Tottenham Hotspur v Aston Villa Match Thread

[danlanza]

It's just been pointed out in the commentary of the stream I'm watching that we've won 3 league games since the start of January.

Worrying stat that is.

[onje_villa]

Can we please just fast-forward to the end of the season when our young players will have settled, we're climbing the table and all our little flicks and passes are coming off.

Right now, I'm too scared that we will remain the square root of shit for the rest of time.

[Goldie.7]

I've only just got back and turned the match on. The problem as i see it is that all their players are better than ours. It's not fair.

And that is the problem. No disgrace in losing here. Anyone who thought this season would not be challenging is very naive. It will get better but will take time.

It is a disgrace we are supposed to be a competitive football club. They would of won this all day long with 1 goal.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

At half time at 0-0 I was pleased with how we had kept it at 0-0 and asked for us to be a little more patient in the last third and retain the ball better.
The problem we had was that we were playing as well as we could and our substitutions made us worse - their substitutions improved them. Darren Bent is just the type of striker we needed when we purchased Heskey, as a struggling side he offers the square root of fuck all unless he is 6 yards from goal. Sadly a pitch is 110 yards. The fact of the matter is we're not good enough. Delph, Bannan and Albrighton have all started games this season and they're clearly not good enough. El Ahmadi doesn't instill me in confidence when we play 4-4-2. Holman, you can't fault his effort or work rate but the quality is championshipesque. As for the youngsters like Bennett, Lowton and Benteke, they need to be given time, but it would help their development if they were playing with experienced premiership players and not the likes Delph, Bannan and Albrighton.
Spurs are a million miles ahead of us, the diffference being they have an astute business man who knows his football in Daniel Levy, we have Lerner who doesn't give a fuck. 
Even West fucking Brom are better than us and it fucking hurts like hell.