{"id":16326,"date":"2025-10-27T08:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=651449"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:18:50","slug":"defender-or-goalscorer-van-de-vens-brace-secured-third-spot-for-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/defender-or-goalscorer-van-de-vens-brace-secured-third-spot-for-spurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Defender or goalscorer? Van de Ven\u2019s brace secured third spot for Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur have beaten Everton in the Hill Dickinson stadium last night in the Premier League. The game couldn\u2019t have been better for Spurs as they won by 0-3. Thomas Frank\u2019s Tottenham became the first side to win a game at Everton\u2019s new stadium. Van de Ven was the hero of the game with his heroics headers. First half sees two heading goals from the defender, who certainly became the goalscorer for few minutes. The third goal was an Icing on the cake, that came in the 89th minute. Pape Matar Sarr was the scorer of the third goal.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur made history last night as they became the first team to win at Everton\u2019s new Hill Dickinson Stadium, cruising to a dominant 3-0 victory in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Frank\u2019s side delivered a complete performance from start to finish, with Dutch defender Micky van de Ven emerging as the unlikely hero. The centre-back scored twice in the first half, both through powerful headers, giving Spurs a comfortable lead before the break.<\/p>\n<p>Everton tried to mount a comeback in the second half but struggled to break through Tottenham\u2019s solid defensive setup. As the game approached its end, Pape Matar Sarr sealed the victory with a calm finish in the 89th minute, the perfect icing on the cake for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, Tottenham not only claimed three crucial points but also etched their name in the history books as the first team to triumph at Everton\u2019s new home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur have beaten Everton in the Hill Dickinson stadium last night in the Premier League. The game couldn\u2019t have\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3686,2938,3918,1823,3796,4173,4175,1747,3550,1162,4174],"class_list":["post-16326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-david-ornstein","tag-defender","tag-english-premier-league","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-mickey-van-de-ven","tag-pape-matar-sarr","tag-spurs","tag-thomas-frank","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-van-de-ven"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}