De Zerbi would have hoped for a quiet night and a boring win, and that is exactly what he got as Spurs dictated possession, increasingly made Dean Henderson work in the Palace net, and were able to see out the final throes of the game with little fuss and a touch of panache thanks to the young Luca Williams-Barnett.
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