Andre Villas-Boas finally got his new Tottenham Hotspur team up and running after a double from Jermain Defoe helped Spurs to a comfortable 3-0 win over Reading in Sunday's only English Premier League game.
Defoe struck one each in either half with Gareth Bale scoring the other as Tottenham picked up their first win of the season against an abject Reading side at the Madejski Stadium.
Spurs took control of proceedings from the opening whistle, with new signing Moussa Dembele controlling the midfield. Reading, however, might have got the opener off a free kick. As the ball was swept in to the far post, the ball seemed to strike Kyle Walker's hand, but the referee Howard Webb gave a free kick to Spurs, for a push on the right-back.
Spurs deservedly got off the mark soon after in the 17th minute, when Gylfi Sigurdsson played a nice ball into Lennon on the right, with the winger then squaring it to Defoe, who calmly slotted the ball past goalkeeper Alex McCarthy.
Sandro then tested McCarthy with a good effort from 30-yards, before Defoe saw a shot just miss the target after controlling a long ball brilliantly. McCarthy almost shot himself and Reading on the foot, when the goalkeeper inexplicably, instead of clearing the ball away, tried to dribble it out, allowing Defoe to rob the ball off him. The England international took his time, before passing it to Sigurdsson in the middle, but the playmaker's shot was brilliantly cleared off the line.
Reading only had their first goal attempt of the game in the 40th minute, underlining Spurs' dominance, with the away side having 13 attempts in the first half alone.
The home side started better in the second half, after Brian McDermott brought in Adam Le Fondre to give reading an extra option up front, but Reading really failed to create any clear-cut opportunities; Brad Friedel pretty much a spectator in the whole game.
The second goal came via Bale in the 71st minute, with the Wales winger seeing his scuffed right-footed shot loop into the back of the Reading net, after Walker had played him the ball from the right. Defoe got his second three minutes later, showing good strength in the halfway line, before making a slaloming run into the box, and finishing expertly with his left foot past McCarthy.
Reading got a consolation goal through substitute Hal Robson-Kanu in the 90th minute, but it was too little too late as Spurs went away with all three points.
