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Stale Spurs are easy to play against

There is always going to be a problem holding Ange Postecoglou back at Tottenham.

It revolves around the fact his team usually have to score two or more goals in a game to get a result.

Tottenham's style means they are vulnerable via so many avenues: set-pieces to start with - Cameron Burgess hit the crossbar before Ipswich even took their lead on the way to a 2-1 win.

And when the play turns over Spurs offer so much space to wide forwards as Sammie Szmodics found out during a performance he will remember for a long time. He scored one and played a massive part in Liam Delap's goal.

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Yes, Tottenham are great to watch. But days like these just show how far they truly are away from being a contender for trophies.

Lewis Jones

Van Nistelrooy puts smiles on faces again

The Stretford End roared his name as he left the pitch, Ruud van Nistelrooy receiving another rousing ovation in the stadium where he had long been a hero as a player. His cameo as caretaker boss has been significant in its own way, already lifting the gloom.

Manchester United's 3-0 win over Leicester was a third win in four since Erik ten Hag's sacking and the first time they have scored three in a Premier League match this season. Bruno Fernandes, goalless under Ten Hag, has now scored four in four.

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The goals are flowing once again and one can only wonder what the departed manager must make of it all, no doubt telling himself his team were on the cusp of this regardless, but the mood has changed. Van Nistelrooy hands over with hope restored.

How much can be read into it tactically remains to be seen given the Dutchman has done it his way, not switching to the system Ruben Amorim is likely to adopt. The role of Fernandes in that formation is up for debate, for example. But that is for another day.

The toxicity that engulfed Old Trafford has dissipated. There is a sense that United have got this right. This club knows a thing or two about false dawns in recent years, even the dangers of believing a former favourite in front of goal can change it all in the dugout.

But rather than giving Van Nistelrooy a long-term deal as manager, he has performed his functioning in cleansing the spirit at Old Trafford, allowing everyone to look forward with optimism. Whatever happens next, this was a special day for him and the fans.

Adam Bate

A McKenna masterclass

Just under two years ago Ipswich Town and Kieran McKenna were held to a 1-1 draw by Cheltenham Town in League One. What has transpired since has been incredible. Here they were, just two years later, beating Tottenham 2-1 in the Premier League in their own backyard.

It is another landmark day for Ipswich Town as a football club, who coincidentally beat Spurs 2-1 on their last visit to north London, back in 2001 when Alun Armstrong scored a late winner.

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This was a tactical masterclass by the impressive McKenna, who showed everyone why Manchester United and Chelsea were genuinely considering giving him the keys to their club in the summer.

They deserved this win. A first-half performance full of guile and creative attacking play backed up by a backs-to-the-wall, dogged and clever second half where they restricted Spurs to very little. A first Premier League win and one they will remember for a long time.

Lewis Jones

Joelinton offers right-sided solution for Newcastle

"The right side of midfield is a problem position but Joelinton certainly looked comfortable in scoring the winning goal," Sky Sports' Jamie Carragher said during Newcastle's 3-1 win at Nottingham Forest.

"He always does a brilliant job. Sometimes, he plays in the front three and other times he's in the midfield three this season and has even had a man-marking job so he's really disciplined wherever you put him.

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"You're never quite sure where he's going to be playing when you cover Newcastle but what you do know is that he's definitely going to be playing."

Joelinton has been a Premier League ever-present for Newcastle this season. His absence during the second half of the last campaign, when he underwent surgery for a thigh injury, was a big factor in Eddie Howe's side falling short in securing European football.

On Sunday, he became the 12th Brazilian to score 20 Premier League goals or more, with the only nations with more players to score 20+ in the competition being England (178), France (24), Scotland (15), and Spain (14).

Ipswich recorded their first Premier League win of the season with a shock 2-1 win over sloppy and lacklustre Tottenham.

Ipswich raced into a first-half lead courtesy of Sam Szmodics' clever overhead kick and Liam Delap's close-range finish.

It left Spurs in another sticky situation up against a dogged and determined visitors who knew a storm was coming their way in the second half.

Yet it never really materialised as only a Rodrigo Bentancur header found the net for underwhelming Spurs, who struggled to create clear-cut chances although Dominic Solanke thought he had scored on 52 minutes but his effort was out by VAR for a handball.

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Spurs were booed off by their home fans at full-time. They have seen their side lose five games already this season in the Premier League as Ange Postecoglou is struggling to find the key.

Meanwhile, this was a huge moment for Kieran McKenna and his gutsy side, who won a Premier League game for the first time since April 2002. It means there are no winless teams remaining in the league after both Wolves and McKenna's side won this weekend.

Ange: Inconsistency is my fault

Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou:

"That's [inconsistency] down to me. That's my responsibility. The inconsistency we're having this year, ultimately it comes down to me and my approach and something I need to try and fix and see if I can help the players in that area.

"We didn't start the game well at all. It was all sort of passive, without the ball, with the ball. I felt we didn't get the tempo or intensity right and then we gave ourselves a mountain to climb. Second half we were in the ascendancy and had opportunities obviously but we didn't do enough with them."

McKenna: It's a significant moment

Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna:

"It's a massive, significant moment. A day to cherish in the recent history. The journey the club has been on - the highs and the depths. For the fans to see their club in the Premier League and win in a stadium like this is a massive day. Where the club was two years ago to now competing in the Premier League a significant landmark."

Analysis: A McKenna masterclass

Sky Sports' Lewis Jones:

"Just under two years ago Ipswich Town and Kieran McKenna were held to a 1-1 draw with Cheltenham Town in League One. What has transpired since has been incredible. Here they were, just two years later, beating Tottenham 2-1 in the Premier League in their own backyard.

"It's another landmark day for Ipswich Town as a football club, who in a strange quirk of fact beat Spurs 2-1 on their last visit to north London, back in 2001 when Alun Armstrong scored a late winner.

"This was a tactical masterclass by the impressive McKenna, who showed everyone why Manchester United and Chelsea were genuinely considering giving him the keys to their club in the summer.

"They deserved this win. A first-half performance full of guile and creative attacking play backed up by a backs-to-the-wall, dogged and clever second half where they restricted Spurs to very little. A first Premier League win and one they'll remember for a long time."

Analysis: Stale Spurs are easy to play against

Sky Sports' Lewis Jones:

"There is always going to be a problem that holds Postecoglou from seriously succeeding at Tottenham. It revolves around the fact his team usually have to score two or more goals in a game to get a result. They are so easy to score against.

"Tottenham's style means they are vulnerable via so many avenues. Set-pieces to start with. Cameron Burgess hit the crossbar before Ipswich even took their lead via a header from a corner. And when the play turns over Spurs offer so much space to wide forwards as Szmodics found out during a performance that he'll remember for a long time. He scored one and played a massive part in Delap's goal. Spurs just couldn't deal with him in the first half.

"Yes, Tottenham are great to watch. But days like these just show how far they truly are away from being a contender."

Story of the match in stats...

What's coming up in the Premier League?

Ipswich recorded their first Premier League win of the season with a shock 2-1 win over sloppy and lacklustre Tottenham.

Ipswich raced into a first-half lead courtesy of Sam Szmodics' clever overhead kick and Liam Delap's close-range finish.

It left Spurs in another sticky situation up against a dogged and determined visitors who knew a storm was coming their way in the second half.

Yet it never really materialised as only a Rodrigo Bentancur header found the net for underwhelming Spurs, who struggled to create clear-cut chances although Dominic Solanke thought he had scored on 52 minutes but his effort was out by VAR for a handball.

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Spurs were booed off by their home fans at full-time. They have seen their side lose five games already this season in the Premier League as Ange Postecoglou is struggling to find the key.

Meanwhile, this was a huge moment for Kieran McKenna and his gutsy side, who won a Premier League game for the first time since April 2002. It means there are no winless teams remaining in the league after both Wolves and McKenna's side won this weekend.

Ange: Inconsistency is my fault

Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou:

"That's [inconsistency] down to me. That's my responsibility. The inconsistency we're having this year, ultimately it comes down to me and my approach and something I need to try and fix and see if I can help the players in that area.

"We didn't start the game well at all. It was all sort of passive, without the ball, with the ball. I felt we didn't get the tempo or intensity right and then we gave ourselves a mountain to climb. Second half we were in the ascendancy and had opportunities obviously but we didn't do enough with them."

McKenna: It's a significant moment

Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna:

"It's a massive, significant moment. A day to cherish in the recent history. The journey the club has been on - the highs and the depths. For the fans to see their club in the Premier League and win in a stadium like this is a massive day. Where the club was two years ago to now competing in the Premier League a significant landmark."

Analysis: A McKenna masterclass

Sky Sports' Lewis Jones:

"Just under two years ago Ipswich Town and Kieran McKenna were held to a 1-1 draw with Cheltenham Town in League One. What has transpired since has been incredible. Here they were, just two years later, beating Tottenham 2-1 in the Premier League in their own backyard.

"It's another landmark day for Ipswich Town as a football club, who in a strange quirk of fact beat Spurs 2-1 on their last visit to north London, back in 2001 when Alun Armstrong scored a late winner.

"This was a tactical masterclass by the impressive McKenna, who showed everyone why Manchester United and Chelsea were genuinely considering giving him the keys to their club in the summer.

"They deserved this win. A first-half performance full of guile and creative attacking play backed up by a backs-to-the-wall, dogged and clever second half where they restricted Spurs to very little. A first Premier League win and one they'll remember for a long time."

Analysis: Stale Spurs are easy to play against

Sky Sports' Lewis Jones:

"There is always going to be a problem that holds Postecoglou from seriously succeeding at Tottenham. It revolves around the fact his team usually have to score two or more goals in a game to get a result. They are so easy to score against.

"Tottenham's style means they are vulnerable via so many avenues. Set-pieces to start with. Cameron Burgess hit the crossbar before Ipswich even took their lead via a header from a corner. And when the play turns over Spurs offer so much space to wide forwards as Szmodics found out during a performance that he'll remember for a long time. He scored one and played a massive part in Delap's goal. Spurs just couldn't deal with him in the first half.

"Yes, Tottenham are great to watch. But days like these just show how far they truly are away from being a contender."

Story of the match in stats...

What's coming up in the Premier League?

Ipswich recorded their first Premier League win of the season with a shock 2-1 win over sloppy and lacklustre Tottenham.

Ipswich raced into a first-half lead courtesy of Sam Szmodics' clever overhead kick and Liam Delap's close-range finish.

It left Spurs in another sticky situation up against a dogged and determined visitors who knew a storm was coming their way in the second half.

Yet it never really materialised as only a Rodrigo Bentancur header found the net for underwhelming Spurs, who struggled to create clear-cut chances although Dominic Solanke thought he had scored on 52 minutes but his effort was out by VAR for a handball.

Tottenham vs Ipswich: As it happened

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Spurs were booed off by their home fans at full-time. They have seen their side lose five games already this season in the Premier League as Ange Postecoglou is struggling to find the key.

Meanwhile, this was a huge moment for Kieran McKenna and his gutsy side, who won a Premier League game for the first time since April 2002. It means there are no winless teams remaining in the league after both Wolves and McKenna's side won this weekend.

Ange: Inconsistency is my fault

Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou:

"That's [inconsistency] down to me. That's my responsibility. The inconsistency we're having this year, ultimately it comes down to me and my approach and something I need to try and fix and see if I can help the players in that area.

"We didn't start the game well at all. It was all sort of passive, without the ball, with the ball. I felt we didn't get the tempo or intensity right and then we gave ourselves a mountain to climb. Second half we were in the ascendancy and had opportunities obviously but we didn't do enough with them."

McKenna: It's a significant moment

Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna:

"It's a massive, significant moment. A day to cherish in the recent history. The journey the club has been on - the highs and the depths. For the fans to see their club in the Premier League and win in a stadium like this is a massive day. Where the club was two years ago to now competing in the Premier League a significant landmark."

Analysis: A McKenna masterclass

Sky Sports' Lewis Jones:

"Just under two years ago Ipswich Town and Kieran McKenna were held to a 1-1 draw with Cheltenham Town in League One. What has transpired since has been incredible. Here they were, just two years later, beating Tottenham 2-1 in the Premier League in their own backyard.

"It's another landmark day for Ipswich Town as a football club, who in a strange quirk of fact beat Spurs 2-1 on their last visit to north London, back in 2001 when Alun Armstrong scored a late winner.

"This was a tactical masterclass by the impressive McKenna, who showed everyone why Manchester United and Chelsea were genuinely considering giving him the keys to their club in the summer.

"They deserved this win. A first-half performance full of guile and creative attacking play backed up by a backs-to-the-wall, dogged and clever second half where they restricted Spurs to very little. A first Premier League win and one they'll remember for a long time."

Analysis: Stale Spurs are easy to play against

Sky Sports' Lewis Jones:

"There is always going to be a problem that holds Postecoglou from seriously succeeding at Tottenham. It revolves around the fact his team usually have to score two or more goals in a game to get a result. They are so easy to score against.

"Tottenham's style means they are vulnerable via so many avenues. Set-pieces to start with. Cameron Burgess hit the crossbar before Ipswich even took their lead via a header from a corner. And when the play turns over Spurs offer so much space to wide forwards as Szmodics found out during a performance that he'll remember for a long time. He scored one and played a massive part in Delap's goal. Spurs just couldn't deal with him in the first half.

"Yes, Tottenham are great to watch. But days like these just show how far they truly are away from being a contender."

Story of the match in stats...

What's coming up in the Premier League?

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Victor Osimhen scored twice to inflict a first Europa League defeat on 10-player Tottenham and earn a 3-2 victory for wasteful Galatasaray.

Spurs conceded 28 shots and had just five of their own yet escaped from Istanbul with a respectable scoreline despite having Will Lankshear sent off in the second half.

Galatasaray stormed into a sixth-minute lead when Yunus Akgun's stunning volley from the edge of the box crashed into the top-right corner but Spurs responded through 19-year-old striker Lankshear, who tapped in his first goal for the club after Brennan Johnson had squared a cross.

As it happened: How Galatasaray missed chance after chance

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However, the visitors were vulnerable at the back throughout with Osimhen forcing a good save from Forster and then having a goal ruled out for offside before restoring his side's lead with a clever toe-poke after Radu Dragusin gave the ball away.

Forster saved again from Osimhen but just 60 seconds later the striker netted his second of the first half with a cushioned volley from Dries Mertens' perfect cross.

Ange Postecoglou brought on Dejan Kulusevski and Rodrigo Bentancur for Brennan Johnson and Heung-Min Son at half-time - but Spurs got worse. Abdulkerim Bardakci had a goalbound shot blocked after Forster dropped an easy cross before Akgun's volley was deflected inches wide and Osimhen missed two chances.

Lankshear then picked up his second yellow card, just seven minutes after his first, for a silly tackle on the halfway line and then Forster made two more saves.

Solanke, though, cleverly flicked Pedro Porro's low pullback into the net against the run of play to put Spurs within one goal and Kulusevski could have equalised in injury-time when his long-range shot rolled wide with goalkeeper Fernando Muslera way out of his goal.

Postecoglou: Defeat was self-inflicted, Lankshear will learn from red

Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou said:

"I just felt it was self-inflicted. We had really simple solutions out there to keep the ball. It wasn't that hard. We showed it with 10 men. We just needed to be stronger on the ball and play the kind of football we play every week.

"Maybe it was a little bit the changes I made and the environment and atmosphere, but the moments that stick out to me was giving the ball away. We were playing through them quite easily with 10 men but with 11 men we had nowhere near that conviction and that was disappointing."

On Will Lankshear: "Will took his goal well, he worked hard for the team. He hasn't had a lot of experience at senior football so he would have learnt a lot today. The red card, it was a bit of overenthusiasm in that moment to give away a foul, but he'll learn from that."

Opta Stats: Osimhen loves facing English opposition

Galatasaray have won three of their opening four games in a major European campaign for the first time since 2009-10, also in the Europa League.

Tottenham faced 28 shots in their loss to Galatasaray, their most in a game under manager Ange Postecoglou; it is the most efforts faced by an English team in a Europa League group stage match since Everton faced 39 shots against Wolfsburg in November 2014.

Victor Osimhen has scored 12 goals across his 23 starts in major European competition, netting more times against English opposition than any other nation (2 vs Tottenham, 2 vs Leicester, 1 vs Chelsea).

Tottenham's Will Lankshear (19y 201d) became the third youngest player to both score and be sent off in a Europa League game after Aleksandar Mitrovic for Partizan Belgrade in November 2012 (18y 67d) and Federico Chiesa for Fiorentina in December 2016 (19y 44d).

What's coming up in the Europa League?

Victor Osimhen scored twice to inflict a first Europa League defeat on 10-player Tottenham and earn a 3-2 victory for wasteful Galatasaray.

Spurs conceded 28 shots and had just five of their own yet escaped from Istanbul with a respectable scoreline despite having Will Lankshear sent off in the second half.

Galatasaray stormed into a sixth-minute lead when Yunus Akgun's stunning volley from the edge of the box crashed into the top-right corner but Spurs responded through 19-year-old striker Lankshear, who tapped in his first goal for the club after Brennan Johnson had squared a cross.

As it happened: How Galatasaray missed chance after chance

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However, the visitors were vulnerable at the back throughout with Osimhen forcing a good save from Forster and then having a goal ruled out for offside before restoring his side's lead with a clever toe-poke after Radu Dragusin gave the ball away.

Forster saved again from Osimhen but just 60 seconds later the striker netted his second of the first half with a cushioned volley from Dries Mertens' perfect cross.

Ange Postecoglou brought on Dejan Kulusevski and Rodrigo Bentancur for Brennan Johnson and Heung-Min Son at half-time - but Spurs got worse. Abdulkerim Bardakci had a goalbound shot blocked after Forster dropped an easy cross before Akgun's volley was deflected inches wide and Osimhen missed two chances.

Lankshear then picked up his second yellow card, just seven minutes after his first, for a silly tackle on the halfway line and then Forster made two more saves.

Solanke, though, cleverly flicked Pedro Porro's low pullback into the net against the run of play to put Spurs within one goal and Kulusevski could have equalised in injury-time when his long-range shot rolled wide with goalkeeper Fernando Muslera way out of his goal.

Postecoglou: Defeat was self-inflicted, Lankshear will learn from red

Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou said:

"I just felt it was self-inflicted. We had really simple solutions out there to keep the ball. It wasn't that hard. We showed it with 10 men. We just needed to be stronger on the ball and play the kind of football we play every week.

"Maybe it was a little bit the changes I made and the environment and atmosphere, but the moments that stick out to me was giving the ball away. We were playing through them quite easily with 10 men but with 11 men we had nowhere near that conviction and that was disappointing."

On Will Lankshear: "Will took his goal well, he worked hard for the team. He hasn't had a lot of experience at senior football so he would have learnt a lot today. The red card, it was a bit of overenthusiasm in that moment to give away a foul, but he'll learn from that."

Opta Stats: Osimhen loves facing English opposition

Galatasaray have won three of their opening four games in a major European campaign for the first time since 2009-10, also in the Europa League.

Tottenham faced 28 shots in their loss to Galatasaray, their most in a game under manager Ange Postecoglou; it is the most efforts faced by an English team in a Europa League group stage match since Everton faced 39 shots against Wolfsburg in November 2014.

Victor Osimhen has scored 12 goals across his 23 starts in major European competition, netting more times against English opposition than any other nation (2 vs Tottenham, 2 vs Leicester, 1 vs Chelsea).

Tottenham's Will Lankshear (19y 201d) became the third youngest player to both score and be sent off in a Europa League game after Aleksandar Mitrovic for Partizan Belgrade in November 2012 (18y 67d) and Federico Chiesa for Fiorentina in December 2016 (19y 44d).

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