Fri 05 May 2023, 17:40
Tottenham HotspurWe're into the last few games of our special feature 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 forthcoming fixture - next up, four goals and a record broken against Palace at home in March, 2021...
Spurs 4-1 Crystal Palace - 07.03.2021
Two goals for Gareth Bale and Harry Kane, a record broken - this was an afternoon missing just one ingredient, fans...
Our 4-0 victory against Palace in March, 2021 made it three wins on the spin after a topsy-turvy Premier League campaign played in lockdown. We started superbly and topped the table in November and December, only to go on a run of three wins in 12 and slip down to ninth on 21 February.
However, we picked ourselves to win our next three and eight of our last 14 to grab European football on the final day of the season, courtesy of a Bale cameo on his final game for the Club at Leicester City.
This win against Roy Hodgson's Palace was the third of those three wins on the spin in March, and had a bit of everything.
Harry was at his brilliant best, set up both of Bale's goal, whipped in one of the best of his 275 to date for 3-1 and then converted from Heung-Min Son's cross for 4-1 - their 14th combination of the 2020/21 campaign, breaking Chris Sutton and Alan Shearer's previous best of 13 for Blackburn in 1994/95.
Kane crossed for Bale to tap home for 1-0 on 25 minutes but Palace struck back just before the break as Christian Benteke headed home from Luka Milivojevic's cross. We were soon back in front as Kane headed Sergio Reguilon's cross for Bale to nod home, four minutes into the second.
Kane's wonder strike followed, an 'in to out' curler from the right corner of the box, first time, that curled away from Vicente Guaita into the top left corner. Magnificent. The striker wrapped it up from Son's delicious cushioned volley cross for 4-1, record broken, job done!
Spurs: Lloris (c), Doherty, Sanchez, Alderweireld, Reguilon, Hojbjerg, Winks (Sissoko), Bale (Lamela), Lucas, Son, Kane (Vinicius).
