Tottenham showed that the league title may not be heading to the city of Manchester after-all as they moved to within striking distance of table toppers Manchester City following a comprehensive 2-0 home win over Everton in their Barclays Premier League encounter on Wednesday night.
Goals from Aaron Lennon and fullback Benoit Assou-Ekotto ensured the Spurs of their 14th league win from 20 games as Harry Redknapp’s side consolidated third place on the table.
The victory, the Spurs eighth from 10 league games at White Hart Lane saw the North London club move to 45-points, the same amount as the second place Manchester United and a further three points adrift of league leaders Manchester City.
More importantly the Spurs may have locked up one of the automatic Champions League spots as they moved eight points ahead of the fourth place Chelsea.
All the encounter, which was put on hold until the second week of January due to the London riots back in August proved was that the Spurs are the real deal and the 11th placed Toffees will struggle to qualify for Europe.
The home side dominated from the outset but was forced to wait until the 35th minute to put their dominance on the scoreboard as English international Lennon netted the opener after a brilliant individual effort.
Harry Redknapp’s side then doubled their advantage and secured all three points just after the hour mark when Assou-Ekotto let rip a 30m thunderbolt which flew past Tim Howard’s goal following a slight deflection of Everton and Australian international Tim Cahill.
The Spurs manager revealed afterwards that his players firmly believe they can win their first ever Premiership Title and their first top flight league title in more than four decades.
“It’s not impossible for us to win the league,” said Redknapp to the English media. “We have a chance. The players believe we have a good chance.”
“I wasn’t there but someone said (Tottenham defender) Williams Gallas came in the other day and said to everyone: ‘Listen, we have a chance here.”
“It’s not beyond the realms of possibility. We are in there. It’s going to be hard but we are not a bad side. We have some real quality. We can play and we have a good spirit.”
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