Tottenham Hotspur vs. Brentford – Football Match Report – May 20, 2023

Brentford shrugged off an eight-month ban imposed on striker Ivan Toney as Bryan Mbeumo scored twice in a 3-1 win at Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday of their penultimate Premier League recreation of a powerful season.

Harry Kane‘s twenty eighth league purpose of the marketing campaign, a shocking free kick, put the hosts forward and so they dominated earlier than half-time of their final house recreation of the season.

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But seventh-positioned Tottenham’s hopes of qualifying for Europe suffered yet one more blow after the break as Mbeumo dispatched two medical left-foot finishes to show the sport on its head within the house of 12 minutes.

It prompted house chants towards chairman Daniel Levy, who admitted in his programme notes it had been an “immensely difficult season” for the membership and the quantity elevated when Yoane Wissa wrapped it up for Brentford within the 88th minute.

It was Tottenham’s 14th defeat of the season and so they face a vital summer season forward to halt a worrying decline.

“The summer is a week away, we’ve got a massive game against Leeds but there will be massive decisions to make,” Tottenham stand-in supervisor Ryan Mason mentioned.

For Thomas Frank’s ninth-place Brentford, a prime-half end is assured and so they even have an out of doors likelihood of sneaking above Tottenham and qualifying for Europe.

Tottenham have 57 factors from 37 video games, a degree behind sixth-positioned Brighton & Hove Albion who’ve a recreation in hand. Brentford, who host leaders Manchester City subsequent week, have 56.

Toney, whose 20 objectives make him the second highest English scorer within the Premier League this season behind Kane, was banned this week for greater than 200 breaches of the FA’s betting guidelines.

He will be unable to play once more till January 2024, a gap Brentford will search to fill this summer season, however on Saturday they made mild of his absence.

“Mbeumo hasn’t been rewarded with enough goals. Last year I think he hit the post seven times — crazy! — so I’m glad that two great finishes hit the back of the net,” Frank mentioned.

Kane’s Tottenham future is unsure and he trudged off on the remaining whistle to applause from the followers earlier than re-showing to make a lap of the pitch along with his spouse and youngsters, as did Tottenham’s Champions League hero Lucas Moura who fought again the tears as he waved a remaining goodbye to the followers.

If England captain Kane decides to maneuver on after scoring 211 Premier League objectives for Tottenham, at the very least he signed off at house in model.

Kane despatched an unstoppable curling proper-foot free kick previous David Raya within the eighth minute and Tottenham ought to have constructed on their lead with Emerson Royal denied by an excellent clearing header by the excellent Rico Henry.

Brentford had been a lot brighter after the break and equalised when Wissa performed in Mbeumo who minimize inside Ben Davies and whipped a low shot previous Fraser Forster.

The purpose was the sixtieth Tottenham have conceded within the league this season, making it solely the second time in a 38-recreation Premier League season {that a} crew has scored and conceded at the very least 60, matching the feat they achieved in 2007-08.

Mbeumo struck once more with the same end quickly after, this time from Aaron Hickey‘s cross, and when Oliver Skipp acquired caught in possession and Mbeumo picked out Wissa to attain Tottenham’s distress was full.