Upsetting big London derby is over and Tottenham Hotspur won it with result of 3:2 after why hide it very non convincing performance. It was dread and fear until last whistle if you know what I mean against mighty 15th club on Premier League table which players came to N17 more to provoke than to play football. Main protagonist of such approach was 10 million pound worth Centre-Forward ignorant Neal Maupay. He did not get enough yellow cards in this game, not for fouls but for non sport behavior.
First half was frivolous play by twinkling stars of home side. Sorry about my English under that term I mean players who consider themselves like big stars, but they really are not. Spurs were not only overplayed but battered in first half to the point I switched off channel at half time and converted to watch Liverpool Chelsea game. They push me to the point that I didn't care about final result during half time. I got so upset and nervous that I've eaten sausage rolls disinterested in other room without TV when second half started. I heard commentator running riot shouting Udogie Udogie goal... I was glad about that, but didn't run to see it because of nervousness. I later stood up and slowly came to see it on replay. I didn't want to spoil good start, so I continued eating sausage rolls thinking that those players must have stage fright when I look them playing. I was convinced they will concede again but commentator soon after ran another riot shouting Werner, Werner, Johnson oh what is this 2:1 for Tottenham. That finally brought some smile on my face, I came to see the goal and ran away from TV in dread and fear. After I finished that non planned meal, which will give me 1kg of fat more I just removed from my body, I decided not to upset those players and came in TV room and switched channel to watch Liverpool Chelsea. I was scared to that point that I thought if I just switch back it will be 2:2 or 2:3... I've got courage only on Liverpool half time to quickly move to Tottenham channel to see result of 3:2 and ran away to watch Man City which was leading 3:0. Don't laugh my courage came back after final whistle and I watched highlights and then this morning replay of match without any fear! LoL! That should tell you all you need to know about first half performance and overall defending of Tottenham in this match. It was bellow Championship level of defending and mid table Premier League attacking all over the place.
In first half Brentford scored a goal disallowed for offside, Kulusevski missed chance despite he did run toward goalie with player behind him. He somehow managed to get blocked proving Brennan Johnson is not the only one who can do that. Kulusevski made some promising moves in the beginning but after that miss disappeared from the pitch. Werner tried on the other side, but a part from one good shot from 16m he didn't do much. He also had shocking miss header when he was alone on 5m behind back post. Instead of sending ball inside or targeting other corner he decided to try to target closer part of goal like he is no less than Eric Cantona and ball went 5m wide. That made me tweet do I need to teach 27 years old professional footballer that ? LoL! Richarlison had also one very good shot from 16m but ball went just outside post. That would be world class goal if it happen. That shows me those two are practicing shooting skills on training sessions which is very encouraging. If you want to be attacker in Tottenham you must be danger from short and long range, in the air and on the ground, by both feet and head and to have pace! I hope both of them will come toward that stage. Defending was big problem, Brentford provocators looked faster, able to take ball away from our defenders and midfielders and they did it once more, made quick attack, Toney shoot ball on the target, Vicario deflected and Romero who was 2m closer to the goal somehow failed to clear it and annoying provocator mupet Maupay scored and then tried to mock home players by doing dart celebration of Maddison with Ivan Toney. That was not enough but he started to point and to argue with some fans on South Stand. If he did such thing here in Serbia someone would jump over fence and knock him out. There was one dangerous header by Toney which Vicario saved, plenty of save who is alive situations too. Spurs played something only in last couple of minutes of that half. Meanwhile mupet Maupay managed to walk with ball in hands from out to middle of penalty box before he gave ball to someone to take throw in and did provocations all way around. Clowns from Brentford tried to trick referee to give some cards to our players by falling like that after slightest touches. Fortunately referee didn't fall in that trap.
How the hell Romero failed to clear this ? I still don't know.
I don't know what was happening in the dressing room, but Bentancur who had shocker of the game and Skipp went out and Hojbjerg and Brennan Johnson came in. Tottenham played serious 20-25 minutes in second half. First Udogie somehow got deflection after his attempt to shot, that threw him alone in front of goalkeeper and he scored a goal for 1:1. Soon after Timo Werner start "dancing on the dance floor", ran on left side and send very good low ball inside where Brennan Johnson tackled to score "touch down" for 2:1. Then Tottenham players started throwing darts mocking away players while home fans started to shout "You're not singing anymore" to away supporters.
Oh I forgot to tell you the most important substitute during half time. It's Maddison comes in instead of his brother who played first half. He started to show what he can do and after couple of mad dribbles inside the box ball deflected where pigeon from Brasil loves the most inside 5m to him with only one opponent in front because goalie was on first post. Brazilian pigeon socred throw his legs and then started showing his dark arts by throwing darts, pointing somewhere and toward his head mocking away players. Who laughs the last has the sweetest laugh! What do you have to tell now muppet Maupay ? Hahaahha :) Then he did his dance. It was 3:1 and it looks like game over, but it was not.
Soon after it was "Paratici said come and play for me, singing do whah didi do didi do. Tottenham new Brazilian wearing white and blue. He looks good, he looks fine Richarlison is on my mind and he's Tottenham number 9" situation all around on N17. Loved fact that this song of SpursSongSheet found way to the terraces. It's banger. I hope to listen it a lot more with good reason.
Ivan Toney did one good shot, Vicario saved it, I think Maupay had one chance too, but missed and entire stadium laughed at him after, but then Udogie was not aware of his situation and sent ball toward Vicario not seeing Ivan Toney is in front of him. Shirt colors close to green should be forbidden because players can mask themselves in the grass... I am joking of course, someone surely prevented him from seeing football gambler backwards. Ivan easily scored for 3:2 and late drama. We saw couple of promising attacks of Tottenham too, one shoot from Porro and couple of other situations but that final pass or execution of ignorant opponent didn't happen. Romero was short in one situation but attempt after ended up over goal, same player saved us with one good anticipation and taking ball away from visitors. Near the end Madders fell down and went out and Dragusin came in and that stabilized that defense a little. Romanian did make few nice things backwards and saved us from some more troubles.
What to tell after this ? I am not sure if that Brentford level is our current level, where we are like a club or maybe we underestimated them very much before the game or maybe Daniel Levy and Dixie (bald guy on Tottenham bench his relative) are to serious players of from 2 to 1 and lovers of odd of 30 ? At the end the best in this big victory against big opponent was Richarlison. He is that for me too, but because of nice dark arts after tap in goal. Other reason is guy is practicing shooting and that is big plus in my eyes. Werner game was mix of very good and very bad things, but at the end of the day he wrote goal involvement again and he was man of the match number 2. His shot in first half near the post was cunning like fox, but his header miss was stupid like brick, his assist for Johnson was top notch, but that was only Brentford 15th club on the table without Mbemba who was injured and didn't play.
Next game is in few days. It is struggling Everton away, but despite those struggles they were very good against us on our ground so I wouldn't count 3 points there in advance. Quite contrary if we defend like this we have nothing to search there. Tottenham Hotspur must play much more serious football than this if they want to stay in top 4 and even in top 6 of the table. Difference between this game and Liverpool and City game was frightening high. Some players need to ask themselves why are they slower than opponents ? Why do they look like they don't even train football on the pitch ? It was nice win, but already second game during which I switched channels at half time time this season. First was vs Chelsea. I hope I will not need to do that in the future, but I am ready to do whatever it takes to make Spurs win including not watching match live or gaining extra body fat. :)
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