Owen Doyle
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Yes, brutal game.
First half, no shots on target at all from either side and neither keeper had anything to do really for the whole game until Kinski at the end there from George's shot.
But first half, you had nothing in it at all.
Tottenham did look like a treff, a half treff, I'd say, from set pieces.
And obviously, saying this through the commentary, it has been the season of the set piece and that's where Pallegna comes up with the back stick.
It's a great ball in from Tell towards that back post and obviously he just heads it off the post, comes back out to him.
It's coming out of him so fast, it looks like it's nearly behind him as he hits it in with his left foot and just kind of goes over the line before Barry's able to clear it.
Yeah, and to be fair, they were the better team in the first half.
They showed more intent, they had more possession, they had more efforts at goal, not at goal, but towards the goal I should say.
But yeah, not a pretty game at all.
Everything only showed up when I went to additional time there.
He's probably had one opportunity.
George came in from the left side on his right foot, beats Pedro Parra, comes in, tries to whip him into that far corner.
Kinski, to be fair to him, had little to do all game.
And for him, especially after what he's been through this season, to come up with a big moment like that and keep his side with the lead is important for him and obviously important for Tottenham.
They're after saving their season, I suppose, and make sure they're in the Premier League next year.
I think when these things happen, and they've been happening for donkey's years, that the blame is sometimes the TMO, sometimes it's the referee, and sometimes it's the television director.
Now, in this instance, the referee probably saw the clashes
But the modus operandi now, it's gone to the stage that he won't make a decision until the TMO, who's sweeping up behind him, has another look and says, holy moly, we have to look at that.
So he then tells the referee and the referee stops the game and they have a good look at it.