Aston Villa’s new manager Remi Garde discovered just how hard it will be to save his club from relegation as the Premier League strugglers slumped to a 3-1 defeat at Tottenham on Monday.
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MF Mousa Dembele, 8 – Combined his power with a goal which has often been missing to score his early opener, creating something out of nothing by turning past Ciaran Clark, bullying his way into the box and then backing himself to score from a relatively tight angle.
Garde’s side scored through Jordan Ayew with just over ten minutes left, but conceded in injury time through a Harry Kane goal. Was Kevin MacDonald’s four-fullback lineup on Wednesday a sign of things to come or a radical experiment?
Superior to many of their fellow top-flight clubs in many respects-in this case, their greater combativeness and creative qualities secured a 2-0 lead without barely breaking a sweat-but not so confident they are convincingly and consistently able to show it yet.
Tottenham started their game against the Villans in fine fashion with Mousa Dembele, who is one of their form players, giving them the lead with just three minutes on the clock.
Perhaps the only accomplishment for Villa in the first half was preventing Tottenham from scoring again until stoppage time.
But MacDonald sent on Rudy Gestede and Carles Gil in the second half and the pair gave Villa a more dynamic look.
“Maybe it’s because we are young, maybe our mentality is always to go forward”, Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino said of Ayew’s goal.
Carlos Sanchez: The Colombian was similar to Westwood in the way that he didn’t stand out for good or bad reasons, except he played the full 90 minutes. Though they are unbeaten in the Premier League since the first day of the season, there have been growing pains the run does not immediately reveal at first glance.
One of the founder members of England’s Football League in 1888, Villa were champions six times by 1910, but have won the title only once since.
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Instead, Garde’s first official game in charge will be in front of the Villa Park crowd against title favourites Manchester City this Sunday, it looks set to be absolutely electric!
