Spurs are sliding at speed and route back up is packed with obstacles | Jonathan Wilson

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At a time when money is tight the club need six new players and another new manager, and doubts surround Kane and Son

Fans from both sides at a game between two English clubs? Nature is healing. Delays on the Jubilee and Metropolitan lines on Cup final day? Nature is healing. Manchester City winning the League Cup, again? Nature is healing. Everywhere you looked on Sunday, English football was returning to normal. And there is nothing, perhaps, quite so familiar in English football as the prospect of Tottenham wondering where they go next.

If they still had hope in the final 10 minutes it was only because of the eternal truism that a side that have had dozens of chances and failed to score will inevitably then concede to the first opportunity they give up. But for Tottenham the chance never came: Opta may have recorded that Spurs had two shots to City’s 21, but you’d be hard-pressed to remember them. At least one xG model felt the need to go to two decimal places to get Tottenham above zero.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/apr/26/spurs-sliding-at-speed-route-back-up-packed-with-obstacles-new-players-manager-carabao-cup-final

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