Last Monday, Tottenham were leading 2-0 against Chelsea before letting the lead slip and eventually Leicester City won the title.
Today, in their last home game of the season, Spurs put in an absolute mundane performance in front of the fans and suffered a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Southampton.
Once again, the North Londoners dropped points from a winning position. A win could have secured second place and a finish above rivals Arsenal.
Fortunately, Arsenal failed to win against City as well and Spurs remain two points ahead of the Gunners. However, anything can happen on the final day of the season.
South Korean attacker Son opened the scoring for Mauricio Pochettino’s side in the 16th minute but a brace from Davis secured all three points for the Saints.
Tottenham supporters were not impressed by the attitude of the players and battered them on social media for a disinterested performance.
Here are a few tweets provided below.
@SpursOfficial so this is how our players thank the fans by proving they r fucking useless bottliers
— Jason Dawson (@Penfold2778) May 8, 2016
@SpursOfficial never be winners with this attitude. You’re paid a fortune to be the best so play like it instead of disappointing ur fans
— Rupert Richmond-Dodd (@rupertrd) May 8, 2016
@SpursOfficial Arsenal will win their last 2 and Tottenham won’t. I think it’s time to concede we will never ever finish above Arsenal.
— J. Lennon (@JMLennon) May 8, 2016
@SpursOfficial Ryan mason is the difference between how we usually defend and how we are defending today
— Alvin Anderson (@squared727) May 8, 2016
@SpursOfficial Woeful result & #THFC season in meltdown. 2 pts from 3 games & a complete inability to close down games with HT leads! #COYS
— Rocky Gill (@CllrRockyGill) May 8, 2016
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Always the bridesmaid and never the bride sums up my years of supporting Spurs. Townsend to score the winner for Newcastle that puts The Arsenal to finish 2nd will just about sum up the ending of what been a great season otherwise. COYS
What a bunch of morons just proving that most fans are fickle idiots. Win a game and we’re brilliant. Lose again and we’re bottlers. I actually think that some’fans’ only enjoy moaning.
still better than man united though, you got one who does it brilliantly.
Same old Spurs Always leave You with a bitter taste
end of season display obvious we miss deli and moose absolutley awful i watched pooch first half hardly moved off the bench christ get with it what a way to end a season yes we have a great manager but he was as bad as the players this all gstarted with west brom and continued from there on hate to say it but we still have a long way to go if we want to be champions next year 50 year supporter
“Useless bottlers?!” What a pathetically hysterical over-reaction! There have been great improvements from Spurs this season and for the most part our attitude has been first class, as indicated by the fact that we are still 2nd in the table with comfortably the best goal difference in the division. Nevertheless, it was a disappointing result yesterday, in a game we shouldn’t have lost. If you want to be constructively critical, then watch the second goal again in slow motion and you will see that Mason fails to close down Davis and then ‘bottles’ the challenge on him. He is standing a yard off him as he shoots and rather than throw himself into the block, he half turns his back and lets him shoot, result 2-1 to Southampton. First goal also, monumental switch off by the defence after Walker goes down. The result and overall performance, especially second half, illustrates that in the absence of our two best mid-fielders, Alli and Dembele, we are not the same team and the squad depth is not adequate to cover the deficiency and will not be sufficient to sustain a challenge on multiple fronts next season. Mason and Carroll are frankly mid-table quality players and also too lightweight. They need to be replaced by two top quality, physical, midfielders, one a DM, who can play at Champions League level. We glaringly obviously need another striker to both challenge and compliment Harry Kane and we also need another quality young CB. We have been linked to many players, but out of those, Batshuyai, Schurrle, Wanyama and Bartra would represent a real upgrade in talent and provide much greater squad depth in needed positions. Constructive criticism and a solution to the problem!
Matt8808 you are right. We need a quality defensive midfielder and a striker like batshuyi,or lacazette. These are game changers. The problem is not our center midfield but our defensive midfield. Our second goal (conceded) is just how we conceded against fiorentina and to make it worse, it was the same Mason who caused it, he fails to block the shot instead he protects himself against the shot. And he is easily cut off( passed ) by opponents. We need people like wanyama, lasson diarra, or Mikel obi if possible.
I agree. I thought many of the players looked mentally exhausted. Folk tend to forget that this is the youngest squad in the BPL and, according to Pochettino, ahead of his schedule.