{"id":622468,"date":"2026-05-04T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622468\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:04:11","slug":"aston-villa-1-2-tottenham-hotspur-is-villa-victory-moment-tide-turned-for-troubled-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/622468\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur: Is Villa victory moment tide turned for troubled Spurs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roberto de Zerbi had called on Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> to silence the voices inside the club as this traumatic, turbulent season reached the point of no return.<\/p>\n

The new head coach referred to the negativity surrounding Spurs as he attempted to mount a late salvage operation and avoid the prospect of the most embarrassing relegation in Premier League history.<\/p>\n

And how his players responded to the Italian’s emotional call to arms<\/a> with their finest display of the campaign, securing a hugely deserved 2-1 victory at Aston Villa<\/a> that leapfrogged them over West Ham<\/a> and out of the relegation zone.<\/p>\n

This was so emphatic, so transformed from what had been served up before De Zerbi’s appointment on 31 March, that it was fair to ask pertinent questions.<\/p>\n

Not just where this version of Spurs has been all season, but more significantly – was this the moment the tide turned for them as they bid to dodge the drop into the Championship?<\/p>\n

West Ham<\/a>‘s 3-0 defeat at Brentford<\/a> on Saturday had left the door ajar, adding weight to De Zerbi’s rallying cry, but those who have observed Spurs on a regular basis this season could not have expected them to burst through it so forcefully.<\/p>\n

There was something in the air before kick-off, from the moment Unai Emery’s Aston Villa<\/a> line-up was revealed – showing seven changes from the side that lost at Nottingham Forest<\/a> in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final – to the thunderous reception the players received from their travelling fans as they came out to warm up.<\/p>\n

Emery’s teamsheet included defensive trio Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres and Lucas Digne, as well as top scorer Ollie Watkins, dropped to the bench.<\/p>\n

It was effectively a letter of encouragement to Spurs, and a sign the Spaniard and Villa’s priority was firmly on overturning that 1-0 first-leg deficit against Forest in Thursday’s home return.<\/p>\n

Their eye was not on the ball here – and how Villa’s fans let them know it with a furious reaction at half-time and at the final whistle. Not that many were left at the end.<\/p>\n

Emery’s selection, considering his fifth-placed side were looking to confirm a place in next season’s Champions League, would certainly have been greeted with sinking hearts in east London, where West Ham<\/a> would have been looking to Villa for a favour in the battle for survival.<\/p>\n

Following on from last weekend’s vital win at Wolves<\/a>, De Zerbi had said: “It’s like we’re all crying and relegated. No, not yet. We have to die on the pitch.<\/p>\n

“We have to play, we have to fight. It’s not the best moment for us, a tough moment, but the losers cry, they think negative and I don’t want people close to me crying or to think a different way than me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberto de Zerbi had called on Tottenham Hotspur to silence the voices inside the club as this traumatic,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-622468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}