Evanilson’s Early Strike Secures Bournemouth Victory At Tottenham

Three and easy for Thomas Frank? Well, not rather – this is Tottenham aft all. Instead it was Andoni Iraola’s outstanding Bournemouth broadside who ended his 100% commencement acknowledgment to Evanilson’s early onslaught arsenic acquainted failings returned to haunt Spurs.

Had things turned retired otherwise this summer, Iraola could easy person recovered himself successful nan location dugout having been coveted by Tottenham earlier they yet settled connected Frank. But aft winning his first 2 matches since succeeding Ange Postecoglou, their shortcomings were exposed by nan Spaniard’s precocious property and only Bournemouth’s profligacy prevented their triumph being moreover much convincing arsenic Tottenham’s players near nan transportation to a smattering of boos.

Xavi Simons, nan new £51.8m signing from RB Leipzig, was paraded connected nan transportation beforehand and Frank will beryllium hopeless to merge him arsenic quickly arsenic imaginable aft it took until nan 69th infinitesimal for his squad to registry a changeable connected target. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he had decided against changing a winning look and selected nan aforesaid broadside that executed his gameplan to perfection against Manchester City past week, moreover if Dominic Solanke was ruled retired pinch an ankle issue. But Frank will beryllium concerned really easy nan pedestrian midfield trio of João Palhinha, Rodrigo Bentancur and Pape Sarr were outclassed by Bournemouth’s method superiority and it wasn’t until Frank introduced Lucas Bergvall successful nan 2nd half that they astatine slightest looked much threatening.

Bournemouth were besides unchanged from the triumph complete Wolves arsenic their new-look defence marshalled by skipper Adam Smith – a merchandise of Tottenham’s academy – had travel prepared for a thorough examination. However it was nan visitors who seized nan inaugural from nan very commencement pinch a zip to their play that Spurs simply couldn’t unrecorded with.

A time aft being handed his first elder England call-up, Djed Spence was brought backmost down to world wrong nan first 4 minutes erstwhile he was caught retired by Marcos Senesi’s done shot and played Evanilson onside. The Brazilian’s changeable looped disconnected Cristian Romero complete Guglielmo Vicario and into nan net.

Evanilson almost doubled his tally erstwhile he drilled wide aft bully activity from Antoine Semenyo earlier nan Ghana guardant headed a sumptuous extracurricular of nan footwear transverse from David Brooks inches over. Tottenham could hardly get retired of their ain half and erstwhile they did aft a correction from Tyler Adams, Richarlison was blameworthy of gifting possession consecutive back.

Cristian Romero (right) shows his disappointment aft Tottenham’s location defeat. Photograph: Mark Leech/Offside/Getty Images

Brooks has been attracting attraction from Crystal Palace but it is easy to spot why Bournemouth are wished to support clasp of nan Wales guardant successful a sparkling first-half display. A clever free-kick had Vicario scrambling crossed to make nan prevention earlier Brooks headed complete nan resulting corner.

Even nan departure of Smith pinch an wounded conscionable earlier nan half-hour people could not halt Bournemouth’s momentum and it required a last-ditch artifact from Micky van de Ven to support nan shortage astatine 1 erstwhile Marcus Tavernier was played successful by Semenyo.

Frank moreover had to motion for nan location supporters to calm down erstwhile yet different Tottenham onslaught collapsed down. But it was difficult to blasted them considering that Spurs ended nan first half pinch an xG of 0 contempt having almost 60% of possession.

Whatever Frank said astatine half-time didn’t look to person worked arsenic Bournemouth picked up wherever they had near off. It needed a crisp prevention from Vicario to contradict Semenyo wrong 60 seconds of nan restart aft a lightning speedy break earlier a deflected effort from Brooks struck nan crossbar erstwhile a agelong propulsion caused chaos successful nan Tottenham defence. Somehow they remained only 1-0 down aft different Vicario prevention from Brooks, pinch Frank turning to Bergvall and Wilson Odobert from his bench.

Spence was possibly fortunate to only person a yellowish paper erstwhile he caught Bournemouth substitute Amine Adli precocious earlier Vicario gave distant possession and Tavernier fired into nan broadside netting. Odobert snatched astatine his chance erstwhile nan shot dropped invitingly astatine nan Frenchman’s feet and he blazed measurement over. At past Tottenham had woken up and a volley from Mathys Tel successful wounded clip that missed by a ft would person brought nan location down if it had gone in. But location was nary measurement back.