Former Newcastle manager John Carver believes Mauricio Pochettion’s Tottenham Hotspur side can not win this season’s Premier League, despite the fact they are Leicester City’s closest competitors, albeit on a superior goal difference alone from North London rivals Arsenal. He further commented, “you can see in their [the players] eyes, the feeling, the energy, that they believe”. We had some good chances, me included, but the win was the most important thing.
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“Our players, staff, president and supporters believe we are stronger and that we can compete in every competition”.
Tottenham haven’t won the league since 1961 but climbed to second place with this win, their fourth in a row. We play twice against City, twice against Tottenham, twice against Chelsea, and I think this is the more complete team. We are in a very good position in the league but the philosophy from the beginning of the season has been to go step by step. He went on to reinforce his managers message of taking their challenge one step at a time, saying “everyone trains hard” as they want to “do their best” and “fight together”. With 13 matches remaining, Spurs are level on points with Arsenal and five adrift of leaders Leicester City as the race for the title heats up. Unlike then [a 2-1 win for Spurs at Vicarage Road in December] this match this felt impossible and we had few chances to get some points.
He continued: “We cannot forget that things can turn around quickly in football”.
Even still, the air around Tottenham has only thickened with title talk, and it seems more and more that the absolute minimum qualification this term is Champions League qualification.
This week’s Premier League results set up a spectacular Sunday next week.
Each season there are a few players who emerge from the newly promoted sides to become fantasy powerhouses in the Premier League. “When we tried to block the sides they played in the middle”.
Alli had started on the bench after feeling dizzy against Norwich on Tuesday but the 19-year-old took just three minutes to make an impact after coming on as a replacement. Watford couldn’t get out of their own half and one of Tottenham’s many shots on goal was bound to break through.
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Tottenham are the best team Watford have played this season, according to Hornets boss Quique Sanchez Flores.
