Goalless Again: Spurs Booed Off as Everton Stalemate Extends Barren Start
A 0-0 draw with Everton left Tottenham without a goal or a win four games into the league season, while David Moyes' side quietly extended an unbeaten start.
Four league games into the season, Tottenham have yet to score a goal. Saturday's 0-0 home draw with Everton — the first goalless draw in the Premier League history of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, in its 140th league match there, according to Sky Sports — extended a drought Sky reports as the club's first four-game goalless run in 20 years. The final whistle was met with boos.
Fast start, familiar fade
It didn't begin like a stalemate. Roberto De Zerbi's side poured forward in the opening 20 minutes, and Everton manager David Moyes admitted as much afterwards: "Tottenham were so good for 20 minutes. They put us under so much pressure. We found it difficult to escape from it." Jan Paul van Hecke headed the best early chance wide from close range, per Sky Sports.
Then the game settled into exactly the shape Spurs fans have come to dread. Everton weathered the pressure, grew into the match, and nearly stole it — Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall was gifted possession by goalkeeper Antonín Kinský but shot straight at him, and late on Jordan Pickford produced a superb save at the other end to deny Lucas Bergvall what would have been the winner.
The numbers behind the boos
Sky Sports' Jamie Redknapp put the frustration plainly: "After spending £300m, I didn't think there would be a problem scoring goals. But to not score in six hours of football is absolutely diabolical." Per VAVEL's live coverage, a summer front line featuring Omar Marmoush and Sávio again created without converting.
Two very different unbeaten runs
The point keeps Everton unbeaten this season — a quietly excellent start under Moyes, fresh off a 2-2 draw with Manchester United, with their away record still intact. Spurs remain winless, goalless, and running out of ways to describe the same afternoon.