Tottenham return to top spot with win over Fulham

Tottenham 2-0 Fulham: Heung-min Son and James Maddison return Spurs to top of the Premier League

Report and highlights as Tottenham's protagonists Heung-min Son and James Maddison kept up their unbeaten league record with a comfortable 2-0 win over Fulham on Monday Night Football; Fulham stay 16th with just two wins in last eight league games

Tottenham returned to the top of the table after beating Fulham 2-0 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as Ange Postecoglou set a Premier League record for the best start by a manager after nine games.

Goals from Heung-min Son (36) and James Maddison (54), the two players filling the void left by Harry Kane, secured the three points which knock Man City off top spot. Fulham failed to cope with Spurs' relentless pressure from the front with Calvin Bassey losing possession on the edge of his box for both goals.

Postecoglou now has 23 points in his first nine games, which surpasses the previous best set by ex-Chelsea head coach Guus Hiddink and former Norwich boss Mike Walker (22). The Australian has transformed Spurs in less than four months and put them firmly in contention for Champions League qualification and perhaps more.

Fulham battled hard to fend off Spurs, and were denied by two fantastic Guglielmo Vicario saves in each half, but were always second best to Postecoglou's tireless Spurs team and failed to recover after the second goal. They stay in 16th with just two wins in their last eight league games.

Player ratings

Tottenham: Vicario (8); Porro (7), Romero (7), Van de Ven (7), Udogie (7); Hojbjerg (8), Sarr (8); Kulusevski (7), Maddison (9), Richarlison (7); Son (9).

Subs: Skipp (6), Emerson (6), Lo Celso (N/A), Johnson (N/A), Veliz (N/A).

Fulham: Leno (5); Castagne (6), Bassey (4), Ream (6), Robinson (6); Palhinha (7), Lukic (5); Decordova-Reid (6), Pereira (5), Willian (6); Vinicius (5).

Subs: Reed (5), Jimenez (5), Wilson (6), Cairney (N/A), Iwobi (5).

Player of the match: James Maddison (Spurs).