Tottenham Hotspur's late fightback meant nothing as Aston Villa secured a 3-2 victory at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday lunchtime; the defeat now extends Spurs' winless start to the Premier League season.
Roberto De Zerbi “didn’t like” what he saw from Mateus Fernandes in Tottenham’s 3-2 defeat to Aston Villa, and called upon another Spurs player to buck his ideas up.
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Tottenham Hotspur's nightmare start to the 2026-27 Premier League campaign continued after suffering a 3-2 defeat against Aston Villa on Saturday.
Roberto De Zerbi has criticised the performance of Mateus Fernandes after Tottenham slumped to a 3-2 defeat against Aston Villa.
Once again impressive in the early stages – just like against Newcastle, Everton and Liverpool in midweek – we somehow didn’t open the scoring and were later punished as Villa came back into the game.
It was all so predictable.
The closer Tottenham went to scoring the more it seemed likely they would concede.
"Too fragile" was how boss Roberto de Zerbi described his side after the 3-2 defeat by Aston Villa.
Well they scored a goal. Two, in fact. But those absurdly expensive, driverless North London buses arrived so late that half of those waiting had already left, safe in the knowledge that another weekend had been entirely Spursed.