Sarr: It made me want to score even more

First-team

6 Mar 2026

Ismaïla Sarr dedicated his Player of the Match-winning performance to his Crystal Palace teammates following his brace against Tottenham Hotspur.

The Eagles attacker scored his sixth and seventh Premier League goals of the campaign – bringing his personal tally up to 13 in all competitions this season, Palace’s leading total – in the Eagles’ 3-1 win over Spurs in North London on Thursday evening.

Sarr might have even had a first-half hat-trick, but for a close offside call – yet the forward admitted: “It made me want to score a lot more, because I thought I’d already scored!

“But I said: ‘It doesn't matter – we’re going to keep working to get the goal.’

“I saw the spaces. We work on that all the time in training. The coach asks us to run in behind and I ran in behind, like we’d worked on.”

Sarr not only won the penalty which led to his first goal – and Micky van de Ven’s red card for Tottenham – but also produced the cool finish from Adam Wharton’s wonderful pass for Palace’s third, deep into first-half stoppage time.

Those two goals set Palace on their way to a fourth win in seven matches in all competitions, as well as the club’s first-ever back-to-back away league wins at Tottenham.

“It's all thanks to the team,” Sarr said of a memorable victory. “We work well as a team, and individually.

“We've been like this since the start of the season. We work as a team. Congratulations to the team, because everyone worked hard: the coach, the staff, and everyone.

“We congratulate all the supporters too, because they came out to support us so well.

“We're going to keep working because it's not easy. We want to win every game. We’re going to keep working and, by the end of the season, we'll see how it goes.”

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