As for the guests from Brussels, they are at the moment in an even better shape than Tottenham, given that they in the last five games recorded four wins and one draw, and certainly that their most important victory was the aforementioned 2-1 over the Spurs.
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Summer signing Heung-Min Son has also been a recent absentee, missing the club’s last six games with a foot injury.
“It is great to have somebody like him who believes in us and gives us the platform to play on”. Tottenham though have come to life in the last few weeks winning their last two scoring eight goals and conceding two.
“I watched a lot of Premier League football when I lived in Portugal and everyone knows about the north London derby”.
Erik Lamela. The Argentine looks a far more mature player this year and while his performance at White Hart Lane was certainly not faultless, his industry and creativity is becoming a key part of this Tottenham team.
But Dembele sealed victory in the 87th minute with a superb strike into the top corner.
Tottenham and Anderlecht both have four points through three games in Group J. Anderlecht’s win over the English side was their first and only win in group play.
Tottenham Hotspur have left England worldwide Andros Townsend out of its Europa League game at home to Anderlecht tomorrow as a disciplinary measure after an incident with a fitness coach, manager Mauricio Pochettino said today.
Roy Hodgson was saddened by the incident that saw Andros Townsend punished by Tottenham, but insists it had nothing to do with his exclusion from the latest England squad. The match was heading toward a welcome point for the Belgian Pro League side when Dembele struck a memorable victor with just three minutes remaining.
Kane hopes Spurs can maintain their momentum to secure a place in the knock-out stage. “It’s because of the way we are training, our sports science and our medical staff. When you push the players every day, sometimes double sessions, it is very hard for them to suffer in the way that we push them”.
“Apart from their result against Bayern Munich they’ve been doing very well so they’re a great team but we’ve been doing extremely well too”.
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“We are very pleased with him, very happy he has started to score again and I think we deserved to take the three points”.
