Tottenham Hotspur stay within the Premier League backside three after Brighton scored in second-half stoppage time to rescue a degree in north London.
In what was Roberto De Zerbi’s first dwelling sport in control of Spurs, the hosts’ longest winless run in additional than 90 years was prolonged to fifteen video games after Georginio Rutter levelled with simply two minutes remaining to cancel out a beautiful Xavi Simons aim.
Simons thought he had given his crew a significant three factors with a improbable strike with lower than 1 / 4 of an hour to go.
It got here after Pedro Porro had put De Zerbi’s males in entrance earlier than Kaoru Mitoma introduced the scores degree on the stroke of half-time.
The end result does little to ease the woes of Tottenham followers, whereas Brighton keep within the operating for a European place.
A good first half
With Spurs beginning brightly, Brighton have been compelled into an early change when Diego Gomez hobbled off after 20 minutes. Seconds later, the Seagulls almost discovered themselves a aim down when a deflected Simons effort skidded inches previous the submit.
Regardless of the hosts’ promising begin, they then discovered themselves millimeters from going behind simply after the half-hour mark when a teasing cross from Yankuba Minteh was headed again throughout aim.
Underneath stress from Danny Welbeck and going through his personal aim, Micky van de Ven hit the ball onto the submit, earlier than it in some way tricked throughout the road and squirmed broad.
The offside flag finally went up, however the Spurs defence was showing to wobble.
Nonetheless, simply minutes later, Porro headed Tottenham in entrance when a pleasant chipped ball into the field from Simons was met by the Spaniard, who nodded previous the hapless Bart Verbruggen.
With the momentum of their favour, Simons went near doubling the benefit when his low effort got here again off the submit into the trail of Porro. From the follow-up, the defender lashed a strike that was nicely tipped over by the Brighton keeper.
However on the stroke of half-time, the house crowd was silenced when Mitoma hit an beautiful first-time end into the roof of the web from a slim angle to deliver Brighton degree.
Tremendous Simons strike offers Spurs hope
It was a largely cagey affair for half-hour after the break. That ended with lower than 1 / 4 of an hour remaining when substitute Lucas Bergvall gained the ball again excessive up the pitch.
He fed Simons who stood his man up, earlier than dropping the shoulder and unleashing an unstoppable curling effort that nestled into the web by way of the submit.
It was a strike worthy of successful any match. Nevertheless it proved to not be the case as Rutter smashed dwelling the equaliser in stoppage time following a Kevin Danso error to interrupt Tottenham hearts.
