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Brennan Johnson has scooped our HSBC Player of the Match award after he struck twice to down Southampton on Sunday afternoon.

In a poll run exclusively on the Spurs Official App, Brennan took the majority of your votes to see him take the award - his third of the campaign.

Our leading goalscorer this term, the Wales international was certainly a deserving winner of the prize having bagged his second brace in six games to send us into a 2-0 first-half lead against the Saints. Mathys Tel later grabbed us a third to seal the win after Matheus Fernandes had pulled one back for the visitors.

The goals saw the forward hit a number of goalscoring landmarks. His first of the afternoon saw him reach 20 goals for us in all competitions, which includes 15 for this campaign alone and double figures in a Premier League season for the first time.

The second goal saw him register 20 goal contributions for the season so far (something only managed by three other players since 2018), while it also took him to 50 league goals in English football.

Watch - Johnson opens the scoring

Women’s Academy Technical Coaching Manager Nick Hardy reflected on a hugely positive Capital Cup run that came to an end after our Under-21s suffered a 2-1 defeat to Dulwich Hamlet at the semi-final stage.

Competing against a senior side that compete in FA Women’s National League Division South East – the fourth tier of Women’s football – we gave ourselves an uphill battle after just four minutes when Martha Goddard fired the home side ahead at Champion Hill.

However, our youngsters fought back and on the half hour mark, Mia Endacott fired us back on level terms for her 18th goal involvement of the campaign (eight goals and 10 assists), but we were struck another blow on the stroke of half time as Goddard once again reinstated Dulwich’s lead.

We searched for a leveller in the second but struggled to break down a resolute defence from the hosts, ultimately bringing an end to our fantastic cup run in the competition which saw our Under-21s overcome three senior sides prior to the semi-final tie.

“I know I have used these words before, but I was super pleased, super proud to get to where we got to in the cup,” Hardy told us. “Obviously we’re naturally disappointed, we’re professionals as both players and staff, we want to push the boundaries and get as far as we can in any competition, so there’s that feeling of disappointment of just missing out on the next step to the final and to be able to compete at that level that we definitely thought our season deserved.

“So disappointed but, all in all, there were some really big positives to take from the run, the learnings we take from the games, the experience, the opportunity and I have no doubt, for everyone involved, they will be better from it and most importantly for the players, whether it’s at the Club or somewhere else, they’ll have the experiences to hold them in better stead for their futures.”

Not only was it a challenge of going toe-to-toe with an experienced senior side in the FA Women’s National League, but nearly 650 supporters were in attendance at Champion Hill, creating a hostile atmosphere for our youngsters – an experience that Nick believes will only benefit the players in the future.

Gallery | Images from the visit to Dulwich Hamlet

“I wish we could do it more and maybe we need to try to create those opportunities but it’s very difficult to create what the girls experienced during that game, it’s huge for their development,” Nick added, reflecting on the experience of playing a senior side.

“We’re a very young squad, that doesn’t become an excuse for me, it’s another positive to talk about this group of players to get that type of experience very early on in their career. This game was quite unique, in a positive way, playing at a stadium, playing in front of a huge crowd that made a lot of noise and made it intimidating for the girls, so we’ve to take all that in and, as a group, we can pull on that experience when we need it.”

Brennan Johnson hit a major landmark tally in his professional career on Sunday afternoon as he registered his 50th goal in English league football.

Grabbing a brace in to power us through to a 3-1 win over Southampton at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, they were goals 49 and 50 in English league football for the forward.

An arrival from Nottingham Forest in the summer of 2023, Brennan scored his first league goal in League One while on loan at Lincoln City, striking in a 2-0 home win over Plymouth Argyle.

He scored his first 10 league goals all in all that campaign as Lincoln earned a spot in the 2020/21 Play-Off Final at Wembley.

Watch - Brennan's 50th league goal

Returning to parent club and boyhood club Nottingham Forest at the end of that campaign, he scored 16 goals in 50 Championship appearances for the Reds to ultimately help them return to the Premier League for the first time in 23 years with a Play-Off Final victory over Huddersfield in May, 2021.

He then scored a further eight goals in the league for Forest as they secured survival in the top flight in the following season before moving to north London in the August.

So far, he has scored 16 goals for us in the top flight, with his first coming away at Wolves in November, 2023.

His goals against Southampton also saw him edge past the 15-goals mark for the campaign, 20 goals for us and 10 Premier League goals in a single campaign. It is the first time he has reached double figures in the top flight in sole season while he is just the 22nd player ever to score 10+ goals for us in a Premier League campaign.

Watch - Johnson speaks to SPURSPLAY after our Saints win

It's quiz time! Mathys Tel extended our Premier League record for the most different scorers in the competition for a single club as he became our 175th different goalscorer in the league with his late penalty in Sunday's 3-1 win over Southampton. But, can you name all 175 of our goalscorers?

Since the inception of the Premier League in 1992, an incredible 175 different players have found the back of the net for us in the top flight. How many can you name?

Well that is the challenge we're proposing to you!

To take on the challenge, click the green 'Play Quiz' button below to get started before inputting your answers in the box titled 'enter player'.

You will have 20 minutes to name as many of the 175 players as you can. To help, the amount of goals they scored for the Club in the Premier League plus the country they are from are listed either side of their relevant answer box.

Helpful tip: If the player you are guessing has a multiple word surname, such as 'Giovani dos Santos', just type in the final word, ie. Santos, to score the point. For players with double-barrelled surnames, such as 'Cameron Carter-Vickers', you need to write the full surname, ie. Carter-Vickers.

Best of luck!

Name our 175 Premier League goalscorers

Johnson lashes home | Spurs 3-1 Southampton  Tottenham Hotspur

Ange Postecoglou spoke to the media at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the wake of our 3-1 victory against Southampton on Sunday.

Here’s a look at some of the things he had to say...

Ange on whether the result sets us up well for Thursday’s European clash with Eintracht Frankfurt

“To a certain extent. I was really happy with the first half. In the first half I thought we were really disciplined, well organised and sort of limited them to one chance. Every time we went forward we looked dangerous and as threatening as we’ve looked for quite a while, really fluent, obviously scored two goals, one disallowed and Aaron (Ramsdale) has pulled off some good saves. I was really pleased but the second half, not so much as I thought we became way too passive without the ball. We allowed Southampton to get a little bit of rhythm, we were really sloppy with ball and the substitutions we made didn’t really make the impact I wanted. That allowed them to get a goal at the end which was disappointing and something we need to improve on. Overall the important thing is we got the win, scored three goals and everyone got through unscathed and ready for a big night on Thursday.”

Ange on James Maddison’s performance

“Especially in the first half, all our players embraced both their attacking and defensive roles and we need to take that into Europe. We know in European football every moment of the game is important. I thought Madders was really good with the ball but really disciplined without the ball. In the first half I was really pleased with the lads. It can be a game when you go out there and sort of urge yourself or rush yourself to victory but I thought there was a really controlled way we went about it without diminishing the intensity we want to play at. Like I said, in the second half that wasn't the case and we need to improve.”

Ange on Brennan Johnson’s consistency

“It’s tough but I think whenever Brennan plays, he’s always a goal threat. He has been really good for us in terms of goals and, even though I don’t rate them highly, even his assists have been important to us as today he won the penalty. He’s really important for us in the way we play and I don’t think he has been inconsistent this year. The disruptions we’ve had in the team and the ability to get some real cohesion in the group has disrupted everyone this season. It was great for him today, I was really pleased for him, not just the goals but his general play was really good. He’s important for us as a wide player – there aren’t many around that are a constant goal threat like he is. I’m really pleased for him today.”

Ange on Brennan’s confidence

“With Brennan, he’s always in the areas we need him to be. He’s probably one of the most disciplined players we have in terms of making sure he’s always in the right positions and that’s why he gets his goals. There have been times this season when his form has suffered because of the team more than anything else. I think if we play like we played in the first half, Brennan becomes a really important player for us as we’re a constant threat, breaking lines, making half-space runs, we were getting balls into the box in the areas we need to and every time we went forward we looked like scoring. If we do that then I think it’s not a matter of confidence for Brennan, it just gives you more opportunities as the one thing about him is that he will always be in those positions so it’s up to us to match his discipline in that.”

Ange on whether he’s concerned by the types of goals we’ve conceded

“To a certain extent, but it’s more how we got to that point. If you allow the opposition to kind of get into a rhythm, they’re going to find those opportunities whereas in the first half we never really allowed it. They had the one but aside from that we rarely let them into our half, but in the second half we sat back and maybe the guys were thinking about Thursday but I don’t think you can play that way. It was disappointing to concede because again in Europe every goal is important. The ones you score and the ones you concede count for a lot more in terms of the outcome of a tie. It was disappointing to concede a goal today but I thought it was more disappointing the way we went about it in the second half.”

Ange on our unused substitutes against the Saints

“Destiny and Micky are fine. They have missed a lot of football this year so it made sense to put them on ice today. Richy is good. We’ve kind of done this with a few of the boys coming back and getting them involved on the matchday and the possibility of him getting a run today but I just thought when they’re involved in a matchday it gets rid of a lot of the nerves of coming back or anxiety from coming back from a long time out. He’ll get a few more days in training and play a part from now on.”

Ange on Mathys Tel’s penalty

“It was good for him to get a goal. The guys coming on are really important. I thought Wilson today didn’t look ready when he came on and only came to life the last 10-15 minutes but sometimes these guys coming on are going to be really vital for us in Europe because you know the ties are going to be really intense and you’re going to have to make changes, not just because players are not performing but because we need that extra energy. Guys like Mathys and Wilson are young guys and we’re going to need them. They have the quality for sure. I thought Archie and Biss came on and helped us a bit in terms of getting a bit more control of the game. For all those guys, now that we've got a healthy squad, they’re ready to play.”

Ange on our first goal starting from Romero at the back

“Yes, it is a goal that we have done a number of times, but we haven’t done consistently. I think in the first half we had many, many, many of those moments and with Cristian back there and Ben, when Micky plays, we have centre-backs who are comfortable on the ball and can give us the right pass and find really good solutions. Then it is about making sure the guys further up find the right spaces. I thought in the first half we did that a lot and it was an excellent team goal from start to finish. I think that was a byproduct of us being really disciplined with our football in the first 52 minutes.”

Ange on Lucas Bergvall’s physicality

“He looked a bit leggy on Thursday night but I thought it was important for him to get it out of his system because he hadn’t played – because he didn’t play the internationals – for two-and-a-half weeks. With Thursday in mind, I thought giving him 60 minutes on Thursday (against Chelsea) and another good block, he looked a lot better today, physically stronger and in the first half I felt the midfield three of Rodri, Madders and Lucas were really, really good defensively but also when we had the ball, they were really strong and it worked well.”

Heung-Min Son joined a very exclusive Spurs club on Sunday afternoon.

Having started our 3-1 win over Southampton at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, our skipper made his 450th appearance for Tottenham Hotspur to become just one of seven players to amass that many games for the Club.

Signed from Bayer Leverkusen in the summer of 2015, Sonny has enjoyed nine incredible seasons thus far in N17 and continues to soar in Lilywhite as we approach his 10-year anniversary as a Spurs player.

Quickly becoming an icon for the Club, the South Korean superstar has also become a global icon in the game since his move to north London.

A Champions League Finalist in 2019, the FIFA Puskas winner in 2020 and the Premier League Golden Boot winner in 2022, Sonny has made history throughout his time with us - and this latest milestone continues to demonstrate the impact he has had on us.

Ange Postecoglou was pleased with our first-half performance but was left wanting more from the second in Sunday’s 3-1 win over Southampton.

Brennan Johnson’s brace put us in control while Lucas Bergvall saw his effort ruled out for offside and Saints goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale was forced into a number of saves as we dominated the game in the opening 45 minutes at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

We didn’t quite manage to hit the same levels after the restart, though, with Mateus Fernandes pulling a goal back for the visitors in the last minute of normal time to set up a nervy ending – although Mathys Tel’s subsequent first Premier League goal from the penalty spot made sure of the points, with the final outcome returning us to winning ways while relegating Southampton.

Reflecting on the game on our Review Show, Ange said the first-half display pleased him the most.

“It was a good win,” he said. “The first half I thought was excellent, we were really disciplined and well-organised, didn’t really allow them that much – they had one chance – and we always looked a threat going forward, we scored two goals, had another one disallowed and Ramsdale has pulled off some good saves, so I was really pleased, but in the second half, not so much. We became way too passive without the ball, were not aggressive enough and then with the ball we kind of got sloppy and didn’t keep possession as well as we should have, so some improvement (is needed) there but it’s a good win, three goals and important that everyone got through it okay.”

On two-goal Brennan, who was one of three players brought into the team from Thursday night’s defeat at Chelsea, Ange praised the Wales international for the discipline he shows on the pitch.

“Brennan was great – he’s always a goal threat and he’s really important to us when we play the kind of football that we did in the first half,” the Head Coach said. “He’s just so disciplined in always being in the right areas, always making sure he’s constantly in the areas we need him to be and sometimes I feel like we kind of let him down by not being disciplined with our football in the final third, because he’s always there and I’m really pleased for him – I thought he was great today.

“I didn’t want to make too many changes – I thought it was important to get some sort of cohesion moving into Thursday (Europa League quarter-final against Eintracht Frankfurt) but for guys like Destiny and Micky, it was important that they got a full recovery after a big game on Thursday night and the guys coming in did really well. We’re going to need the squad, we’ve got them back now which is great and we know European games are really demanding, so we’re going to need everyone ready to go.”

Thursday’s clash with Frankfurt is the first of two legs over the next two weeks, with the winners advancing to the Europa League semi-finals.

Watch | Ange reflects on victory over Southampton

It was a valiant performance from our Women’s Under-21s, but our Capital Cup journey came to an end at the semi-final stage after a 2-1 defeat at Dulwich Hamlet on Sunday.

Facing the FA Women’s National League side, at tier four level of the Women’s football pyramid, we gave ourselves a difficult start under the sun at Champion Hill as Martha Goddard fired the home side in front inside the opening five minutes. Despite the early setback, we responded well and got back on level terms on the half-hour mark after some excellent pressing from Cruz Fuller-Fagan allowed Mia Endacott to slot home with a composed finish.

However, our hard work was undone on the stroke of half-time, Goddard doubling her tally to reinstate Dulwich’s lead. We pushed for a leveller once again in the second half, but it just wasn’t to be as Dulwich stood strong to see off any comeback and book their spot in the final to face Arsenal Under-21s.

It was another brave performance from Nick Hardy’s side as they went toe-to-toe with a senior opposition for the third time in this competition and there will be many positives to take from a fantastic cup run for our group of youngsters.

More details to follow…

We can confirm the starting line-ups and substitutes for this afternoon's Premier League clash with Southampton (2pm UK).

Ange Postecoglou has made three changes from the team that started at Chelsea on Thursday night.

Pedro Porro returns to the starting line-up in place of Destiny Udogie, with Djed Spence moving across to left-back.

Ben Davies also returns to the starting XI with Micky van de Ven taking a place amongst our substitutes.

Meanwhile, our only other change sees Brennan Johnson in from the off and Wilson Odobert starting on the bench.

Richarlison is back in the squad after two months on the sidelines with injury. He starts amongst our substitutes.

Our full line-up is as follows...

Starting XI: Vicario, Pedro Porro, Romero, Davies, Spence, Bergvall, Bentancur, Maddison, Johnson, Solanke, Son (c).

Substitutes: Kinsky, Udogie, van de Ven, Gray, Sarr, Bissouma, Odobert, Richarlison, Tel.