'Monster', 'Beast mode' – Tottenham fans loving the first-half display of one man v Juventus

'Monster', 'Beast mode' – Tottenham fans loving the first-half display of one man v Juventus

David Woods

Dave is a huge Leeds fan and ardent disciple of Bielsa ball. A career in print magazines that included editing PC Zone, launching PokerPlayer and redesigning The Big Issue has finally led Dave to writing about the love of his life, Leeds United. It’s been a tough 2020 but the single scariest moment was the first quarter of the game against Man City. Rodrigo will be the saviour this season.

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Tottenham played their part in an absolutely fantastic first half at Wembley as two European giants battled each other for a place in the Champions League quarter-finals, and fans were in awe of centre-back Davinson Sanchez.

While the Tottenham attackers gave the Juventus defenders a hard time, with Heung-Min Son and Harry Kane nearly scoring, Juventus were making things tough for Spurs too.

Jan Vertonghen was lucky not to give away a penalty after clearly fouling Douglas Costa.

Remarkably, none of the officials spotted what was a clear penalty.

His partner at the heart of the Tottenham defence was Sanchez and he put in a brilliant display which had fans comparing him to Ledley King.

And the rock-solid defence gave Tottenham the platform to go and score the hugely important first goal in the 38th minute through Heung-Min Son.

Spurs fans are hoping that Sanchez can continue to repel the Juventus attack and they took to Twitter to hail their defensive hero:

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