Tottenham vs Aston Villa LIVE: Premier League result and reaction as Solanke double completes Spurs turnaround
Tottenham 4-1 Aston Villa: Dominic Solanke scored twice as Spurs came from 1-0 down to comfortably beat Villa
Two second-half goals from Dominic Solanke and a sublime James Maddison free-kick helped Tottenham Hotspur come from behind to overwhelm Aston Villa 4-1 and end the visitors’ seven-match unbeaten run in the Premier League.
Spurs climbed to seventh in the table on 16 points, two points behind Villa who stayed fifth, as they battled back in style in north London.
Unai Emery’s Villa led at half-time through Morgan Rogers, but Spurs were level soon after the break when Brennan Johnson tapped in at the far post.
Solanke’s two goals in four minutes, including a flowing team move finished off with a delightful dink over Emiliano Martinez, secured the win, before Maddison curled in a free-kick in stoppage time.
Relive all the Premier League action with our live blog below:
Tottenham 0-0 Aston Villa
8 mins
Spurs’ high press almost works perfectly but Kulusevski is penalised for fouling Tielemans. Villa attack but McGinn’s ball in is blocked, before Onana gives away the foul.
No real chances yet for either side, though both look fairly settled early on.
Tottenham 0-0 Aston Villa
6 mins
Spurs have a bit of possession that ends with son’s deflected cross falling to Porro, who blazes over a half-volley.
Tottenham 0-0 Aston Villa
4 mins
Some early danger for Spurs to deal with as it goes wide to Digne, who fizzes in an early cross. It’s a great ball, and it looks like Watkins is going to get to it, but Dragusin does enough to put him off.
Tottenham 0-0 Aston Villa
2 min
Scrappy in the opening exchanges as both teams look to settle. McGinn sets Villa free on the counter, but Romero ends up stopping it before Rogers fires an effort well over from distance.
KICK-OFF! Tottenham 0-0 Aston Villa
A brief delay, and we’re ready to get underway in the capital.
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Tottenham vs Aston Villa LIVE
The two teams are out of the tunnel, so we’re moments away from kick-off in north London.
Match facts
Aston Villa have won three of their last four Premier League away games against Tottenham (L1), including the last two in a row under Unai Emery. They last won three consecutive away league games against Spurs between 1922 and 1924.
Only Liverpool (13) and Nottingham Forest (11) have won more away Premier League points this season than Aston Villa (10 – won three, drew one).
In 2024, Aston Villa have scored the most Premier League goals from subs (10) and have the most goals and assists combined from subs (10 goals, seven assists). It is the joint most sub goals they’ve scored in a single year, having also netted 10 in 2023.
Match facts
Tottenham have lost three of their last four Premier League meetings with Aston Villa, though did win the last such match 4-0 in March.
Spurs have lost nine of their last 16 Premier League games (won six, drawn one), with only Wolves (12) losing more since the first game in this run in April. Spurs had only lost seven of their first 31 games under Ange Postecoglou (won 18, drew six).
Postecoglou’s side have conceded the first goal in 11 of their 13 home Premier League matches in 2024 but have come back to win seven of those games.
Only two of Tottenham’s last 71 home Premier League games have ended as draws (won 47, lost 22) and they are the only side without a home draw since the start of last season (W16 L7).
Tottenham have scored 49 goals in 23 home Premier League games under Ange Postecoglou. The only manager to hit 50 goals in 24 or fewer home games with Spurs is Antonio Conte (50 in first 20).
Emery: “This is football"
Unai Emery started his press conference by sending his condolences regarding the flooding around Valencia, before briefly speaking about sacked Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag.
“I do not think the sacking of Ten Hag is a good thing, but this is football. Amorim I know about him. He is doing very good work in Portugal in Sporting Lisbon and if Manchester United decided to hire him, it’s because he deserves it.
“With my experiences, when I am thinking for the next match, I am wrong.
“My focus is on the next match and I am thinking only about this. Sometimes I am planning for the weeks coming or months, but I want to learn with experiences.
“I tell my players to try to be focused on the next match. It is about which players are the best to play the match against Tottenham. For me, the focus is on the match against Tottenham.
“Every match we are playing, we are trying to identify our corrections, our mistakes, our process and we are analysing how we are now and how are they, with the players they have.”
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