Sometimes there just isn’t much you can say. Tottenham Hotspur took the pitch on an awful night of weather, hosting a Newcastle team that also hasn’t been playing its best lately. Spurs are horrifically injured, but even more horrifically coached and once again limped to another home loss at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium, falling 2-1 to Toon. After a horrific first half display of long ball football and terrible offense, Malick Thiaw gave the visitors the lead with a goal in the 5th minute of extra time in the first half. Archie Gray gave Spurs a modicum of hope in the second half with a tidy finish to level the score in the 64th minute, but the optimism lasted just three minutes, and Newcastle found themselves back in the lead after the simplest of finishes by Jacob Ramsey.
It was a lead that Spurs never made up, falling once again at home. Tottenham have taken just one win from their last eight, and at the time of this article’s posting are just three points ahead of West Ham with the Hammers leading at home against Manchester United. It’s hard to say otherwise now — Tottenham Hotspur are in a relegation battle and will need every single point they can.
A listless performance and a terrible, awful loss. Here are my match reactions.
