Tottenham Hotspur fell to a third-successive defeat in all competitions as they had been crushed 2-1 by Fulham within the Premier League on Saturday.
Kenny Tete and Harry Wilson profited from a disastrous opening interval from Spurs, who discovered themselves 2-0 down simply six minutes in after Guglielmo Vicario gifted the guests a second aim when dashing out to stop an assault.
Mohammed Kudus halved the deficit after the break as Thomas Frank’s facet tried to stage a comeback with a much-improved second-half displaying on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
However the harm had already been achieved and the guests held on for a primary away league win of the season and heap additional stress onto the Spurs boss.
Tottenham had been hoping to construct on what Thomas Frank had known as a efficiency stuffed with “soul and character” in opposition to PSG in midweek.
However there was little signal of both within the early levels on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in what was a calamitous begin for the hosts.
First, Tete’s strike took a big sufficient deflection off Future Udogie to wrongfoot Vicario after simply 4 minutes.
Lower than two minutes later, Tottenham fell additional behind. If Vicario was helpless to maintain out the primary aim, he successfully pushed the self-destruct button for the second, dashing out of his field to stop Raul Jimenez from getting on the top of an extended ball out huge.
Underneath stress from the Mexican, Vicario’s panicked clearance fell straight to the ft of Josh King, who laid the ball off the Wilson on the touchline. The Welsh worldwide’s pleasant first-time shot curled into an empty internet amid a refrain of loud boos from the house assist.
Micky van de Ven then produced a goal-saving deal with to stop additional distress, sliding in to cease the vigorous Samuel Chukwueze after the Fulham man had rounded Vicario with the Spurs defence all at sea.
The hosts seemed extra threatening because the half wore on however the scoreline remained the identical going into the break.
Spurs continued to develop into the sport after the restart, with Randal Kolo Muani heading narrowly huge from Pedro Porro’s incisive cross.
It proved to be one thing of a premonition for Fulham. Moments later, Lucas Bergvall discovered Kudus on the proper of the field. The Ghanaian took a contact on the chest earlier than unleashing a fierce volley that gave Bernd Leno no probability on the close to publish.
All of the sudden it was sport on. Jimenez cleared off the road from Bergvall’s deft header earlier than Kolo Muani’s improvised again heel bobbled the fallacious facet of the publish.
However that was about nearly as good because it acquired for the hosts. Fulham noticed out the sport to take all three factors, whereas Spurs had been left to lick the injuries of a 3rd defeat in per week.