Report as Heung-min Son's first-half goal from a free-kick cross sends Spurs top of Premier League going into international break; Nuno Espirito Santo's side uphold their 100 per cent Premier League record and are yet to concede a goal
Tottenham go into the international break top of the Premier League after Heung-min Son's goal handed them a 1-0 home win over Watford.
There were early chances for both sides, but the game was in threat of becoming deadlocked before Son came to the rescue on his 200th Premier League appearance, curling in a wicked free-kick cross that bamboozled the Watford defence and goalkeeper Daniel Bachmann (42), finding the far corner.
But Spurs were never completely comfortable as both Juraj Kucka and Ismaila Sarr missed opportunities for Watford, though Dele Alli swept a fine chance wide at the other end in the second half and Harry Kane missed two late openings on his first Premier League appearance of the season.
It was a third straight 1-0 win for Nuno Espirito Santo's side as they upheld their 100 per cent Premier League record, while newly-promoted Watford sit 12th with three points.
Player ratings
Tottenham: Lloris (6), Tanganga (6), Sanchez (7), Dier (7), Reguilon (6), Hojbjerg (7), Skipp (7), Alli (6), Bergwijn (6), Son (7), Kane (6)
Subs: Lucas (7), Gil (NA)
Watford: Bachmann (6), Cathcart (6), Ekong (6), Sierralta (7), Masina (6), Etebo (6), Kucka (6), Sissoko (6), Sarr (7), Dennis (6), King (6)
Subs: Ngakia (6), Cucho (5), Cleverley (5)
Man of the match: Heung-min Son
How Spurs went top with third straight 1-0 win
Nuno's start at Spurs has perhaps been more practical than pretty - Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Oliver Skipp sat deep again throughout to protect the defence - but it was just what Tottenham needed as they head into the international fortnight on a high, just weeks after the club had looked in crisis.
A place at the Premier League's summit with rivals Arsenal propping up the division was the carrot dangling in front of them at kick-off and they took their chance to end a positive week in which Kane confirmed he was staying at the club.
Kane was given another hero's welcome for his first Premier League appearance of the campaign, and the noise had barely died down by the time he went down in the area following a shove from William Ekong after Bachmann's lazy clearance, but nothing was given.
Watford then went on the first of several breaks upfield, only for Eric Dier to brilliantly block Kucka's effort from the edge of the box with his head.
The game started to settle into a pattern - Spurs attempting to stretch play and the visitors sitting deeper, ready to pounce on the break - as Bachmann superbly denied Japhet Tanganga's poked effort in the box from a scramble at a corner.
With Watford looking relatively comfortable approaching half-time, Spurs' opener came at the perfect moment. Steven Bergwijn won a free-kick on the left, which Son curled brilliantly into the six-yard box, and after Bachmann resisted the temptation to claim it, the ball whistled past the crowd in the box and felt into the far corner.
Watford reacted well after the break, creating two big chances. First, Kucka lashed over the bar in acres of space from Sarr's centre, before Josh King got in Sarr's way eight yards out as he looked to turn home from a Moussa Sissoko cut back.
Sissoko also blazed over the bar in space - just as well, given the pre-match stadium montage still included a commentator's yelps of a Sissoko strike for Spurs - and that prompted the entire stadium to sing his name just days after leaving the club.
It was then Spurs' time to counter as Son broke brilliantly through midfield; he fed Kane on the right, whose centre found Dele Alli running onto the ball, but his low, sweeping shot fell inches wide.
Lucas Moura flashed a cross-shot wide minutes after coming on, and then showed great pace and fight to square for Kane for a tap in at the far post, only for the pass to get the slightest of deflections to take it away from the striker's path.
From the resulting corner, Kane's shot into the ground from Eric Dier's nod-down was blocked by Bachmann, and Spurs resisted any Watford onslaught in the final moments to secure the win.
What's next?
Tottenham go to Crystal Palace after the international break at 12.30pm on Saturday September 11, while Watford host Wolves at 3pm on the same day in the Premier League.
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