LONDON (Reuters) -Tottenham Hotspur moved into the Premier League top four after a second-half blitz of targets from Matt Doherty, Son Heung-min, Emerson Royal and Steven Bergwijn fired them to an emphatic 5-1 dwelling win over Newcastle United on Sunday.
Spurs at the moment are degree on 54 factors with Arsenal however their London rivals have two video games in hand and might move again into fourth place after they go to Crystal Palace on Monday. Newcastle are fifteenth with 31 factors, 9 away from the relegation zone.
Much of the primary half was performed in Newcastle territory however Tottenham failed to discover a manner by their opponents earlier than the away facet grabbed a shock lead within the thirty ninth minute by Fabian Schar, who drilled a low free kick previous Hugo Lloris.
Newcastle’s lead lasted solely four minutes as Ben Davies received in entrance of his marker to head dwelling a pleasant Son cross and convey to life a dour half that had initially promised little.
Spurs took the lead virtually instantly after the restart thorugh wing again Doherty’s diving header from a Harry Kane cross earlier than the damaging Son doubled their benefit within the 54th minute as he completed off a sweeping move.
Dejan Kulusevski, who joined Tottenham on mortgage from Juventus in January, was a continuing risk down the best as he arrange Son’s purpose and sometimes mixed brilliantly with the South Korean and England striker Kane to stretch the Newcastle defence.
“When you see your workforce play this manner, you get pleasure from it,” mentioned Spurs supervisor Antonio Conte. “We performed a very good recreation. Newcastle aren’t simple to face. They strive to be compact and deep to not concede area.”
Newcastle made a double swap simply earlier than the hour, bringing on Jacob Murphy and Bruno Guimaraes, however Tottenham heaped extra distress on the guests as Emerson and substitute Bergwijn added two extra targets to full the rout.
“In the second half we managed the sport and had the possibilities to safe the consequence. Newcastle are properly ready and have good gamers. We are in an excellent second. The workforce are rising in each facet,” added Conte.
Newcastle boss Eddie Howe mentioned the second purpose made all of the distinction after his facet had displayed nice defensive solidity within the opening phases.
“We contributed to that (scoreline). We have been 1-0 up and executing an excellent plan. We have been controlling them as finest we might. The second purpose is the important thing factor,” he mentioned.
“We chased the sport in a manner you may’t towards one of these workforce. We took dangers and did not execute it properly sufficient,” added Howe, whose workforce have now misplaced their final three league video games.
(Reporting by Dhruv Munjal in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Davis and Ken Ferris)
