Final possession was 53-47 Spurs.
As I said, it was up around 60%
prior to extra time. (10+ mins)…..which was lots of keep-away.
Rice left at halftime with an injury.
and largely invisible to that point….Bissouma played him off the pitch by comparison, imo.
insane we got him for just £30m, and Conte glued him to the bench all of last year.
he’s neck and neck with Maddison as our most impactful player this year, for sure.
Spurs did a great job shutting down Odegaard.
they similarly did a world class job pressing and forcing Tottenham to play out through the fullbacks, vs up the middle with Bissouma & Maddison. Especially in that first 30 minutes.
And the penalty was deserved…the shot would have been in the back of the net absent Romero’s hand.
The rule does make a specific exception for handball occurrences committed as long as a player's body position is "a consequence of, or justifiable by, the player’s body movement for that specific situation." Then a handball is not whistled.
This exception largely comes into play for a defensive player sliding to make a block.
Nearly identical play was ruled not a handball versus Man United a couple weeks ago by Mike Dean…
…and obviously wasn’t called on the pitch in real time. But I digress….close enough to be called, so you got a freebie out of it, happens all the time.
Nice game from him…an OG, a penalty and a yellow card.
Yep, gifted you two…..insane we walked away with a sraw
Big congrats on this not being called a red.
think if this was anything but a NLD, or occurred in the game they’re down to 10 men.
Spurs capitalized on shambolic defending by Saka
You mean gettting turned by Maddison 7 seconds after doing Mads celebration, because he scored on a pen.
was some funny karma….think they’re mates, as Mads took a cheeky shot at him over it postgame. Saka seemed to do the celebration with a similar kind of grin on his face.
IMO, he was the best player on the pitch for Spurs today.
he was great, but I’m not sure this even cracks his top 3 performances so far, 6 games in….honestly thought it was one of his worst in many ways, as Arsenal’s speed kinda exposed his lack of it at times, which no one else had done up to this point.
Van de Ven seems to be the consensus for player of the game amongst Spurs fans, without him I think you may have score 3+ in the run of play.
