Final whistle thoughts with @eliasburke.bsky.social here

www.nytimes.com/athletic/683...

Some really awful defending tonight which will always get punished by a top team. A few good bits apart from them (more good bits than there were on Sunday). Fulham on Saturday feels very big.

Richarlison wins a header at the far post, Gray keeps it alive, Kolo Muani volleys in the third ball. The big man/big man combo strikes again!

wow

I'm talking about Salomon Rondon/Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Chris Wood/Sam Vokes. Connor Wickham/Christian Benteke. Mitrovic/Vinicius. The GOAT combo: Steve Morison/Grant Holt. Football can still be this good.

There's something profoundly satisfying about a goal where the penultimate and final touch are both headers. Playing two big men together up front is the highest form of the game.

Half a loaf is better than no bread!

Spurs' pressing has been pretty good so far. Technical execution with the ball in the final third pretty bad, but it's a start.

It's obviously more of a 4-2-2-2 ('4-box-2'?), they're trying to press high and be energetic. I think I would have had Goodison Park in January flashbacks if it had been Gray in a back three.

You can’t have a back five plus Bentinha in front of them and let Eze shoot from the edge of the box.

Looks (on tv) as one-sided as the first half when Arsenal won 3-1 under Nuno in September 2021.

Another shotless first half for Spurs and 2-0 down. Even if you think this plan is good, it’s failing.

thanks!