Spurs7891
Jermaine Jenas
Happy with the win but we really made hard work of it. We always seem to have problems playing against defensive minded teams like Brighton. This was supposed to be our easiest of our remaining matches this season but we almost throw it away. As expected we dominated the match but failed to make our domination count. Our attack looked toothless and didn't look like scoring until Eriksen's long range goal late in the match. Fortunately for us, Eriksen came up with his wonder goal. Makes you wonder why we didn't try those long range shots earlier.
Credit to Eriksen for getting our only goal but all our attacking players were poor in this match. It was a brilliant long range goal by Eriksen but he was poor until then. Not sure why Eriksen can score long range goals like these but cannot score from freekicks for more than 3 years now. Son and Moura didn't look like scoring whole match. After his hattrick against Huddersfield, thought Moura would score at least 1 goal in this match but he only had 1 shot on target. Nothing went right for Son as all his shots went off target. Llorente was even worse as he hardly touched the ball the whole match. Not sure why Llorente played the whole match despite not helping our attack much. Good to see Janssen coming on late in the match but he didn't have much time to make an impact. I think Janssen should have come on for Llorente much earlier. Thought Alli will inspire us but he had another quiet match.
Our midfield didn't have much to do in this match. But we lacked creativity from the midfield to help our attack. Wanyama played well but not sure we even needed him in this match. Maybe Wanyama should have helped our attack more. Wanyama did have a shot on goal but it was well off target. Maybe we should have started with Dier in this match.
Good to see our defence keeping another clean sheet at our new stadium. Brighton didn't really test our defence but they did have a few chances which our defence did well to clear. In fact, our defence were so free that they tried to help our attack at times. Alderweireld was unlucky not to score when his shot hit the post. But our defenders like Vertonghen and Alderweireld should be more clinical with headers whenever we get corners. We had many corners in this match but failed to make it count.
Thought we would get a comfortable win over Brighton but we almost dropped crucial points. This match shows that we won't have any easy matches for the rest of the season. You can bet our self-declared no.1 enemy, West Ham, will make it even harder when we play them next. We need all the players to lift their game for the remaining matches if we want to finish in top 3 this season.
Credit to Eriksen for getting our only goal but all our attacking players were poor in this match. It was a brilliant long range goal by Eriksen but he was poor until then. Not sure why Eriksen can score long range goals like these but cannot score from freekicks for more than 3 years now. Son and Moura didn't look like scoring whole match. After his hattrick against Huddersfield, thought Moura would score at least 1 goal in this match but he only had 1 shot on target. Nothing went right for Son as all his shots went off target. Llorente was even worse as he hardly touched the ball the whole match. Not sure why Llorente played the whole match despite not helping our attack much. Good to see Janssen coming on late in the match but he didn't have much time to make an impact. I think Janssen should have come on for Llorente much earlier. Thought Alli will inspire us but he had another quiet match.
Our midfield didn't have much to do in this match. But we lacked creativity from the midfield to help our attack. Wanyama played well but not sure we even needed him in this match. Maybe Wanyama should have helped our attack more. Wanyama did have a shot on goal but it was well off target. Maybe we should have started with Dier in this match.
Good to see our defence keeping another clean sheet at our new stadium. Brighton didn't really test our defence but they did have a few chances which our defence did well to clear. In fact, our defence were so free that they tried to help our attack at times. Alderweireld was unlucky not to score when his shot hit the post. But our defenders like Vertonghen and Alderweireld should be more clinical with headers whenever we get corners. We had many corners in this match but failed to make it count.
Thought we would get a comfortable win over Brighton but we almost dropped crucial points. This match shows that we won't have any easy matches for the rest of the season. You can bet our self-declared no.1 enemy, West Ham, will make it even harder when we play them next. We need all the players to lift their game for the remaining matches if we want to finish in top 3 this season.
