Tottenham Hotspur have beaten Auckland FC 2-0 in an entertaining pre-season friendly match at Eden Park in Auckland today.<\/p>\n
Spurs, on a southern tour that includes two games in Australia, held a 1-0 lead at halftime, and doubled their tally in the second.<\/p>\n
Spurs dictated early and their first goal to Dane Scarlett was due reward. It resulted from a terrific cross from Archie Gray to Manor Solomon who fired a shot which Auckland goalie Michael Woud stopped but couldn’t hold and Scarlett pounced.<\/p>\n
Auckland had their chances, and a Logan Rogerson pass found Sam Cosgrove late in the half, but goalie Brandon Austin was able to hold out his shot.<\/p>\n
Both teams made numerous changes in the second half, with Spurs introducing some of their best talent..<\/p>\n
One of them, Brazilian forward Richarlison, scored midway through the spell after a brilliant run from Mathys Tel set him up.<\/p>\n
The match attracted a crowd of around 40,000 and was a boost for Spurs fans after they just survived Premier League relegation last season.<\/p>\n
A-League victors Auckland were outclassed on a wet day, but will surely benefit from a game against Premier League opposition.<\/p>\n
See how the game unfolded here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur have beaten Auckland FC 2-0 in an entertaining pre-season friendly match at Eden Park in Auckland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-545046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}