Two Early Goals Give Fulham First Win at Spurs in 12 years

At a glance

Vicario howler lets Wilson score from 35 yards out.

Spurs booed off at half-time and full-time.

Fulham scored twice in the opening six minutes to stun Tottenham Hotspur and pick up their first away win of the season.

Kenny Tete opened the scoring with his first goal in almost two years, a shot from the edge of the area which was deflected in.

The second goal was a disaster from a Spurs point of view as Guglielmo Vicario came out of his box and gave the ball away with Harry Wilson curling into an empty net from 35 yards out.

Spurs were wretched in the first half – and Fulham’s Samuel Chukwueze hit the post as the visitors threatened to blow them away.

Thomas Frank’s hosts did improve after the break and Mohammed Kudus’ sweet volley into the top corner gave them hope.

But Spurs could not find an equaliser and were booed off by their own fans at full-time. They sit 10th in the table, just one point above 15th-place Fulham.

Spurs analysis: Vicario howler sums up shambles of a half

Booing while we are still playing is completely unacceptable – Frank

Tottenham’s Jekyll and Hyde form continues.

A promising performance in a 5-3 defeat by Paris St-Germain on Wednesday was followed up by a first-half disaster.

This was their 10th home defeat of 2025 in the Premier League and they have never lost more than 10 home league games in a year in their history.

Frank’s side were sloppy at the back and toothless up front.

For the first goal, Chukwueze’s pass managed to go between two players before finding Tete.

Moments later Vicario ran out of his box to deal with a long ball, took it to the corner and then hit a weak clearance straight to Wilson for the second goal.

The goalkeeper was booed by his own fans a minute later when the ball came to him again.

Spurs had never trailed a Premier League home game by two goals after six minutes before. And it could have got worse.

Chukwueze hit the post after Spurs failed to deal with a corner – and the winger took the ball around Vicario only to be denied an open-goal opportunity by Micky van de Ven.

In the first half, they had 16 open-play crosses with none finding a team-mate – and did not fashion a single realistic scoring opportunity.

The second half was much better – although it could not have been worse. But only two of their efforts were on target and only Kudus was able to beat Bernd Leno, with a fine strike from Lucas Bergvall’s clipped ball over the top.

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The Cottagers were fantastic for about 20 minutes – and that proved to be enough to get the job done.

They had only picked up one point on the road this season, their last away win in the league also coming against Frank – his Brentford side in May. The last time they won at Tottenham was 12 years ago at the old White Hart Lane.

Chukwueze was making his first start for the club since joining in the summer on loan from AC Milan and Spurs struggled to deal with him.

The 26-year-old Nigerian set up the early goal for Tete, struck the post and almost had another good scoring chance after rounding the goalkeeper.

Fulham showed good composure to take advantage of Vicario’s poor pass. Raul Jimenez put the keeper under pressure, forcing that horrible clearance to Wilson.

But they did not rush and the winger played a one-two with Josh King before swinging a goal in from 36.6m.

That was the second longest-range Premier League goal of the season – with both scored on the same day – following Tyler Adams’ 43.3m goal for Bournemouth.

Fulham did not have a single shot between the 13th and 73rd minute – but Kevin almost added a late third.

What’s next for these teams?

Neither team have long to wait for their next league game – with both in action on Tuesday.

Fulham host Manchester City at 19:30 GMT while Spurs go to Newcastle (20:15).

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Source: BBC