Football friendlies: tired Tottenham beaten by Bayern Munich in Seoul

Tottenham were beaten 2-1 by Bayern Munich in a sold-out friendly in Seoul, suffering their first defeat of pre-season.

Having enjoyed victories over Hearts, QPR, Vissel Kobe and a K-League XI so far in July, Ange Postecoglou’s side came unstuck against Bayern in front of 70,000 fans. Gabriel Vidovic and Leon Goretzka were on target for the German giants, with Pedro Porro’s long-range strike no more than a consolation for Spurs.

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Vincent Kompany’s Bayern side did not feature Harry Kane – who is still resting after England’s run to the Euro 2024 final – but started on the front foot, going close through Serge Gnabry before Vidovic pounced on a mistake by Spurs keeper Guglielmo Vicario to open the scoring after just four minutes.

Midfielder Goretzka, who was left out of Germany’s Euros squad, doubled Bayern’s lead just before the hour mark. Ten minutes later, Porro found the bottom corner with a fierce strike from 25 yards out, but Tottenham could not find an equaliser. The two sides will meet again at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium next Saturday.

Summer signings Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall both featured, with full-back Gray playing as a holding midfielder and Sweden’s Bergvall replacing James Maddison at half-time. For Bayern, recent recruit João Palhinha came on for the second half, while fans were happy to see both Son Heung-min and Kim-min Jae feature for either side.

Postecoglou felt that the team’s run of recent games, and the intense heat in the South Korean capital, played a part in the defeat. “The players were showing the effects of us working hard here for 10 days,” the Spurs manager said. “I think we’ll get an enormous benefit from this camp, but tonight we perhaps paid the price for it.”

Newcastle United ended their tour of Japan with a disappointing 2-0 defeat to Yokohama F Marinos. The Brazilian winger Elber and midfielder Jun Amano were on target in either half for the J-League side in Tokyo, while new recruit Lloyd Kelly made his debut in central defence for the Magpies.

“I thought we started brightly and faded after we conceded,” the Newcastle manager, Eddie Howe, said afterwards. “I am disappointed with the result, of course. We didn’t do well enough to cause their goal more harm.”

Everton ran out 3-0 winners against Preston at Deepdale. New signings Jake O’Brien and Jesper Lindstrøm scored in the second half, after Dominic Calvert-Lewin gave Sean Dyche’s side a 19th-minute lead from the penalty spot.

The only negative from an encouraging victory for the Toffees was the foot injury suffered by striker Youssef Chermiti. “That one is a bit of a blow,” Sean Dyche said. “He’s done great in pre-season and looked sharp. We’ll have to wait and see but it’s certainly not going to be a couple of weeks, it will be longer than that.”

Ipswich earned a 1-0 win against Hoffenheim in Austria, midfielder Jack Taylor scoring the only goal just before half time. Leicester were also in pre-season action against Bundesliga oppositon, but lost 1-0 to Augsburg. Adam Armstrong scored the only goal at the Den as fellow promoted side Southampton edged out Millwall .

Danny Welbeck’s penalty earned Brighton a 1-0 victory at QPR, while Kevin Schade was on target for Brentford as they drew 1-1 at Watford. At Elland Road, Leeds earned a 2-1 win over Valencia with first-half goals from Mateo Joseph and Georginio Rutter.