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Spurs drop points in survival battle and mayhem at Madrid: Football Weekly

Football Weekly

The Guardian

Sports, Soccer

4.59.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lars Sivertsen, Seb Hutchinson and Sid Lowe as Tottenham draw and Barça win La Liga. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/footballweeklypod. Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FootballWeeklyPodcast

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:14.2

Hello and welcome to the Guardian Football Weekly.

0:16.2

So the agony continues for Spurs.

0:17.8

Too many people were saying,

0:18.8

ah, that's it, it's done, but it absolutely

0:20.8

isn't. It could have been better. They took the lead, a wonderful goal from Matis Tell. Then he connected with an overhead kick, unfortunately not with the ball, but with Ethan Amperdu. It could have been worse, Anton In Kinski, with a quite breathtaking save in the very stressful injury time. Two points then between Spurs and West Ham. It is not over. Sid will join us to discuss Barser winning the title,

0:38.0

the Chalmany Valverdi fraccar at Rail Madrid and Rail Valacan. between Spurs and West Ham, it is not over. Sid will join us to discuss Barser winning the title,

0:38.0

the Charmény Valverdi fraccar at Rail Madrid, and Rao Valacano getting to the Conference League final. Also today, Hull City reached a playoff final after a great late win at Millwall, perhaps the least fancied of the four have a chance to get back to the Premier League for the first time in nine years. We'll have the latest on SpyGate ahead of Southampton Borough

0:53.1

and discuss Nigel Martin playing cricket for England.

0:55.5

All that, and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today, Barry Glenn Denning, hello. Hi, Max. Welcome, Lars Siverton. Good morning, Max. And good morning, Seb Hutchinson. Good morning, Max. Let's begin then at the Tottenham Hot Spur Stadium. Tottenham 1 leads one. Lars, you are Spurs. How was it for you? I mean, maybe this is not the most important point, but recently, I've decided to do a thing that people who are approaching a sort of middle age do, which is to kind of look after their health a little bit more, and I've gone to the doctor, and we've been measuring blood pressure and things like this. And as part of this, I'm now measuring sort of my blood pressure at home to see where it's at. Now, I thoughtlessly decided to measure my blood pressure during the game, and I can tell you, Max, numbers not good. Numbers were, where they were up since yesterday, mysteriously. I hope you didn't do it in injury time,

2:02.7

is all I'm saying. No, I did it just as much as scale scored. Like, I was sat there doing my blood pressure just as the goal went in, and then the numbers came back, like, completely way up. Arguably not the top line from the game, but that's the thing that happened in my life. No, listen, I can't make up my mind about this because this is one of those that could go either way.

2:17.7

It's first, stay up. We will look back at the Kinski save as like the moment they kept them in the league. And if they don't, then clearly this is a missed opportunity. Because I think in the first half, the first hour, half hour at least, this was not a good game. They were not playing very well.

2:22.3

But they were broadly speaking under control. Leeds weren't creating anything and Spurs were creating little looks that you kind of feel confident someone's going to turn into a goal at some point.

2:26.6

And I was sat there thinking, this is the exact game that I was afraid Roberto DeZerby maybe couldn't

2:32.3

orchestrate. I was worried when he came in, he would try to do all this

2:35.5

sort of baiting the press and a tidy passing through the middle with Palinia and the boys,

2:40.7

and that this would be a total disaster. But what he has done, he has gotten them a little bit

2:44.4

tight to organize. He has worked on their mentality. They're more aggressive. And they were able to

2:48.7

turn it into quite a bad game. They were not able to really press leads high very effectively because leads were very direct. So the thing that's been really working for them, the last sort of couple of games, it wasn't as effective here. But he turned it into a slightly boring game, which I thought was broadly speaking good. But the second half is not great. Like between the 45th and the 90th minute, I think Sautonham have two shots. Now, maybe that's

3:11.1

a depth issue. But first half, fine, second half not so good. Telsk scores a great goal and then

3:17.1

kick someone in the head in his own box. In the end, with the chances leads have towards

3:22.1

the end, I think a point is not a big disaster, but maybe an opportunity missed, I guess.

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