Van de Ven takes the lead role as Spurs become the first away team to storm Everton's new citadel

Spurs break new ground : Picture by @YTJourno

Premier League

Everton (0) 0

Tottenham Hotspur (2) 3 van de Ven 19, 45+6 Sarr 89

So it's not just Gabriel dominating the air waves in North London.

Tottenham's modern day Jan Vertonghen - Micky van de Ven - struck twice from corners in the first half as Spurs became the first away side to triumph at the shiny new Hill Dickinson Stadium at Bramley Moore Dock.

It was a thoroughly convincing win for Spurs, who never looked under any kind of stress.

Midway through the first half, Tottenham's hugely popular defender nodded home after Rodrigo Bentancur at the far post had forced a Mo Kudus corner back across goal.

Then, as a first half of little incident was drawing to a close, he got on the end of a Pedro Porro corner swung in from the opposite corner flag.

Everton felt hard done by when their own setpiece goal was ruled out for offside on 24 minutes, but the VAR call was correct as both Iliman Ndiaye and Jack Grealish standing near the goal line were impeding Guglielmo Vicario's attempts to reach Jake O'Brien's near post header from a corner.

Vicario kept the two-goal cushion intact at the start of the second half with a fine reflex save to keep out a Beto overhead kick and also got down superbly to turn aside a delected Ndiaye shot. But David Moyes' men hardly threatened after that.

Spurs played conservatively to preserve their hold on the game and plundered a third in the final knockings in front of a thinning crowd - a disenchanted mass leaving even before Pape Sarr nodded a Richarlison pass across Jordan Pickford and into the bottom corner.

Having failed to register a win in their last seven visits to the Toffees' former home of Goodison Park, this was a happy new chapter. And it extended Spurs' unbeaten away run in the Prem to five - four of those being wins.

Thomas Frank can feel very satisfied that after nine games, his side sit third in the table -albeit with five points to make up on leaders Arsenal.

They have quickly recovered from last week's disappointing loss to Villa and are coping well in the absence of James Maddison, Dom Solanke, Dejan Kulusevski and, today, Cristiano Romero. These are all very good signs for the Tottenham coach.

Toffees: (4-2-3-1) Pickford - O'Brien (Rohl 66), Tarlowski, Keane Mykolenko - Garner, Gueye (Alcaraz 86) - Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish - Beto (Barry 66)

Spurs: (4-2-3-1) Vicario - Porro, Danso, van de Ven, Spence - Palhinha, Bentancur - Kudus (Sarr 78), Simons (Bergvall 61), Johnson (Tel 93) - Kolo Muani (Richarlison 61)