Spurs 2-3 AFC Bournemouth

A dramatic game ended in disappointment as AFC Bournemouth scored a 95th-minute winner shortly after Arnaut Danjuma had netted a late equaliser against his former club as we went down 3-2 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday.

Heung-Min Son finished off a neat move to put us ahead in the 14th minute, Matias Vina levelled the game seven minutes before the interval before Dominic Solanke put the Cherries ahead in the 51st minute. It was one-way traffic for the final stages and we eventually found the equaliser when Danjuma fired home with two minutes remaining. But, as we threw everything forward in search of a winner, we were picked off in the final seconds as Dango Ouattara curled home a dramatic winner.

We made a bright start and took the lead when Clement Lenglet picked out Ivan Perisic with a fine ball down the left and he pulled it back for Son to drive past Neto in the Bournemouth goal. Just moments later, the visitors went close but Ryan Christie blazed over from the edge of the area before Neto twice denied us, first pushing over Son’s angled drive and then keeping out Harry Kane’s effort.

At the other end, Hugo Lloris tipped over Marcus Tavernier’s 20-yard effort and then the visitors levelled on 38 minutes. Pedro Porro came inside from the right-back position but was dispossessed, Solanke playing in Vina who clipped the ball over the onrushing Lloris. Six minutes into the second half, Bournemouth took the lead when Solanke and Christie combined, and, as the latter advanced into the box, substitute Davinson Sanchez poked the ball away from him only for Solanke to pounce on it and clip it over Lloris.

We made a switch just before the hour mark, Sanchez replaced by ex-Cherries forward Danjuma and that gave us some impetus in attack. Perisic volleyed over, Danjuma’s effort was saved by Neto, Oliver Skipp drilled straight at the goalkeeper from distance and Kane headed wide from Porro’s cross but we couldn’t find the equaliser and we needed a smart save from Lloris to deny Jaidon Anthony and keep us in the game in the 74th minute. We kept plugging away though, pushing the visitors back and finally got our reward on 88 minutes when Richarlison - who had moments earlier had a goal disallowed for off-side - got a touch on a cross into the box and it fell nicely for Danjuma to drill a half-volley just inside the post. We nearly won it as well, Richarlison heading just wide from Perisic’s 94th-minute corner but instead, Bournemouth went up the other end, Solanke found Ouattara and he cut inside Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and curled home the winner.

In team news, Cristian Stellini named an unchanged starting XI for the third game in a row, with 17-year-old Academy midfielder George Abbott named among our substitutes for the first time.