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Hugo Lerith said on Thursday night that Spurs were a disgrace in their lack of basics and lack of fundamentals against Dinoosa Grab.

On Sunday, Jose Marino successfully harnessed the anger and shame for the trip to Aspen Billa,

which became Spurs' best win of the year in their 22nd game.

So the question is, can Spurs take a step forward without having to have taken a step back first?

You're listening to The View from the Lane. My name's Jack Pittbrook. I'm joined as always by James Moore.

James, that was Spurses' best win since Arsenal, wasn't it?

I mean, I think in league position, that's the thing people are saying, isn't it? But I wonder

whether if you kind of factor four men, like beating Fullum maybe was slightly better. I kind of also think beating leads, I don't know, that feels like that was a slightly more convincing result, if you know what I mean. I don't know. I mean, obviously, like, to beat a team in the top half of the Premier League is never bad. I'm not sure it's necessarily better than any of those others.

I was certainly more infused by Paulus and Burnley. Yeah, and I guess they didn't have, Diller without Grealish is a very different, different prospect. On the other side... Spurs did handicap themselves by leaving good players out as well, so you've got a factor that in. Yeah, given the week that Spurs have had and you know terrible against Arsenal even worse against

Dino-Mazagreb, and just that sense from Thursday night, really, that the whole world was caving in, to go to a difficult away game and to pick a very strange team, which we'll get onto, because that is definitely worth discussion by itself, to go to a game like that and then look really, really shaky for the

first 20 or 30 minutes. And frankly, there were times watching them. Oh my God, it's going to be,

there were some moves where Asson Villa picked through the static Totten defense. And I thought,

oh my God, it's Sheffield United away July 2020 all over again. They're going to concede exactly

the same goals. And you'll get Rodin Sanchez stood there looking at each other and it's going to be awful. It's going to be the

really, really painful defeat again. And then the whole international break will just be hell

because it will be can he survive, can he survive, can he survive? And they won. And actually in

the second half James, I thought they were really comfortable. They didn't, Biller didn't really look like scoring outside the first 20 minutes. Well, it's funny, and I tweeted this after the game last night, but like at the moment they went one-nil-up, that felt like it sort of flattered them quite a bit. Yeah. And then when they go two-nil-up on the hour or whatever it was, that really felt like it flattered them loads. And it was ludicrous really, but they were two nil up, you know. Maybe by that point, that kind of 1-0, maybe wouldn't have been too bad. But to be 2-0-up at that point was madness. But then actually, by like sort of 80, 85 minutes, that felt like it was an entirely fair reflection of the way the game had gone. Like Spurs played really well after that. It looked like they got quite a bit of confidence about it. Kept the ball well, kept the ball like in the attacking third as well. They didn't retreat back into their own half of their own third and pump the ball away and wait for it to come back. They actually kept the ball in attacking positions far better than they have done. Even in games where they played quite well, actually, really. You've got to say, you know, they, we talked about game management a few times in the last few weeks, and I think that was probably an example of a game they managed really well once they got their kind of strangle hold on the score line. I think, you know, we've got to the possession in the last sort of 25 minutes,

half hour.

Probably be pretty favourable for Spurs,

I would expect.

So, yeah, I think on the balance of play over 90 minutes,

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