Newcastle put the cat among the European pigeons with an absolute demolition of Spurs, easily the most humiliating experience the North Londoners have had at St James’ Park for almost a year.1. The good news for Spurs fans is that it was still 0-0 after 21 minutes this time. You’re still thinking about the bad news, aren’t you?2. That really was sensational from Newcastle. Arguably a better performance than last year’s slightly freakish dismantling of a side at its very lowest ebb.
The rest of Newcastle’s defending was tenaciously exceptional – very much a thing that has not always been the case this season – but Schar was the key to it all. So often it was his head, or his foot, or his jockeying that cut Spurs down and set Newcastle on their way again. Spurs could very reasonably have been expected to ask more difficult questions of their hosts, but Schar had every single answer he required.5.
At no point during that time did they ever provide the slightest hint that they had an idea of what to do with it, or how they might go about negotiating a path through, around or over Newcastle’s defence. This was the most one-sided game between these two for, well, for very nearly a year, yet if you looked only at the passing numbers you might be forgiven for getting it all a bit the wrong way round.
Spurs have, on the face of it, a healthy enough record here. They’ve won on six of their last 10 Premier League visits, which is pretty good. One of the others was a perfectly respectable 2-2 draw. The other three have been ended 5-1, 6-1 and now 4-0 to Newcastle.14. And really this is a combination of such relentlessly banter football teams with such a propensity for the absurd that it doesn’t even require the St James’ Park qualifier.
Now 10 points is still a huge gap to overcome at this stage of the season, but not quite so huge when you’ve just done something like this. This was a performance to give a rejuvenated Newcastle further cause for celebration and left Spurs questioning everything they thought they knew. If Van de Ven is mortal, then can anyone be certain of anything in this crazy, mixed-up world?
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