A goal of the season contender from Rio Kyerematen spurred our Under-21s on to victory at home to Norwich City on Friday night.
The midfielder lit up an at-times slow-paced contest with a superb strike from distance that crashed in off the underside of the crossbar mid-way through the second half to restore our lead at Stevenage’s Lamex Stadium.
It was the stand-out moment as we’d struggled to play with our usual attacking zest until that point due in part to the visitors defending in numbers, James Wilson’s first goal in our colours after just 61 seconds cancelled out by Botan Ameen with Norwich having the better chances to forge ahead, Ameen squandering a great opportunity and Luke Towler twice brilliantly denied by goalkeeper Carey Bloedorn.
But Kyerematen’s third goal in two games proved the spark for us to push on to a comfortable win, Reiss Russell-Denny adding his name to the scoresheet on 78 minutes before Ellis Lehane opened his Premier League 2 account a minute from the end to round off a 4-1 victory – the second time in as many matches Wayne Burnett’s charges have scored four.
Some slick play down the right side led to the opener just over a minute in, Luca Williams-Barnett racing into space down the flank and sending in a perfectly-timed low delivery that Wilson was able to sweep home to register his first Spurs goal on his second appearance since joining on loan from Hearts.
He could have had a couple more thereafter as well, the striker just missing out on Maeson King’s delivery from the left that ended up deflecting onto the far post via defender Sonny Rowland and then sending a bullet header wide from Kyerematen’s right-sided delivery inside the first quarter of the game, but Norwich began to cause us problems at the other end as time went on, Elliot Myles and Zach Baumann both going close with Myles having the ball in the net at one point, although an early offside flag denied him.