Tottenham Hotspur captured its third consecutive Premier League victory thanks to the likes of a first-half brace from Brennan Johnson and stellar goals from Djed Spence and Dejan Kulusevski in the second half to knock off the Tractor Boys of Ipswich Town, 4-1.
Looking to shake the woes of the first meeting, in which the side was humiliated, 2-1, in the fixture at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Spurs had to endure an early bit of trouble from Liam Delap. The Ipswich striker had successive chances in the opening five minutes.
The first was the most troubling as his strike forced a save from Guglielmo Vicario and eventually more heroics from the Italian as he kept the ball off the line as Omari Hutchinson stood in his way. Luckily, Ipswich was flagged for being offside, but it wasn't a great sight to see a relegation-battling side just pick through the midfield and defense.
Fighting through the opening 15 minutes, Spurs eventually found their mark in the game as Archie Gray played a lovely over-the-top ball down the left channel for Son Heung-min. Being a step ahead of the defense and dribbling his way into the face of two defenders, Son did his classic left-foot pass across the face of the goal for Brennan Johnson to come onto it and tap it into the back of the net.
Johnson picked up his brace minutes later as he connected once more with Son as the Welsh winger was all alone in the middle of the box. Receiving the ball for a first-time strike that went through two pairs of Ipswich defenders' legs, Johnson put Spurs in a good spot with a 2-0 lead.
With the game rolling from the start, Ipswich were bound to get a goal, and they did so in the 36th minute as Omari Hutchinson linked up with former Spurs player Jack Clarke to cut the deficit to 2-1 and into the break.
On the telecast, Spurs were shown as dropping 21 points from a winning position — the worst in the league — and for a moment, it felt that Spurs had dropped all three points when Ipswich had a free header at the back post from a run of play off a free kick. But the linesman put his flag up, and the replay showed that four players were offside for Ipswich. Able to breathe a sigh of relief, Spurs brought on James Maddison, and the game completely changed.
Minutes after coming onto the pitch, the left side of Wilson Odobert, Djed Spence, and Maddison linked up for a beautiful play for a goal. Odobert pulled the defense in on his touch and allowed Soence to run down the wing, with Maddison getting the ball near the 18-yard nox. Eventually, taking on three defenders in the box and seeing Spence overlap past him into the middle of the box, Spence received the ball, took a touch onto his right foot and put his shot into the back of the net as it bounced off a defender.
Leading 3-1 and seeing the game out, Dejan Kulusevski put the game to rest for good. Dane Scarlett won a header in a battle with Jimmy Greaves as the flick on left space down the right flank for Kulusevksi to have space. Taking the space for himself, Kulusevski eventually cut onto his favorable left foot and slotted a curling shot onto the left post and in for a 4-1 scoreline.