Spurs once again left it late, rallying from behind to defeat Oliver Glasner’s Crystal Palace 3-1 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with three goals in the closing 13 minutes.
For the seventh time this season, Ange Postecoglou’s team overcame a deficit to win, this time by going the extra mile. They had fallen behind to a fantastic free-kick from Eberechi Eze just before the hour mark.
The home team ought to have been ahead by then; Timo Werner squandered a fantastic opportunity to tie the score after being put through clean, but they were unable to muster any offensive momentum against Glasner’s tenacious opponents until the very end.
Brennan Johnson’s sheer willpower allowed him to beat Joachim Andersen wide and create space, which allowed Werner to tie the score with his first Tottenham goal through an easy finish.
With just one goal scored in their previous ten league visits to their London rivals, Palace had an abysmal record against Spurs going into Glasner’s first away game as manager.
