Tottenham Hotspur returned to successful methods within the Premier League on Saturday afternoon, with Antonio Conte’s aspect securing one more comeback victory to defeat Leeds United 4-3.
Nonetheless, after one more gradual begin, issues may have panned out very in a different way for Spurs, with Crysencio Summerville giving the guests a first-half lead, earlier than Rodrigo restored the Whites’ benefit shortly earlier than the break after Harry Kane’s Twenty fifth-minute equaliser.
Ben Davies’ sensible drive from the sting of the field then levelled the scores as soon as extra, just for Rodrigo to seal what appeared to be a winner for Leeds with simply 14 minutes left to play – with the Spaniard ending cooly past Hugo Lloris.
Tottenham weren’t finished there, nevertheless, with Dejan Kulusevski’s cross ultimately discovering Rodrigo Bentancur on the sting of the field, with the Uruguayan driving residence an equaliser with 81 minutes on the clock, earlier than the duo mixed as soon as once more two minutes later, with the Swede driving into the Whites’ space and squaring for the 25-year-old, who tapped residence the winner.
Though, regardless of the impression of each Kulusevski and Bentancur, it was arguably the efficiency of Davies that may have most happy Conte on Saturday afternoon, because the defender was each imperious on the again and lethal going forwards in opposition to Leeds.
Certainly, over his 90 minutes on the pitch, the £26.5m-rated expertise was wonderful in a defensive capability, making three interceptions and two tackles, in addition to successful a complete of 5 duels.
The £80k-per-week Welshman additionally caught the attention in possession, finishing 60 of his 67 tried passes – successful fee of 90% – discovering his man with three of his six tried lengthy balls and finishing certainly one of his three tried dribbles, along with creating one massive probability and getting himself on the scoresheet.
These returns noticed the 29-year-old earn an especially spectacular SofaScore match ranking of seven.4 – rating him as Conte’s third-best participant on the day – whereas Alasdair Gold awarded the versatile centre-back a 9 in his personal participant rankings, in addition to stating of the defender’s show in a submit on Twitter:
“With all of the discuss of gamers worrying about accidents forward of the World Cup, Ben Davies has thrown himself at all the things for Spurs on this opening half hour. He’s giving all the things in each problem.”
Certainly, it will seem the very last thing on the “tireless” Davies’ thoughts on Saturday afternoon was the upcoming World Cup, together with his show not solely proving the Wales worldwide’s dedication to the Spurs trigger, but additionally seeing him head to Qatar in red-hot kind – because the defender very a lot ran the present for Tottenham in opposition to Leeds.
