By Samuel A. October 7, 2024
Tottenham Hotspur lost their 3rd game of the season as Brighton and Hover Albion produced a stunning second half comeback, scoring three goals in 18 minutes to come from 2-0 down to beat Tottenham 3-2 at the Amex Stadium. The Spurs looked to be in total control of the game at half time after goals from in form Brennan Johnson and James Maddison, but somehow, Ange Postecoglou’s side suffered a shocking collapse Yankuba Minteh’s goal just three minutes into the second half sparked the comeback as he pounced on Destiny Udogie’s mistake.
Rocked by the goal, Brighton found a leveller barely 10 minutes later through Georginio Rutter’s finish, making up for his mistake that led to Brennan Johnson’s goal. The comeback was then completed in the 66th minute, as Spurs bad defending allowed Danny Welbeck to head home. The shocked visitors failed to recover from going behind, mustering just one shot on target as Tottenham suffered their first defeat in six games after five consecutive wins, to leave the North London side ninth heading into the October international break. Brighton, on the other hand, ended their four match winless run to move sixth and two points behind fourth placed Chelsea.
Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou giving his honest opinion post match said: “It’s disappointing. I’m absolutely gutted with that. It’s probably the worst defeat we’ve had since I’ve been here. It’s unacceptable in the second half, we weren’t anywhere near where we should be. Maybe we got carried away with how we were going. We kind of accepted our fate and we haven’t done that since I’ve been here usually we fight for everything, but when you don’t you pay the price and we paid the price. Maybe things were travelling on too smoothly and football and life will trip you up if you get too far ahead of yourselves and that’s what it looked like in the second half. It’s a terrible loss for us. As bad as it gets. There is one way to fix it and that’s my responsibility. We lost all our duels, we weren’t competitive. Irrespective of what you do tactically, we weren’t competitive. The majority of players are going on international duty so they will process it individually. And I’ll deal with it when everyone gets back.”
