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Tottenham have climbed out of the Premier League relegation zone thanks to an excellent and richly deserved 2-1 win over high-flying Aston Villa at Villa Park on Sunday.
After West Ham were beaten 3-0 by Brentford on Saturday, Spurs knew they had an opportunity to hoist themselves out of the bottom three – surely, though, a gruelling test awaited them in Birmingham.
That wasn’t quite the case, however. Unai Emery’s side, who lost 1-0 to Nottingham Forest in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final on Thursday, were dreadful for most of the match and hardly laid a glove on Tottenham as they suffered a third successive defeat in all competitions.
Nevertheless, Spurs were excellent. Their off-ball intensity was difficult for Villa to live with as the visitors dominated physically, and they did a fine job of controlling possession for the most part.
Conor Gallagher and Richarlison got the Spurs goals in the first 25 minutes and Villa’s response was sorely lacking – it took them until the sixth minute of stoppage time to get a shot on target, coinciding with Emi Buendía’s late consolation.
For now, this defeat looks unlikely to be particularly definitive or impactful for Villa’s season in the grand scheme of things. For Spurs, however, victory here might be the difference between relegation and survival.
You’d have been forgiven for expecting a long evening for Tottenham. Villa had the chance to go fourth, and although they are in the middle of a two-legged Europa League semi, they’ll have been massively fancied by most.
After all, Spurs went into this game with one win from their last 16 league games.
But the first half was anything but predictable as Tottenham looked a completely different side to the one that’s been floundering near – or in – the relegation zone for the past few months.
Spurs were ravenous without the ball, their three high turnovers in the first 30 minutes evidence of this and, as a result, highlighting Villa’s difficulty playing out from the back.
But it wasn’t just a case of good anticipation or clever reading; Spurs – mostly through the likes of Richarlison, João Palhinha and Gallagher – were aggressive, and that treatment seemed to rattled Villa on occasion.
In short, they were showing signs of being a Roberto De Zerbi team.
Clearly, though, Gallagher’s early opener in the 12th minute didn’t help Villa’s attempts to settle. The ball dropped kindly for the Spurs midfielder after a set-piece was partially cleared, and he found the bottom-left corner from about 25 yards for his first Premier League goal since May 2024.
Richarlison doubled their lead with 25 minutes on the clock, meeting Mathys Tel’s cross with a fine header to beat Emiliano Martínez.
By the time the half-hour mark passed, Spurs had enjoyed 64% of the ball and were 6-0 up on shots, and that level of control was maintained until the break.
It was only the second time (in 69 matches) that Unai Emery’s Villa failed to attempt a first-half shot in a league game. While they had made changes, with the second leg of their Europa League semi against Nottingham Forest in mind, the level of their performance was well below what was expected, as reflected by the boos that greeted the half-time whistle.
Although surely tempted, Emery resisted any urge to change personnel at the break – and perhaps unsurprisingly so, there was no noticeable improvement from them upon the restart.
Eventually Emery introduced Ollie Watkins for the ineffective Tammy Abraham on the hour. They then recorded their first shot of the game in the 61st minute; only Burnley (twice) and Wolves have gone beyond the 61st minute before having their first shot in a Premier League game this season.
But even then, Morgan Rogers’ attempted was blocked, as was his next in the 64th minute.
It wasn’t until the 89th minute, when Tyrone Mings headed just over, that Villa managed to record a shot that wasn’t blocked. That was soon followed by Buendía glancing a header in to halve the deficit, but it was very much a case of too little, too late.
A bad day at the office for Villa, whereas there appears to be plenty of life left in Spurs on the evidence of this.
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