Spurs 3 Aston Villa 1 post match thread.

[SoccerHQ]

On this showing we'll be fine v likes of Bournemouth and Palace.

Overall happy with what I've seen today. We badly need to get our actual DMs at the club up to speed. Oh and another striking option in the squad wouldn't have gone amiss.....

Mings and Engles with Heaton behind him looks a superb defensive trio in the making.

As much as it sticks in the throat, Spurs are a very very good premier league side nowadays. 3rd and CL last season and could easily finish 3rd this year.

As much as it's good to get carried away, today shows the huge gulf from a decade ago when we were finishing above them in the league.

Still onwards to Bournemouth where we should get at least a point on the board.

[Smirker]

I hope that collapse doesn't dishearten the players. On to the next game.

[cdbearsfan]

Need to be better at making the ball stick when we go forward to relieve a bit of pressure. Wesley was actually looking a bit better when he got taken off, to be fair.

Impressed by Heaton and Engels and Doug looked promising, too.

Not the end of the world, we will just have to settle for thirty-seven wins this season I suppose.

[TopDeck113]

Our season was never going to be defined by today - or any of our other games against the top five or six teams.  Plenty of positives and hopefully plenty of lessons learned, too.

UTV

[PaulWinch again]

Positives - Engels, SJM and Trez were very good. Mings grew into it.


Jack cost us two goals today, needs to learn and not be so sloppy.


Wes is going to have to hold the ball up a hell of a lot better.

[kipeye]

On this showing we'll be fine v likes of Bournemouth and Palace.

Overall happy with what I've seen today. We badly need to get our actual DMs at the club up to speed. Oh and another striking option in the squad wouldn't have gone amiss.....

Mings and Engles with Heaton behind him looks a superb defensive trio in the making.

As much as it sticks in the throat, Spurs are a very very good premier league side nowadays. 3rd and CL last season and could easily finish 3rd this year.

As much as it's good to get carried away, today shows the huge gulf from a decade ago when we were finishing above them in the league.

Still onwards to Bournemouth where we should get at least a point on the board.

yep, pretty much agree, we will play Bournemouth in their half hopefully and we have a lot of attacking options. Looked tired in the last 20 minutes. Can't fault the effort.

[Nev]

No disgrace there for me but plenty to work on, not least from the Captain. Wesley might need time, Jota looked poor but the defence looked good. One lesson for me, we need to be quicker on the ball.

[Ger Regan]

Frustrating. Whether it would have made any difference I'm not sure, but thought it was much too late changing things in midfield, considering they had been overrun for the entire 2nd half. No embarrassment losing there, but hopefully it will prove a valuable lesson to one or two of the players.

[LukeJames]

Probably the 3rd hardest game we'll have all season. Tbf they look fucking quality.

No disgrace in that result at all

Played well first half, battered us second half.

Engels, Mings, Heaton very good.

Time for drink

[Nastylee]

The defence looked good. Thought we tired in the last half hour and it told with more gaps showing. Lack of striking options worry me.

[LowerNorthStand]

Disappointed. Spurs are on another level. The lads showed true grit until the last ten minutes.

[PeterWithesShin]

Really pleased with the first half, really disappointed with the second. We could barely string a pass together and gave the ball away far too much. We need to learn from this and i'm confident we will.

[hilts_coolerking]

Bitterly disappointed, having defended so brilliantly for 70 minutes.  But we disappeared as an attacking threat in the second half and the constant pressure told in the end.  Mings and Engels were immense and Heaton is a fine keeper so we should be alright at the back against most teams.  We opted to play it out from the back on a number of occasions where a clearance would have been better, notably for Spurs' second, but it happened multiple times in the second half.  McGinn was outstanding in the first half.

I am a bit worried about our attacking options though.

[Ger Regan]

Incidentally, despite much eyebrow raising (including from me), I thought Elmo and particularly Taylor did well today.

[LukeJames]

Lets see how many teams similar to us go there and do better.