Sessegnon finishes off Spurs and fuels dreams of Europe

Ryan Sessegnon perhaps had a point to make. He was 19 when, five and a half years ago, he left Fulham for Tottenham.

- Jonathan Wilson

Having missed all of last season after surgery on both hamstrings, he returned on a free transfer in the summer having started only 26 league games for Spurs.

Sessegnon has not made a huge impression this season but, with two minutes remaining, as Ben Davies dithered under a bouncing ball, he brushed him aside and whipped a precise right-footed finish into the top corner, securing Fulham's win and, with his first goal at Craven Cottage since Boxing Day 2018, a measure of personal vindication.

It feels like there may be a lot of this between now and the end of the season. The title is all but settled and relegation effectively resolved which means all that remains is the squabble over European qualification.

The result was a strange game. It would be unfair to say both sides were going through the motions but, equally, this was not the most intense game you will ever see: a game not even Angeball could make interesting. Spurs' defending, though, can conjure goals from anything. "We had a bit of control and we concede a soft goal," Ange Postecoglou said. "It's another game we let get away."