Hugo Lloris should be sick of the sight of Argentines bearing down on his objective.
France’s document appearance-maker was enjoying his first recreation since dropping the World Cup ultimate to Lionel Messi and Co on penalties.
And as soon as once more the goalkeeper had that sinking feeling after Emi Buendia, who hails from the identical South American nation however didn’t go to Qatar, capitalised on his mistake right here, The Sun reviews.
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Lloris fumbled a routine shot which allowed Ollie Watkins to tee up Buendia 5 minutes into the second half.
It may have delighted one other Emi, that of Villa stopper and gloating world champion Emi Martinez, who was additionally making his comeback to membership responsibility, albeit instead.
The objective meant Spurs have now conceded first of their final ten video games.
But issues received even worse for Antonio Conte’s males when Douglas Luiz poked previous Lloris with 17 minutes to go.
It sparked wild celebrations from ex-Arsenal chief Unai Emery, who solely took cost of Villa in October.
The Spaniard performed a tactical masterclass to nullify Harry Kane and might now look again on three wins in his first 4 league video games.
It was not the form of triumphant return Cristian Romero had in thoughts when he got here again from the Buenos Aires World Cup occasion on Tuesday.
He did nonetheless shortly get again to what he’s best-known for in these components with bone-crunching challenges on Luiz and Watkins within the first half, the latter of which earned him a yellow card.
Matt Doherty was beginning his second successive recreation at proper wing-back, having spent most video games earlier than the World Cup instead.
Emerson Royal was most well-liked throughout that interval however this time it was his return to heat the bench.
Though SunSport understands there was NO bust-up between the Brazilian and Spurs’ teaching employees this week, with a supply near the participant denying reviews on the contrary.
Doherty scored 4 targets in three friendlies at the beginning of final month and got here near a aggressive one right here within the early phases.
The Irishman skilfully nutmegged Tyrone Mings on the suitable facet of the penalty space, however his shot was nicely blocked by a dedicated Boubacar Kamara.
Kane endured twist-the-knife chants of “You let your country down” at Brentford on Boxing Day following his skied penalty in England’s quarter-final defeat to Lloris’ France.
And there was a smattering of the identical taunt right here from the travelling followers, although the house crowd shortly responded with a raucous rendition of: “He’s one of our own”.
Kane got here the closest to breaking the impasse of a colorless first half with a header cleared off the road.
Clement Lenglet, enjoying in the midst of Spurs’s defence with Eric Dier dropped, discovered Ivan Perisic with a intelligent by way of ball.
The Croat rounded Robin Olsen however was pushed huge, so clipped in a cross that Kane met, solely to be cleared by veteran Ashley Young.
Son Heung-min scored a hat-trick at Villa final season on his technique to profitable the golden boot however has been dreadfully out of types this time period.
The South Korean had the possibility to play Kane by way of after a neat Spurs transfer however his move was approach too heavy and the chance was gone.
Grumpy residence followers set free a couple of boos because the halftime whistle went.
But really this was an enchancment on the final 5 league video games when their facet have been dropping on the interval.
Still, it didn’t take lengthy for actuality to chew as they did certainly fall behind 5 minutes into the second half.
Lloris won’t need to watch this one again as he spilled Luiz’s probability from vary permitting Watkins to steal the ball.
Villa’s striker had the presence of thoughts to not shoot when rounding the keeper from a good angle however as an alternative to chop it again to Buendia who utilized the end.
Nothing was going proper for Tottenham as Perisic blasted a half-chance over the bar and Kane hardly received a sniff.
Then, on 73 minutes, the sport was up as Villa pounced when Kamara robbed Kane of possession.
The ex-Marseille man gave the ball to Luiz, who performed a neat one-two with John McGinn that carved open Spurs defence earlier than flicking cleverly previous the helpless Lloris.
Frustrated Spurs followers within the South Stand took purpose at chairman Daniel Levy after the second objective, with chants heard telling the 60-year-old to “Get out of our club”.
Emery went potty on the touchline, understanding that his facet had probably added one other massive scalp to his younger tenure following wins over Manchester United and Brighton.
But for Conte, this was arguably his facet’s worst show of the season.
The Italian had already warned on Friday to his gamers that replicating final 12 months’s top-four end was going to be harder due to the elevated competitors.
Yet with type that reads two wins of their final seven league video games, merely qualifying for the Europa League might be a tall order this time spherical.
This article initially appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission.
