Reading 0-2 Tottenham: Thomas Frank era begins with a win as Will Lankshear and Luka Vuskovic score | Football News

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Thomas Frank took perfect life as a Tottenham chief coach while his team was beating 2-0 reading in his first match in charge.

A lukewarm first half at the selected car rental stadium gave way to a more competitive second, with goals from Will Lankshear and the summer signature of Luka Vuskovic’s victory against Sky Bet League One One Side.

Mohammed Kudus – A signature of 55 million pounds sterling from West Ham last week – was introduced after the break and had a shiny impact, with one hand in both goals.

The first half had a clearly pre-season sensation. The Spurs had almost 70% possession and the reading rolled out largely of the shadows, although they did well to protect the objective of Joel Pereira.

There was a chance for visitors; Dominic Solanke suspended a leg to meet a cross, which ended up with the ball on the roof of the net, before Pereira made an intelligent stop to refuse Pape Matar Sarr at the end of the point, then hit a Mikey Moore shot which looked intended for the right of the top behind.

Frank completely changed his team at the break, with Heung-Min Son, Micky Van de Ven and Kudus among those to join the action.

On Friday, during his first press conference, the Dane had suggested playing an attacker football brand, and this quickly came to the fore.

There was much more goal in their game in the second half, which led to the opening after 49 minutes, when the corner of Kudus was lit by Vuskovic in Lankshear, who passed Joel Pereira.

In four minutes, there were two. Djed Spence moved the ball on Kudus, which set up Vuskovic to sweep at home clinically.

Reading got well and was likely to get on the match sheet, especially in the last 10 minutes, when Guglielmo Vicario made a boost Ben Elliott on the bar, before denying Ashqar Ahmed with almost the final kick of the match.