Spurs analysis: Vicario howler sums up shambles of a half

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Tottenham's Jekyll and Hyde form continues.

A promising performance in a 5-3 defeat by Paris St-Germain on Wednesday was followed up by a first-half disaster in the 2-1 loss to Fulham.

This was their 10th home defeat of 2025 in the Premier League and they have never lost more than 10 home league games in a year in their history.

Frank's side were sloppy at the back and toothless up front.

For the first goal, Samuel Chukwueze's pass managed to go between two players before finding Kenny Tete.

Moments later Guglielmo Vicario ran out of his box to deal with a long ball, took it to the corner and then hit a weak clearance straight to Harry Wilson for the second goal.

The goalkeeper was booed by his own fans a minute later when the ball came to him again.

Spurs had never trailed a Premier League home game by two goals after six minutes before. And it could have got worse.

Chukwueze hit the post after Spurs failed to deal with a corner – and the winger took the ball around Vicario only to be denied an open-goal opportunity by Micky van de Ven.

In the first half, they had 16 open-play crosses with none finding a team-mate – and did not fashion a single realistic scoring opportunity.

The second half was much better – although it could not have been worse. But only two of their efforts were on target and only Mohammed Kudus was able to beat Bernd Leno, with a fine strike from Lucas Bergvall's clipped ball over the top.

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