Match Summary: Brentford (A) | OneFootball

After a wonderful Thursday night where three academy graduates got on the score sheet as Spurs made sure of automatic qualification to the last sixteen, they were back in Premier League action when they headed to West London to take on Brentford, who have been very impressive at home this season. Spurs are on their worst run in the Premier League for thirty years, winning just one in their last eleven games, losing six of the last seven, and sitting sixteenth in the table.

Match summary from Sunday afternoon's important victory

A few changes were made from the win on Thursday, with the uneligible for European games Antonin Kinský and Djed Spence coming back in, and Micky van de Ven being rested for the second leg of the Carabao Cup against Liverpool. New signing Kevin Danso was announced this morning on the official club's social media pages, so he isn't available to play as he wasn't signed in time, as well as Radu Drăgusin who suffered that injury on Thursday too, so once again it was a makeshift partnership in the centre of defence. The full lineup was as followed: Kinský, Porro, Gray, Davies, Spence, Bentancur, Bissouma, Moore, Kulusevski, Son (c), Richarlison

Not too much to report within the first 25 minutes, but Spurs would take the league just before the half hour mark when Heung-Min Son's corner was failed to be claimed by Brentford keeper Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson and ricocheted off team mate Vitaly Janelt for an own goal, Spurs 0-1 to the good in what was a very even first thirty minutes of the match.

Brentford would nearly reply straight away, a good strike from skipper Christian Norgaard was comfortably saved by Kinský before heading out for a corner. Soon after it should have been 2, a good ball in behind from Moore into Kulusevski but no one was in the area when he squared it back.

Half time then, and manager Ange Postecoglou will be fairly pleased with what he saw from his team in the first 45, an even game but one that Spurs had the advantage in, and Postceoglou would have been hoping they could keep that up in the second period. The Australian would make a sub at the break, with Swedish midfielder Lucas Bergvall coming onto the pitch, on what is his 19th birthday. (Happy birthday Lucas!) He would replace Mikey Moore, pushing Kulusevski to the right of the front three.

Brentford would have a golden opportunity on 53 minutes, when a teasing ball from Mikkel Damsgaard would fall to Yoane Wissa, whose effort would kiss the top of the bar and head over. With the form he's in you'd have expected him to score that. Spurs let off the hook.

The second half, much like the first had large periods of the game where not too much action happened. It was a really 'un-Spursesque' game by all means, with neither side having any real chances. Brentford would have a chance cleared off the line by Spence moments before Spurs would seal the game.

Captain Son got the ball on the left hand side just beyond half way when substitute Pape Matar Sarr made a brilliant run down the line. Son would precisely play the ball through and Sarr would finish first time, poking the ball through Valdimarsson's legs. Spurs win just their second game in the last twelve, which was sarcastically greeted with chants of 'we are staying up' by the Spurs fans in the away end! A first Premier League win in 49 days for the Lilywhites.

A really important result along with a very professional performance from Postecoglou's side, a rare brilliant defensive display that will give them a world of confidence going into the game against Liverpool in the Carabao Cup Semi-Final second leg, before they welcome Aston Villa to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the FA Cup, and then another home game against Manchester United where they'll be back in league action.