Timo Werner’s first purpose for Tottenham Hotspur sparked a 3-1 comeback victory at house towards Crystal Palace to revive their top-four hopes within the Premier League on Saturday.
The previous Chelsea ahead, on mortgage from RB Leipzig, transformed from shut vary within the 77th minute to cancel out Eberechi Eze’s very good free kick that had given Palace the lead.
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Having struggled for a lot of the recreation to create possibilities, Tottenham had been all of the sudden rejuvenated they usually went forward three minutes later when Cristian Romero headed in.
Captain Son Heung-Min accomplished the job with a usually scientific end after being by way of one-on-one.
Victory lifted fifth-placed Tottenham to 50 factors from 26 video games, two behind Aston Villa.
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Werner’s final purpose in English soccer was two years in the past and his mortgage transfer to Tottenham was designed to revive some confidence in a participant who as soon as scored targets for enjoyable.
He got here closest to opening the scoring in a turgid first half wherein Tottenham loved greater than 80% possession however lacked the creativeness to interrupt down a gritty Palace.
Son’s immediate move despatched Werner clear however as a substitute of capturing early he tried to spherical Palace keeper Sam Johnstone who managed to dam the German’s shot.
The second half started in additional vigorous vogue, with Son firing towards the foot of the submit from Dejan Kulusevski’s reduce.
Nevertheless it was Palace who took the lead within the 59th minute.
A free kick was awarded on the sting of the penalty space in a central place and Eze, who returned to the beginning line-up after a month out with a hamstring damage, stepped as much as arrow and unstoppable effort past Guglielmo Vicario.
Tottenham desperately wanted some spark and it was offered by substitute Brennan Johnson.
He confirmed nice persistence down the suitable to achieve possession after which evaded a weak sort out earlier than sliding a move throughout the realm for Werner to sidefoot house his first purpose since scoring for Leipzig in October.
“I perceive targets make gamers really feel higher, however usually I believed he was aggressive along with his operating and his normal play was good,” Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou mentioned.
“He did not cease believing. You form of want a purpose to interrupt open a workforce that sits so deep. However I used to be happy with our method and it was nice for Timo to attain.”
Romero then nodded in a pleasant lobbed move by James Maddison and with Palace deflated, Son ran by way of to attain his thirteenth league purpose of the season.Â