Match Report: Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Ipswich Town

On Sunday afternoon, Spurs welcomed Ipswich Town to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for gameweek 11 of the 24/25 Premier League season. 

For the task at hand, Ange Postecoglu went with a line up of; Vicario; Porro, Romero, Dragusin, Udogie: Kulusevski, Bentancur, Sarr; Johnson, Solanke, Son. 

Just two minutes into the game, Spurs were nearly behind, with Sammie Szmodics being denied by Vicario from very close range at the far post. 

Just a minute later, Spurs should have been ahead themselves, as Johnson poked an inviting cross from Son wide of Arijanet Muric’s post. 

Nine minutes in, Ipswich again could have scored as central defender Cameron Burgess hit the post with a header, with Spurs living on the edge. 

After half an hour, the visitors would have their goal, with Szmodics this time making no mistake, firing in a right footed shot from inside the box. Obscene amount of ball watching, just to make a change.

Things would get worse before half time, as Liam Delap added to his assist by getting on the scoresheet himself, as Spurs continued to be humiliated in their own backyard.

Ange’s side did not have a shot in the first half after 19 minutes, in an absolutely embarrassing stat, similar to the long periods without a shot in the second half of the defeat at Crystal Palace. Nothing learned, clearly. 

Four minutes into the second half, Spurs thought they were back in the game through Solanke, but his goal was ruled out for a handball by VAR. 

Midway through the second half, Werner replaced Sarr. Spurs were handed a lifeline shortly after, when Bentancur headed home a Porro corner. 

With six minutes of normal time remaining, Bissouma and Maddison replaced Bentancur and Johnson as Ange rolled the dice to try and salvage something from the game.

Deep into the eight minutes of stoppage time, the ball fell to Solanke in a really presentable opportunity, but he could not get past Muric from a tight angle.

That was Spurs' only attempt of any note after 84 minutes, in a whole 15 minutes, as that would be that, and Spurs would fall to an absolutely embarrassing defeat - yet again. 

This result leaves Ange's side in 10th place in the Premier League, with 16 points from 11 games so far - ten points fewer than this time last season. That is one point from two games against newly promoted sides so far., d