Alli’s double puts Cherries on the canvas
Jose Mourinho was pleased to be able to let everyone else rave about Dele Alli after the Tottenham attacker’s resurgence continued in yesterday’s 3-2 win over Bournemouth.
Alli has rediscovered his star quality since Mourinho arrived at the club, bagging a brace against the Cherries. Moussa Sissoko put Spurs 3-0 up, before Harry Wilson’s double made it an uncomfortable to the game.
“Dele, I don’t need to speak about,” Mourinho said.
“The best thing that can happen to a coach is when you don’t need to speak about a player because everybody speaks, all of you, fans, everybody speaks about him and speaks about him for the right reasons.”
Aaron Cresswell fired West Ham to their first Premier League win at Chelsea in 17 years to hand a big boost to under- fire boss Manuel Pellegrini.
C r e s s w e l l ’s third league goal of the campaign sealed the 1- 0 Stamford Bridge triumph, ending West Ham’s streak of eight matches without a win in all competitions.
But the main talking point was third- choice stopper David Martin keeping a clean sheet on his P re m i e r League debut. He was in tears afterwards and said: “For
end my dad to see that here with the club he played for for 21 years, it’s just a fantastic feeling.”
Wilfried Zaha scored in back-to-back games for Crystal Palace for the first time since February as the Eagles ended their winless run at Burnley.
The winger struck the opening goal in a 2-0 success. Sub Jeff Schlupp took advantage of poor defending to secure the points, 12 minutes from time.
Pa l a c e boss Roy Hodgson crowed: “He’s a good player, isn’t he? He’s capable of causing problems to any defence anywhere in the world.” Southampton picked up a first home win in nine Premier League games with a dramatic 2- 1 victory which leaves fellow strugglers Watford languishing at the bottom.
Saints were in danger of replacing their relegation rivals at the foot of the division until Danny Ings scrambled a 78th- minute equaliser and James Ward- Prowse curled home a fine freekick five minutes later.
Ismaila Sarr’s first topflight goal looked to have set the Hornets on a course for three precious points on the south coast before the late comeback eased mounting pressure on Ralph Hasenhuttl.
The Saints boss said: “At half- time, we were very critical and in the second half it was a good reaction. The subs had an impact on the game.”