Soccer / brentford

Players, coach and staff of Tottenham Hotspur proved miracles are possible after connecting two victories in a row! They have won match against Elfsborg in Europa League on Thursday and Brentford away on Sunday. Spurs got important points which sent them among top 8 on Europa League table and most important they proved they can beat someone in England Premier League and increased hope they will not go down to Championship. Let's talk about Thursday match first. Let's not fool ourselves opponent from Sweden Elfsborg is poor side on level on League One team. They came at N17 with idea to concede as few goals as they can. They had just two dangerous situations in Tottenham box and they had 10 players behind the ball in almost every moment. Tottenham players made some chances, had some dangerous moments but couldn't score a goal until second half when Ange sent more of kids from academy on the pitch. I liked every goal Roosters did. First was great cross of Dejan Kulusevski and even better flair following by diving header of forgotten player Scarlett! Dane is very talented player and if you remember Kane gave him his shirt expecting he will replace him in Tottenham in days when he wanted to go in Manchester City. Then he went on loan after loan and never had real chance in his club. Only when Solanke got injured and Richarlison is more injured than fit they remembered they have him on loan and recalled him. Man showed agility and flair and I think he has big future in football. Then second goal happen. Another yang kid from academy Ajayi made eye catchy combination with I think Scarlett who returned ball to him and youngster fired rocket near the post inside the net like he's some skillful experienced player! Great shot which made me think in which universe some club buys Timo Werner and keep players like Ajayi in some basement and don't let them play ?! Third goal was a masterpiece of Mikey Moore who took ball in midfield shook off opponent like he is fly made diagonal run toward the box, entered inside and despite some players were in front of him fired diagonal ball into far away corner of goal for 3:0 and like Glen Hoddle said "made in Tottenham" big victory. Minotaur on Tottenham bench noticed that good players exist in Tottenham academy too and not only abroad. How smart! When will you play them again Minotaur ? Would you play them if more than half squad isn't injured ? You know the answer. Boys proved we should watch them more on the pitch in this season! Second game was hard one. To be honest when I saw Tottenham defense of Davises Porro and Gray I thought they will lose 3:0. This didn't happen entire squad defended well and Roosters won 2:0. It's not like home side didn't have chance, they had them, very promising chances like Mbeumo's shoot after one on one with Spence, header near back post cleared by Porro, big chance after Porro has been done inside the box, but I think Gray blocked attempt. There was one save who is alive situation in second half too. Short deflection of ball which Porro cleared toward Brentford player who fired it above crossbar just like other red and white player from around 5 meters. Maybe last one was offside I am not sure... Tottenham scored rugby goal in Arsenal style after crowding 5 meter box on corner players push each other and ball deflected from Brentford 27 and ended inside the net! Kulusevski had one promissing attack but dangerous ball went through 5 meters with Richarlison unable to get it and that made me think "Scarlett would be on right place if he is on the pitch!" Brazilian had two great moments when he did two opponents on center and ran into dangerous attack which didn't become big chance at the end and one heroic head block of Mbeumo's attempt. Last one was ultimate sacrifice for club. I like that! In Second half Kulusevski had chance but he hit wrong side of net, he had one great movement inside the box between 2 or 3 opponents and then gave ball short to Bergvall who fired it little wide of goal! I already saw that ball inside the net! Then near the end Son passed nice ball toward Sarr who was in decent position and found "tunnel" to send ball through inside the net to seal the victory and important 3 points for Tottenham Hotspur. Away fans started to chant "We are staying up". They also chanted "We want Levy out" a lot. It was end time to unite against this owner who is running this club like he's Arsenal or Chelsea fan. Nice two victories, but let's not lie ourselves first opponent was poor, second was on our level and second game could go in very different way too if on example Mbeumo scored from that chance on 0:0. Worth mentioning is Djed Spence's man of the match performance. He kept Mbeumo quiet most of the game. Yes there was one situation in which Mbeumo crossed ball after he took advantage against him, mentioned one on one which he missed, but Mbeumo is one of the best wingers in league! Keeping player like this quiet was awesome! I want to point out on Ange comment after the game when he said something like yeah Djed was great in this game he will be very important for us until Udogie gets fit. That was piss poor comment of Minotaur. Imagine you just played against one of the best wingers kept him quiet and your manager is telling yeah you were good but when Udogie got ready I will put you back in basement and you will never see the pitch again unless everyone else are injured! This is not right! Man is now at least on level and I think even on better level than Udogie and especially Porro! He should be valid rotation option with regular game time in this club! Yes I forgot he cleared one ball off the line against Brentford too! Next is very important match in League Cup against Liverpool at Anfield. I have no illusion about it. We're defending 1:0 lead from first game. It must be dream of the dreams performance if we think about going to final and on top of that they need to have bad day! Let's hope we can do something there on Thursday!