Tottenham 3-0 Tamworth (Jan 12, 2025) Game Analysis

Premier League Tottenham Hotspur wanted further time to beat courageous fifth-tier Tamworth, 96 locations under them within the English soccer pyramid, 3-0 within the FA Cup third spherical on Sunday.

The sport had the makings of an enormous upset from the opening whistle as Tamworth greater than held their very own however the workforce of part-time gamers drained and have been unable to safe one of many largest shocks within the competitors’s historical past.

“We needs to be proud, we took a top-six workforce to further time,” Tamworth goalkeeper Jas Singh, whose day job is as a constructing surveyor, advised ITV. “We had probabilities as properly, that is the irritating bit.”

After a goalless 90 minutes, Nathan Tshikuna’s personal objective within the one hundred and first minute put Spurs forward after Brennan Johnson had fired a low cross into the realm.

Substitute Dejan Kulusevski doubled the lead when he latched onto a cross from Son Heung-Min to shoot throughout Singh and Johnson added a late third.

Tamworth gave their followers at a rocking Lamb Floor loads to cheer when Beck-Ray Enoru — who works as a store clerk — pressured Spurs goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky to make a diving save within the opening minute.

Earlier than kickoff, Enoru had climbed on a teammate’s shoulders to restore a spot within the web with a roll of tape as an Spurs supervisor Ange Postecoglou watched on chuckling and Tamworth’s Tom Tonks, famend for his lengthy throw-ins, despatched one clattering off Spurs’ far publish.

Tom McGlinchey and Jordan Cullinane-Liburd had wonderful probabilities to notch a late winner for the house facet which had supervisor Andy Peaks — who stop his day job as help employee to turn out to be full-time supervisor forward of Sunday’s sport — holding his head in disbelief.

Singh, whose companion had given delivery to a child boy the earlier night, was wonderful in objective, turning away a number of Spurs photographs together with a pair from James Maddison.