Will Lankshear sees Tottenham dream turn to nightmare as wretched Spurs dealt night to forget

Tottenham’s 100 percent grounds successful the Europa League was ended with a 3-2 decision by Galatasaray successful Istanbul, featuring a reddish paper for the visitors' goalscorer Will Lankshear.

Lankshear was shown a 2nd yellowish paper connected the hr but the hosts tired, and substitute Dominic Solanke acceptable up a nervy finale with a large finish.

Standard Sport runs done 3 talking points from the melodramatic game.

This was astir apt arsenic escaped a show arsenic Spurs person produced nether Ange Postecoglou and they were, frankly, fortunate not to suffer by six oregon 7 goals to a Galatasaray broadside who were rampant for 70 minutes earlier dropping off.

Osimhen unsocial had capable chances to people astatine slightest 5 times, portion some helium and Mauro Icardi some had efforts ruled retired for straying offside.

In 1 sense, it was an juncture to substance Postecoglou’s critics, erstwhile each of the caput coach’s ‘non-negotiables’, notably his request that Spurs play retired from the back, looked similar weaknesses.

Glenn Hoddle, connected co-comms for TNT Sports, repeatedly criticised his erstwhile club's high-risk approach, to the constituent wherever helium sounded similar a breached record.

And yet, a patched-up Spurs side, who played the last half-an-hour with 10 men, showed quality and could easy person nicked a gully aft a precocious rally, portion they stay successful a strong presumption successful the Europa League following wins successful their archetypal 3 matches.

Losing immoderate game, peculiarly truthful sloppily, volition interest Postecoglou but the upshot of the revamped European calendar is that clubs tin spend nights similar this one.

Spurs are inactive astir apt 1 triumph distant from guaranteeing a play-off spot astatine least, and they are lone halfway done their radical stage, with 4 much games to play.

Given the sheer fig of wounded absences, Postecoglou tin bespeak that this was an understandable blip from his young squad and rapidly enactment it to 1 side, with Ipswich the visitors to northbound London connected Sunday.

Spurs finished the crippled looking the much apt to people but their astonishing 10-man rally came aft Postecoglou called for a drawstring of big-hitters from the bench.

Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski were introduced for Brennan Johnson and Heung-min Son astatine the interval, with Spurs’ lone acceptable wingers being saved for Sunday, portion Pape Matar Sarr and Dominic Solanke besides impressed arsenic substitutes.

Several of Spurs’ starters, though, were hugely underwhelming, notably Radu Dragusin and Lucas Bergavll, neither of whom suggested they are adjacent to pushing for a spot successful Postecoglou’s champion XI.

Bergvall, meanwhile, looked mislaid successful the midfield, repeatedly giving distant possession successful the archetypal fractional – though helium was acold from unsocial successful this respect.

You wondered if the brace peculiarly struggled with the ferocious ambiance successful Istanbul oregon whether they are simply struggling to established a bushed fixed their deficiency of accordant game-time this season.

Whatever the case, Postecoglou’s fringe players struggled, albeit successful hard circumstances, arsenic Spurs’ squad began to consciousness the strain of absent stars and the dense schedule.

For Lankshear, a nighttime which began with a imagination extremity – his archetypal successful elder shot – ended with a harsh acquisition aft helium was dismissed connected the hr for a 2nd bookable offence.

The 19-year-old forward, who made his afloat debut against Ferencvaros successful this contention past month, had the simplest of finishes aft Johnson unselfishly squared from Archie Gray’s outstanding diagonal.

He had a further accidental successful the 2nd half, swivelling successful the container earlier sending a debased changeable excessively adjacent to the goalkeeper, but soon aft helium was blameworthy of a infinitesimal of naivety.

After being bundled implicit successful possession, Lankshear chased down Gabriel Sara and hacked astatine the Brazilian’s ankles adjacent the touchline, leaving the referee with a comparatively casual call.

Spurs really improved aft the sending off, but they mightiness person had much accidental of a smash-and-grab equaliser with 11 men connected the pitch.

Perhaps astir frustratingly for Lankshear, helium volition present beryllium suspended for the location crippled against AS Roma astatine the extremity of the month, denying him the accidental to physique connected his goal.