‘Spurs look like a relegation team…’ | Sunderland 1-0 Tottenham | The Final Whistle | OFF THE BALL
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You're very welcome along to the final whistle after Tottenham's latest defeat in the Premier League that sees them inside the relegation bottom three with six games to go. They fall into a 1-0 loss to Sunderland, which we brought you on Off the Ball. It was Norti Mukiele's speculative effort from the edge of the penalty area that was flicked goalwards by the heels of Mickey van de Ven and it ended up in a 1-0 win for Sunderland at the stadium, like Brian Kerr was alongside me with it. I can tell, like, as the Tottenham fan within you, there was an air of exasperation coming from you towards the end of that game because at no point did Spurs realistically look like they were going to turn it around in their favour.
No, they didn't. I mean, they created very, very little through the match. It was shot by Porro late on with Carlison. A couple of opportunities which were... wasted I would think but it was also a sign of where the team is at the moment I think his confidence or lack of it was shown by his attempt on goal there were two poor attempts from very good positions where a quality striker of his reputation and history should really have been doing an awful lot better But, yeah, I think anyone watching Tottenham today would have said they looked like a relegation team. There was nobody on the team played with any spark or any great signs that they wanted to rescue the situation they were in. I'm sure they want to, but they didn't deliver on anything.
Van de Veen had a reasonable game up until he gave away that he was at fault on the goal with a deflected shot. He didn't close down Mookie early. Romero did all right before he went off the pitch with the injury. But after that, it was a poor enough performance. Nothing in the middle of the pitch.
What led to Tottenham's defeat against Sunderland?
Solonke was fairly anonymous. Riccardo missed chances. Moani did very little on the substitutes. Had no impact on the game when they come on, Richie. I think their team drained the confidence. The only minor positive thing was that Kinski did all right and couldn't have been blamed for the defeat. A couple of good interceptions and a couple of good saves. But his distribution was fine too, which was his big fault in Madrid against Atletico when he was taken off early in the game.
Oddly enough, it could have been a different game because you think back to that midway through the first half, there was the penalty initially awarded against Sunderland, four spurs for what we thought was a foul penalty Be it from Luke O'Neill or be it from Omer Alderete. But either way, it was Colm O'Neill, I think it was, wasn't it, that went to ground looking for a penalty. Looked as if there was contact. Rob Jones initially gave it, but was then summoned to have another look and overturned it.
Yeah, my view was it was a penalty kick. I know there would be lots of other views and obviously the view of the photo official and the referee we saw, but to me it was a foul. I thought that Alderate was the one in contact with Mouani initially. I thought he made contact with him with the back of his calf and then O'Neill, whatever he was doing, going on the ground, the ball was drifting over the end line. I thought he also made contact with Mouani without getting any contact to the ball. But there you go, it was over. There was plenty of time in the game for sports to get over that and they didn't really once they conceded the goal. they conjured up very, very little.
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