The Liverpool team’s 4-2 victory should not deceive you. It was a flattery, showing Spurs a level of courtesy that their performance did not deserve.
The rapid downturn in a season that at one point contained a lot of promise and excitement must also not fool anyone in the Spurs camp as it continues at a critical juncture.
After losing at Brighton, they had the chance to erase a seven-point deficit against fourth-place Aston Villa. However, they adopted a terrible, ineffective strategy that gave Liverpool the upper hand for the opening 70 minutes.
The only real aggressive moment occurred when Spurs trailed 2-0 at the interval, and goalie Guglielmo Vicario added to his impressive repertoire of stops by intervening quickly to break up what was about to become a nasty altercation between teammates Cristian Romero and Emerson Royal.
