New season, same old Spurs. Tottenham Hotspur earned a 1-1 draw today at newly-promoted Leicester City. Pedro Porro put Spurs ahead in the first half with a thumping header from a cross by James Maddison, but Leicester equalized through a wide-open Jamie Vardy header midway through the second half. Tottenham weren’t able to get the winner and earn a point in a match that, in retrospect, they’ll probably look back on with regret.
The big story in the second half was an injury to Rodrigo Bentancur that resulted him him being stretchered off under concussion protocol. We don’t know his status yet but it didn’t look great (although he was sitting up and conscious by the end).
You know what really sucks about having Tottenham Hotspur play on a Monday? Sometimes you expect to be able to half-watch the match while you’re doing your day job, only to find out that you’ve been invited to a meeting that then goes 90 minutes longer than scheduled and you don’t get to watch any of it.
Yeah, that’s what happened to me today. I know you’re all expecting my takeaways from this match, and you’ll get them. But it won’t be immediately, because I didn’t even really get a chance to watch any of the first 65 minutes of this match in real time.
So I’ll get my match reactions once I have a chance to re-watch it this evening. In the meantime, this is your open thread. Put your match reactions in the comments, and I’ll tell you what I think as soon as I’m able.
Sorry y’all, can’t be helped and the day job always comes first. We’ll do better this weekend.