A few days after the defeat in the League Cup semi-final against Chelsea, Tottenham continued to face another London club in the fourth round of the FA Cup, Crystal Palace. Harry Kane and Dele Alli are injured and have not yet scheduled a return date, Son Heung-min has not yet returned from the 2019 ASIAN Cup, so Coach Pochettino has been forced to use a thick attack with 8 changes compared to the loss to Chelsea in the League Cup in midweek. On the other side of the front line, coach Roy Hodgson fielded almost the strongest squad.
With home advantage, Crystal Palace played very confidently against Tottenham's second team. After 9 minutes of play, coach Roy Hodgson's team had the opening goal thanks to Connor Wickham.
After conceding an early goal, Tottenham played more focused, proactively controlling the ball to surround the home team's goal. Despite creating some scoring opportunities, the "Rooster" strikers took advantage of them poorly.
The attack was lackluster, Tottenham's defense was also unable to complete its task. In the 34th minute, Walker-Peters let the ball touch his hand in the penalty area quite amateurically, Crystal Palace was awarded a penalty. On the 11m mark, Andros Townsend defeated Gazzaniga to increase the score to 2-0.
Tottenham played much better in the second half. The opportunity has also come but Spurs' strikers have not been able to beat the brilliance of goalkeeper Speroni and the widespread defense of the Palace home team. Up front, Fernando Llorente was slow and unlucky despite being given many good opportunities.
In the 43rd minute, Patrick van Aanholt fouled Juan Foyth in the penalty area, the referee awarded Spurs a penalty. However, Kieran Trippier threw a chance to reduce Tottenham's score, when he unfortunately shot the ball out of the goal.
In the second half, Tottenham controlled the ball well, constantly threatening Crystal Palace's goal. According to Opta, the away team had 19 shots towards the opponent's goal, but all stopped at a round zero.
In the end, Tottenham lost 0-2 to Crystal Palace, thereby officially being eliminated from the 2018/2019 FA Cup. Against Tottenham, another London side also had to say goodbye to England's oldest team, Arsenal, after a 1-3 defeat to Man Utd. Obviously, at this time, Tottenham are looking forward to having their key players recover from injuries immediately and always before the situation gets worse.
