Tottenham vs Newcastle 2024 (Spurs NUFC May 2024 MCG Friendly)
Final score and result: Spurs vs Newcastle 1-1 (NUFC win 5-4 on penalties)
A good crowd of 78,419 was in attendance at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia for this friendly between Spurs and Newcastle United on May 22, 2024.
Here is a look at the xG (expected goals) stats from Spurs vs Man City (Crowd attendance of 61,065 on May 14, 2024). Two high xG goals from Man City, and Spurs were left ruing a miss from Heung-Min Son in the 86th minute.
xG Spurs 0.85-2.14 Man City shots map (Actual score TOT 0-2 MCI)
0-1 Haaland first goal vs Spurs xG 0.95
0-2 Haaland second goal vs Spurs xG 0.80
Son missed chance vs Man City xG 0.26
A bulk of City’s xG came from the two Haaland goals- their next best chance apart from that went to Foden (16th minute xG 0.15) and De Bruyne (47th minute xG 0.11)
Apart from Son’s chance, Spurs had half chances for Bentancur (6th minute) and Kulusevski (71st minute)
Spurs vs Man City 0-2 Match Stats for comparison
(THFC stats on left; MCI match stats on right)
As you can see Spurs edged possession and were ahead in most of the other metrics.
Mikel Arteta became the first Arsenal manager to win back-to-back away league games at Spurs in the modern Premier League era as his side beat Ange Postecoglou’s men 3-2 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Arteta opted to keep faith with the same XI that had thrashed Chelsea 5-0 in midweek while Spurs made three changes, with Destiny Udogie, Yves Bissouma and Brennan Johnson dropping out and Ben Davies, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Dejan Kulusevski coming into the starting XI.
Here are our talking points from the big NLD.
Ben White vs Vicario
White made a nuisance of himself at corner time, distracting Spurs goalkeeper Vicario and indirectly having a hand in both goals that the Gunners scored from set-pieces in this game. A little bit of the dark arts from the Arsenal right-back (he even attempted to intefere with Vicario’s gloves just before the first goal!), but one could also argue that Spurs’ players should’ve protected their goalkeeper better.
Possession and match stats in favour of home side
Spurs were clearly the dominant side in the first half, with 72% of possession and more than 3x the number of passes, but bizarrely trailed 3-0 at the interval, with Arsenal punishing the Lilywhites for every little mistake they made.