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On the day he made his 436th club appearance to move above Harry Kane into our all-time top ten list, Son Heung-min scored his 171st and 172nd club goals which ultimately saw us back into the top eight of the 36-team Europa League.

In the face of adversity (Ange Postecoglou could only take 13 first team players to Germany), Spurs won in Europe for the first time since October and have secured entry to the knock-out phase. A win at home next week to 20th-placed Elfsborg would ensure a top eight position, which would give us a two-game break and see us through to the last 16 as a top seeded club.......

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Call me a stubborn old git or a blind old fool (notice the "old" common denominator), but I refuse to join in the stampede to kick Ange Postecoglou out of his manager's job at Tottenham.

Yesterday's defeat at Everton was as cutting and catastrophic as any in his tottering tenure, but take the first choice goalkeeper and central defenders out of any of the major teams and they will struggle.

An injury list of eleven players - repeat, eleven - would torpedo the plans of all managers, and I am in a shrinking minority that would give Ange at least until the cup challenges before showing him the door.......

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Spurs woes were increased yesterday when rumours spread regarding a knee injury to Dominic Solanke. Post-match, Ange Postecoglou confirmed that Solanke would be out for weeks. Pre-match he had advised us that both Bissouma and Johnson were doubtful. Hence, we started another game with 10 absentees through injury. We did see the return of Ben Davies at the back.

The level of injuries is unprecedented in my experience, but this does not excuse a pathetic first-half performance that allowed Everton to score three goals. They'd only managed three league wins until now and had only scored one league goal in their last six matches. Everton's last home league win over Spurs was just over 12 years ago when David Moyes was in charge for his last season before taking over at Old Trafford. Only Spurs could make "The Toffees" look this good. We became tragically unstuck........

Full report here...

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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..........

Full report here...

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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........

Full report here...

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......

Read the match report in full here...

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......

Full report here...

......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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