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Fresh Spurs fixture headache after Orient call-off
Tottenham's Carabao Cup tie at Leyton Orient off but no decision on walkover
- Majority of Orient squad tested positive for coronavirus
- Competition rules suggest Spurs should be awarded win
Tottenham’s Carabao Cup tie at Leyton Orient has been called off but a decision delayed on whether to award the Premier League club a walkover after the majority of Orient’s first-team squad tested positive for Covid-19.
Orient announced on Monday that they had closed their stadium and training ground until further notice and it has been confirmed the tie will not go ahead as planned on Tuesday evening.
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Orient players testing positive threatens Spurs clash
Majority of Leyton Orient squad test positive for Covid-19 before Spurs tie
- Tuesday’s Carabao Cup match expected to be cancelled
- Mansfield, Orient’s opponents last Saturday, plan complaint
The majority of Leyton Orient’s first team squad have tested positive for Covid-19, leading to the expectation that their Carabao Cup game at home to Tottenham on Tuesday will be called off, with a decision set for the morning, and serious questions being asked about the biosecurity of League Two.
The testing of players is not mandatory in the English Football League – as it is in the Premier League – with the authorities content to insist on stringent hygiene measures and work-place social distancing. They say that the evidence shows there is a minimal risk of transition of the virus via training and playing outdoors.
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- Forward sustained knee injury on international duty
- Spurs anticipate Bale being match fit next month
José Mourinho has suggested Gareth Bale’s desire to return to Tottenham could accelerate his highly anticipated Premier League comeback, as the forward recovers from a knee injury sustained on international duty.
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This talk’s paddles cut the water in a long and hurried flight
In typical José Mourinho style, José Mourinho has again made fools of all those who said he was predictable parody of himself. When he arrived at Spurs, it appeared clear the player he planned to needlessly persecute was Tanguy Ndombele but it’s since turned out that the wily, crafty, sly old fox was misdirecting all along – the real receptacle for his angst is was Dele Alli all along.
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After a topsy-turvy opening, this game soon developed a familiar theme, with Harry Kane supplying a supercharged Son Heung-min to score on four occasions and earn Tottenham a resounding victory. It is the first time one player has assisted another four times in a Premier League match but Kane eventually got in on the act to score Spurs’ fifth after preying on a rebound.
When Spurs seamlessly click in the final third as they did here, the thought of adding the returning Gareth Bale into the attacking cocktail is a mouth-watering proposition.
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What a difference a week makes after José Mourinho blasted his side's poor performance after an opening day defeat to Everton.
A rampant Tottenham Hotspur put five past Southampton, Heung-Min Son scoring four of the goals. The game ended 5-2 to Spurs who've had a busy week with the new additions of Gareth Bale and Sergio Reguilón.
A superb performance by Harry Kane saw him assist four of the five goals before poking one home just before time
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Dele Alli’s Tottenham future is in doubt after the England midfielder was left out of José Mourinho’s squad for the 5-2 victory at Southampton on Sunday, with Paris Saint-Germain understood to have been offered the chance to sign the midfielder on loan before the end of the transfer window on 5 October.
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Southampton 2-5 Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – as it happened
Son Heung-min scored four goals, all made by Harry Kane, as a clinical Spurs recovered from a dismal first half to thrash Southampton
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Post-match interviews
Son-Heung min
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Harry Kane is the seventh player to get four assists in a Premier League game, after Dennis Bergkamp, Jose Antonio Reyes, Cesc Fabregas, Emmanuel Adebayor, Santi Cazorla and Dusan Tadic.
1.53pm BST
Peep peep! That was a surreal game. Southampton were much the better team in the first half, but Son equalised in injury time and Spurs were devastating in the second half. Son scored four goals, all made brilliantly by Harry Kane, who then added the fifth for close-range.
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90+1 min Four minutes of added time.
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90 min That penalty award is an absolute mess. The law will surely change soon.
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Danny Ings smashes the penalty straight down the middle for his second goal of the game.
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89 min: Penalty given! What a shambles.
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88 min The referee is going to look at the VAR screen. The ball came off Winks and hit Doherty’s arm, so it’s quite similar to the one that was given against Leeds last weekend.
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87 min Djenepo appeals for a penalty when the ball deflects onto the hand of Doherty. VAR are looking at it but I think the deflection will mean it isn’t given.
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86 min Ward-Prowse’s free-kick is comfortably held by Lloris.
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84 min Harry Kane, who has played magnificently, is replaced by Steven Bergwijn.
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83 min As ruthless as Spurs have been, Southampton’s defending has been hideous.
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After creating the first four, Harry Kane goes back to his first love: scoring goals. Lamela’s shot was pushed onto the post by McCarthy and Kane reacted quickest to tap it into the empty net.
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It’s five!
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80 min Shane Long replaces Che Adams, who did a lot of good things but also missed important chances.
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80 min Doherty is booked for fouling Djenepo.
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79 min Football never ceases to surprise. Spurs were hopeless for the first 45 minutes and now they look like they are going to score every time they attack.
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78 min A front three of Son, Kane and Gareth Bale suddenly looks pretty darned exciting.
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76 min Kane plays another spectacular through ball, this time to Lamela. McCarthy just beats him to the ball 30 yards from goal.
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75 min Son almost gets in for a fifth goal! Eventually the ball comes to Lamela, whose shot is blocked by Bertrand.
1.32pm BST
Southampton’s high line has cost them again. Lo Celso played a simple pass to Kane just past the halfway line. He moved towards the right wing and then reversed another stunning pass/cross to Son at the far post. He took it down on the chest and half-volleyed past McCarthy from close range. That’s a brilliant goal.
1.31pm BST
Four goals for Son, and four assists for Harry Kane!
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71 min Son misses a one-on-one before being flagged offside. It was a bad miss; I suspect he thought he was offside and lost concentration.
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71 min Tella shoots wide from 25 yards. Southampton haven’t really got behind Spurs since half-time.
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70 min Son almost gets in again, this time from a pass by Lamela, but his touch is slightly too soft and that allows Walker-Peters to make a goal-saving tackle (probably).
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68 min Another change for Southampton: Nathan Tella replaces the impressive Stuart Armstrong.
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68 min Stephens is booked for a late tackle on Lo Celso.
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67 min Spurs have scored with all three shots on target.
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66 min Harry Kane, who remains such an underrated passer, has made all three goals for Son.
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The goal was made again by Kane, who turned on the halfway line and played a quite brilliant reverse pass over the Southampton defence. Son surged into space, as he has all afternoon, and drove the ball through the legs of McCarthy. What an adorable player he is.
1.22pm BST
A hat-trick for Son!
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64 min A half chance for Adams, who runs onto a loose ball and drives just wide of the far post. Lloris had it covered.
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61 min Erik Lamela replaces Lucas Moura, who was pretty anonymous.
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59 min “Why are Southampton persisting with this high defensive line?” asks Gary Naylor. “Ralph Hasenhuttl is watching isn’t he?”
It’s the way they play! I agree that it’s asking for trouble against Son though.
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58 min Armstrong shoots over from 15 yards after good play from Djenepo, though the flag then goes up for an offside half an hour earlier. That new directive doesn’t work.
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57 min “The elements of a classic kit: simple, you know from a mile away who it is,” says Mary Waltz. “Best examples. Peru’s sash, Finland’s offset cross, Croatia’s checkerboard.”
Then you have Arsenal/Real Madrid/AC Milan/PSG’s Fly Emirates logo...
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56 min Lloris makes an important save from Armstrong, though the flag then went up against Ings.
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55 min A Southampton change: Will Smallbone replaces Romeu, who was in danger of getting sent off.
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54 min Kane tries to score from the halfway line but screws it miles wide. McCarthy was a long way off his line, so you can see why Kane went for it.
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50 min Ward-Prowse’s long-range shot is held by Lloris, falling to his left.
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49 min Apparently Bertrand was booked towards the end of the first half, not Ward-Prowse.
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49 min Armstrong cuts inside from the right and drives over the bar. Southampton must feel like they’ve been mugged.
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That was an emphatic finish. Lo Celso pushed a good ball into Kane, who turned and eased it beyond the defence for Son. His first touch took Stephens out of the game, and the second was a clinical finish with his left foot.
1.05pm BST
Son has scored either side of half-time!
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47 min An early chance for Southampton. Armstrong dances into the area on the left and picks out Adams, whose crisp sidefoot from the edge of the area is too close to Lloris.
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46 min Peep peep! Spurs begin the second half.
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Spurs have made a half-time change: Tanguy Ndombele, who did brilliantly in the build-up to Son’s equaliser, has been replaced by Giovani Lo Celso.
12.59pm BST
Replays show that Son’s goal took an important deflection off the stretching Bertrand. I’m not certain Son’s shot would have been on target, though it is officially his goal.
12.56pm BST
“Mourinho is essentially the Portuguese George Graham,” says Daniel, “and Spurs have already been so desperate they hired the actual George Graham. Spurs have poisoned their own well.”
“Nothing in Mourinho’s past suggests he is a good fit for this Spurs team and there is a good chance that he can no longer successfully manage a top team,” says Gerry Scott. “It is worth remembering how all over the place Poch’s Spurs team were, really for the entirety of 2019. I think the Champions League final disguised the fact that the project had long run its course.”
12.55pm BST
“Not a fan of the sash,” says Marie Meyer. “They look like beauty pageant contestants. Due to a very unfortunate USMNT shirt, Landon Donovan is forever known as ‘Miss America’ in this household.
12.49pm BST
Half-time reading
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12.49pm BST
Peep peep! The match is level after two excellent goals from Danny Ings and Son. Southampton have been much the better side but the timing of that equaliser will smart.
12.48pm BST
That came out of nothing. Ndombele did very well in midfield and found Kane on the left. He curled a first time pass around the defence towards Son, who took it in his stride and rifled it past McCarthy from a tight angle. I thought McCarthy could have come for Kane’s cross, but he decided to stay where he was and Son beat him with aplomb.
12.47pm BST
Son equalises on the stroke of half-time!
12.46pm BST
45+2 min Ndombele is booked for fouling Adams.
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45+1 min Three minutes of added time.
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45 min “Tottenham,” says Gary Naylor, “look like 11 blokes who met in the car park on a Sunday morning for a bit of a kickabout at lunchtime before going to the pub to watch Chelsea v Liverpool.”
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44 min Ward-Prowse is booked for blocking Doherty.
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43 min “Jose took an inconsistent team that always played exciting football, hovered or were in the top four, and turned them into a joyless, turgid mid-table team,” says Mary Waltz. “Yeah, he is a genius.”
While I don’t think this will end well, it’s only fair to point out that we are only one and a half games into the new season.
12.43pm BST
42 min Kane tackles Walker-Peters fairly but with feeling. As Jermaine Jenas says on BT Sport, that’s the tackle of a very frustrated man.
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40 min “Southampton are having it all their own way in the middle,” says Matt Dony. “Tottenham look like they’re trying to play like good guys. Perhaps their coach could address that problem at half time? Maybe give them some suggestions on how they should behave instead?”
Does he do that a lot on the Amazon documentary?
12.39pm BST
39 min Djenepo plays in the overlapping Bertrand, whose cross is crucially claimed by the diving Lloris. Adams is then booked for stopping Lloris launching a counter-attack.
12.38pm BST
36 min Spurs started quite well but they have looked lifeless in the last 20 minutes or so. At the moment they bear almost no resemblance to the team that charmed everyone from 2015-19.
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34 min “Always good to see a sash,” says Charles Antaki. “Southampton’s reproduces Peru’s second strip which reversed the classic Cubillas red-on-white. Or nearly; the angle is too steep. Harrumph.”
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33 min There’s an argument Lloris shouldn’t have been beaten from such a tight angle. I’m not so sure - Ings’ finish was so fast and precise.
12.33pm BST
That was a majestic two-touch finish from Danny Ings! Walker-Peters, near the halfway line, clipped a precise long pass over Dier’s head towards Ings. He took it beautifully in his stride and then, from a very tight angle, rattled an instant shot into the far corner.
12.31pm BST
Brilliant goal!
12.29pm BST
29 min Ings scurries dangerously into the area but then overhits a simple pass to Ward-Prowse on the left. After a slow start, Southampton are dominating the game.
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29 min The lively Djenepo runs across the line of the penalty area and belts a shot that is blocked by Winks.
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27 min: Another Kane goal is disallowed! But this might be overturned by VAR.
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26 min: Djenepo hits the outside of the post! Ward-Prowse’s free-kick was headed away by Kane at the far post. It came to Djenepo, who whistled a low shot from 25 yards that hit the outside of the post and went behind. I think Lloris had it covered, though I’d like to see it again.
12.25pm BST
24 min “What is Dier doing?” says Yash Gupta. “He was literally in goal when Davies blocked the shot, shambolic.”
He did say he wanted to play further back this season.
12.23pm BST
23 min Both teams look dangerous going forward and less than secure at the back.
12.21pm BST
20 min A brilliant run from Djenepo leads to an almighty scramble in the Spurs area. Adams’ close-range shot is blocked almost on the line by Davies, and then Ward-Prowse’s follow-up is put behind for a corner.
12.16pm BST
Both teams have had a goal disallowed now. Adams flipped a great pass over the defence towards Ings. Lloris came out of his area, panicked and headed the ball onto Ings’ elbow. Ings picked up the loose ball and finished very confidently but replays confirmed it hit his elbow.
12.16pm BST
16 min: Ings has a goal disallowed for handball!
12.13pm BST
14 min It’s been a good start from Spurs, who look sharper than they did against Everton last week.
12.12pm BST
12 min McCarthy makes an excellent one-on-one save from Son, who was flagged offside after the event.
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12 min “Why does everyone just shrug when a player is offside as Son was for the goal?” says Gary Naylor. “With his pace and a high pressing defence, he could be a yard off his marker, never mind half a step, and still be first to the ball. They know VAR will ping them if they’re a toenail off, so why don’t they give themselves a chance?”
Force of habit, I suspect, like bowlers who push the front line. You’re right though.
12.10pm BST
11 min Adams should probably have scored, but it was still a spectacular save from Lloris.
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10 min: Great save from Lloris! Hojbjerg fouls Armstrong 25 yards from goal on he left. Bertrand’s free-kick hits a Spurs defender and falls perfectly for Adams, 10 yards out. He smashes the ball towards goal and Lloris throws out his right hand to make a brilliant reaction save.
12.07pm BST
8 min Southampton are struggling to play at their usual tempo, which can only be a fitness issue. At their best they are very uncomfortable to play against.
12.06pm BST
6 min That was such a smart finish from Kane, not that it counted for anything in the end.
12.05pm BST
5 min Romeu is booked for a foul on his old teammate Hojbjerg.
12.04pm BST
Son was fractionally offside, and that’s the end of that. Mourinho’s face is a picture.
12.04pm BST
Son’s cross from the left was slightly overhit, but Doherty kept it alive by heading the ball back into the middle. Kane reacted superbly, twisting his body to crack a volley that went through McCarthy.
12.03pm BST
This might be VARed - they are checking whether Son was offside.
12.03pm BST
Spurs score with their first attack!
12.00pm BST
1 min Peep peep! Southampton kick off from right to left.
11.56am BST
The players are out on the pitch. It’s a nice September day in Southampton, perfect for association football.
11.48am BST
Jose Mourinho’s pre-match thoughts
[What difference can Gareth Bale make?] “Today, nothing, because he’s not here. The only thing that matters for me today is to try to get the result we want. [Is Dele Alli unfit?] No. We have a huge squad, with numbers that are very difficult to manage. I don’t like it and it’s not easy for me to pick 18 players. We have too many players for some positions and some of them are paying the price for this.”
11.14am BST
Pre-match reading
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11.13am BST
Dele Alli isn’t even on the bench for Spurs. He’s not injured, unless you count wounded pride.
Southampton (4-2-2-2) McCarthy; Walker-Peters, Stephens, Bednarek, Bertrand; Ward-Prowse, Romeu; Armstrong, Djenepo; Adams, Ings.
Substitutes: Forster, Vestergaard, Vokins, Smallbone, Long, Obafemi, Tella.
11.13am BST
He’s back! And he’s not playing! Gareth Bale’s signing was not registered in time for him to take part in Spurs’ trip to Southampton today, though he has still dominated the pre-match chatter. It’s almost a shame there’s a football match to get in the way of more talk about what Bale might achieve when he starts playing in football matches for Spurs again.
Both teams started the Premier League season with 1-0 defeats, Southampton at Crystal Palace and Spurs at home to Everton. A strong-looking Southampton side was then beaten at home by Brentford in the Carabao Cup, while Spurs edged past Lokomotiv Plovdiv in their Europa League qualifier. Ralph Hasenhuttl and Jose Mourinho have both bemoaned their teams’ fitness levels, and neither can really afford another defeat today. In the Premier League you’re never far away from a perceived crisis, with or without Gareth Bale.
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