Tottenham breathed an enormous sigh of aid after needing extra-time to beat non-league Tamworth 3-0 within the third spherical of the FA Cup.
The ultimate scoreline flattered Spurs, who laboured all through the opening 90 minutes and may effectively have conceded deep into stoppage time when Tom McGlinchey and Jordan Cullinane-Liburd each went near scripting one of many competitors’s biggest fairytales.
Ultimately, the Lambs have been undone in scrappy vogue as Nathan Tshikuna inadvertently directed his tried clearance over his personal objective line from Brennan Johnson’s cross (101).
Substitute Dejan Kulusevski then doubled the benefit of the eight-times winners as he collected Heung-Min Son’s cross to fireplace low past Tamworth goalkeeper Jas Singh (107), whose associate was watching from hospital after giving start to a child boy on Saturday night time.
With the hosts operating on empty, Johnson blasted in a merciless third for the guests with two minutes of extra-time remaining (118) as Ange Postecoglou’s facet averted an undesirable upset.
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