Brennan Johnson Scores First Tottenham Goal In Dramatic Loss At Wolves
While it was in a losing effort against Wolves on Saturday, Brennan Johnson scored his first goal as a Tottenham Hotspur player.
After joining from Nottingham Forest in the summer, Johnson gave his team the lead at Molineux Stadium in the first three minutes of play when he blasted home a cross from Pedro Porro.
Although playing with a patched-up defense without Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven, or Destiny Udogie, Spurs maintained their advantage until more than 90 minutes had passed.
In extra time, however, Wolves scored two goals, motivated by supersub Pablo Sarabia.
Following a chipped through pass from Matheus Cunha, he scored the equalizer himself with a spectacular two-touch finish.
The winning goal was then assisted by Sarabia to Mario Lemina in the 97th minute.
The 87th minute was when the former forward for Paris Saint-Germain first appeared in the game. Before this, no Premier League player has ever entered a game so late and gone on to score and provide an assist.
After being undefeated in their first ten Premier League games under Ange Postecoglou, Tottenham has now dropped back-to-back games.
After Saturday’s loss, Postecoglou remarked in an interview with BBC Sport: “I cannot question the effort and the commitment.” We had a solid first-half goal before playing a little more cautiously in the second half.
“I did not think we were as positive as we could be, the second-half was a bit better but there is a lot of players having their first start and we were never going to get the same fluency.”