The Spurs defence looked solid first half which made a pleasant change. It only took 12 minutes before a good link up between Berbatov and Keane led to our first goal. There's only one Keano! Spurs were on top and playing some good football and had another great chance on 36 minutes when after several neat passes, the ball fell to Zokora 25 yards out and with loads of space. However, true to form, he blasted the ball high and wide! I'm sure it'll come one day Didier! It stayed 1-0 going into the break.
Three minutes into the second half and Berbatov volleyed home from 25 yards. Sensational! One of Spurs' goals of the season without a doubt!
Keano should've made it three on 57 minutes when he was clean through with a one on one with the goalkeeper but nicked it just wide. Surely that would've made it game over, but Spurs always make it hard for themselves and then conceded stupidly when the defence suddenly started playing far too deep and again, were unable to clear it out of the box. 1-2 and we were lookingly decidely shaky and found it difficult to get the ball off Boro. The equalizer was on the cards but fortunately Boro couldn't find the net thanks to some heroics from Robbo. Against the run of play, Spurs went 1-3 up thanks to another goal from Keano and superb work on the wing from Aaron Lennon. Surely we were comfortable now but no! Just a minute from time, Boro scored again and it was a nervous end to the game. The whistle couldn't have come soon enough. Phew! We gained the three points we badly needed which moves us onto 53 and 8th place. Pompey beat Liverpool which didn't do us any favours. Would be good if Reading lose on Monday. So it's still all to play for - bring on Charlton!
(Posted 28 Apr 2007)
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