The Liverpool draw, creating chances & Dele reinvigorated
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Charlie Eccleshare and James Maw join Danny Kelly to reflect on Spurs' 2-2 draw with Liverpool.
They analyse Conte's switch to a 3-5-2, assess the improved individual performances from a number of players, and get excited at the team's ability to create chances.
They also discuss the club's exit from the Europa Conference League, before previewing Wednesday's match against West Ham.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome everybody to The View from the Lane, the Topland Hotspur |
| 0:26.3 | podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm Danny Kelly. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm joined today by the Athletics Charlie Echoshire and James Moore. |
| 0:33.0 | If there's an extra spring in my voice, it's because Spurs actually managed to play some football this weekend. |
| 0:39.4 | They've also managed to not play some football and get thrown out of a tournament. We'll come on to that as a second. |
| 0:43.6 | The game they played, of course, was the best Premier League game so far this season, was against Liverpool. |
| 0:49.8 | We'll be talked about it shortly. But first, Charlie, as we came on air here, a few hours ago if you're listening |
| 0:54.6 | to this, Spurs have gone out of the European conference. Been rocked by news this morning. Yeah, |
| 1:01.9 | I mean, we've been over this many times since August. I've been saying, get out of this |
| 1:05.9 | competition. And I think it's really, really good news. Even more so now that Conte's in charge and top four looks possible. |
| 1:12.8 | They've got this amazing training ground manager. |
| 1:16.2 | They've got the extra time. |
| 1:17.4 | They don't have to play these assignments that have just seemed to be one humiliation |
| 1:22.1 | after the next. |
| 1:23.2 | I know, Danny, you'll be gutted to be out as a big Europa Conference League man. |
| 1:27.8 | Well, I may be judging by my timeline on Twitter, I'm the only Spurs fan who's even remotely disappointed. |
| 1:34.4 | And, of course, I'm completely furious with UEFA. |
| 1:37.4 | I'm not quite sure why yet. |
| 1:38.9 | I haven't formulated. |
| 1:40.3 | I am absolutely apoplectic and volcanic about UEFA. |
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