Burn after reading. Tottenham Hotspur have not enjoyed their matches against Nottingham Forest the past few seasons, and today was another disheartening performance at the City Ground. Tottenham looked second best from the opening kick, conceded a brace to Callum Hudson-Odoi and an absolute cracker from Ibrahim Sangare, and shambled to a 3-0 loss to Forest on Sunday.
The stats are grim: Forest out-xG’d Spurs 1.91-0.37, and out-shot them 15-6 despite the possession being basically even. Tottenham actually looked somewhat okay defensively — two of the goals were flukish — but once again looked completely lost going forward with no creativity, terrible passing, and a complete lack of ideas of what to do when the ball got near the Forest area. This was against a Forest team that started the match in 17th place and that’s on its third manager of the season.
It was bad, folks. Real, real bad.
The loss drops Spurs down to 11th in the table, well off the pace for anything close to European qualification, and not exactly setting a good tone as they head into the crowded festive fixture period. There was not much to like today.
Here are my match reactions.
