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Brennan Johnson replaces Richarlison.
66' Goal! Crystal Palace 0, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Brennan Johnson.
70' Substitution, Crystal Palace. Nathaniel Clyne replaces Tyrick Mitchell because of an injury.
70' Substitution, Crystal Palace. Naouirou Ahamada replaces Will Hughes.
79' Substitution, Crystal Palace. Matheus França replaces Jefferson Lerma.
79' Substitution, Crystal Palace. Jean-Philippe Mateta replaces Odsonne Édouard.
89' Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Bryan Gil replaces James Maddison.
90' Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Rodrigo Bentancur replaces Dejan Kulusevski.
Observations. I expect to be downvoted to hell because dear lord there are a lot of you Spurs fans on here.
VAR on Ayew's goal wasn't a clear and obvious error on the ref's behalf, hence not being called to the monitor. Surely we all know this now, right?
First half, I think that Palace made Spurs look average. The possession stats vs every other stat were bonkers. We missed the chance to take advantage and, of course, contrived to fuck it up for ourselves.
Once that first goal went in, it enabled Spurs to invite the high press which resulted (alongside a 'keeper brain fart) in the inevitable second. After that, the result was in the book, despite the additional intensity at the end.
Van der Ven is fucking rapid and is a genuine game changer for Spurs - top drawer defender.
For us, we're playing with what we can right now. Targeting Ward down the right remains an obvious play for opposition teams because he doesn't have Ayew doing the dirty work in front of him.
First half, a point would have been deserved. Second half, Spurs were very clever after they took the lead and, as much as I hate to say it, deserved the win.
Thank goodness we have some class to come back in to the side in the near future.
I thought Palace played well, and especially in the first half began to get worried that AngeBall had been worked out. The width of the 3 midfielders made it hard to go through or round with areas squeezed out. We def missed Udogie's involvement and no shade on Ben but we looked better with Royal there.
People are not talking about him so maybe it's just me but I thought that Will Hughes was fkn immense in that game. He may look like a bargain bin Santa but he really ran the Palace midfield and was so good in driving the team forward. I think with Bissouma having to be careful not to get a yellow and miss the Chelsea game it really gave Hughes the licence to be physical.
I'm pretty pissed off with Ayew's tackling, especially in the first half. I'm all for physical games as I think it makes the sport better, but he was far too often just going in on the back of player's legs. It was cynical and pathetic and the ref should have booked him earlier after it happened the 3rd time.
Disagree on the VAR tho. The angle of the ball when it comes off his chest (no arm at this point) is going diagonally to the right (from the goalside cam). When it gets to where his wrist is then it sharply changes direction to be going down and to the left. It also has a lot more spin on it. No idea how VAR didn't catch that quickly (btw clear and obvious in only for when VAR wants to intervene on a mistake / miss by the ref, not for checking things like this).
They are and everyone will agree soon enough
Is there a link to the VAR? I was watching the game live and the replay was not clear at all to me, but I wouldn't mind examining it again.
Upvotes for you, I’ll never meet your expectations
Are you me? I had the same conversation with my dad last week, despite my being middle aged! Without the upvote bit, though. That would have been weird.
lol you were way too polite on the whole for the possibly wrong take about the handball goal to get a downvote