Not sure how we won this match. This was supposed to be the easiest of our remaining away matches. We had an excellent record against Swansea going into this match. And Swansea had the worst defensive record in the league this season. Yet in a typical Spurs way, we didn't turn up, were poor for most of the match and almost lost to them for the first time in the league since 1982. But somehow, we managed to come back to win and stay in the title race.
I think our real hero who inspired us to this win is not any Spurs player but the Swansea goalkeeper. If the Swansea goalie didn't make a big fuss and refused to be replaced, the match would have finished without any drama and we would have went down tamely. Instead that moment of comedy embarassed Swansea, affected their concentration and fired us up. Suddenly we looked hungry and all the players who were missing previously suddenly turned up to help us get this win. Players like Alli, Eriksen and Son were missing for large parts of the game but suddenly woke up to score the goals that we badly needed. Janssen had barely touched the ball after replacing Sissoko but helped himself to 2 assists in that crazy moment. In fact, we could have scored more goals had the match continued longer than the 7 minutes injury time.
Was worried about Wanyama missing out through injury. But fortunately Swansea didn't trouble our midfield much. We did miss Wanyama's hard work for large parts of the game. Dier simply made too many mistakes in midfield. Also expected more from Dembele but he couldn't lift his game. Similiarly Sissoko was a big letdown. Thought he would make use of the chance given to him to show his worth but he was poor again.
It was a poor goal to concede for our defence so early in the match. Davies should have done better to block the cross but Alderweireld should have cleared it as well. Can't blame Vorm for the goal but he was not really tested apart from that. But was annoyed with out constant back pass to Vorm which put our goal in danger. Thought Vorm was shakey a bit but fortunately he did't have to make too many saves.
It is great to get our 5th consecutive league win. Too bad we couldn't close the gap to Chelsea who also won. Hopefully this win will boost our confidence to finish the season strongly.