Tottenham 4-0 Everton: Spurs secure first victory of new season while Toffees endure another crushing loss

Everton's poor start to the new season persisted as they suffered a crushing 4-0 loss to Tottenham. The match was marred by a critical mistake from goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.

After a 3-0 home defeat to Brighton on the opening weekend, Sean Dyche's side have now conceded seven goals from their first two games and sit bottom of the Premier League without scoring.

Spurs' opener at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was unstoppable, however, as Yves Bissouma thundered home from just outside the edge of the box off the underside of the bar in the 14th minute to put his laughing gas incident behind him.

Then came Pickford's blunder as England's number one dallied on James Tarkowski's backpass to allow Heung-Min Son to nick the ball off him and finish into an empty net in the 25th minute.

Pickford's embarrassment summed up a poor first half from the visitors, whose only shot on target came in the 58th minute when substitute and debutant Jesper Lindstrom saw an effort saved by Guglielmo Vicario.

But just as Everton began to get a foothold in the second half, the Toffees were undone at a corner in the 71st minute as Cristian Romero headed home on his 100th Spurs appearance.

More misery came just six minutes later for Everton as a wonderful surging run from Spurs centre-back Micky van de Ven saw him tee up Son, who finished low from a tight angle for his second of the game.

While Spurs' season is now up and running with their first victory of the new season, Everton's concerns will only have deepened having now lost their opening two Premier League matches for the third consecutive season and they remain without an away league victory in 2024.

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