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

Premier League Tottenham Hotspur wanted further time to beat courageous fifth-tier Tamworth, 96 locations beneath 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 staff of part-time gamers drained and have been unable to safe one of many largest shocks within the competitors’s historical past.

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

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

Substitute Dejan Kulusevski doubled the lead when he latched onto a go 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 niche 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 possibilities to notch a late winner for the house facet which had supervisor Andy Peaks — who give up his day job as assist employee to turn out to be full-time supervisor forward of Sunday’s recreation — holding his head in disbelief.

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