Tottenham vs Aston Villa LIVE: FA Cup result, latest updates and reaction after Spurs knocked out in third round | OneFootball

All the latest updates from the 2025/26 FA Cup third-round

The FA Cup dream ended at the first hurdle for Thomas Frank’s Spurs, who were defeated 2-1 by Unai Emery’s high-flying Villans in a tense third-round clash in north London on Saturday. For Tottenham - stuck firmly in the bottom half of the league table and with Champions League glory merely a pipedream - a home tie in this competition presented a final, semi-realistic chance at silverware in Frank’s tumultuous debut campaign, but no longer.

Each manager made changes, some enforced through injury or suspension, but the XIs named by both were of the expected calibre for an all-Premier League battle. Villa, on a blistering run of form under Emery, were 2-0 up by half-time thanks to Emi Buendia and Morgan Rogers before a Wilson Odobert goal early in the second period shifted the momentum for a spell. Spurs failed to take full advantage of that pressure and their home crowd, though, and ultimately were fortunate to keep the deficit to one when Pedro Porro made a goal-line clearance to prevent Buendia putting the game to bed.