Roberto Soldado’s near six-hour wait for a competitive goal finally came to end as he scored the winner in Tottenham Hotspur’s come-from-behind 2-1 win at home to Everton on Sunday.
Victory at their White Hart Lane ground saw Spurs climb into seventh place, level on points with north London rivals Arsenal, in the Premier League table, and meant they at last enjoyed domestic success after a midweek Europa League fixture.
The result ended Everton’s eight-game unbeaten run but Roberto Martinez’s mid-table side had looked on course to extend that record when Kevin Mirallas’s 15th-minute goal broke the deadlock.
But Mauricio Pochettino’s men were level just six minutes later through Christian Eriksen before former Valencia striker Soldado ended a run of 593 minutes without a goal in competitive football in first-half stoppage-time.
It was just the win Tottenham needed ahead of Wednesday’s trip across London to unbeaten league leader Chelsea. Both teams kicked-off having qualified for the knockout stages of the Europa League on Thursday.
The result: Tottenham 2 (Eriksen 21, Soldado 45) bt Everton 1 (Mirallas 15).
