Two early goals give Fulham first win at Spurs in 12 years

Fulham scored twice in the opening six minutes to stun Tottenham Hotspur and pick up their first away win of the season.

Kenny Tete opened the scoring with his first goal in almost two years, a shot from the edge of the area which was deflected in.

The BBC reports that the second goal was a disaster from a Spurs point of view as Guglielmo Vicario came out of his box and gave the ball away with Harry Wilson curling into an empty net from 35 yards out.

Spurs were wretched in the first half – and Fulham’s Samuel Chukwueze hit the post as the visitors threatened to blow them away.

Thomas Frank’s hosts did improve after the break and Mohammed Kudus’ sweet volley into the top corner gave them hope.

But Spurs could not find an equaliser and were booed off by their own fans at full-time. They sit 10th in the table, just one point above 15th-place Fulham.

A promising performance in a 5-3 defeat by Paris St-Germain on Wednesday was followed up by a first-half disaster.

This was their 10th home defeat of 2025 in the Premier League and they have never lost more than 10 home league games in a year in their history.

Frank’s side were sloppy at the back and toothless up front.

For the first goal, Chukwueze’s pass managed to go between two players before finding Tete.

Moments later Vicario ran out of his box to deal with a long ball, took it to the corner and then hit a weak clearance straight to Wilson for the second goal.

The goalkeeper was booed by his own fans a minute later when the ball came to him again.

Spurs had never trailed a Premier League home game by two goals after six minutes before. And it could have got worse.

Chukwueze hit the post after Spurs failed to deal with a corner – and the winger took the ball around Vicario only to be denied an open-goal opportunity by Micky van de Ven.

In the first half, they had 16 open-play crosses with none finding a team-mate – and did not fashion a single realistic scoring opportunity.

The second half was much better – although it could not have been worse. But only two of their efforts were on target and only Kudus was able to beat Bernd Leno, with a fine strike from Lucas Bergvall’s clipped ball over the top.

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