Wednesday 26 December 2007

Tottenham 5 Fulham 1

Tottenham bounced back from last week's defeat at Arsenal to fire five past Fulham.

A brace apiece from Robbie Keane and Tom Huddlestone, and a late Jermain Defoe goal gave Spurs a convincing win over managerless Fulham.

Keane kept his composure to open the scoring after Steed Malbranque's shot came back off the post.

Huddlestone made it 2-0 on the stroke of half-time when he scored with a deflected shot from the edge of the area after a lay off from Dimitar Berbatov.

Fulham got back into the game when American Clint Dempsey bundled the ball home from close range on the hour mark.

But little more than a minute later Keane grabbed his 100th Premier League goal, tapping in a Berbatov flick after a Jamie O'Hara corner.

And 10 minutes later Huddlestone got his second of the game when he fired in an Aaron Lennon cut back.

Moritz Volz was sent off for Fulham for a second bookable offence before substitute Defoe scored a late goal to complete the scoring.

It was a good day for Tottenham, who also welcomed back captain Ledley King.

The England defender played over 70 minutes on his comeback from injury after a surprise start.

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