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When Tottenham continued their winless streak

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by Deki Bass
Looking back when things were slumpy

Tottenham did not win for the third game in a row. After two defeats in the Premier League, Tottenham did not win in the Champions League either. The team from London was losing against Sporting, but they managed to equalize, and in the end, they were on the verge of victory, but Harry Kane’s goal was canceled after a long delay after VAR intervention. The former pupil of Tottenham, Marcus Edwards, scored a goal for Sporting. A guy who didn’t get a real chance in London scored a great goal that was still not enough to win. A hellish finish awaits us since the difference between first-placed Tottenham and last-placed Marseille is only two points. All teams can advance to the next stage of the competition.

We expected that Tottenham should not have too many problems in this group. Tottenham played in the final a few seasons ago which they lost to Liverpool will have to wait until the last moment to advance. Tottenham has not been in the best form in the last few games as they have failed to win in their last three matches. After the defeat to Manchester United, Tottenham suffered a defeat at home against Newcastle, who are playing very well this season after investing money from a fund from Saudi Arabia. We expected that Tottenham would be able to record a victory in the Champions League after two defeats, but that did not happen. Tottenham will try to end the winless streak at the weekend in the match against Bournemouth.

Tottenham does not have an easy schedule in the coming period. After visiting the Premier League, they will fight against Marseille with a pass to the next stage of the Champions League. Tottenham is also playing that game away from home. A few days after that game, Tottenham welcomes Liverpool, who have not been playing very well since the start of the season. It will be interesting to see in what mood Tottenham will welcome the team that defeated them in the Champions League final a couple of years ago. As in some previous seasons, Tottenham does not provide good games in continuity, and it seems that the drop in form happened at the worst possible time. We will see how good this team is in the match against Marseille, which brings passage to the next stage of the Champions League.

Tottenham should have passed this group without any problems, but they put themselves in a situation where they have to chase the passage further in the last round. The last few games are not something that the fans of the mentioned team are happy about. Tottenham built a great stadium a few years ago, one of the most modern in England but fans expect much better games from their favorite players when they buy Tottenham tickets. The game in the last few games is not at a satisfactory level. Tottenham scored only six goals in five games in the Champions League, which is low when we see that this team has players like Kane and Son. Kane is playing well in the Premier League and has a much better performance than last season, but the big question is how long he will stay in London.

It seems that if Tottenham does not secure a place in the Champions League next year, Kane is almost to leave London. We hear speculations that Bayern Munich is interested in his services. Like him, clubs are also interested in Son, and it is increasingly being mentioned that Real Madrid is interested in buying a player from South Korea. On the other hand, Tottenham fans would most like these two players to stay in this club for the rest of their careers and become true legends of this club. How realistic that is at the moment is a big question, but it seems a much more realistic option is for Kane and Son to leave Tottenham at the end of this season. Kane scored the winning goal against Sporting at the end of the match, but the goal was disallowed due to offside, which was ruled only after VAR intervention.

Tottenham is led from the bench by the charismatic and very temperamental Antonio Conte who was furious after the decision that was made in the last moments of the match against Sporting. He believes that the goal would never have been disallowed by a bigger team than Tottenham, but unfortunately, we will never know if Conte is right. “I would like to see if VAR would be so brave to make such a decision against one of the big clubs. This was not the right decision. The ball was in front of Kane. I’m sorry, but I’m really angry. Sometimes you can’t accept such decisions because you don’t see fairness in them. When I don’t see that, then I get angry,” said Antonio Conte. Tottenham lost two points in this way and will have to chase passage to the next stage in Marseille.

The French team has been playing quite well this season and it will be interesting to see how Tottenham fare in the fiery atmosphere in France. Conte is aware that a difficult task awaits his team in the last round. He also blames the top people from his club and believes that they are not fighting enough for Tottenham, that is, they are not trying to increase the reputation of this club in Europe. “The damage can be great, we had to wait for the last game against Marseille.” I hope that our club will understand how much damage has been done to us and that they will react in the right way and talk to the people who need it. It’s not just the manager who needs to talk, the club also needs to be strong. “If we are relegated, I’m very interested in what they will say,” said the Italian expert.

The fact is that Tottenham does not enter almost every season with excessive ambitions. We have never heard that Tottenham is chasing to be champions in England, but their goal is obviously to be consistently at the top and to play regularly in the Champions League. Tottenham has an amazing stadium to which the team moved a few years ago, but the fans certainly want Tottenham to become a big club in the coming years in terms of other things, not just the stadium. In the last few seasons, Tottenham has become what Arsenal used to be. They are not overly interested in fighting for the title, and they are satisfied with the fourth place that brings them a place in the Champions League.

Arsenal has inflicted a painful defeat on them at the Emirates this season and their fans certainly don’t like that. As things stand, their big rival this season has a much better team and Tottenham will have a difficult task to win a place in the Champions League in the competition of big teams. A lot depends on who will play for Tottenham next season, and in addition to the stay of Kane and Son, the stay of Conte, who is linked to Juventus, who is playing very badly this season and has already been eliminated from the Champions League, is also in question.

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