{"id":837939,"date":"2026-08-01T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837939\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:33:11","slug":"football-news-2026-kevin-danso-red-card-tottenham-vs-chelsea-result-video-sandro-tonali-goal-sydney-super-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837939\/","title":{"rendered":"Football news 2026: Kevin Danso red card; Tottenham vs Chelsea result, video; Sandro Tonali goal, Sydney Super Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might have been a friendly at Accor Stadium, but a spiteful contest played out between Tottenham<\/a> and Chelsea<\/a> with Spurs\u2019 Kevin Danso red-carded in a three-minute cameo. <\/p>\n

Despite being one-man down, Spurs won 2-1<\/a> with a last-minute Richarlison tap-in securing victory.<\/p>\n

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Referee Alex King gives Kevin Danso a red card.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The Sydney Super Cup fixture started with a fiery exchange early when Conor Gallagher was yellow carded for a challenge on Dario Essugo.<\/p>\n

Then after 17 minutes, Spurs\u2019 $192m recruit Sandro Tonali hit a long-shot that deflected and went into the net to fire up the Australian crowd. <\/p>\n

Four minutes later Chelsea hit back through Estevao who was at the back post and finished off a lovely cross by Jamie Gittens. <\/p>\n

Neither side could find the lead before half-time as the score sat at 1-1. <\/p>\n

As the players arrived back on the field after the break, it appeared the biggest storyline would be Sydney-born Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli coming on for Chelsea. <\/p>\n

However, the flashpoint came three minutes later when Danso, who had come on for Jan Paul Van Hecke, brought down Joao Pedro close to the box. <\/p>\n

Danso had a bad touch and turned towards goal as Pedro applied pressure. In trying to recover, the Spurs defender fouled Pedro who had a goalscoring opportunity and was given a red card for it. <\/p>\n

For the majority of the second half, Spurs had goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky to thank after he continued to save Chelsea shots on goal. <\/p>\n

The match then looked like it\u2019d be heading towards penalties to give the 80,363 strong crowd a thrilling finish. <\/p>\n

But Spurs had another idea as Jamie Donley fired a shot to the bottom corner. His attempt hit the post and rebounded back with Richarlison claiming a simple tap-in.<\/p>\n

Post-match on Paramount+, Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso described his players actions as \u201csilly\u201d and \u201csoft\u201d to concede so late. <\/p>\n

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Richarlison celebrates his goal.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

His rival, Roberto De Zerbi was \u201cvery happy\u201d with the result but didn\u2019t think the red card was necessary for a friendly match. <\/p>\n

De Zerbi also described the condition of the Accor Stadium pitch as \u201cvery bad\u201d considering the money spent by both clubs. <\/p>\n

The Spurs manager also confessed he wants to return to Australia one day.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut not for work, just for a holiday,\u201d he smiled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It might have been a friendly at Accor Stadium, but a spiteful contest played out between Tottenham and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-837939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}