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Exploring Tottenham loss to Watford

By Aaron Coe

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 30: Christian Eriksen of Tottenham Hotspur is challenged by Christian Kabasele of Watford during the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Watford at Wembley Stadium on April 30, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 30: Christian Eriksen of Tottenham Hotspur is challenged by Christian Kabasele of Watford during the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Watford at Wembley Stadium on April 30, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images) /
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LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 30: Christian Eriksen of Tottenham Hotspur is challenged by Christian Kabasele of Watford during the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Watford at Wembley Stadium on April 30, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 30: Christian Eriksen of Tottenham Hotspur is challenged by Christian Kabasele of Watford during the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Watford at Wembley Stadium on April 30, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images) /

I’d like to really blame Pochettino for the thin bench, but it is not all his fault. Erik Lamela has only played 17 minutes this season and after pulling up lame last week in warm-ups didn’t even make the bench. With Son on leave from international duty, and Lloris and Sissoko both our injured. The choices in the cupboard are sparse from a first-team perspective.

Georges-Kevin Nkoudou didn’t make the squad for the fourth game in a row and after a relatively strong pre-season, leaving one to wonder if he will ever get a chance. Did the everyone really start at zero not truly include everyone, only the three players the press has gone on and on about for months? The same is likely true of Vincent Janssen were he healthy one would presume at this point, given he doesn’t even have a number.

GKN would at least stay wide and potentially give Harry Kane more room to operate. Not to mention provide another man with speed to take some over the top pressure off Lucas Moura. Llorente doesn’t offer much at this point, with no real pace and an apparent unwillingness to fight for the balls in the air, he really ends up just clogging up the middle of the field making Kane’s job even more difficult.

Looking at the rest of the ‘first team squad’ Foyth is still injured from pre-season, then Josh Onomah and Cameron Carter-Vickers are both out on loan. That leaves Serge Aurier. Period. That is all we had with the injuries and other excused absences as noted.

While yes, I would have rather seen GKN than Llorente the truth is if we needed either to help us win the game, as was the case today; something else must have gone wrong. As was the case today.

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