The Athletic FC. Hello, brilliant. Welcome once again to The View from the Lane, the Topham Hospital

podcast from The Athletic, where we're enjoying an unusual feeling of describing and reveling

in two successive home wins after Spurs beat Slavia Prague last night in the Champions League.

With me to discuss all that and a great deal more as well.

Lots back in today are Jack Pitt, Brooke and Jay Harris from The Athletic.

We will get into a real Sonny loving a little later on.

Why wouldn't we? But first, let's talk

about the game. A very necessary win, people, obviously within the context of trying to keep

that top eight place in the Champions League attainable. And also, you want to finish,

if you can't finish top eight, you want to finish the next eight, don't you, for all the

usual reasons. A very necessary win. Two of us were watching on televisions, but Jay, you were actually in the same. What did you make of the game? Well, firstly, Spurs have a perfect home record in the Champions League this season, which seems very strange to say out loud when you consider what their performances are like at home in the Premier League, but I think... Well, I've needed it, you could argue, yeah. Of course I have. I don't think they've even conceded a goal. You obviously have to factor in the quality of the opposition. I thought last night, as you said, was a much-needed win. That's two back-to-back, seven points from the last three games, if you include the Newcastle game.

So definitely a lot more positive momentum.

Really good to see Javi Siemens kick on again.

You really didn't want his performance against Brentford to be a one-off.

You wanted him to build on it.

And I think he did that.

There are a couple of moments during the game yesterday. The flick around the corner for Jed Spence, etc, that were just simply beautiful. I thought kudos was really good. I remember Jack saying a couple of, maybe about a month or so ago, that he thought kudos didn't look completely right and there was lacking a little bit of sharpness. And the way he's played in the last two games makes me think that was completely right because he just looks an extra 10%, 15%

sharper and better at going around players.

And Thomas Frank has said that

could have started the season well, had a dip.

I think just the last two, three games,

so clear.

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