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Should Tottenham pick revenge or rest?

By Barrett Rouen

WATFORD, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 02: Christian Eriksen of Tottenham Hotspur (23) and team mates celebrate as Abdoulaye Doucoure of Watford scores an own goal for their first goal during the Premier League match between Watford FC and Tottenham Hotspur at Vicarage Road on September 2, 2018 in Watford, United Kingdom. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)
WATFORD, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 02: Christian Eriksen of Tottenham Hotspur (23) and team mates celebrate as Abdoulaye Doucoure of Watford scores an own goal for their first goal during the Premier League match between Watford FC and Tottenham Hotspur at Vicarage Road on September 2, 2018 in Watford, United Kingdom. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images) /
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Tottenham’s next fixture is a return match against Watford who if your memory serves embarrassed Spurs in the Premier League this season.  Should Tottenham rest their weary stars or strike out on a revenge mission.

Tottenham should choose revenge.

I bet you thought I was going to wait a second to get into it.  Or maybe you thought there would be a measured argument on both sides. No.  We’ll leave it at this.  I would understand if Mauricio Pochettino rested some of his star players for the match against Watford.  Harry Kane, in particular, has looked tired and out of sorts and it could do him some good.

Now that said. Football is about winning matches and trophies and with the Carabao Cup being one of the more straightforward and available trophies Tottenham should be clamoring for it.  Football isn’t about reaching the end of the season healthy and rosy and happy.  It’s about winning matches and asserting dominance over the rest of the league and sending a message.  In a perfect world if you’ve done your job well enough players from other clubs should want to transfer out of the league such was your dominance.  They should lose all hope at ever winning it. That should really be the goal.

Watford embarrassed Spurs a few weeks ago.  This should be a revenge mission of the highest order.  Tottenham’s players should be raring to go and angry even.

The great players in sport usually find ways to be upset as motivation.  Michael Jordan famously used to find even the smallest examples so he could claim to be disrespected.  Kobe Bryant was the same and Eric Cantona doesn’t need mentioning here.  The old great Liverpool sides were the same in their aggression.

Tottenham should bare their teeth and bite back in this match.  Drub Watford and make sure they understand exactly who’s in charge in this instance.

It will be a good practice for this Tottenham team who need practice winning and to develop the character of champions.  Right now they’re in the “talented also-rans” category.  If they want to eventually win the Premier League and maybe even Champions League then they’re going to need to develop that chip on the shoulder attitude to do it.

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