Pundit couldn’t believe how much Tottenham crowd loved £43m player yesterday The scenes at full-time showcase just how much excitement there

October 1, 2023 Goodness Tottenham club 0

Pundit couldn’t believe how much Tottenham crowd loved £43m player yesterday

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The scenes at full-time showcase just how much excitement there is around Tottenham right now.

When Joel Matip’s miscued clearance cannoned into the back of Alisson Becker’s goal, there was jubilation around the stadium.

The majority of the squad rushed to the far corner to celebrate alongside Pedro Porro.

or fromThe Spaniard was in phenomenal form all game and delivered the cross that forced the err Matip.

However, all on his own by the halfway line, Micky Van de Ven simply collapsed in a mixture of jubilation, relief and exhaustion.

The home crowd have taken to Van de Ven brilliantly after being thrown into the team days after signing from Wolfsburg.

Liverpool have one of the most exciting attacking line-ups in the league, but even with 11 men, the £43m defender was up to the challenge.

Speaking about the defender in the first half, Warnock said: “You wouldn’t think [Micky] Van de Ven would have that pace.

“He can be sluggish over the first yard or two but once he gets going, wow he can motor.

Gakpo thought he was in behind there but van de Ven just put on the afterburners. The Spurs fans reacted and are singing his song, they love him.”

Much has been made of Van de Ven’s scintillating pace but it’s far from the only string to his bow.

He reads the game brilliantly for someone so young, making sure he can use his pace to get in between the attacker and the ball at the earliest opportunity

Van de Ven isn’t afraid to throw himself in front of shots either, although that has already resulted in two deflected goals going in off him this season.

The biggest part of his game this season has been finding a way to help Cristian Romero rediscover his best form.

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Ominous, brooding clouds were hanging over Tottenham Hotspur’s Stadium earlier this year, with a miserable 2022/23 campaign failing to yield European qualification, leaving the outfit looking set for a future drenched in misery.

As a bitter by-product of Spurs’ failures, talisman and star man Harry Kane pushed for a transfer to German champions Bayern Munich, completing a £100m move to Bavaria and leaving behind the club’s record goalscorer and a “legend of the game”, according to Statman Dave.

But with Ange Postecoglou’s managerial appointment, Tottenham have been systematically revitalised and now look poised for an exciting challenge for top four, perhaps even in with an outside shot at the Premier League title.

Postecoglou’s mounting revolution is soaked in a sort of intuitive understanding of the flow that the Australian manager strives to implement; like a river, he aims for a sense of constancy in the cascade – in Spurs’ case, the attacking moves – but also a power in which opposition find wading upstream a taxing task indeed.

And this stream of freshly delivered philosophy is only going to strengthen and grow as the months rage on, with the players nurturing their understanding of collective and individual assignments in a squad steeped in fluidity and dynamism.

The newfound attacking impetus is evidenced through the recharged energy levels, with Tottenham currently taking more shots than any other side in the league (138); last season, they finished seventh in the shot-taking table (518).

To think that, already, 26% of last season’s total have been taken before even a fifth of the season is promising indeed, illustrating the promising positions Postecoglou’s side are drifting into with a regularity that only breeds offensive fruits.

It’s not just the strength in attack that is reaping rewards for the club thus far, though, with the fluidity in transition and dynamism injected into the structural progressions proving invaluable.

James Maddison was signed from Leicester City for £40m and his all-conquering creativity in the centre has allowed the likes of Heung-min Son to wreak devastation in the final third, with the England international already chalking up two goals and four assists in the Premier League.

Kane might have departed but Son – the new club captain – has been reborn in a centre-forward role and has scored six times from his last four outings in the league, all serving as the focal frontman.

Frankly, the different components have dovetailed seamlessly under Postecoglou’s sage stewardship, and now there is a crystallising possibility that the Lilywhites could be involved in a title race this term.

 

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