James Maddison celebrated the return of ‘Angeball’ and said Tottenham were looking for Europa League success he missed being in Thomas Tuchel’s first England squad but Maddison played great against AZ Alkmaar on Thursday night doing well in midfield and scoring his 11th goal this season Spurs will play Eintracht Frankfurt next who won the competition in 2022 and there could still be an all-English final against Manchester United
Micky Van de Ven coming back and Dominic Solanke returning to play after injuries has given Tottenham more strength and style Ange Postecoglou who has been under pressure will now stay as coach at least until Easter after showing some of the ‘Angeball’ that took Tottenham to the top of the league after 10 games last season Wilson Odobert’s second goal against Alkmaar which ended up being the winner for the tie came from a great move along the whole pitch with Maddison doing a nice shoulder fake
Maddison said they believe they can win the tournament and it would be naive to say no he could give a cliché answer about focusing on the next game but there has to be that drive the quarter-final is next and they’ll focus on that but the manager always talks about having a special season and this is one way they can have a special season there are lots of good teams in it but Tottenham are a good team too so the belief is definitely there
Maddison was the key player against Alkmaar and he said he really enjoyed it the beauty of European knockout stages is you know what you need to do in the Premier League sometimes when drawing you don’t want to lose but in knockout competitions you know the job needed and being behind made it even clearer they had to take the game to them win convincingly and they did that Maddison couldn’t remember a better team goal there was a similar move against AZ Alkmaar in the group stage that didn’t lead to a goal this time they worked on Djed Spence going low and
Maddison supporting really low in the build-up because their midfield has a lot of distance to cover Maddison checked over his shoulder and saw the defender rushing to press him sometimes the best touch is not to touch the ball at all so he faked with a little drop of the shoulder and let it run across him then he let the power runners like Djed and Son Heung-min go because they are faster than him they work on the overlaps and the winger being at the back post Brennan Johnson often scores that kind of goal at the back post and today it was Wilson it’s something they work on and the team will be pleased with that
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