Tottenham Hotspur went into Saturday’s penultimate Premier League clash at Dean Court against Bournemouth knowing that victory would absolutely guarantee Champions League football for the 2019/20 campaign.
Despite a brighter start, the wheels quickly fell off as Son Heung-Min saw a straight red card for a shove just before the halftime break, and second half substitute Juan Foyth lasted only two minutes before he saw a straight red card of his own.
Down to nine men with over 40 minutes left to play in the game and the inevitable happened in stoppage-time and Bournemouth took all the points.
Statistics website Whoscored obviously weren’t that positive in their player ratings, but Dele Alli took Man of the Match in their system with a score of 7.28.
Completing the top five best performers on the day, if that’s not an oxymoron, were Davinson Sanchez (7.13), Hugo Lloris (7.11), Lucas Moura (6.91) and Eric Dier (6.90).
Dust ourselves down and recover for Ajax now.