Newcastle weren’t at their best, but they earned another Premier League victory. Look back on the action with the best facts and Opta data in our Tottenham vs Newcastle stats page.
Anthony Gordon and Alexander Isak once again had decisive impacts as Newcastle recorded a fifth successive Premier League win in a 2-1 victory at Tottenham on Saturday.
After beating Manchester United 2-0 at Old Trafford in their last game of 2024, Newcastle were aiming to defeat another ailing giant on their own turf to begin 2025.
And they did just that, with Gordon and Isak getting the goals after Dominic Solanke had put Spurs into an early lead.
Solanke’s headed opener from a sumptuous Pedro Porro cross was a welcome boost for the youngest Spurs starting XI (23y, 336d) seen in the Premier League since March 2015 (23y, 290d), with Ange Postecoglou’s men ravaged by injury and illness.
But there were just 140 seconds between that goal and the equaliser, a tidy finish from Gordon after Joelinton had somewhat controversially cut out a Lucas Bergvall pass with his hand.
That made it five successive Premier League games in which Gordon has recorded a goal or assist, the best such run of his top-flight career.
Newcastle got their noses in front in the 38th minute, Isak getting his toe on the ball to divert it goalwards after Radu Dragusin almost blocked Jacob Murphy’s dangerous pass into the danger zone.
As a result, Isak became only the third Newcastle player in Premier League history to score in seven successive matches after Alan Shearer and Joe Willock, the Swede finding himself in the form of his life.
Spurs were much improved in the second half, going especially close to an equaliser when hitting the post through Brennan Johnson with 54 minutes played.
Clear-cut chances were hardly frequent, though James Maddison fired agonisingly wide with 10 minutes to go, and Newcastle survived a desperate goalmouth scramble a few moments later.
Despite their improvement, Spurs failed to earn the point they arguably deserved, stretching their winless run at home in the league to six – their worst spell in front of their own fans since Juande Ramos’ time in charge (eight without a win at home).
Newcastle, however, continued their recent resurgence that’s seen them go level on 35 points with fourth-placed Chelsea for at least a couple of hours.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Tottenham vs Newcastle stats from their Premier League meeting at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
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Tottenham vs Newcsatle: Post-Match Facts
- Newcastle United have now won five consecutive Premier League games for the first time since April 2023, while Tottenham have gone six league games without a home win (D2 L4) for the first time since October 2008 (D3 L5).
- There have been 192 goals scored in the 60 Premier League matches between Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United, an average of 3.2 per game, making it the highest scoring fixture on average in the competition’s history (minimum of 50 meetings).
- Tottenham Hotspur have now played 101 Premier League games without recording a 0-0 draw, only Manchester United (114 between May 1999 and May 2002) have had a longer run without a goalless draw in the competition’s history.
- Both sides scored within the opening six minutes of this match, with just 140 seconds separating Dominic Solanke’s opener for Spurs and Anthony Gordon’s leveller for Newcastle; it is the fourth Premier League game this season to see both sides score in the first six minutes after Brentford v Wolves (October), West Ham v Ipswich (October) and Wolves v Bournemouth (November).
- Since the start of the 2023-24 season, Dominic Solanke has scored more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games than any other player (4), while only Erling Haaland (14) has scored the opening goal in more games than Solanke in that time (11).
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