From Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – Nottingham Forest gave Tottenham Hotspur efficiency when clinical visitors dipped on Monday evening with a 2-1 victory over their wasteful hosts.
Elliot Anderson and Chris Wood were able to convert half of the four shots from Forest, while Richarlison was only able to find the network with one of the 22 efforts by Tottenham in a painfully extensive display for the PosectoGlou page.
The outfit in North London is located in the depths of the 16th place, while Nottingham Forest increased its hope for the qualification of the Champions League by climbing into the top three.
How the game unfolds
The mood around the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was refreshingly light and airy before the kick-off. The evening that chill had not grabbed in an unwritten semi -finals of the Europa League through the progress of last week. Elliot Anderson burst this bladder within the first five minutes.
Anthony Elanga’s scratchy corner gently steered in the way of Forest’s No. 8, who cut his shot from the underside of Rodrigo Bentancurs Thigh on the way to Guglielmo Vicario.
Chris Wood was rejected by a fast offside rating in the tenth minute, but had his name on the goalsman with almost a quarter of an hour. In the second phase of another set piece, Elanga found Platz to swing a devilish ball on Wood’s head.
Tottenham against the best leaders in the division, one side that is best when it is secured against the wall and was put into the box on the crosses of hope. The forest wiped most of these optimistic deliveries and Mathys Tel Tela made a wild effort after Neco Williams made a rare mistake in the first half.
Matz Sels’s goal began to lead an increasingly enchanting life when Forest concentrated to keep her lead with two goals instead of expanding it. Dejan Kulusevski had a look at Harry Toffolo’s line, while Richarlison spurned three particularly presentable openings and managed to find his way into the net without bringing the ball.
The Brazilian finally scored his goal in the 87th minute and climbed over a lot of red shirts to control Pedro Porros excellent cross beyond Sels, but it turned out to be too late.
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In a department that is increasingly dominated by high-aware special coaches, a league in which Arsenals Nicolas Jover has his own mural, Forest’s Set-Piece-Vorstach position has slipped somewhat under the radar. Forget every character that was immortalized in ink on a brick wall and separated from her set-piece trainer Simon Rusk in October.
But two dead goals on Monday took the seasonal balance from Forest to 14, the joint in the Premier League (and one more than arsenal). In contrast to the last semester, when Poseteclou took a bizarre defiant attitude towards the concept of working on set pieces, Tottenham is no longer completely unhappy with regard to dead balls. But Wald showed again that Spurs gives even more a lead.
“There are certain things that are not negotiable and the first is [that] I want my teams to have the ball, “said Postecoglou in 2020 to Hudl’s High Performance Insights Congress.
Nuno Espirito Santo has a pretty different approach. Forest average the lowest amount of possession in the Premier League. The yawning gap that the two teams separated in the league this season suggests which strategy was more effective.
Wald was predictably satisfied with having spores the ball that they long for, and scurried in a red block that was satisfied to defend deep in their own half. Espirito Santo was married to a reactive approach that he exchanged the entire second half against a back five.
Visitors may have started far fewer attacks, but every forward thrust had a lot of threats when the red arrows flew through a back cooked midfield, which was not convincingly protected by the hardly threatening regulations. Rodrigo Bentancur.
Spurs had her chances, but again could not take her in a painfully familiar scenario. Including on Monday, in which Tottenham organized 70% of the ball, the team from Popecoglou with its highest possession statistics in the campaign only won one of the 11 Premier League games.
The first time that Nuno Espirito Santo returned to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium after four unhappy months in North London. Now you live in the top three and have a semi -finals for FA Cup to look forward to this weekend.
At that time reports claimed that Espirito Santo has never won in Tottenham’s changing room, as it was very obvious that he was the club’s (at best) candidate. Even Gennaro Gattuso was in front of him in the summer of 2021.
The same is hardly true about his relationship with the forest man. “The manager is fantastic. His man management is unsurpassed,” enthused Elanga at the beginning of this month. “He believes in us and we believe in him. If they work together, they will not stop them.” This camaraderie has turned out of a collective effort to keep spores in chess.
The Tottenham Office of Espirito Santo was completed in seven league games after five defeats. The loss on Monday ensured that Popecoglous has exactly the same task of poor form.
Postecoglou reported that last Thursday it had booked its place in the semi -finals of the Europa League in the semi -finals in the Europa League. The mood may be a little different on Monday.
Only a Spurs boss during the club’s entire Premier League story has ever lost more than the current record of 18 games in a single season. There are still five games for the Australian to break the undesirable record of Ossie Ardiles from 19 during the 1993/94 campaign.
Spurs ended a low 15th this season. This year there were 22 teams in the Division and Tottenham, the 16th of the 20th of the 20th.