What we need to see from Tottenham vs Wolves in Carabao Cup
By Aaron Coe
Someone needs to step up on the Tottenham midfield
Getting a goal in open play will be a lot easier if players could do a better job of creating for one another. Right now, if Harry Kane is not dropping deep, there is not a lot of creative passing coming from the middle of the pitch.
Against Chelsea, they smothered Tottenham by playing two deep and three high midfielders which left the very middle of the pitch completely open and unoccupied. Noone from Spurs was willing to consistently venture into that space in the middle and demand the ball from their teammates to create movement across the field.
In the first half, Harry Kane was dropping deep into that space and Tanguy Ndombele was running into it. IN the second half, Kane stopped dropping and Ndobmele stopped pushing into the vacuum, and Spurs were slowly suffocated by the Blues.
Spurs do not even need a midfield to suddenly turn into Kevin De Bruyne and spray perfect passes all over the park. What they do need, however, is a player to consistently want the ball under pressure and be able to hold that ball and be progressive in his passing while under that pressure.
If Spurs can get someone to step up and command the midfield that will help with the scoring and push Spurs back into the win column. However, if the ball continues to move from side to side around in a big circle without bisecting the defense, Tottenham will continue to run in place offensively.