Spurs win a third straight league game, a first since February 2025
Sunday 1 November 2026 · By Adam Lewis
Tottenham beat 10-man Crystal Palace 2–0 at home on Saturday for their third consecutive Premier League win, the first time they have managed that since February 2025. They had won only three of their previous 26 league games, the BBC reported. They are eighth, with 12 points from nine games.
Jean-Philippe Mateta was sent off after 13 minutes for a late, studs-up challenge on Micky van de Ven. The referee, Michael Oliver, had shown a yellow card but upgraded it to a red after a VAR review. Archie Gray headed Spurs in front in the 25th minute from a Mohammed Kudus corner, and Jan Paul van Hecke nodded in at the second attempt in the 73rd minute after Dean Henderson’s save hit the bar.
Spurs had 34 shots to Palace’s two, the BBC reported, a difference of 32 that is the biggest since 2003–04 on the records it uses, and had 79.4 per cent of the ball.
It is their first back-to-back home league wins in two years. Before this, they had won at Chelsea, only their second league win at Stamford Bridge in 36 years. “We played with two players more,” Roberto De Zerbi said afterwards. “We can’t forget where we were before the last international break. But now we are playing as a team.”
De Zerbi singled out Sandro Tonali, the £100m summer signing from Newcastle, and Mateus Fernandes, the £85m signing from West Ham. Both started slowly, the BBC said, and De Zerbi suggested they are now showing why he paid those fees.
Next up is a trip to Leeds on Saturday 7 November (12:30 GMT).
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is the club’s home on the High Road in Tottenham, north London, postcode N17 0BX. It opened in April 2019 on the site of White Hart Lane and holds 62,850, the largest club ground in London. If you are travelling with the away end, the useful fact is simple: visiting supporters are in the north-east corner, not under the golden cockerel. The club places away fans in blocks 114 to 118 of the North Stand, reached through entrances 11 and 12. Wheelchair spaces are in block 234, and the accessible entrance is 11a. Your own club allocates the tickets, and the block can grow for some fixtures, so trust the seat on your ticket rather than a rumour from the train.
The ground is a closed bowl around a pitch of the usual 105 by 68 metres. Looking at the plan above, north is the top. The North Stand, still called the Paxton end after the old White Hart Lane stand, sits behind the northern goal. The South Stand, the Park Lane end, sits behind the southern goal. That south end is a single tier of 17,500 seats, the largest single-tier stand in the country, rising more than 34 metres, with the golden cockerel on the roof. It is the home wall of noise. The West Stand runs along the High Road and is the main stand: the tunnel and dugouts are on this side, with most of the hospitality above. The East Stand faces it across the pitch, along Worcester Avenue. From the away blocks you are behind the northern goal and slightly toward the east touchline, so the South Stand and its cockerel are the view straight down the pitch.
There is no general public parking, and a matchday controlled zone covers the streets around the ground. White Hart Lane station, on the London Overground, is the closest rail stop. Northumberland Park is also close. If those platforms look jammed after the whistle, Tottenham Hale on the Victoria line is a longer walk but often the quicker way out, and Seven Sisters is another option. Build in time for the walk and for searches at the turnstile. Stewards will check tickets and bags. The sensible kit is a phone with your ticket, a contactless card and a small bag within the size the club publishes for that match. Oversized bags are turned away, and there is nowhere useful to leave them.
The away section has its own concourse, toilets and food outlets, so you do not need to cross into home areas. Do not try to. Away supporters in home seats can be refused entry or ejected, and touted tickets are the usual way people end up in the wrong block. Seats in the visitors’ section use a rail rather than a conventional seat-back in the standing-friendly rows; block 118 is the one your club can use for supporters who want to sit. The sightline is close — the front row around the ground is only about five to eight metres from the touchline — but the far goal, under the South Stand, is a long way off. Upper tiers elsewhere give a cleaner tactical view. You will not be in them.
Expect the South Stand to be loud from the teams’ walkout. The Goal Line bar under that stand is billed as Europe’s longest, and the concourses generally borrow from London street food, with plant-based options as well as the usual matchday fare. Drink prices are stadium prices. The pitch itself is hybrid grass that splits and slides away under the South Stand when the ground stages NFL games, but on a football Saturday you are looking at the grass. After the match, follow the stewarding out of entrances 11 and 12 rather than drifting toward the High Road home exits. Check the club’s visiting supporters page the day before you travel: turnstile opening times, bag sizes and any competition-specific rules change, and your club’s travel notes will usually repeat the bits that matter for that fixture.