Tottenham Hotspur can increase their Premier League lead to five points when they meet Crystal Palace on Friday evening.
Ange Postecoglou has had a strong start to his stint in North London, with 23 points from nine Premier League games – a record for a manager’s first nine games in the tournament.
They travel across the capital on Friday to face an Eagles team that was thrashed 4-0 by Newcastle United last weekend.
Meanwhile, it appears that one of Spurs’ and Crystal Palace’s objectives has a price tag.
Feyenoord will demand an Eredivisie record amount for striker Santiago Gimenez, according to 90min.
That record is currently held by winger Antony, who cost Manchester United around £87 million when they signed him from Ajax last summer.
Gimenez, 22, has been in fine form for the Dutch side in recent months, scoring 15 goals in 11 games across all competitions so far this term.
gone unnoticed and the report claims that Spanish giants Real Madrid are interested in the player, as well as Spurs.
The forward moved to his current club from Cruz Azul in Mexico last summer for a cost in the region of £4 million.
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He has already scored 38 goals in 56 appearances across all competitions, and the article claims that every big team in the Premier League has already monitored the Mexican this season, with Chelsea and Arsenal both keeping an eye on him.
Gimenez signed a long-term contract with Feyenoord last year, which runs until the summer of 2027.
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‘They made us far weaker,’ says Roy Hodgson in a startling diatribe about Crystal Palace kids.
Roy Hodgson has lambasted three of his youthful substitutes’ performances, stating they made Crystal Palace “much weaker” against Tottenham.
Hodgson introduced Matheus Franca, 19, and Jesurun Rak-Sakyi and Naouirou Ahamada, both 21, from the bench in the second half of Spurs’ 2-1 defeat at Selhurst Park on Friday.
However, in the aftermath, Palace’s 76-year-old manager was brutally honest about the trio’s contribution to the game.
“There was no disappointment today,” Hodgson remarked, comparing the 2-1 setback to last weekend’s 4-0 thrashing at Newcastle. Perhaps the youthful substitutes, in whom we like to feel we can place our trust and help us advance, did not demonstrate this.
“They didn’t do anything for us at all, really. We became much weaker when I made the substitutions.”
Hodgson did then appear to contradict himself by saying he feels some have “imbued” Franca in particular with qualities he does not yet possess, and insisted the player “needs to be given time”.
“I feel sorry for Franca,” he remarked of the Flamengo summer signing who was making his home debut.
In assessing Palace’s overall performance, Hodgson stated that Joel Ward’s own goal, which gave Spurs the lead, marked the end of his team’s defensive organization in the game.
“It gave them a chance to relax a little bit more, after the pressure we were able to exert on them in the first half,” he continued. What had given me so much encouragement had vanished after that.
