{"id":169546,"date":"2025-09-26T01:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169546\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T01:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T01:11:09","slug":"tottenham-3-0-doncaster-joao-palhinha-scores-overhead-kick-opener-in-spurs-third-round-carabao-cup-win-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/169546\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham 3-0 Doncaster: Joao Palhinha scores overhead kick opener in Spurs’ third-round Carabao Cup win | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joao Palhinha scored an overhead kick opener to help Tottenham beat League One side Doncaster 3-0 at home in the Carabao Cup third round.<\/p>\n

Thomas Frank’s side have been handed a tough draw in the fourth round as they travel to holders Newcastle, with the tie taking place in the week commencing October 27.<\/p>\n

Palhinha was one of four players to retain his place against Doncaster from Saturday’s 2-2 Premier League draw at Brighton as Frank made seven changes.<\/p>\n

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Joao Palhinha gives Spurs the lead against Doncaster with an acrobatic opener<\/p>\n

The Portugal international, who played at centre-back, struck an acrobatic 14th-minute goal from a corner as he pounced on Doncaster goalkeeper Ian Lawlor’s poor punch to finish wonderfully into an empty net.<\/p>\n

“Joao’s been very good for us since he joined,” Frank said after the game. “He slotted into that centre-back role, played very well and scored a goal. I’m very pleased.”<\/p>\n

Spurs doubled their lead just three minutes later as Doncaster defender Jay McGrath turned Wilson Odobert’s fizzing low cross into his own net.<\/p>\n

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Doncaster’s Jay McGrath scored an own goal to double Spurs’ lead<\/p>\n

Doncaster were denied a route back into the game by Tottenham goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky, who made a fabulous 39th-minute save to tip Owen Bailey’s first-time volley across goal onto the post.<\/p>\n

Spurs struggled in the second half as they had less of the ball than their lower-league visitors, who lacked the final-third quality to threaten a comeback.<\/p>\n

There was a Spurs debut late on for 16-year-old Luca Williams-Barnett – and the academy graduate nearly had a hand in a goal as he played in Destiny Udogie, whose ball across was tapped home by Lucas Bergvall, but Brennan Johnson was offside in the build-up.<\/p>\n

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Johnson, however, made up for his error by scoring with the final touch of the game in stoppage time as he deftly finished off his one-on-one chance after being released by Bergvall.<\/p>\n

The victory means Spurs have progressed from 18 of their last 19 League Cup ties against sides from a lower division.<\/p>\n

Tottenham now turn their attentions back to the Premier League as they host bottom-side Wolves on Saturday night, live on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

McCann ‘disappointed’ with goals conceded vs Spurs<\/p>\n

Doncaster Rovers boss Grant McCann:<\/p>\n

“I was disappointed with the goals we conceded.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think we made it hard for them to score against us but in between that, especially in the second half, it was an excellent performance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joao Palhinha scored an overhead kick opener to help Tottenham beat League One side Doncaster 3-0 at home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-169546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}