Spurs Trio Enjoy Goalscoring International Weekend
Poor old Wayne Rooney. On the blunt end of some rather downbeat Wembley crowd participation this weekend. Having a sweaty face, it seems, just isn’t enough for the home support anymore, they want more from their captain— and boy did they let him know about it.
Still, not everyone was having a bad time of it. Rooney’s former Manchester United teammate, Cristiano Ronaldo, certainly wasn’t getting booed as he hammered in a quartet of goals past well-established Eurotrash Andorra on Friday night.
In an almost unfair mismatch of talents in Aviero, the Portuguese superstar seemed to take extra pleasure in sticking it to the World’s 203rd best team. As if their very presence was an insult to his undoubted greatness.
Elsewhere across the continent, there was plenty of Spurs-themed net finding afoot, from some quite unlikely sources. And no, we’re not referring to Vincent Janssen— you heartless b*stards.
Anyway let’s dive right in, before someone starts booing.
Toby Alderweireld
It was no great revelation that Spurs’ artful stopper scored against Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday— the Belgian managed four goals in the League last season and is an unquestionable aerial menace. The method in which he directed the ball past Asmir Begovic, however, was as surprising as it was imaginative.
A Dries Mertens corner, swung to the near post; a zipping run to the edge of the six-yard box by your man Toby. On a list of things he might do next, it’d be down somewhere near the bottom, along with pull a live haddock from his shorts — Alderweireld executes a flawless airborne back-heel, past Chelsea’s back-up keeper. Fabulous.
Dele Alli
Eric Dier will be quick to remind the England midfielder that he missed a far easier chance later in the game against Malta on Saturday. Never one to pass up the opportunity to have a pop at his beloved comrade, he might also add that he has quite a history of blazing glorious close-range chances for someone so young. Those guys, huh?
Alli will have nightmares about that miscue, no doubt. But it shouldn’t be forgotten that he did actually score. The second goal, no less, in the Southgate Dynasty. Long may it prosper.
Vincent Janssen
Oh you’re back, then? To have a good laugh about Spurs’ latest misfiring Number 9? Get your laughing chops around this veritable scud missile; this net-molesting tomahawk. This, well, you get the idea. The final goal in an impressive 4-1 victory over Belarus for the Netherlands on Friday evening. Janssen pressed and won the ball back in a dangerously high positon— a move straight out of the Pochettino handbook— and travelled purposefully toward goal. Then did this. Wallop.
