{"id":4459,"date":"2024-03-17T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2024-03-17T02:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T00:00:29","slug":"spurs-slump-to-heavy-defeat-at-fulham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=4459","title":{"rendered":"Spurs slump to heavy defeat at Fulham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/spurs-slump-to-heavy-defeat-at-fulham.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\">Fulham put a sizeable dent in Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s Premier League top-four hopes as in-form Rodrigo Muniz\u2019s double earned them <strong>an impressive 3-0 victory at Craven Cottage on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tottenham\u00a0would\u00a0have moved above Aston Villa into fourth place in the\u00a0standings with\u00a0a\u00a0win\u00a0but, apart from a brief spell before halftime, were lackadaisical and could have\u00a0no\u00a0complaints.Muniz broke the deadlock in the 42nd minute and scored again just past the hour mark to finish off Tottenham after Sasa Lukic had doubled Fulham\u2019s lead shortly after the interval.<strong>It completed a notable home double for Fulham over Tottenham\u00a0after they also\u00a0knocked them out of the League Cup\u00a0<\/strong>and was their first league win against the north Londoners in their last 10 meetings.Tottenham remain in fifth place with 53 points from 28 games while Fulham are in 12th spot with 38 points from 29 games.A 4-0 win at Villa last week had given Tottenham momentum in the race for Champions League qualification but they came back down to earth with the sort of capitulation their fans hoped had become a thing of the past since Ange Postecoglou took charge.\u201cIn the second half we didn\u2019t get to grips with the game. The intensity dropped,\u201d Postecoglou said.\u201cOur final third play wasn\u2019t great. But it\u2019s more the overall play that was disappointing. There are things we\u2019ve done all year we\u2019ve prided ourselves on, our intensity and tempo, but that wasn\u2019t there in the second half.\u201cWe couldn\u2019t get any control or traction in the game.\u201dThe only surprise in a chance-packed first half was that it remained scoreless for 42 minutes.<strong>SMART SAVES<\/strong>Fulham started with far more urgency than their visitors, with Andreas Pereira in the thick of the action.He almost scored with Fulham\u2019s first attack, his shot deflecting off Cristian Romero and fizzing wide. Soon afterwards, when Spurs keeper Guglielmo Vicario parried a low cross into his path, he again was denied by Romero\u2019s block.Vicario also made smart saves from Lukic and Willian before Tottenham finally began to offer some threat.Son Heung-min blazed one chance over, Brennan Johnson shot straight at Bernd Leno after a slick passing move and Radu Dragusin, making his first start for Spurs, dragged an effort well wide having found himself in a great position.James Maddison also went close for the visitors but Fulham went ahead when Antonee Robinson\u2019s superb low cross took out the entire Tottenham defence and Muniz\u2019s touch was perfect before drilling his shot across Vicario and into the net.It took only four minutes of the second half for Fulham to double their lead as Alex Iwobi fed a pass to the overlapping Timothy Castagne and his low cross was touched in by Lukic.Tottenham were reeling and were on the canvas just past the hour mark as 22-year-old Brazilian Muniz poached his second goal of the game and seventh in his last seven, bundling in after Calvin Bassey\u2019s shot hit the post.Postecoglou\u2019s side were spared further embarrassment a minute later when Joao Palhinha\u2019s shot was glanced in by substitute Raul Jimenez but he was ruled offside.Substitutes Richarlison and Timo Werner had some late chances for Tottenham whose run of scoring in 38 successive league games came to a disappointing end.For Fulham it was another joyful day on the banks of the River Thames as they secured their ninth home win of the season.<strong>\u201cA great win for us,\u201d manager Marco Silva said. <\/strong>\u201cWe were the best team on the pitch and deserved the three points against a really good side.\u201dFollow the<br \/>\nCyprus Mail  on Google News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodrigo Muniz scored twice in Fulham&#8217;s 3-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur at Craven Cottage, significantly impacting Tottenham&#8217;s hopes for a top-four finish in the Premier League. Muniz&#8217;s goals, along with another from Sasa Lukic, secured Fulham&#8217;s first league win against Tottenham in their last 10 meetings. This victory also marked a notable home double for Fulham over Tottenham, having previously knocked them out of the League Cup. Following this match, Tottenham remained in fifth place with 53 points from 28 games, while Fulham was in 12th spot with 38 points from 29 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[383,611,1398,3,490,752,250,348,1846,618,2093,380],"class_list":["post-4459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-attack","tag-banks","tag-champions-league","tag-cyprus","tag-drilling","tag-fulham","tag-google","tag-premier-league","tag-threat","tag-top","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-us"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spurs slump to heavy defeat at Fulham<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"soccer game. 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