Spurs are a failed experiment after a truly humbling defeat that shouldn't be shrugged off just because champions-in-waiting Liverpool were so excellent.
Spurs’ utter commitment to their brand of nonsense continues to strike brave new ground, with the irredeemable Angeballers having now scored 10 goals across their last three home games yet been soundly beaten in two of those games and had an alarmingly impressive stab at losing the other.1) Gary Neville put forward the suggestion in the closing stages here that it might be worth simply giving Spurs residency of the 4.30pm Sunday slot for the rest of the season.
They scored twice in that blistering 40-minute onslaught and could have had twice that at least. They had 10 shots in the first half-hour; Spurs, for all their belated involvement as an attacking threat after the contest was over, managed only nine across the 90. Spurs’ contribution to their own despair cannot be entirely ignored, but we struggle to think of a more complete performance front to back than Liverpool produced in that period.
A strong contender, too, for the most ‘it just had to be him’ opening goal of any game ever played given what happened in this fixture last season.4) The second goal was again a combination of slick Liverpool play meeting precious little resistance, with Alexis Mac Allister almost apologetically nodding home having glanced around the six-yard box and discovered to his enormous surprise that no Spurs defender was to be found in attendance.
But Liverpool went as Spurs as Spurs for a brief moment. Alexander-Arnold spent most of the first half showcasing his best traits but still found time here for his worst with a nasty pass that put Mac Allister under pressure.
It’s always possible to find other reasons and other factors and other players to praise for Liverpool being where they are. But while it’s long stopped being in any way a revealing thing to state it still does need saying that Salah is the most critical component of it all. Especially as here that slight drop-off from the champions-in-waiting allowed Spurs to make the scoreline far more flattering than it ought have been
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