Tottenham 1 Brentford 3 – Report

Tottenham’s season to overlook hit a brand new low with a 3-1 dwelling defeat towards Brentford on Saturday. For Tottenham, the tip of the season cannot come quickly sufficient after a 3rd defeat of their final 4 video games.

Ryan Mason’s aspect took the lead by way of Harry Kane’s twenty eighth league aim this season, however a Bryan Mbeumo brace and Yoane Wissa’s late strike left them floundering in seventh place.

Frustration has mounted all through the ultimate weeks of a troubled season for Tottenham and followers hung banners exterior the stadium pointing the finger of blame at homeowners ENIC.

One banner modified the “E” within the ‘ENIC OUT’ slogan to a £ signal, whereas one other had footage of a number of of the membership’s departed managers, together with this season’s victims Antonio Conte and Cristian Stellini, labelling them as “harmless” whereas ENIC had been described as “responsible”.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has taken the brunt of supporters’ criticism and he mirrored on an “immensely tough season” in his programme notes for the ultimate dwelling match of the marketing campaign.

– ‘Comprehensible frustration’ –

“We made footballing selections over current seasons based mostly on ambition and a need to deliver success to our membership they usually haven’t delivered what we had hoped,” Levy stated.

“Your frustration has been comprehensible and all of us on the membership have shared it.”

Even when Kane opened the scoring within the eighth minute with an excellent 25-yard free-kick that arrowed into the highest nook, it was a bittersweet second for Tottenham followers.

Kane surpassed Jimmy Greaves to grow to be Tottenham’s all-time report goalscorer this time period, however that milestone second may become his last contribution to the membership.

The England captain failed in his try and engineer a transfer to Manchester United two years in the past, however has not too long ago been linked with Bayern Munich, Manchester United and Paris Saint Germain.

There was a melancholy tinge to the mantra “Harry Kane, he is certainly one of our personal” as followers hailed their hero regardless of his unsure future.

In one other signal of the angst at Tottenham’s homeowners, followers despatched black balloons floating down onto the pitch all through the match whereas Levy sat stone-confronted within the administrators’ field.

Regardless of the discontent within the stands, Tottenham had been taking part in with a freedom missing for a lot of the season and Emerson Royal’s header from Son Heung-min’s cross was nodded off the road by Rico Henry.

Brentford had been with out 21-aim prime scorer Ivan Toney after the England striker was given an eight-month ban this week after accepting breaking Soccer Affiliation betting guidelines.

However Mbeumo confirmed Brentford can nonetheless flourish with out their talisman.

With Tottenham gradual to press, Mbeumo had time to information a wonderful low equaliser into the far nook from simply inside the world within the fiftieth minute.

Mbeumo netted once more 12 minutes later, sprinting onto Aaron Hickey’s very good cross behind Ben Davies to information a composed end previous Fraser Forster.

Wissa completed off Mbeumo’s cross within the 88th minute as chants of “We would like Levy out” echoed across the stadium in response to Tottenham’s newest collapse.