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Good luck, because you will only consistently gain points from the number of saves he is forced to make to bail us out. Clean sheets, forget it. Even the Southampton one was lucky because one of their players conspired inexplicably to miss an open goal from less than 6 yards out in the last couple of mins which gifted us the 3 points.
Not getting at you specifically, but there is a double standard that is applied routinely here and this is a good example.
When an opposition player misses an open goal from 6 yards, people blame our defence and reckon we escaped with a 'lucky' result.
When a Spurs player misses a sitter (as Harry Kane did just before half time, which would have killed the game [had he not been offside]), people blame our attack and never reckon the opposition was 'lucky'.
Similarly, when we score a messy/scrappy goal, it's always 'lucky' and never down to crap defending by the other side. But when the opposition score a messy/scrappy goal, it's always the result of bad defending by a named Spurs player.
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