Tottenham defeated Leeds 2-1 thanks to goals from Mathys Tel and Mohammed Kudus to end a year-long unbeaten league home run for the Whites.
Goals from Mathys Tel and Mohammed Kudus gave Tottenham Hotspur all three points at Elland Road as they won 2-1 to condemn Leeds United to their first home league defeat in over year.
Not since a 1-0 defeat to Burnley on 15 September 2024 had Daniel Farke’s side lost in front of their own fans in league competition, but that 23-game run came to an end thanks to a goal in each half from Spurs.
Having won their last two Premier League trips to Elland Road, Spurs knew a win in this game would see them win three successive trips there in league competition for the first time in their history.
They got off to an ideal start in the 23rd minute, with Tel scoring his first goal for Tottenham since April. The Frenchman still had work to do after receiving the ball on the half-turn from Kudus, but Leeds’ high line allowed him to run into space before entering the box and firing the effort at goal. His shot – only his third touch of the game – was powerful but took a deflection off the shin of Pascal Struijk to spin past Karl Darlow.
That goal kept up Tottenham’s astonishing run without a goalless draw in the Premier League. Not since April 2022, against Thomas Frank’s Brentford side, have they drawn a match 0-0 in the competition, 126 games ago.
The lead lasted 11 minutes before Noah Okafor deservedly levelled the scores. The Whites’ summer signing from AC Milan scored his second goal in the Premier League from a couple of yards out after Guglielmo Vicario had parried Brenden Aaronson’s shot into his path.
Tel came close to adding a second goal in first half added time, with Wilson Odobert doing well wide on the left before hooking in a cross towards the 20-year-old who powered a header against the bar.
After assisting their first goal, Kudus put Spurs back in front 12 minutes into the second half with his first goal for the club after his £55 million move from West Ham in the summer. Capitalising on a mistake from Gabriel Gudmundsson, the Ghanaian came inside off the right wing to fire past Darlow from outside the box.
Much of the final half hour of the game was spent with Leeds attacking and the ball inside the Tottenham half, but the London club saw out the game without too much difficulty, bar a smart save from Vicario in added time after Joël Piroe found space to shoot.
While some doubts have been raised about how convincing Tottenham have been under Frank so far, the final whistle temporarily took them up to second place in the Premier League table with 14 points from seven games as we head into the second international break of 2025-26. Ten of those points have come in their four away games, just seven shy of their entire away points total from last season under Ange Postecoglou (17 in 19 games).
Only time will tell if this Spurs side can stake a serious claim for a top-four finish, but it’s been a promising start for their new boss.
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Leeds 1-2 Tottenham Post-Match Facts
Tottenham Hotspur have won three of their opening four away Premier League games this season (D1), as many as in their final 13 away league games of last season under Ange Postecoglou (W3 D1 L9).
Tottenham have recorded their first Premier League win following a game in major European competition since February last season against Brentford (2-0), ending a run of eight matches without a victory (D3 L5).
Mohammed Kudus completed all six of his dribbles against Leeds United, the best 100% rate by a Tottenham Hotspur player in a Premier League game since Tanguy Ndombélé against Aston Villa in March 2021 (also 6/6).
Since the start of 2022-23, Tottenham Hotspur’s Mathys Tel is one of six players to have scored at least 15 goals in Europe’s big five leagues while aged 20 and under, netting his first in the Premier League since April last season against Wolves, ending a run of 10 appearances in the competition without a goal.
Tottenham Hotspur’s Mohammed Kudus scored and assisted in the same Premier League game for only the second time, previously doing so in March 2024 against Newcastle United.