Given Postecoglou has overseen two cup exits in the space of four days, the idea he might triumph in the Europa League appears fanciful on the evidence of Anfield and Villa Park, where his team were all-too easily exposed. A minute on the clock, the game’s first meaningful action left Spurs picking the ball out of the net.
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Read MoreAfter the miserable shellacking at Liverpool to exit the Carabao Cup, this was the last thing Postecoglou needed. Nobly he resists the excuse offered by the many injuries piling up, just the nine first-team players unavailable at Villa Park. Yet that does not stop pressure’s heavy hands taking a grip of tender body parts.
There was some mumbling about the colour of the ball clashing with the orange shirt of Antonin Kinsky in the Tottenham goal, but that does not absolve him of the horrible bungling of Jacob Ramsey’s shot off his weaker left side. Kinsky’s hands were warmed thereafter by repeated Villa attacks, all of which he repelled, including a carbon copy of Ramsey’s earlier strike.
On a night chilled by a bitterly cold easterly, Spurs’ fans at least turned up, singing their encouragement for the players high up in the Witton Lane stand alongside their disapproval of Levy. They might have had something to cheer were Emiliano Martinez as susceptible as Kinsky. No chance, Son Heung-min’s drilled effort comfortably smothered at short range.
This was the signal for ole football. On came Marcus Rashford and Marco Asensio, scions of Manchester United and Real Madrid respectively. Whatever the sins of their past, their presence layered the night in luxury brand vibes.
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Another dynamic performance, embroidered by a goal, underlined his candidacy to run the England midfield when Thomas Tuchel names his first squad next month.Rashford replaced the lively Donyell Malen, one of five additions in a busy month that underpinned Villa’s desire to maintain the momentum building under Unai Emery. The sense of mission that appeared to be slipping received a welcome boost here, with Villa advancing into the FA Cup fifth round comfortably despite the added-time strike by the hitherto anonymous Tel.
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