Tottenham Hotspur have been thrashed by Brighton & Hove Albion to complete a depressing Premier League marketing campaign that has been salvaged after which some abroad.
Certainly, Ange Postecoglou’s aspect dared to dream in midweek, beating Manchester United in Bilbao to seal the Europa League title and finish 17 interminable years of rotten luck on the trophy entrance.
A hangover was anticipated, however this bruising defeat was not an outlier for the Lilywhites, who’ve wrapped up the 2024/25 league marketing campaign languishing in seventeenth place.
There’s a lot for chairman Daniel Levy to chew on over the approaching months, with a number of gamers doing themselves few favours down N17 this weekend.
Spurs’ worst performers vs Brighton
Tottenham misplaced their twenty second top-flight match of the season, marking the top of their worst-ever Premier League marketing campaign.
The defensive capitulation underlined the crux of Postecoglou’s woe this season, with pitiful performances from the newly-promoted trio proving the tenuous barrier between Tottenham and a real relegation dogfight.
There have been quite a lot of drained legs after the interval, and Dominic Solanke’s early penalty was too little to offer Tottenham the power they wanted to complete the time period off on robust footing, with Pedro Porro and Archie Grey missing their traditional enthusiasm, substitute Wilson Odobert inefficient when welcomed after the break.
Yves Bissouma made a hash of issues when introduced off the bench, gifting away the penalty after bringing down Diego Gomez within the field, resulting in Matt O’Riley’s spot-kick to make it 3-1. A fourth would observe in stoppage time.
It was a efficiency to overlook, all informed. Definitely not the fixture of the week that will probably be remembered in years to return.
One man particularly failed to duplicate his glowing midweek kind, shining a light-weight on his skill to emerge on the largest second, harking back to former hero Lucas Moura.
Spurs’ new Lucas Moura
Lucas performed an vital function for Tottenham after signing from Paris Saint-Germain for £23m in 2018, posting 39 targets and 27 assists throughout 221 appearances in all competitions.
Nevertheless, he did not at all times preserve the requisite ranges for a repute in English soccer as a really lethal ahead, one who can preserve their output invariably.
Lucas Moura – Tottenham Stats by Competitors | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Competitors | Apps | Objectives | Assists | G/A Fee |
Premier League | 152 | 20 | 16 | 0.24 |
Champions League | 22 | 6 | 1 | 0.32 |
FA Cup | 17 | 5 | 6 | 0.65 |
League Cup | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0.17 |
Europa League | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0.50 |
Convention League | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0.75 |
UEL Qualifiers | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0.66 |
UECL Qualifiers | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
Stats through Transfermarkt | ||||
Now, Brennan Johnson is in peril of adopting an analogous repute, proving Tottenham’s hero on a giant night time however struggling to mission his best kind with the specified diploma of consistency.
Make no mistake, this has been a promising time period for the previous Nottingham Forest man, who joined for a £47.5m price in July 2023 and has sharpened his goalscoring sense this 12 months, bagging 18 targets and 7 assists in all competitions.
He failed so as to add to his haul in opposition to the Seagulls, nevertheless, unable to affect proceedings for his struggling and, frankly, sapped aspect.
Soccer.london’s Alasdair Gold noticed the humorous aspect, branding the Welshman with a 5/10 match ranking however quizzing why he was permitted the complete 90 after such frenzied celebrations solely days earlier, bundling in the one aim in opposition to United on Wednesday.
Like Johnson, Lucas appreciated to make a key contribution on the continental scene for Tottenham, miraculously scoring that hat-trick to ship Mauricio Pochettino’s aspect by way of to the Champions League closing manner again when, however he lacked consistency, and that is one thing Ange’s star must work on.
Underscoring this, the Wales worldwide has solely netted in three of his previous 20 Premier League video games, emphasising an up-and-down nature that Lucas carried by way of his profession in English soccer too.
The great factor is Johnson might be afforded some leeway, after all, after his aim on Wednesday night time, however he nonetheless noticed an opportunity go begging after being performed into house and struggled to impose himself, albeit working arduous defensively, making two clearances as he discovered himself hemmed within the defensive third, as per Sofascore.
Johnson additionally accomplished solely 9 of his 17 tried passes, a hit fee of simply 53%, did not make a dribble, failed with all three tried passes from vary, and did not even try a trademark dribble.
Nonetheless solely 24, thoughts, he is bought loads of time to hone his expertise and attain the extent these round him know he’s able to.
One factor’s for positive: he has already left a much bigger legacy than his Brazilian positional peer and will attain larger nonetheless with a number of enhancements over the approaching season.
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