"Who know names of assistant managers ?" asked Conte's staff member and Spurs assistant manager Cristian Stellini. Who else has so good assistant manager ? I can ask him and Ryan Mason. Tottenham won West Ham in London derby 2:0. Performance in first half was, a part from first minute, good defensively, we were in control, but didn't make many problems to visitors. Then in second half everything changed. Dejan Kulusevski become old "ginger from Sweden" we all know and problems for visitors started. Emerson Royal who had excellent game again managed to finish one good attack started by also excellent Hojbjerg and continued by Davies. One who told Emerson to go more in the middle was real master. Stellini brought in Son in same minute like in Leicester game when he scored 3 goals and Korean looked like full of strength, sprinted all around, did run in for Kane's pass and scored for 2:0. I am happy for both Emerson and Son and hope those goals will give them some more confidence. I shouldn't forget Hojbjerg who was also very good.
One who were not good was referee. I forgot his name (Oliver?) but I hope I will never see him again referring Tottenham game. First he didn't give clear and obvious penalty for home side after one West Ham ignorant literally kneel and deliberately made handball which prevented ball to come toward Kane. Equally bad was referee in VAR room who didn't call him to watch that situation again. Antonio from West Ham did two open sole tackles and got only one yellow card. That didn't stop disgrace from Declan Rice to make brawl with Tottenham player after Ivan Perisic made similar tackle and got yellow.
Stellini and Mason have now 3/3, they were in charge of 3 games and we had 3 wins (Marseille away CL, Man City, this London derby) , while Stellini was in charge of six and won all six. Antonio Conte doesn't need to rush with his recovering from operation. He should return once he is fully fit. Until then he can be Conte consulting for those two.
Player who didn't have great game is Richarlison. Deki found him alone on around 16-20 meters, he made bad shot straight into goalkeeper arms. Let's hope he'll be better in following games. Son coming in off the bench, Emerson moving in the middle on attacks that were very smart moves. Son was ready to score second goal in last seconds, but Kane didn't send him ball on time.
I am happy for good performance, for stability, for clean sheet too. Forster also saved one shot showing he's not hopeless and that he is returning in form.
For the end Spurs Song Sheet wants you to remember this song:
Cristian Stellini, Cristian Stellini,
He eats risotto, he drinks espresso
he's won every game tho,
1,2,3,4...
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Congratulations and keep playing with same wish and passion and we have chances to end this season in good way. COYS!
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