Tottenham beat 10-man Crystal Palace 2-0 for a third straight Premier League win, their first such run since February 2025, with 34 shots and 79.4% possession.
Tottenham have won three Premier League games in a row for the first time since February 2025. They beat 10-man Crystal Palace 2-0 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and the numbers say it could have been more.
Jean-Philippe Mateta was sent off early for a late, studs-up slide on Micky van de Ven's Achilles. Michael Oliver first showed yellow, then VAR sent him to the monitor and he upgraded it to red for serious foul play.
Archie Gray headed in a Mohammed Kudus corner at the back post in the 25th minute. Jan Paul van Hecke made it 2-0 in the 73rd, bundling the rebound over the line from the floor after Dean Henderson tipped his header onto the bar.
Sky Sports reports Spurs had 34 shots, their most in a league game since February 2016, and 79.4 per cent possession, their second highest on record since 2003-04. Palace's 20.6 per cent is the lowest they have had in a Premier League game. The Standard has Van de Ven completing 124 of 125 passes.
The context: the Guardian notes Spurs have had three full-time managers since their last three-win run. Roberto De Zerbi's side are eighth. Palace are third from bottom, with a sixth league defeat of the season for Pierre Sage, and Mateta misses Liverpool, Coventry and Hull.
My take: against ten men, that much of the ball is the bare minimum. The only scruffy part was the finishing, and Spurs will take it.
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Sources
- Tottenham 2-0 Crystal Palace: Jean-Philippe Mateta's red card sees 10-man Eagles slip into relegation zone, Sky Sports
- Tottenham 2-0 Crystal Palace: Spurs down 10-man Eagles to secure third win in a row, The Standard
- Tottenham player ratings vs Crystal Palace: Forgotten star back to his best as summer signing scores 9/10, The Standard
- Tottenham punish Jean-Philippe Mateta’s moment of madness to earn third straight win, The Independent
- Spurs see off Crystal Palace after Mateta’s early red to pile pressure on Sage, the Guardian
Meanwhile at the desk
The Guardian says Sean Dyche and Thomas Frank are waiting in the wings at Palace. With Liverpool up next, Sage has been handed a fairly brutal audition to keep the job.
Three managers in 616 days, and a three-match winning run now counts as an event. Palace's chairman Steve Parish will decide Sage's fate, and the board is usually the last to be blamed.
