Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic.

My name is Jack Pitbrook.

I'm joined again today by James Moore and Charlie Eccleshare.

It wasn't exactly a thrilling weekend for Tottenham with their nil-0 at Vickery Road on Saturday.

Charlie, you were there.

How was it?

Well, the first half was pretty boring.

Not a lot happened.

Second half was eventful.

You know, Watford came out, had a couple of good chances, missed that penalty.

It's a poor penalty, but, you know, if you're looking at the positives, good to say from

Gazzaniga.

And then Spurs so nearly nicked it at the death. I mean, it really was millimetres. Could scarcely have been much closer. Lamella kind of prodding one on his ass Sunday league style. But, you know, no one would have minded if that had gone in. It just didn't. And so, yeah, nil-nil. First away clean sheet in more than a year so the positives

are stacking up really from uh from saturday no it was uh pretty underwhelming was the first

away clean sheet since cardiff on the first of january last year is that right yeah which is i mean

a pretty pretty damning statistic really when you think about it it was funny i completely forgot

obviously because it was such an

overwhelming, and I tweeted before being, like, you know, looking for that first clean sheet, completely forgot about that in the immediate aftermath. It didn't really, I mean, it was like, it was a competent defensive performance, and obviously, you know, Kazaniga has done well to save a penalty, but it didn't feel like they came away from that game

kind of celebrating the clean sheet

not just because they dropped two points, but it didn't really feel like they had loads of defending to do. It kind of felt like they got sort of stumbled into the clean sheet rather than really kind of had to dig deep and earn it. Well also, yeah, because there was the miss pen and what for did miss a couple of chances, didn't they?

Right at the start at the same half.

It wasn't a kind of backs to the wall job.

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