Spurs Get That Sinking Feeling As Gibbs-white And Awoniyi Fire Forest To Thumping Victory

It promises to beryllium a agelong 3 weeks for Tottenham Hotspur and Igor Tudor. That is if Tudor gets nan time, aft Nottingham Forest plunged Spurs deeper into nan relegation fight, signaling a humiliating 3-0 triumph astatine this immense arena.

When Spurs, now a constituent supra nan relegation zone, do re-emerge aft nan world break, their travel to Sunderland will beryllium nan first of 7 games to prevention their Premier League status. Perhaps appropriately, present Tudor was dressed each successful achromatic and location was a funereal emotion to things erstwhile nan last whistle blew and nan jeers rang retired from nan stands.

For Forest, this was a dreamy day successful nan capital, a 2nd triumph successful 4 days and, crucially, Vítor Pereira’s first convention triumph since taking complaint past month. Igor Jesus rocked Spurs by heading successful from a area astatine nan extremity of nan first half and Morgan Gibbs-White, a Tottenham target past summer, doubled Forest’s lead, capping a move he started erstwhile wholly unmarked adjacent conscionable beyond nan punishment spot. Evangelos Marinakis, nan Forest proprietor coming here, dug his heels successful to support clasp of Gibbs-White amid that interest.

The substitute Taiwo Awoniyi compounded things for nan hosts, adding nan 3rd aft side-footing successful nan awesome Neco Williams’s superb transverse from nan left.

The ambiance astatine full-time was successful crisp opposition to nan 1 connected nan bustling High Road earlier kick-off, erstwhile thousands of Spurs supporters welcomed nan presence of their squad coach. This consequence whitethorn not specify nan play but it could surely spell a agelong measurement to doing so, Forest swapping places pinch Spurs to move 2 points clear of them and 3 supra nan driblet zone.

Igor Jesus celebrates aft putting Forest up successful northbound London. Photograph: David Cliff/EPA

Spurs stay nan only Premier League squad without a triumph this almanac twelvemonth and, ominously, crossed those 13 matches they person taken 5 points – each draws – from a imaginable 39. All of nan goodwill Tudor built up from an encouraging show successful a tie against Liverpool astatine Anfield and successful nan triumph complete Atlético Madrid successful midweek slow frittered distant here, this a 5th consecutive convention crippled without victory.

Spurs began pinch intent, aft kick-off each outfield subordinate moved into nan Forest half arsenic Gugliemo Vicario kicked nan shot upfield. Richarlison was backmost from suspension truthful collaborated Dominic Solanke, different 1 of Spurs’s 3 changes, successful attack. Micky van de Ven began astatine left-back, Djed Spence nan full-back connected nan other flank and Pedro Porro successful midfield, but Van de Ven was withdrawn astatine nan interval, having injured himself midway done nan first half.

Igor Tudor urges his Tottenham squad on. Photograph: Alex Pantling/Getty Images

Desperation accompanied Spurs’s almost each move, supporters praying that, this time, things would beryllium different. They cried for a punishment erstwhile Ola Aina caught Pape Matar Sarr wrong nan box, instantly waved distant by Michael Oliver, and Tudor extended his correct limb connected nan touchline arsenic Richarlison attempted to scope a Mathys Tel transverse astatine nan backmost post.

There was nan restlessness that rained down from nan elephantine South Stand slope arsenic Cristian Romero dithered to prime his pass. Pedro Perro fumed arsenic nan referee halted him from taking a speedy free-kick approaching nan hour.

Taiwo Awoniyi scores Forest’s 3rd from adjacent range. Photograph: Carlos Jasso/AFP/Getty Images

Worryingly, each of that was earlier Forest added their 2nd connected 62 minutes. Gibbs-White started and vanished nan attack, spreading nan shot wide to Callum Hudson-Odoi earlier driving into nan box. Hudson-Odoi trim nan shot backmost into nan container where, astir 8 yards from goal, Gibbs-White had nan state of Tottenham to hammer in, his onslaught cannoning successful disconnected an exposed Vicario, who will acquisition hernia room adjacent week.

Gibbs-White celebrated by putting his fingers to his ears and now nan only sound was nan boisterous distant end, hundreds of whom returned from cardinal Denmark connected Friday aft watching Forest support live their hopes of Europa League glory. Spurs, of course, cognize really that feels but, for now, nan biting reality could not beryllium overmuch further away.