daniel chigunwe
LONDON. − Maybe Tottenham genuinely ARE in a relegation battle.
Before, it seemed like a sort of sick joke.
One that fans would have a relieved laugh about once they had come through this awful period and got their multitude of crocked stars back.
But that was before they lost 1-2 at home to Ruud van Nistelrooy’s Leicester side, who had suffered seven straight defeats themselves and scored just two goals in the process.
Jamie Vardy was the man that sparked the shock win, levelling a minute into the second half from Richarlison’s opener, before Bilal El Khannouss’s winner four minutes later.
Now alarm bells really are ringing all throughout N17 because if you cannot beat this lot − scratch that, if you LOSE to this lot − then you can lose to anyone.
The gap is only seven points to the dreaded dotted line and with dreadful, knackered, injury-decimated Spurs without question showing relegation form, would you really rule it out?
It is now one win in 11 league games − and that victory came at doomed Southampton − for Ange Postecoglou, for whom the heat cranked up considerably in the miserable January weather on Sunday afternoon.
The vast number of players sidelined − it was ten here, with ex-Leicester man James Maddison the latest to be ruled out − have severely hampered him.
As has the lack of support this month in the transfer market by Daniel Levy, who was Public Enemy No1 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium here. − The Sun
Online Reporter