Friendly wins for Spurs, Palace, Saints & Newcastle
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Teenager Mikey Moore scored a late winner as Tottenham overcame Japanese champions Vissel Kobe 3-2 in a pre-season friendly in Tokyo.
The 16-year-old winger produced an 88th-minute finish from close range to clinch victory for Ange Postecoglou's side.
Son Heung-min had given Tottenham the lead in the second half before Vissel Kobe drew level just after the hour mark when Jean Patric fired past Brandon Austin.
Earlier, Pedro Porro latched on to Dejan Kulusevski's clever backheel to cancel out Vissel Kobe's opener through Yuya Osako.
Spurs will resume their pre-season campaign against K League All-Stars on Wednesday when they move into captain Son's home country South Korea.
They will then face Bayern Munich, who will be without former Spurs forward Harry Kane, on 3 August in Seoul.
Elsewhere on Saturday, Crystal Palace cruised past League One Crawley Town 6-3 in a friendly at Broadfield Stadium.
Palace raced into a 4-0 lead at the interval after goals by Odsonne Edouard, new signing Daichi Kamada and two from Jesurun Rak-Sakyi.
Crawley's Rushian Hepburn-Murphy scored twice after the break to reduce the deficit before Jordan Ayew stretched Palace's lead with their fifth.
Jack Roles added a consolation for Crawley but Palace had the final word as Jeffrey Schlupp scored their sixth.
Newcastle continued their preparations with a routine 2-0 win over Championship side Hull City at MKM Stadium.
Alexander Isak poked in from a Jacob Murphy cross before the winger added a second with a cross which trickled in at the far post.
Ipswich Town were beaten 2-1 by German second-tier side Fortuna Dusseldorf at Portman Road as they continue to build up to their Premier League return.
Danny Schmidt handed the visitors the lead in front of over 15,000 fans as Ipswich played their first home game since winning promotion there in May.
Marcus Harness levelled for the hosts but Tim Rossman's second-half strike secured victory for the German outfit.
League Two Salford City came from behind to spring a surprise at Peninsula Stadium with a 2-1 win over Everton.
James Garner fired the Toffees in front with a clever free-kick but Eli Campbell's own goal drew Salford level before Dan Chesters fired a late winner.
Southampton, meanwhile, beat Ligue 1 side Montpellier 3-1 in Spain.
Kamaldeen Sulemana had to score from the rebound after his penalty was saved to hand Saints the early lead, before Tyler Dibling doubled their advantage.
Wahbi Khazri pulled one back for the French side but Southampton instantly hit back to seal victory with a Taylor Harwood-Bellis header.
In the early game of the day, Nottingham Forest were beaten 1-0 by Elche at Pinatar Arena