Crystal Palace 0-1 Tottenham LIVE – Gray earns Spurs victory with his first senior goal

“Yeah, definitely. I think Archie is growing. I think he shows why he has got very good potential in many ways. I think it’s another fine performance overall today.

“I think talking about resilience, he made the mistake in the Nottingham game, played another good game against Liverpool, growing as a young man.

“You can just see he was alert. I love that goal, because he was alert. He’s seeing where the ball will land, and he’s ready on it.

“I think he shows a lot of quality. He covered the ground so well. I think he’s excellent in the pressing game. The defensive transition, brilliant to close it down. And then I think he’s good on the ball.”

“I really like the desire, the mentality in the team, and the character and the resilience of the team,” said Frank. “It’s something I said and spoke about a lot, that it’s so important that we have that resilience in the team, because in a long Premier League season, you know, you need to go to a very difficult away ground here and fight, have character, get a clean sheet, win 1-0.”

“I think that was a massive win in many ways. Was it a top performance? No. Is there things we can improve? Yes.”

“I think if you watched our game today, it’s pretty clear what we need, and then it’s a decision of Crystal Palace.

“If you’re constantly underperforming in scoring goals, all I can do is encourage the players.”

“You have watched Crystal Palace longer than me, but I cannot remember a Crystal Palace side dominating a Tottenham side like we did today,” insisted Glasner.

“And then we leave with a defeat, which is frustrating for all of us. We have to accept right now we have a lack of finishing quality.”

That’s the full time whistle!

A hard-fought win for Tottenham and Thomas Frank, but they end 2025 victorious.

Archie Gray’s first senior goal was enough to get an important three points for the north Londoners.

So close from Rodrigo Bentancur who blasts an effort towards the Palace goal but Dean Henderson palms away.

Odobert gets sent through and takes the ball towards the corner, before winning a throw in of Lacroix.

Almost there for Spurs.

Joao Palhinha is down but looks okay to continue.

There will be another seven minutes of this match.

So close for Spurs!

Wilson Odobert rushes onto a bouncing ball, and his volleyed effort crashes off the post and behind Dean Henderson but out of play.

Romain Esse replaces Justin Devenny for Palace

Radu Dragusin and Brennan Johnson replaces Archie Gray and Mohammed Kudus for Spurs.

Jefferson Lerma is shown a yellow card for fouling Wilson Odobert.

Another chance for Richarlison to double Spurs’ advantage but he fires straight at Dean Henderson.

Marc Guehi heads the ball over the crossbar from a Palace corner.

Yeremy Pino is off for Christantus Uche.

Another let off for Palace, Richarlison’s goal won’t stand.

Hang on, they’re checking for another offside here.

Another smash and grab goal from Spurs but they won’t care, they lead 2-0!

Archie Gray drives forward with the ball and players through Mohammed Kudus, whose outside the boot cross is tapped home by Richarlison!

Palace miss another golden chance to equalise, this time Lacroix’s header goes narrowly wide of the post.

They’re getting closer.

Djed Spence and Jean-Philippe Mateta have been warned about their scrapping in the Spurs box.

Eddie Nketiah has looked bright since coming on. He breaks down the Palace left hand side and whips in an inviting cross, but no Palace player is there to attack it.

Oliver Glasner looks furious on the Palace sidelines.

He spins round and aggressively gestures to his bench.

Bergvall is replaced by Joao Palhinha.

Wilson Odobert replaces Randal Kolo Muani.

Lucas Bergvall is down receiving treatment.