Club still a shambles with no manager or sense of direction, but battling draw with Manchester United restored some pride
Photograph: Marc Atkins/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Marc Atkins/Getty ImagesClub still a shambles with no manager nor sense of direction, but a battling draw with United restored some prideLast modified on Fri 28 Apr 2023 00.50 BSTnd perhaps this, too, was the history of Tottenham. As Son Heung-min stole in at the far post to tap in Harry Kane’s cross and, it was possible to sense the collective exhalation, not so much a euphoria as a relief.
It was somehow fitting, too, that it should be Son to provide Tottenham with their life raft. More than anyone it is Son who has managed to encapsulate the: their mood ring, their doleful minor-key soundtrack. When Son is sad, it feels inconceivable that anybody else could possibly be happy. And so in his fitful return to form in recent weeks – six goals in nine games for club and country – there is perhaps an augury of better times ahead.
The mood at kick-off was neither toxic nor boisterous, but rather nonexistent. There is simply very little energy to this place at the moment, just a kind of gnarled bitterness punctuated with occasional half-hearted “Levy Out” chants. In a way this is a club that has been brutalised into numbness, the sort of emotional vacuum that occurs when you serve up relegation football while removing even the remotest possibility of relegation.
Perhaps this was why Tottenham’s team began the game with all the vigour and red-blooded passion of 11 men who had been randomly selected for jury duty. Seriously, they looked as though they might start crying if you said something mean to them. It was little surprise, then, when Jadon Sancho opened the scoring from 16 yards out while three Tottenham defenders scrupulously avoided any action that might be construed as resistance.
Harry Kane, who will surely be considering his options this summer, evades Manchester United’s Luke Shaw.Had Erik ten Hag’s side even a little of Newcastle’s brutal efficiency, they too might have been out of sight within half an hour. As it was, they had to content themselves with Marcus Rashford’s ridiculously simple second goal on the stroke of half-time. The art of defending one-on-one is to show the striker on to his weaker foot.
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