Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our new Tottenham Hotspur

podcast from The Athletic,

in this our third episode. My name's Jack Pitbrook and today I'm joined again by James

Moore and our Totman correspondent Charlie Echall-Eckleshare. It's been another exciting week for Spurs,

they played very badly and lost 2-1 at Manchester United on Wednesday, and then played

very well and beat Burnley 5-0 on Saturday.

Charlie, you did both games. What was the difference?

Well, the quality of opposition to start with, United played well.

Burnley looked pretty poor, but also saying to James before that, you know, Spurs earned the right,

I think to have a comfortable, fun afternoon against Burnley by scoring early,

they really went for them right from the start,

whereas they were quite sluggish against United.

And I think the midfield balance was a lot better.

Dyer and Sosovo looked a much more natural fit than Winks in Sosco,

which really didn't work against United and left them,

both exposed defensively and also with no real link to the attack.

Whereas on Saturday against Bernie, they looked really good going forward,

carried a threat throughout, and it became just a really fun, enjoyable afternoon.

The big highlight on Saturday, I think, was the Hume-Minsong goal,

where he ran, I think, kind of 80 or 90 yards with the ball before scoring. What do we think? Have you ever seen anything like it? I have a hot take. Go on. I think that Sosovo's goal was actually better. Cool. Why? So, I mean, the Sun goal was amazing. and when you're in the stadium and you see something like that happen, it is very exciting to see a player carry the ball that far and it's not something you see very often. And I think there's another goal you're going to talk about in a minute where that did happen. But the Sosco goal, one, there's an exchange of passes which, you know, is always good. Two, that exchange of passes with Harry Kane, which will always impress me. And three, I think the finish was slightly better from Sosco. And it just felt like it was a more rounded goal. It also starts really deep as well, that goal. Yeah, Susco goal. He won the ball, I think, about 60 yards down the pitch. Exchange passes with Kane, drives into the box, holds off two defenders and kind of hits it with the outside of his right boot past the keeper. It's a better goal. Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. I think that when it comes to evaluating, like, what is the best goal? What's the goal of the season? People often lose sight of the fact that football's a team game. People get so obsessed with individualistic goals, whether it's like a dribble or just someone smacking it in from 50 yards, that they, that they lose sight of the kind of teaminess of it. And therefore, any goal which incorporates elements of team playing coordination is more, it's like a better example of football being played at its best. Yeah. Than Son running for 70 yards, as cool as that was. and it was really cool because I'd never I'd never been in the stadium for anything like that before. That is what makes a goal really good if it's something you've not seen before. I think that probably would maybe be the number one thing that I'd look for in a goal. And I hadn't seen Roosciko score a goal where he's played the ball off to someone exchange passes, controlled it and done a really neat little finish. So that was really good. I think, like, for me, difficulty of goal is always one of the things I look for. One way you just can't imagine how it's even possible to do. And I don't know what would score higher on that, maybe the Son one. But I think there's often a problem with sort of dribbly goals, is that when you watch it back, you're like, oh, he's only actually beaten two or three players, which, but that's true of a lot of, like, true of like Ryan Giggs has worked that goal against Arsenal. But, yeah, there is something exciting about it. But it wasn't, Sons wasn't a kind of, I don't know, messy, he's not kind of weaving past.

It wasn't like Georgia Kinclaz

against Hounter.

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