Our strategy first half was to have Sinistera and Kluivert as a close left hand side pairing with Dango overlapping whenever possible.
This worked well as the Spurs right back seemed to play a more tucked in role close to the right hand side back four man.
This left hand attacking went slightly off track as Aaron's came on for the second half to replace the injured Dango and proceeded to hardly cross the half way line.
The game changer was the unenforced substitution of Sinistera and Kluivert with Billing and Semenyo just after the hour. This just seems to have been a repetition of an hourly substitution routine which we had employed in our recent matches. Until the game was lost our attacks down the left fizzled out and Spurs came more into the game. Out of the blue Lo Celso's through ball found Son in acres of space because three of our back four had moved up to catch him offside but Aarons, out of position at left back, had played him onside. Aarons was then caught wrong footed in the build up to the third.
Surprisingly Brooks came on last change rather than Moore but when Brooks got the ball on the right wing he would cut back inside and play useful diagonal balls over to our left.
Scott's goal was a well worked team goal with a number of passes starting again on our left hand side.
One thing worth mentioning from the first half when we were dominating play was that Solanke needed attention after a bad clash of heads. Shortly afterwards he miss timed a header from inside the six yard box which could have been down to this knock.
A draw would have been a fair result but Spurs put away the three good chances they had which was the difference between the two teams.
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