Tottenham Hotspur superior into the Carabao Cup last on Tuesday night because of targets from Moussa Sissoko and Heung-min Son.
Jose Mourinho now has the possibility to win the competitors for a fifth time with one of many two Manchester golf equipment advancing later tonight.
Spurs’ French central midfielder headed house beautifully from a deep Sergio Reguilon cross simply 12 minutes into the match and after the guests, Brentford, had a objective dominated out for offside, Son broke free to attain a trademark objective halfway by means of the second half.
The north London outfit haven’t gained a chunk of silverware since 2008, so arguably that is their greatest shot to buck that pattern.
Sissoko acquired Man of the Match on Sky Sports activities and was even lauded as a “supervisor’s dream” by Darren Bent earlier than kick-off [19:16 pm], but it surely felt as if there have been way more worthy candidates to obtain the award.
Who was your Spurs MOTM vs Brentford?
Moussa Sissoko
Tanguy Ndombele
Serge Aurier
Heung-min Son
Maybe none extra so than Serge Aurier, who seemed again to his greatest after a current spell out.
The 28-year-old, who price Spurs £23m again in 2018, was hooked early throughout Spurs’ embarrassing defeat to Leicester Metropolis and was solely recalled to the facet following Matt Doherty’s purple card in opposition to Leeds on the weekend.
And he duly delivered.
Per SofaScore, the Ivorian right-back loved extra touches than every other Whites participant (87) and did his defensive duties immensely, managing 5 tackles, one clearance, one block and one interception.
Alasdair Gold at soccer.london waxed lyrical about Aurier’s show too, grading the Spurs star an eight out of ten, he mentioned:
“A bit wayward within the first half along with his play however made a terrific block to disclaim Toney within the Spurs field. Moments later, he skied an effort over himself from place within the Brentford space. Defended effectively for a lot of the sport.”
Certainly, he was a bit wasteful in possession, dropping the ball 20 instances however total, it was a storming displaying from Aurier and one which actually places his title again on the map amid hyperlinks to PSG and hypothesis over a recent contract in north London.
After dropping the £120k-per-week beast for Doherty just some video games in the past, Mourinho now faces a large headache going into this weekend’s FA Cup conflict with non-league Marine.
Does he stick or twist? Does he herald a youth participant as a substitute? Solely time will inform.
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