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Crystal Palace beat Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 in the Premier League on Sunday thanks to a Jean-Philippe Mateta goal to finally claim their first win of the season and climb out of the relegation zone.

The victory eased the pressure on manager Oliver Glasner as Palace moved up to 17th with six points, two points clear of the drop zone, while Spurs remain in eighth spot with 13 points.

Palace started the game with much more intensity and their high press yielded the opening goal when Spurs shot themselves in the foot trying to pass the ball out from the back.

Daniel Muñoz pinched the ball from Spurs centre back Micky van de Ven when the defender slipped and the wing back put a cross into the box which was expertly flicked by Eberechi Eze to an unmarked Mateta who fired home.

"We could have dealt with those situations better but it was a poor goal and we should do better at that and not concede like that," Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou told reporters postmatch.

"There were other solutions out there and again even in that moment we didn't have to lose our composure. It just seems we kind of wanted everything to run smoothly and we know it doesn't, especially in a game like today.

"There are still ways you can overcome that but it was a poor goal to concede because the game was always an arm-wrestle. It was never going to be one with bags of chances... so to concede like that was disappointing."

Without injured skipper Son Heung-Min, Spurs struggled to mount attacks while 17-year-old winger Mikey Moore -- making his first Premier League start -- could not replicate his dazzling performance in the Europa League three days ago.

Eze nearly made it 2-0 minutes into the second half but had his goal ruled out for a marginal offside when he tried to capitalise on Spurs' high line. Palace's appeal for a penalty when he went down in the box moments later was denied.

But Spurs were well and truly on the backfoot and had goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario to thank as he kept them in the game with some fine saves as Palace spurned opportunities to double their lead, with Munoz and Eze firing wide.

"They fight and I think we lacked that today. We are disappointed because we have to fight. We play good football but maybe sometimes we lack the desire to fight. They show a real desire to fight for something," Vicario told Sky Sports.

"I think we lacked a bit of energy to be better than them. We have to take this personally and it has to hurt us a lot."

Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou had seen enough and he made a triple substitution to introduce Richarlison, Pape Sarr and Timo Werner for the last half-hour, but they were unable to make any impact on the game as Palace's defence stood strong.

The Selhurst Park crowd groaned in unison when seven minutes were added on at the end of the second half but their fans erupted when the referee blew the final whistle as they claimed their first league win since May.

Crystal Palace beat Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 in the Premier League on Sunday thanks to a Jean-Philippe Mateta goal to finally claim their first win of the season and climb out of the relegation zone.

The victory eased the pressure on manager Oliver Glasner as Palace moved up to 17th with six points, two points clear of the drop zone, while Spurs remain in eighth spot with 13 points.

Palace started the game with much more intensity and their high press yielded the opening goal when Spurs shot themselves in the foot trying to pass the ball out from the back.

Daniel Muñoz pinched the ball from Spurs centre back Micky van de Ven when the defender slipped and the wing back put a cross into the box which was expertly flicked by Eberechi Eze to an unmarked Mateta who fired home.

Without injured skipper Son Heung-Min, Spurs struggled to mount attacks while 17-year-old winger Mikey Moore -- making his first Premier League start -- could not replicate his dazzling performance in the Europa League three days ago.

Eze nearly made it 2-0 minutes into the second half but had his goal ruled out for a marginal offside when he tried to capitalise on Spurs' high line. Palace's appeal for a penalty when he went down in the box moments later was denied.

But Spurs were well and truly on the backfoot and had goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario to thank as he kept them in the game with some fine saves as Palace spurned opportunities to double their lead, with Munoz and Eze firing wide.

Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou had seen enough and he made a triple substitution to introduce Richarlison, Pape Sarr and Timo Werner for the last half-hour, but they were unable to make any impact on the game as Palace's defence stood strong.

The Selhurst Park crowd groaned in unison when seven minutes were added on at the end of the second half but their fans erupted when the referee blew the final whistle as they claimed their first league win since May.

Tottenham Hotspur came from a goal down to earn a comfortable 4-1 win over London rivals West Ham in the Premier League on Saturday.

Tensions boiled over late on as West Ham winger Mohammed Kudus, who had opened the scoring, was sent off after he kicked and pushed Spurs's Micky van de Ven and Pape Matar Sarr.

Spurs trailed following Kudus' 18th minute goal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium but powered back with a brilliant second-half performance -- a reverse of their fortunes last time out when they collapsed against Brighton.

Dejan Kulusevski leveled the game in the 36th and after the break the home team took control. Yves Bissouma struck in the 52nd before and Alphonse Areola scored own goal three minutes later.

Son Heung-min added a fourth in the hour mark, sealing a well-earned three points for manager Ange Postecoglou's side.

Information from the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou said his side's 3-2 defeat against Brighton in the Premier League as his "worst defeat" since joining Tottenham.

Tottenham ended the first-half 2-0 up after goals from Brennan Johnson and James Maddison before conceding three times in the second-half.

"It was disappointing and I'm absolutely gutted with that," Postecoglou said. "It's an unacceptable second half -- we were nowhere near where we should be. Maybe we got carried away with how we were going.

"We kind of accepted our fate and it's hard to understand as we've not done that while I've been here. We usually fight for everything, and when you don't you pay a price."

Tottenham would have moved to the fringe of the top four had they won the game but instead go in to the international break in ninth place with 10 points from their seven matches.

Brighton are up to sixth, two points better off.

Postecoglou criticised his side's mentality and complacency in the second-half, adding: "Maybe things were travelling on too smoothly. Football and life will trip you up if you get too far ahead of yourself and that's what it looked like in the second half.

"It's a terrible loss for us, as bad as it gets, and there's only one way to fix it and that's my responsibility.

"We lost all our duels, we weren't competitive and if you're not competitive, irrespective of what you do tactically, it is not going to work."

Information from Reuters contributed to this report.

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Tottenham Hotspur are working with local police and stadium security to identify their supporters who participated in "abhorrent" anti-gay chanting during the 3-0 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.

"This is simply unacceptable, hugely offensive and no way to show support for the team," Spurs said in a statement.

"The Club will be working closely with the Police and stewards to identify anyone instigating or joining in with the chanting -- we shall take the strongest possible action in accordance with our Sanctions and Banning Policy."

Tottenham said supporters attending the Premier League can report anything they had seen to the club in confidence.

"We shall be continuing our work with our LGBTQ+ supporters' association, Proud Lilywhites, to ensure a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans on matchdays," the club said.

"We all have a responsibility to act as ambassadors of Tottenham Hotspur and discrimination of any kind has no place at our Club."

Tottenham Hotspur's Brennan Johnson, Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke all got on the scoresheet in a 3-0 victory over 10-man Manchester United in the Premier League on Sunday as the visitors ran roughshod over the bedraggled Old Trafford side.

Ange Postecoglou's Spurs climbed to eighth in the table on 10 points after six games, while beleaguered United, who saw captain Bruno Fernandes sent off in the 42nd minute for a high challenge on James Maddison, are 12th with seven points in a loss that will again raise questions about manager Erik ten Hag.

"I thought it was an outstanding performance," Postecoglou said. "We started the game well, scored a great goal and probably should have had two or three. The pressure then overwhelms them and they get the red card. After that I thought we controlled the game well.

"Just an outstanding effort from all the lads."

Tottenham went ahead in the third minute when defender Micky van de Ven carried the ball over half the length of the pitch before playing the ball across the six-yard box for the wide open Johnson to tap in for his fourth goal in four games.

"11 v 11, or 11 v 10, we completely dominated the game," Johnson said. "We had a clear game plan and we did exactly what we wanted to do."

Spurs continued to run circles around United on a nightmare evening for Dutchman Ten Hag in rainy Manchester.

"To concede a goal after two or three minutes like that, it did something to our belief," Ten Hag said.

"Totally unnecessary. This is not good enough. We have to accept this and get better. Focus on the next game and do things better than we did today."

Tottenham doubled their lead in the 47th minute when Lisandro Martínez slipped on the halfway line. Johnson sprinted away and his deflected cross fell to Kulusevski, who acrobatically clipped the ball past goalkeeper André Onana.

Solanke had scores of angry United fans heading for the exits when he stuck his leg out to poke the ball home from close range in the 77th minute after Pape Matar Sarr headed on a corner kick from fellow substitute Lucas Bergvall.

The delighted Spurs fans did not stop singing all afternoon, breaking into a chant of "Is there a fire drill?" as thousands of United fans beat a hasty exit after the third goal.

"We struggled a bit," Fernandes told the BBC. "We tried to force it a little bit, to rush it and go too quick. When they have the high line we made mistakes on the ball and then we got punished and it didn't go the way we wanted from there.

"Then the red card makes it worse."

The score could have been more lopsided if Spurs, who had 10 shots on target to United's two, had taken more chances. Onana made a spectacular double save in the second half to keep out a shot by Timo Werner and Solanke's attempt from the rebound.