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When we beat Everton 4-0 in our first home game of the season, I described it as potentially "Spurs' easiest game of the season". We've scored four or more goals in five games since that win. I think the 5-0 away win against Southampton supercedes the Everton win. Sunday's game (2pm - SKY) will be our last league game at Goodison Park, and not so easy.

Once again, Spurs have to contend with "new manager syndrome", although for David Moyes, this is a return to the club where he spent his longest time as manager (11 years). During that time "The Toffees" did finish in the top eight ten times and even qualified for a Champions League play-off, which they lost. Everton were then immediately knocked out of the UEFA Cup in the first round. Moyes also led Everton to the 2009 FA Cup Final, but they lost to Chelsea........

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Whilst no Spurs fan in their right mind expected anything out of this game, the facts of the matter are depressing:-

1. We've managed just five points out of the last 27 available to us since beating Manchester City 4-0 away in November.

2. We've slipped down to 13th behind West Ham. This is likely to be 14th tonight when Manchester United surely beat Southampton at Old Trafford.

3. Arsenal have beaten us in 7 of our last 9 meetings and with this win climbed back to second place, 19 points ahead of us.

4. Spurs lost their eleventh Premier League game of the season. The previous times we did this in the Premier League era were bad seasons. (1997/8, 2003/4, 2008/9).

5. Arsenal have won three consecutive Premier League games against us for the first time. This was their fifth Premier League double over Spurs..........

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For months I have held off being too excited in print (okay, on line) about Archie Gray, for fear of putting too much pressure on his young shoulders. But now his potential is so obvious I cannot help but shout from the rooftops: "The future's Gray."

I would say he is the best young Tottenham player I've seen since a young, angel-faced Steve Perryman made his debut as a seventeen-year-old "unknown" back in 1969. Steve went on to play a club record 854 games for Tottenham and skippered them in back-to-back FA Cup triumphs.

Young Archie has only played yesterday's FA Cup third round tie on the sloping, plastic pitch at Tamworth but already to this old man's eyes he is looking (get ready for a new word) Perrymanish. That means he is a born leader. ......

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A team whose coach (until this week) was a part-timer and many of whose players have to go to their day jobs tomorrow were the true heroes of this game. They might have snatched victory in added time at the end of 90 minutes but fell to just about the strongest eleven Ange Postecoglou could muster in extra time.

I'll be honest, I feared the worse as the game edged towards full-time and had a different headline (Plucky part-timers pluck Spurs) prepared.

Naturally, there has been a great deal of hype about this game, and only Spurs fans would have been hoping for an away win. The fairy tale win nearly happened for all those dreamers........

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18-year-old Lucas Bergvall gave a high-energy performance; scored his first club goal, which proved to be the match-winner on the night; and has all the headlines because of Liverpool's insistence Bergvall should have been sent off for a second yellow card just before the goal. It isn't game, set and match to Spurs though, but we will go to Anfield in four weeks' time with a lead to take into the second leg.

Spurs gave a great performance to win on the night here against a strong Liverpool team, although two or three regular starters were given a start on the bench. Signed from Slavia Prague on Monday, 21-year-old goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky was thrown in at the deep end in this semi-final and gave a more than competent debut. Kinsky is clearly destined to challenge Vicario for the number one goalkeeper slot in time.

Another 18-year-old - Archie Gray - played his eighth consecutive 90 minutes at centre-back and had a great game. Djed Spence, playing at left back also impressed, but this was a very good all-round team performance......

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Spurs' horrible run, and indeed horrible season continued with a tenth Premier League defeat (their fifth at home). We've managed just one league win in our last eight games and lost five of those.

Of course, there are mitigating circumstances with more key players on the injury list than I can remember plus the suspension of Rodrigo Bentancur. Even more woe was cast upon the squad this week with illness in the ranks. This led to Fraser Forster's absence and Brandon Austin getting his senior debut in goal. Austin acquitted himself well and was even given the man of the match award by TNT Sport's Ally McCoist. Austin certainly won the fans' favour with a command of his area and a mixture of long and short passing......

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......It was another frustrating game. Spurs yet again conceded the first goal of the game from a familiar weakness a set piece. This was the fifteenth time this year that Spurs have conceded the first goal in a Premier League home game the most ever by a team in the competition's history. Having gained the lead despite missing a penalty they then conceded a second goal with three minutes remaining. They had enough chances to put the game to bed. At the end there was booing and not for the first time it was drowned out by the PA system......

Full report by Declan Mulcahy here...

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