#FT: Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Aston Villa
Venue: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Tottenham Hotspur
Guglielmo Vicario, Ben Davies, Emerson Royal, Destiny Udogie, Pedro Porro, Dejan Kulusevski, Giovani Lo Celso (Alejo Veliz), Rodrigo Bentancur (Pierre-Emile Højbjerg), Son Heung-Min, Bryan Gil (Oliver Skipp), Brennan Johnson.
Subs: Brandon Austin, Jamie Donley, Alfie Dorrington, Fraser Forster, Eric Dier.
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Aston Villa
Emiliano Martínez, Pau Torres, Diego Carlos, Lucas Digne, Ezri Konsa, Douglas Luiz, Boubacar Kamara, John McGinn (Jacob Ramsey), Matty Cash (Leon Bailey), Ollie Watkins (Jhon Durán), Moussa Diaby (Youri Tielemans).
Subs: Leander Dendoncker, Álex Moreno, Clément Lenglet, Tim Iroegbunam, Robin Olsen.
MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN
22’ Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Aston Villa 0. Giovani Lo Celso (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Pedro Porro with a cross following a corner.
27’ Matty Cash (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
32’ Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg replaces Rodrigo Bentancur because of an injury.
38’ Boubacar Kamara (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
41’ John McGinn (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
45’+7’ Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Aston Villa 1. Pau Torres (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Douglas Luiz with a cross following a set piece situation.
45’ Substitution, Aston Villa. Leon Bailey replaces Matty Cash.
45’ Substitution, Aston Villa. Youri Tielemans replaces Moussa Diaby.
61’ Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Aston Villa 2. Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Youri Tielemans.
71’ Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Oliver Skipp replaces Bryan Gil.
82’ Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card.
86’ Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Alejo Véliz replaces Giovani Lo Celso.
90’+1’ Substitution, Aston Villa. Jacob Ramsey replaces John McGinn.
90’+2’ Substitution, Aston Villa. Jhon Durán replaces Ollie Watkins.
Spurs new manager bounce has ended. Banter has started
Look at our injury/suspension list and then say it’s his fault
Unai Emery has Aston Villa in 4th. What a fucking madman. Give this prodigy a team with Villa in it’s name and he will work miracles.
martinez was incredible, hard not to love him
I don’t care if we finish midtable, we broke them
I like Postecoglu, but I’m gonna be a spurs hater for the rest of the season after the way the first match with Liverpool went.
So this was nice.
Can’t imagine I’m gonna click on that link.
Watkins could be a serious option for Arteta, he’s a menace.
Why are Spurs fans acting like they’re the only ones with injured and suspended players? Last season Chelsea had like 11-12 players who could make the first team squad out for months due to injury and United this season. They were laughing when it happened to others. But it doesn’t feel nice when it happens to you, does it?
Ange learning that you can’t stick to one plan the entire season
This ain’t the SPL
Almost as if when we lost 4 or 5 key starters and had to play the same old culprits under our previous managers, we start playing seeing the same problems.
I know it’s hypothetical, but I reckon Spurs win that if Bentancur didn’t need to go off.
Luiz was class and Villa just cut through the mid on the counter as soon as he went off.
The amount of Spurs fans wishing Matty Cash serious injury and even cancer in their sub is disturbing but not surprising. Just spent 10 minutes reporting 30+ accounts for threatening violence. 1 ban already came through, hopefully many more.
Mate mate mate mate you wouldn’t believe it mate but Unai Emery’s brilliant Aston Villa side went up to the media darling’s backyard and utterly smoked them mate. They conceded first mate but then Big Pau Torres headed a towering header home past Big Ainge’s keeper mate then Ollie Watkins grabbed the game-winner mate, oh my God mate unreal scenes to witness mate and such a dagger to the hearts of Sky Sports and every other UK-based media who hyped up these lot while the whole world knows these guys have losing in their club’s DNA and their downfall was only a matter of time mate
Ange seems like a great bloke but his refusal to adapt from his system has completely fucked this team over.
They are all gassed, too many injuries, playing at full speed for 100+ mins. This injury crisis isn’t a coincidence. These tactics take their toll. He never had the strength in depth to maintain this and every injury compounds the obvious issue. It also requires players returning from injury to be playing at 100mph which is unwise.
Teams that have success playing like this have much better squads and know when to slow it down or play defensively when necessary.
Villa played awful today and still won, Chelsea played awful against them and won 4-1, Wolves were able.to keep going for the full match and deserved the win.
It will be fun to watch, but without better game and squad management this team will be lucky to finish in the top 8.
The ghost of Nuno appears
That was an entertaining match. Ange is probably going to cop criticism but it’s not his fault his players couldn’t finish. Another day and they could’ve easily had 6 goals.
Not a single spurs fan is blaming Ange for this loss. The tactic was good but the players just arent good enough