Wed 04 January 2023, 11:00
Tottenham HotspurWelcome back to our new series for 2022/23 - 1 from 30 - as we continue to mark 30 years of the Premier League.
English football's new dawn kicked-off on the weekend of 15/16 August, 1992 as the FA Premier League replaced Barclays League Division One, ending a structure of Division One-Four that had been in place since 1958. Thirty years on, the Premier League is amongst the most watched and most valuable sporting leagues in the world.
In this series, we're featuring a match from those 30 years that corresponds with our next fixture - next up, it's Palace at Selhurst Park, and we turn the clock back to 23 January, 2016 for a derby to remember in SE25 that included BBC Match of the Day's Goal of the Season for 2015/16...
Palace 1-3 Spurs - 23 January, 2016
This sizzling derby in SE25 had a bit of everything - a second half comeback, woodwork struck, great saves, tension and two, late wonder goals, including one of the great Spurs goals of the modern era.
That accolade goes to Dele, whose 84th-minute strike will be in the conversation of all-time great Spurs and Premier League goals.
First up though, we trailed 1-0 at half-time against the run of play through Jan Vertonghen's own goal, levelled via Harry Kane's textbook header on 63 minutes. Palace then came fighting back, struck the woodwork twice in quick succession and Hugo Lloris somehow kept out Wilfried Zaha with the scoreline at 1-1.
Then the match-turning moment. Christian Eriksen nodded down Harry Kane's crossfield pass into the path of Dele, in space, back to goal, 30 yards out. Dele took a touch and in one movement, flicked the ball over onrushing Mile Jedinak, swivelled and volleyed home from 25 yards. It was a thing of beauty.
That wasn't all though. Dele almost scored a second when he nutmegged Joel Ward, clipped over Wayne Hennessey and struck the crossbar. But we wrapped up three crucial points in style when Nacer Chadli picked the ball up on the left touchline, held off Jedinak and curled beyond Hennessey from 30 yards.
The win kept us in the title shake-up in 2015/16, just behind Arsenal and City in fourth, and four points behind Leicester City. We would end up third as the title went to the Foxes.
Spurs: Lloris, Tripper, Alderweireld, Vertonghen (Wimmer 75), Rose, Dembele, Dier (Chadli 56), Son, Eriksen (Bentaleb 88), Dele, Kane.
