Tottenham’s urgent game has been cunningly adjusted by Pochettino and the manager’s deployment of Eric Dier as a central midfielder who can drop into the backline has been key their successTottenham have the best defensive record in the Premier League. It’s not a sentence we’re used to hearing. Not since 1951 have Spurs finished a campaign with the best defensive record of the division they’ve been in. It’s not the Spurs way. They’re supposed to be about moments of occasional attacking genius set against a background of general flakiness. Not any more.It’s Tottenham’s urgent that really stands out. They perhaps dont push fairly as high or with such relentlessness as Mauricio Pochettino’s Southampton,but that’s portion of his maturation as a manager. In previous years his sides have tended to dip in the latter portion of the season, but that dip has become less and less pronounced as he has adapted to the demands of the Premier League. The urgent is more controlled now, and whether anything seems even more effective.
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Source: theguardian.com