Ange's $79m man stars as Spurs top Premier League

By Damien McCartney and AP

Ange Postecoglou's unbeaten tally to commencement his Tottenham Hotspur tenureship has continued with a 2-0 triumph implicit Bournemouth successful the Premier League connected Saturday nighttime AEST.

James Maddison scored his archetypal extremity for the nine successful the 17th infinitesimal with a precise finish, and Dejan Kulusevski doubled the vantage with his archetypal extremity of the play successful the 63rd arsenic Tottenham followed up past weekend's location triumph implicit Manchester United with different awesome performance.

The squad present has 2 wins and a gully nether Postecoglou portion playing the attack-minded benignant of shot that the manager has brought to the club.

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Though with Richarlison struggling severely up beforehand for a 3rd crippled successful a enactment and inactive looking for a archetypal extremity of the play — helium was taken disconnected an hr into the crippled — immoderate Spurs fans mightiness inactive beryllium wondering conscionable however bully this squad could person been had the nine not sold talismanic striker Harry Kane to Bayern Munich connected the eve of the season.

Tottenham dominated the archetypal fractional and Maddison — who joined from relegated Leicester successful the offseason connected a reported $79 cardinal woody — opened the scoring erstwhile helium ran onto a walk into the country from Pepe Matar Sarr and directed the shot wrong the acold station with a first-time effort.

"I thought we played immoderate bully football. I thought our archetypal fractional was truly good, immoderate of our football, and strength and our play and tempo was excellent," Postecoglou said aft the game.

"We knew Bournemouth would enactment america nether pressure, but I thought we handled that truly well.

"We didn't commencement the 2nd fractional excessively well, our archetypal 10 oregon 15 minutes, but past erstwhile we got that 2nd extremity I thought we controlled the crippled truly well, truly pleased done astir of it we maintained our discipline."

"(Maddison) is large for our set-up. I said earlier the game, he's the benignant of feline erstwhile the shot gets to his feet, things hap but helium besides works hard for the squad which is important for us," Postecoglou said.

"We can't conscionable person players who are bully 1 way, and he's truly embraced that broadside of it, the mode helium presses for us, helium works truly hard, helium wins the shot back, I thought it was a bully show from him."

Richarlison had a accidental to treble the pb erstwhile helium was played done connected goal, but aft evading 1 defender, helium couldn’t get his feet sorted successful clip for a changeable earlier the shot was blocked by another.

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Bournemouth improved aft the interruption but Tottenham doubled its pb against the tally of play erstwhile Destiny Udogie exchanged passes with Son Heung-min earlier pulling the shot backmost crossed goal, wherever Kulusevski slotted it wrong the acold post.

Heavy rainfall past further reduced Bournemouth's chances of staging a comeback.

The Cherries person 1 constituent from its opening 3 games aft losing astatine Liverpool past weekend.

Tottenham are tied with West Ham connected apical of the ladder, with 3 games to travel successful the 3rd round. They volition question to Burnley adjacent weekend.