10 men Tottenham beat Aston Villa 2-1
Tottenham completed a hard fought 2-1 win over Aston Villa in the English Premier League. Spurs were down to 10 men for a good part of the match, and still managed to come out with 3 points. It was a match not short of action at all.
Tottenham got the game underway. There was only a minute gone and Villa had a chance to go one up, James Collins's knocked-down from a deep free-kick that fell to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gareth-Bale-c14422.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gabriel-Agbonlahor-c14288 then went close with a header from around the penalty spot, and Tottenham’s usual vulnerability under the high ball was there to be seen.
Soon after, there was a brilliant save from Villa keeper. Tottenham worked it well to the edge of the Villa area and Aaron Lennon's sublime flick from Luka Modric's pass found http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Brad-Friedel-c7953 got out well to get to the ball and kept the
scores level.
Moments later there was a penalty shoot for Aston Villa as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Emile-Heskey-c12468 inside the danger area but the referee did not agree.
Jermain Defoe had looked dangerous on the shoulder of the defence and it took a good block from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Stephen-Warnock-c34158 to prevent him from opening the scoring.
The home side got hold of the ball and got on the attack. Stewart Downing got past http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alan-Hutton-c4253 on the left and cut inside, but his shot was a touch slow and Heurelho Gomes made an easy save.
The deadlock was finally broken,when Spurs worked it well again and Alan Hutton strode down the right before crossing low into the box for the onrushing Rafael van der Vaart who side-footed it in. It was nothing less than what the visitors had deserved in
the first half.
Minutes after taking the lead Spurs were a man down. Jermain Defoe went up for a header with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/James-Collins-c17687 and the Villa defender came off worse after being caught by the striker's elbow. Referee Martin Atkinson consulted his linesman and showed a straight
red. For the rest of the first half Tottenham tried to hold on to their lead and did all they could to fill in the gap.
With the visitors a man down, the 2nd half started well for Villa. They got an early corner that fell perfectly for an unmarked http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Stiliyan-Petrov-c34231, but the Bulgarian could not get much power on his header and Spurs maintained the one goal lead.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Stewart-Downing-c34221 went close to levelling the game, he left Alan Hutton behind with a nice touch on the left and his cross found Carlos Cuellar - but the Spaniard's header drifted narrowly wide.
So often it happens that a team that is a man down goes on and scores, Spurs who had been on the back foot for most of the 2nd half got a rare break. The London side acted quickly and committed men forward on the counter. Rafael van der Vaart's
flicked the ball in the path of Gareth Bale ,he ran into the box and fed http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Aaron-Lennon-c3062, who cut it back to Van der Vaart to fire who got on the end of the move that he had started and made it 2-0.
Aston Villa fought hard in the dying moments and did get one goal in, but in the end that was all they got and Spurs managed to hold on to their precious 3 points’.
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