EPL: Kudus fires Spurs into second with win at Leeds

Mohammed Kudus’ archetypal Tottenham extremity lifted Spurs up to 2nd successful the Premier League by ending Leeds’ agelong unbeaten location tally with a 2-1 triumph connected Saturday.

Noah Okafor cancelled retired Mathys Tel’s opener for the visitors successful a archetypal fractional that raged from extremity to end.

Kudus grabbed the victor conscionable earlier the hr people and Tottenham had to amusement their newfound antiaircraft resoluteness nether Thomas Frank to inflict Leeds’ archetypal league decision astatine Elland Road for 24 games.

Spurs adjacent to wrong 1 constituent of leaders Liverpool, but Arsenal tin spell apical aboriginal connected Saturday erstwhile they big West Ham.

Tottenham needed precocious fightbacks to debar decision against bottom-of-the-table Wolves and Champions League debutants Bodo/Glimt implicit the past week.

Frank made six changes to the broadside that started successful the Arctic Circle connected Tuesday and was rewarded with a acold much purposeful show from the visitors.

But Leeds volition rue their missed chances to debar a archetypal league decision astatine Elland Road since losing to Burnley successful September 2024.

Joe Rodon should person enactment the location broadside successful beforehand erstwhile helium headed Sean Longstaff’s free-kick disconnected the station connected 7 minutes.

Tel was near retired of Spurs’ Champions League squad aft struggling to marque an content since making his determination from Bayern Munich a imperishable 1 successful the transportation window.

The Frenchman was handed a uncommon accidental to commencement successful the mediate of a beforehand 3 and made it number with his archetypal extremity of the season.

Tel was played successful by Kudus and his almighty changeable deflected disconnected Pascal Struijk to permission Karl Darlow helpless.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin blazed a glorious accidental to level wide earlier Kudus did the aforesaid astatine the different extremity arsenic a slick Spurs counter-attack chopped Leeds open.

However, Daniel Farke’s men were good worthy of being astatine slightest level astatine the break.

Tottenham goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario should person done amended arsenic helium could lone parry Brenden Aaronson’s changeable backmost into the way of Okafor, who tapped successful to an bare nett for his 2nd Leeds goal.

Tel came adjacent to his 2nd with a looping header that deed the crossbar successful first-half stoppage time.

The 2nd fractional started successful a akin end-to-end manner arsenic Vicario denied Calvert-Lewin with his feet.

Kudus past produced the match-winning infinitesimal with a surging tally infield earlier unleashing different almighty changeable that deceived Darlow via a deflection disconnected Gabriel Gudmundsson.

Last season, Tottenham mislaid much points from winning positions than immoderate different broadside successful the Premier League connected their mode to finishing conscionable supra the relegation portion successful 17th.

Frank has truthful acold stamped retired that wont arsenic Spurs are yet to driblet points aft taking the pb successful a match.

The visitors had to past a scare heavy into stoppage clip erstwhile Vicario redeemed himself with a good prevention debased to his near from Joel Piroe.

Defeat leaves Leeds successful 12th with 8 points from their archetypal 7 games.

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