{"id":292825,"date":"2023-10-23T21:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T21:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=292825"},"modified":"2023-10-23T21:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T21:24:32","slug":"tottenham-2-0-fulham-son-heung-min-and-maddison-fire-spurs-back-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/tottenham-2-0-fulham-son-heung-min-and-maddison-fire-spurs-back-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham 2-0 Fulham: Son Heung-min and Maddison fire Spurs back top"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tottenham 2-0 Fulham: Son Heung-min and James Maddison fire Spurs back to the top of the Premier League as Ange Postecoglou&#8217;s side capitalise on defensive errors<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tottenham captain Son Heung-min scored in the first half against Fulham<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>James Maddison got his first home Spurs goal amid the visitors&#8217; defensive errors<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Back\u00a0from their break and back in the groove. There will surely come a point when this season of hope and possibility throws Tottenham into a wall of reality, but not just yet.<\/p>\n<p>For now, they are having a lovely old time of it. Not enough to get silly, but sufficient to extend the party and to partially address the little questions that accumulate around a quick start.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, and indeed the harder tasks that follow, they will nose on how Ange Postecoglou\u2019s side handle the incremental rises in expectation. The subtle cranking of pressure that comes with success. That hasn\u2019t always been a favourable examination for Tottenham, but for now they are ticking off the markers of progress and doing it with considerable swagger \u2013 what a fine team to watch when they are going well.<\/p>\n<p>The perspective is that this was a win against Fulham, of course. Decent side, Fulham. They moved it around here, they broke hard, had a few chances, but ultimately were second best in most regards and, crucially, were punished with savage efficiency when they got sloppy.<\/p>\n<p>In two instances, both at the end of the opening half and the start of the second, that meant careless passes by Cavin Bassey and crushing, definitive responses. Heung-Min Son delivery the first of those with his seventh goal of a season that has announced his revival almost as emphatically as it has his club\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/21\/76906375-0-image-a-18_1698094596816.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Son Heung-min scored the opening goal as Spurs beat Fulham 2-0 to go top of the table<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/22\/76909631-12663639-image-a-34_1698095704129.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>James Maddison got his first home goal for Tottenham ten minutes into the second half<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, the strike was a beauty. The next one was none too shabby, either, with Bassey\u2019s mistake under pressure setting in motion a counter that saw Son tee up Maddison for his third of the campaign. As with the first, the move was loaded with style, speed and functionality, and the upshot is that Postecoglou has now yielded 23 points from his first nine league games in charge \u2013 a trivial Premier League record, but one that speaks warmly of Tottenham\u2019s momentum since he picked up the pieces.<\/p>\n<h3>MATCH FACTS\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Tottenham (4-2-3-1): Vicario 7, Porro 7, Van de Ven 7, Romero 7, Udogie 6.5 (Royal 56, 7); Hojbjerg 7.5, Sarr 6 (Skipp 62, 6.5); Kulusevski 7, Maddison 7.5 (Veliz 82), Richarlison 6 (Johnson 81); Son 8<\/p>\n<p>Subs not used: Foster, Gil, Dier, Lo Celso, Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>Booked: Hojbjerg, Vicario<\/p>\n<p>Manager: Ange Postecoglou 7.5<\/p>\n<p>Fulham (4-3-3): Leno 6.5; Castagne 7, Bassey 4, Ream 6, Robinson 6.5; Lukic 6.5 (Reed 72, 6), Palhinha 7 (Cairney 82), Pereira 6 (Iwobi 46, 6); De Cordova-Reid 5.5 (Wilson 62, 6), Vinicius 5.5 (Jimenez 46, 6), Willian 6.<\/p>\n<p>Subs not used: Rodak, Ballo-Toure, Muniz, De Fougerolles.<\/p>\n<p>Manager: Marco Silva 6.5<\/p>\n<p>Referee: Anthony Taylor 7<\/p>\n<p>Attendance: 61,286<\/p>\n<p>For this assignment, a modest challenge in the scheme of a long season, the Australian made only the one change to his line-up and that was through necessity, with Yves Bissouma suspended and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg elevated for a first start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>It was a scenario which spawned a couple of thoughts: how would Hojbjerg react to a rare chance? And, more fundamentally, how might Tottenham cope with the absence of Bissouma, who has excelled as a shield and a sword in Postecoglou\u2019s midfield.<\/p>\n<p>The latter is a question that will take on greater importance when the Malian disappears for the Africa Cup of Nations, but in this instance Hojbjerg was a more-than-solid alternative; a sturdy platform from which Tottenham launched themselves into a quick start.<\/p>\n<p>Within six minutes, that meant suckering Fulham into three risky fouls in dangerous places with a series of those fast-twitch rotations between James Maddison, Richarlison and Pedro Porro. The closest Spurs came amid that flurry of set-piece opportunities was a volley over the bar from Micky van de Ven.<\/p>\n<p>But they were playing well. Fast, decisive, aggressive, as has been their way.<\/p>\n<p>In response, some praise for Fulham \u2013 they spent most of the opening period without the ball but were quick and to the point when they had it, with Joao Palhinha particularly effective. Assisted by Antonee Robinson\u2019s surges up the left and Timothy Castagne doing likewise on the right, he had outlets and in those combinations they had a few chances. The best of which, Palhinha\u2019s header after 12 minutes, drew a brilliant save from Guglielmo Vicario.<\/p>\n<p>It made for a fun game, but Spurs were better \u2013 at the culmination of one swift move, a counter into the space left by a Robinson charge, Richarlison was a fraction wide. In the next, enabled by a loose pass by Bassey and an interception by Micky van de Ven, Son put the home side ahead. His swivel to lose Tim Ream was eye-catching; his finish even better.<\/p>\n<p>Marco Silva responded with two changes at the break, but Spurs resumed at an irresistible tempo. Richarlison skied an early chance \u2013 his confidence in front of goals seems non-existent \u2013 but Maddison quickly made it 2-0. As with the opener, Fulham were complicit in their undoing, with Bassey once again guilty of a poor ball, which was intercepted by Hojbjerg and fed to Son, prior to Maddison sliding past Bernd Leno from a one-on-one. Of his eight goal contributions this season, it was the Englishman\u2019s first at home.<\/p>\n<p>Fulham had chances for a consolation, most glaringly when Raul Jimenez went through on Vicario in the final moments. As with so much else, the exchange went Tottenham\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12663639\/Tottenham-2-0-Fulham-Son-Heung-min-James-Maddison-fire-Spurs-Premier-League-Ange-Postecoglous-capitalise-defensive-errors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tottenham 2-0 Fulham: Son Heung-min and James Maddison fire Spurs back to the top of the Premier League as Ange Postecoglou&#8217;s side capitalise on defensive <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/tottenham-2-0-fulham-son-heung-min-and-maddison-fire-spurs-back-top\/\" title=\"Tottenham 2-0 Fulham: Son Heung-min and Maddison fire Spurs back top\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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