This is why we will remain the laughing stock of world football. We are just a mid table PL club, aiming to be a top 4 club but with the mentality of a League 2 club. We can lift ourselves against top teams but always struggle against bottom teams year in year out. Never thought we will lose at home to a shyte Villa team. We had such an excellent record against Villa that it looked impossible for us to lose. But Spurs will always be Spurs. After the clueless performance against Burnley, we put up another shyte performance and deserved to lose. This is really annoying as we were unbeaten against Villa in 13 previous games. Not sure why the team couldn't lift their performance. It was as if they are trying to help former manager Sherwood in his relegation battle with Villa.
Pochettino again has to take all the blame. His capabilities as a manager will come into question again as he couldn't inspire the team with the starting 11 and the subs. IMO, his main mistake is starting the weak midfield combination of Mason-Bentaleb again despite all their shortcomings in previous matches. Find it annoying that he didn't make any changes to our centre midfield despite getting outplayed by almost all the teams all the time. We badly needed a leader in midfield who could pull our midfield together and help us control the game. I really think Dembele and Stambouli could do that job together. Instead, the inexperienced Mason and Bentaleb makes to many silly mistakes and easily got outplayed by the Villa midfield.
After all the match winning goals by Kane and Eriksen before, suddenly our attack look toothless again. Now Kane looks like the old Kane who was clumsy and clueless in front of goal. Not sure if his England exploits have affected him but he doesn't look like the same player since playing for England. Or maybe being made captain has put him under too much pressure as he doesn't look like scoring now. He really should have scored the goal in the 2nd half when he shot the ball too high after creating the chance for himself. With him at 29 goals now, was feeling very confident he would reach the 35 goal mark. But now not so sure now. Similiarly, Eriksen looked lost and cluless in front of goal as well. Find it hard to believe that this is the same Eriksen who was getting our match winning goals earlier in the season. Annoyingly, despite playing at home against a shyte team, we hardly looked like scoring the whole match.
After getting that clean sheet against Burnley, it is annoying that our defence failed to keep another in this match. It is a pity that Lloris and Vertonghen were not fit to start. Our best defensive partnership should be Vertonghen and Fazio. But with Vorm, Fazio and Dier in defence, it was always going to be too risky for us. Fazio should have stopped Benteke from getting that header. But felt Vorm should have saved the header. Instead he was stupidly going the wrong way before realising the header was going the other way. Annoying that Vorm didn't make any attempt to save the header. But Vorm did make 1 good save later in the match but not convinced he is a capable replacement for Lloris.
After this humiliating defeat at home to a shyte team like Villa, not sure if Pochettino and the players even have the mentality to win any of the remaining matches. With us out of the top 4 race now, not sure they will be even bother about qualifying for EL which they don't seem to enjoy playing in.
