Premier League: Wins for Tottenham and Aston Villa in pre-season

Tottenham thrashed Hearts 5-1 successful their first pre-season friends up of nan Premier League season.

Spurs were comfortable winners successful their first run-out of nan summertime astatine Tynecastle, pinch large hitters Heung-min Son, James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski successful action alongside caller signing Archie Gray.

Brennan Johnson opened nan scoring for nan North Londoners successful nan 39th infinitesimal earlier Ange Postecoglou fielded a wholly different XI for nan 2nd half.

Lawrence Shankland levelled nan crippled early aft nan break but Spurs’ fringe players quickly asserted their authority during a ascendant show successful nan 2nd half.

A productive evening successful Edinburgh 🙌

Highlights: Hearts 1️⃣-5️⃣ Spurs 🎥 pic.twitter.com/up0gln0fgB

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) July 17, 2024

They were backmost up done Will Lankshear, 19, connected 55 minutes earlier 16-year-old Mikey Moore scored Tottenham’s 3rd 10 minutes later.

Djed Spence, who spent past play connected indebtedness astatine Genoa, added his side’s 4th earlier a precocious Lewis Neilson ain extremity completed nan rout successful Edinburgh.

Tottenham look Queens Park Rangers successful a friends connected Saturday earlier jetting disconnected to South Korea for nan remainder of their pre-season tour.

Villa footwear disconnected pre-season pinch a win

Morgan Rogers scored doubly arsenic Aston Villa returned to action pinch a 3-0 complete neighbours Walsall.

Like Tottenham, Unai Emery fielded different XIs successful each half, pinch January signing Rogers filling England prima Ollie Watkins’ absence pinch a objective brace successful nan first half.

Summer signing Ross Barkley’s quick-thinking led to a tidy decorativeness from nan 21-year-old to unfastened nan scoring connected 22 minutes.

A coagulated outing successful our first pre-season fixture. 👌

— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) July 17, 2024

Rogers past claimed his 2nd connected nan move from nan area to nonstop nan Villans into half-time pinch a patient advantage.

The 2nd half saw caller signings Enzo Barrenechea and Samuel Iling Junior get their first run-outs, while Leon Bailey besides sewage his first action since taking portion successful Jamaica’s Copa America campaign.

A quiet 2nd play followed but Villa fans were fixed different chance to observe erstwhile Louie Barry vanished disconnected Iling Junior’s shot crossed extremity for a third.