There’s also Tottenham’s record of not losing on their last eight trips to Villa Park and the 39 points that separate the cubs is reward for not having conceded more than two goals all season until Thursday night.
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They still sit second in the Premier League, just five points from leaders Leicester City, which is what Pochettino may have been referring to when he said ” we have to take the positives ” .
Villa will continue to be without Carlos Sanchez due to a hamstring injury while Jack Grealish and Libor Kozak are still sidelined with ankle injuries. They do have a really easy contest today against last place Aston Villa, but the Foxes also have some games remaining against weak competition.
The Spurs faithful will be expecting to see their team return from the West Midlands with all three points on Sunday as they face a team who are virtually doomed to face the drop.
David Bernstein said: “I am delighted to have been asked to join the Board of Aston Villa”.
Harry Kane has scored 16 goals in his last 20 Premier League appearances for Tottenham, two more than Aston Villa (14) have in their last 20 Premier League games. “Is the Aston Villa game now crucial?”
“But we are professional and playing for a huge club with a huge history”. “The players are not machines”. Football is hard. “I am happy with team and now we need to lift the players because it was a big hit for us (against Dortmund)”. If not maybe we have a problem but always you try to fight. Against Arsenal we played very well but we just didn’t see it out.
The Argentina reflected that it is normal to have “good and bad times” over the course of a 10 month season.
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This is a somewhat leftfield suggestion considering the player’s importance to the Reds and the fact that new manager Jurgen Klopp is unlikely to want to cash in on one of the club’s key players.
