Frank watched Spurs suffer a third consecutive defeat in a horror week after they conceded twice in the first six minutes at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium \u2013 the second after a moment of madness by Guglielmo Vicario.<\/p>\n
An early strike by Kenny Tete and Harry Wilson\u2019s sublime lob put Frank\u2019s team immediately on the back foot and despite Mohammed Kudus\u2019 59th-minute effort, Tottenham have lost four of their last six Premier League games.<\/p>\n
This latest bad result at home extended an already disastrous run of results in N17, with Spurs only able to win three of their last 21 home league matches.<\/p>\n
The numbers combined with a string of toothless attacking displays means Frank has plenty of questions to answer going into December with scrutiny at an all-time high over his long-term prospects at the north London club.<\/p>\n
A spirited display in defeat at PSG on Wednesday had earned Frank a slice of credit back after a disastrous afternoon at Arsenal last Sunday where fans were scathing of his tactics.<\/p>\n
Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall provided green shoots of encouragement in Paris and Frank trusted the 19-year-old duo in what felt a significant fixture early on in his tenure after a rocky run of results in October and November.<\/p>\n
Yet before the highly-rated pair had time to make a handful of passes, Tottenham were 2-0 down in shambolic fashion after only six minutes.<\/p>\n
Fulham broke the deadlock in the fourth minute when within seconds of a poor header by Kevin Danso, the excellent Samuel Chukwueze cut inside from the left and picked out Tete, who had an 18-yard shot deflected beyond Vicario by Spurs\u2019 Destiny Udogie.<\/p>\n
Tottenham were shell-shocked but 136 seconds later they conceded again in a moment to forget for Vicario.<\/p>\n
Vicario rushed out to intercept Joachim Andersen\u2019s pass ahead of Raul Jimenez, but instead of knocking the ball out for a throw, he inexplicably cleared infield and Joshua King teed up Wilson to curl home wonderfully.<\/p>\n
It was a sensational 40-yard lob by Wilson, but as a result of Vicario\u2019s comical error and the Spurs goalkeeper was heavily booed straight after by the home fans.<\/p>\n
Frank\u2019s nightmare also got worse when Chukwueze curled against the post moments later before Danso had to block a shot by Wilson.<\/p>\n
Tottenham\u2019s lopsided 4-2-3-1 with no left forward continued to struggle to create chances and only a sensational tackle by stand-in captain Micky van de Ven prevented another Fulham goal as he slid in to thwart Chukwueze, who rounded Vicario after Porro\u2019s lapse in concentration.<\/p>\n
It was masterful defending by Van de Ven but did not stop loud boos at half-time and despite no changes by Frank, Spurs returned with much-needed attacking intent.<\/p>\n
Randal Kolo Muani had an effort blocked seconds into the second period before a succession of promising openings ended with a poor Tottenham delivery.<\/p>\n
When Porro did finally produce a quality cross, Kolo Muani sent his 57th-minute header into the side-netting.<\/p>\n
Spurs finally had momentum, though, and the deficit was reduced with 31 minutes left when Bergvall chipped into the path of Kudus and he lashed into the top corner.<\/p>\n
Frank sent on Rodrigo Bentancur, Wilson Odobert and Xavi Simons immediately after and the latter had a shot deflected over by Andersen as Tottenham pushed for a leveller.<\/p>\n
The equaliser nearly arrived in the 67th-minute when Bergvall flicked on Kudus\u2019 corner, but Jimenez brilliantly headed clear and no grandstand finish occurred after Kolo Muani sent a back heel wide as Spurs lost again at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank watched Spurs suffer a third consecutive defeat in a horror week after they conceded twice in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15139,42,43,40,38,41,39,3568],"class_list":{"0":"post-166872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-fulham","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-tottenham-hotspur"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}