Archie Grey scored the one objective of the sport at Selhurst Park
Archie Grey’s first senior objective handed Spurs victory . Picture: AFP
LONDON:
Tottenham floor out a much-needed three factors for the under-fire Thomas Frank with a 1-0 win at Crystal Palace, whereas high-flying Sunderland had been held 1-1 by Leeds on Sunday.
Archie Grey was Spurs’ unlikely match winner at Selhurst Park along with his first senior objective as Frank’s males received for simply the second time in 9 league video games.
Richarlison had two objectives disallowed for offside however Grey’s header was sufficient for Tottenham in opposition to a Palace aspect operating out of steam after a gruelling schedule.
The Eagles are actually winless in 5 video games as they’ve hit the wall from making an attempt to stretch their restricted assets throughout three competitions.
Oliver Glasner described his aspect’s set-piece defending in a 4-1 defeat to Leeds final weekend as “embarrassing” and it was a useless ball that value them as soon as extra in opposition to a Spurs workforce badly missing in creativity.
An overdue victory will briefly ease the scrutiny on Frank, however one other efficiency devoid of aptitude going ahead will do little to quieten his doubters within the Tottenham assist.
The guests didn’t have a shot on track from open play earlier than half-time however had been solely denied by a VAR evaluate for offside when Richarlison thought he had opened the scoring.
As a substitute the supply of the one objective was an sudden one as Grey headed in Richarlison’s flick from a nook for his first objective in 112 appearances for Tottenham and Leeds.
Palace dominated territory and possession after the break however lacked the category wanted in entrance of objective to make Spurs pay.
Justin Devenny blazed excessive over the bar from shut vary earlier than Maxence Lacroix headed vast.
Palace had been handed one other reprieve when Richarlison turned in Mohammed Kudus’ cross just for VAR to once more intervene.
However Tottenham held out to climb to eleventh, only one level behind Palace in ninth.
Farke ‘not dancing on tables’
Earlier, Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored for a sixth consecutive Premier League recreation as Leeds denied Sunderland a spot within the high 5 with a draw on the Stadium of Gentle.
Simon Adingra fired the Black Cats right into a half-time lead, however the in-form Calvert-Lewin levelled early within the second interval to drag Leeds additional away from the relegation zone.
Sunderland are nonetheless but to lose at house on their return to the highest flight however have been severely depleted by the departure of six gamers to the Africa Cup of Nations.
Adingra was one of many Ivory Coast’s key males in profitable the AFCON on house soil final 12 months, however he was not chosen this time.
Sunderland had been grateful for that call as the previous Brighton winger curled in his first objective for the membership from Granit Xhaka’s advantageous by ball on 28 minutes.
Leeds had been the higher aspect for big spells of the primary interval and began the second with a bang.
Calvert-Lewin latched onto Brenden Aaronson’s low cross for his eighth objective of the season, seven of which have come within the final six video games.
The previous Everton striker’s type has performed a serious function in edging Leeds in the direction of security and maintaining his supervisor Daniel Farke in a job.
The German was reportedly getting ready to being dismissed previous to a five-game unbeaten run that has taken Leeds seven factors away from the underside three.
“I am not dancing on the desk tonight,” mentioned Farke. “The sensation was if we had been a bit extra medical we must always have received the sport.”
Sunderland missed the possibility to leapfrog Manchester United and Chelsea however sit seventh, simply 4 factors outdoors the highest 4.
