Tottenham Hotspur returned to winning ways with in resounding fashion under the lights at Selhurst Park with a 4-0 victory over Crystal Palace on Wednesday night.
In response to the turgid display against Aston Villa on Sunday, Antonio Conte brought Eric Dier and Oliver Skipp into the side for Ben Davies and the suspended Yves Bissouma, with Dejan Kulusevski, ruled out once more through injury.
In a fairly low-key first half, neither side significantly threatened until Jordan Ayew forced Hugo Lloris into a wonderful save just before the thirty-minute mark, before Joachim Andersen came within a whisker of scoring when his long-range pile driver flew just wide a few minutes after Ayew’s opportunity.
Spurs came out transformed after half-time, and went 1-0 up 3 minutes after the restart, with Harry Kane heading in Ivan Perisic’s tantalising cross beyond the despairing reach of Vicente Guaita. Kane then doubled his and Spurs’ tally with an excellent finish from Bryan Gil’s cutback five minutes later.
Spurs’ night was to become even more comfortable just before 70 minutes, when Heung-min Son’s deflected cutback found its way to Matt Doherty in the Palace penalty area, and the Irishman tapped the ball past Guaita for his first competitive goal of the season after hitting four in three mid-season friendlies last month.
Son then got in on the act when he controlled Kane’s lofted ball from Gil’s initial pass and beat Marc Guehi to fire in Spurs’ fourth, which took a hefty nick off of Guehi on its way in.
Lloris was called into action once more with another great save from Ayew, and Spurs strolled to a comfortable victory in the end in South London.
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