FA Cup

February 3, 2010
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Full-time

Leeds United

1 - 3

Tottenham Hotspur

FA Cup

19:45 GMT, February 3, 2010

Elland Road, England

Referee: A Marriner

Replay

Defoe hat-trick sends Spurs through

Jermain Defoe
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Jermain Defoe celebrates the second of his three goals

Scoring Summary

Leeds United Tottenham Hotspur
Luciano Becchio (45')Jermain Defoe (37')
 Jermain Defoe (73')
 Jermain Defoe (90')

Match Stats

Leeds United

Tottenham Hotspur

10(6) Shots (on Goal) 15(6)
15 Fouls 6
5 Corner Kicks 8
2 Offsides 3
46% Time of Possession 54%
2 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
11 Saves 6

Teams

Leeds United Tottenham Hotspur
1 Casper Ankergren1 Gomes
26 Leigh Bromby20 Michael Dawson
6 Richard Naylor19 Sebastien Bassong
17 Lubomir Michalik3 Gareth Bale
22 Andy Hughes22 Vedran Corluka
4 Michael Doyle8 Jermaine Jenas
16 Bradley Johnson5 David Bentley
14 Jonathan Howson6 Tom Huddlestone
23 Robert Snodgrass21 Niko Kranjcar
10 Luciano Becchio15 Peter Crouch
9 Jermaine Beckford18 Jermain Defoe
Substitutes
25 Alan MartinBen Alnwick 27
2 Jason CroweDorian Dervite 30
32 Aidan WhiteLuka Modric 14
18 Andy RobinsonWilson Palacios 12
30 Will HatfieldDanny Rose 25
27 Davide SommaDean Parrett 34
13 Mike GrellaRyan Fredericks 36
Substitutions
Aidan White for Andy Hughes (76)
 
Jason Crowe for Bradley Johnson (86)
 
Mike Grella for Luciano Becchio (86)
 
Yellow Cards
Bradley Johnson (82)
David Bentley (59)
Jermaine Beckford (83)
 
· Squads: Leeds United | Tottenham Hotspur

Jermain Defoe kept Tottenham on course for Wembley and brought the curtains down on the Leeds fairytale with a hat-trick in a high octane fourth-round FA Cup replay at Elland Road.

• Defoe 'could have had six'

Defoe's mishit opener in the 37th minute was cancelled out by Luciano Becchio's equaliser at the end of the first half, but the England striker poached a second-half winner and then a late third to book the Londoners a fifth-round tie at Bolton on the weekend after next.

Leeds had put themselves back on the national stage with their third-round upset at Manchester United and won more new friends with an inspired late fightback 11 days ago in the initial tie at White Hart Lane.

But ultimately Simon Grayson's League One upstarts ran out of legs against polished Champions League contenders, who will now have one eye at least fixed on the FA Cup.

Defoe missed a hatful of first-half chances to put the tie to bed, just as he had done against Leeds in London, and Grayson's side harried and chased to keep most in an Elland Road crowd of 37,704 full of expectation until the visitors' decisive second goal.

Leeds pair Bradley Johnson and Andrew Hughes returned to the starting line-up in place of ineligible loanees Gary McSheffrey and Shane Lowry. Tottenham recalled Sebastien Bassong for Ledley King, while Niko Kranjcar and Jermaine Jenas also returned, with Wilson Palacios and Luca Modric making way.

Defoe fluffed a golden chance to give the visitors a first-minute lead when pouncing on a blunder by Hughes, only to scuff his shot and Bassong volleyed an early corner over the crossbar.

Peter Crouch then chested down for Defoe to fire a shot inches wide as Spurs burst out of their blocks, just as they had done at White Hart Lane 11 days ago.

Defoe squandered another chance when one-on-one with Casper Ankergren in the 25th minute as the striker's low shot came back off the Danish goalkeeper's legs.

Defoe's searing pace then caught Leeds flat-footed again when chasing a long ball over the top, but Lubo Michalik's desperate lunge went unpunished by referee Andre Marriner.

Ankergren thwarted Defoe again ten minutes before the break, this time after Tom Huddlestone's lay-off, but the pint-sized forward broke the deadlock in the 37th minute, ironically from a mishit effort after David Bentley had cleverly slipped his marker, Hughes, down the right. Defoe controlled Bentley's cross and miscued to send the ball arcing lazily over Ankergren into the top corner.

Spurs goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes then saved briliantly to keep out Michalik's header from Howson's free-kick as Leeds launched an immediate response. But there was no denying Becchio in first half stoppage-time. Beckford's shot on the turn was parried by Gomes, but the Argentinian forward rammed home the rebound to level the scores.

Ankergren kept out Dawson's 59th-minute header which appeared destined for the top corner and was equal to Bentley's fierce drive soon after as Tottenham probed - but Leeds refused to buckle.

Defoe sidefooted home Kranjcar's cross in the 68th minute, but his effort was ruled out for offside.

The League One side were not to be spared in the 73rd minute however. This time Bentley's low cross eluded the Leeds rearguard and Defoe nipped in to turn the ball home from six yards.

Leeds never stopped running and pressed for another unlikely equaliser, but with time running out Defoe latched on to another ball over the top to round Ankergren and roll home his third in time added on.

  • Defoe 'could have had six'

    Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp was not at all surprised by Jermain Defoe's match-winning hat-trick that sunk Leeds in the FA Cup fourth-round replay at Elland Road.

    Redknapp, who tasted FA Cup glory with Portsmouth in 2008, said: "It was nice to see him get his hat-trick. He could have scored six tonight in fairness. He had some great opportunities. He took three great finishes and missed three that were maybe easier, but he was always in the right place, he was always a threat. He's a goalscorer.''

    Redknapp, told earlier in the day his own horse, Arry's Orse, had won at Lingfield Park, had tipped Defoe to become a top-class goalscorer when he first saw him play.

    The former West Ham and Pompey manager added: "He's always scored goals. I signed him as a 15-year-old and every Saturday I used to watch him in the youth team and he used to get hat-tricks, or score every week anyway. He's done it since he was a little boy.''

    Redknapp felt Leeds' equaliser was clearly offside and dealt a big blow to his players, coming just before the interval. He said: "We had to pick ourselves up again for the second half, but when we kept the ball and passed the ball I thought we played well. Now we have another tough game at Bolton. It's not an easy place to go, but we're playing very well. We've had one defeat in 13 games.''

    Redknapp, who had joked after the 2-2 draw at White Hart Lane that a trip north to face Leeds was just what he had wanted, was full of praise for the Yorkshiremen, who had pushed his side all the way after their famous third-round upset at Manchester United.

    "These are difficult games,'' Redknapp added. "I've won and lost these games when you're fancied to win. We came to Elland Road - probably the first time for some of my players. The atmosphere the fans created was just incredible.

    "This is a massive football club. It's really a Premier League club and it needs to get back where it belongs. Leeds are a good side and they'll certainly go up this year and I can see them being back in the Premier League in the next few years.''

    Leeds boss Simon Grayson did not carry the look of a crestfallen manager and was clearly proud of his players' performance.

    He said: "We were very good again. We passed the ball around well and competed ever so well against a top team in the Premier League. That's all we said to the players - give a good account of yourself and do yourselves justice. Nobody expected us to win apart from maybe 33,000 inside the ground and the players, but we like to think we've come out of it with a lot of credit.''