Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Ipswich Town: Spurs ploughed by Tractor Boys

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Tottenham Hotspur 1-2 Ipswich Town: Spurs ploughed by Tractor Boys

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a North London club heading into an international break must first lose at home to a winless club. For the second time this season, Tottenham Hotspur fell to a Premier League club without a victory, this time inexplicably going down 2-0 in the first half to newly promoted Ipswich Town. Spurs clawed back one goal off of a corner kick thanks to a Rodrigo Bentancur header, but overall they looked listless and off the boil. Despite a late push, Spurs couldn’t find a way back into the match and fell with a final score of 1-2. Sammie Szmodics and Liam Delap scored the goals by the visitors as Tottenham missed an opportunity to move into fifth.

Pretty garbage match, fam. Here are my notes.

Match Reactions:

Final xG was 1.12 - 1.59. That is just awful against what is demonstrably the worst team in the Premier League.

I’m at a bit of a loss as to what to put here. The overall performance was putrid, Ange Postecoglou again waited too long to make impact substitutions, and Spurs once again handed a Premier League bottom-tier club their first win of the season. It sucks and I’m quite upset about this.

Not really a match observation, but Ipswich’s pink away kits rule. I want a pink Tottenham third kit and would instantly buy it if we ever got one. Pink kits = awesome.

Ipswich set up to defend and counter, and it was mostly effective in the first half. Spurs had lots of the ball but found it tough to pick that big pink lock in front of goal. Made me wonder if Maddison might have been a better choice than Kulusevski in midfield for this match, although Maddison showed very little in the brief cameo appearance he made at the end of the match.

Dom Solanke’s work in the press is just so imPRESSive. See what I did there? I tell #jokes.

Ipswich’s first half goals were super annoying in that both came against the run of play. Brennan Johnson and Pedro Porro were both just watching the action and not closing players down in the first one, and the second was both poor defending and just dumb fucking luck. I hate it.

Spurs are a second half team and started off brightly, but waving off Solanke’s early goal was the right call. It’s unfortunate, but his arm was outstretched and the ball definitely changes direction on its way into the goal.

Tottenham were god-awful on offensive corner kicks in this match... until they weren’t. That headed goal by Bentancur was sneaky tough, but he made it look easy. That said, the rest of them were garbage.

Very, very unimpressed with the play of Radu Dragusin and Brennan Johnson today. Radu looked like a defensive sieve and was constantly making poor passes out of the back, while Johnson looked (again) very one-dimensional going forward.

I’m once again angry with Ange Postecoglou’s subs — not making some changes with enough time to make a difference in the match when Spurs are chasing the game is inexcusable. Sometimes he does well and other times he just seems obstinate in this regard and I cant figure it out.

Timo Werner was a revelation as a second half sub — his directness exploited the space that Ipswich were leaving behind the line and he had some excellent deliveries from the flank. Sure he Timo’d his one decent shot opportunity ten feet over the bar, but whatever offense Spurs generated in the second half went through him.

Apropos of nothing, Ipswich’s squad had both Jack Clarke and Massimo Luongo in it, both former Tottenham academy players. Luongo also has some history with Ange, being part of his Australia squad that won the Asia Cup. This isn’t significant, just mildly interesting.

Awesome, another two weeks for us to stew on a bad loss, I’m sure this won’t be emotionally damaging at all, wheeeeeeeee.