#FT: Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Aston Villa
Venue: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Tottenham Hotspur
Guglielmo Vicario, Ben Davies, Emerson Royal, Destiny Udogie, Pedro Porro, Dejan Kulusevski, Giovani Lo Celso (Alejo Veliz), Rodrigo Bentancur (Pierre-Emile Højbjerg), Son Heung-Min, Bryan Gil (Oliver Skipp), Brennan Johnson.
Subs: Brandon Austin, Jamie Donley, Alfie Dorrington, Fraser Forster, Eric Dier.
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Aston Villa
Emiliano Martínez, Pau Torres, Diego Carlos, Lucas Digne, Ezri Konsa, Douglas Luiz, Boubacar Kamara, John McGinn (Jacob Ramsey), Matty Cash (Leon Bailey), Ollie Watkins (Jhon Durán), Moussa Diaby (Youri Tielemans).
Subs: Leander Dendoncker, Álex Moreno, Clément Lenglet, Tim Iroegbunam, Robin Olsen.
MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN
22' Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Aston Villa 0. Giovani Lo Celso (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Pedro Porro with a cross following a corner.
27' Matty Cash (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
32' Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg replaces Rodrigo Bentancur because of an injury.
38' Boubacar Kamara (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
41' John McGinn (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
45'+7' Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Aston Villa 1. Pau Torres (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Douglas Luiz with a cross following a set piece situation.
45' Substitution, Aston Villa. Leon Bailey replaces Matty Cash.
45' Substitution, Aston Villa. Youri Tielemans replaces Moussa Diaby.
61' Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 1, Aston Villa 2. Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Youri Tielemans.
71' Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Oliver Skipp replaces Bryan Gil.
82' Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card.
86' Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Alejo Véliz replaces Giovani Lo Celso.
90'+1' Substitution, Aston Villa. Jacob Ramsey replaces John McGinn.
90'+2' Substitution, Aston Villa. Jhon Durán replaces Ollie Watkins.
Ange seems like a great bloke but his refusal to adapt from his system has completely fucked this team over.
They are all gassed, too many injuries, playing at full speed for 100+ mins. This injury crisis isn't a coincidence. These tactics take their toll. He never had the strength in depth to maintain this and every injury compounds the obvious issue. It also requires players returning from injury to be playing at 100mph which is unwise.
Teams that have success playing like this have much better squads and know when to slow it down or play defensively when necessary.
Villa played awful today and still won, Chelsea played awful against them and won 4-1, Wolves were able.to keep going for the full match and deserved the win.
It will be fun to watch, but without better game and squad management this team will be lucky to finish in the top 8.
So what he should have done is go back to playing the same tactics as last season?
It would be way too soon for the players to be getting injured because of the tactics, Spurs aren't in any other competition and we're like a third of the way into the season. The only injury today was Bentancur and that's because Cash decided to chop him down in his own half, it wasn't because he was running too much