Spurs 1 Southampton 2
Without Mousa Dembele and Dele Alli, I never really fancied Spurs to win this game.
But South Korean Son scored with great panache in 16, when he passed to Lamela, kept on running, got the ball back while Kane was offside, wriggled past Fraser Forster, and banged it in for 1-0.
When Walker was injured in 30, Alderweireld gave Davis two yards at the near post and his low shot rolled in after Hugo Lloris got a hand to it.
At half-time I tweeted that it was never gonna finish 1-1 or 2-2.
SPURS NEVER LOOKED LIKE WINNING. Not to me
Apart from the Son’s goal the best thing they produced was a superb tackle by Eric Dier on Mane around the hour mark.
The intense heat was the same for both teams but the winning goal came right after the 69th minute water break when Davis scored his second goal with a right-foot shot from 18 yards that I expected Hugo Llloris to save.
Ronald Koeman, a fine tactician, has built a patient, brainy team that can sit deep and launch incisive counter-attacks.
Saints are sixth after winning six of their last eight games.
Spurs were 2-0 up at Chelsea on Monday night and what happened there was a meltdown and a colossal fuck-up that may haunt them for a long time.
They could have won that game but the 2-2 draw ended up costing them five points.
This young group needs to learn a big lesson from a 2-2 draw that not only cost them a chance of the title but leaves them without Mousa Dembele for the first four matches of next season.
In this game, Harry Kane really missed his mate Dele Alli, and young Ryan Mason can’t do what Dembele does. Few can.