Tottenham 0-2 Everton

------------------Robinson--------------------
Lee----Dawson----Davenport----A.Ekotto
-------------Jenas-------Davids---------------
--Lennon------------------------------Tainio--
------------Berbatov------Keane--------------

Tottenham: Robinson, Lee (Defoe 60), Dawson, Davenport, Assou-Ekotto, Lennon, Jenas, Davids, Tainio (Zokora 74), Berbatov, Keane.
Subs Not Used: Cerny, Stalteri, Gardner.

Booked: Dawson.

Everton: Howard, Neville, Yobo, Lescott (Weir 84), Naysmith, Osman, Carsley, Arteta, Kilbane, Cahill, Johnson.
Subs Not Used: Wright, Hibbert, Beattie, McFadden.

Sent Off: Kilbane (33).

Booked: Kilbane

Goals: Davenport own goal (53), Johnson (66).

Att: 35,540

Highlights link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0swaiMbrdiY

Those Spurs fans who had assumed that the Sheffield United game marked the return to the real script for the season suffered a crushing blow at White Hart Lane. If anything the performance here was worse than against Bolton. Despite holding a one man advantage for an hour, following Kevin Kilbane's dismissal, Spurs failed to create a single clear chance from open play until the 89th minute.

Understandably, Jol stuck with the line up that had beaten Sheffield United convincingly in midweek. Less comprehensible was his decision to once again fill the bench with defensive players, leaving Defoe as the only attacking option. The decision backfired when, with Spurs chasing the game, jol was forced to throw Defoe on to play down the left flank in the hope of breaking a highly organised Everton side down. To add insult to injury, Defoe replaced Lee Young Pyo, who was one of the better players on the day, switching the anonymous Jenas to rightback.

Rather than explain why his side was unable to create any significant openiings against a team reduced to ten men who hadn't won at White Hart Lane for 21 years, Jol chose to break his own oft-spoken rule on discussing transfer targets to confirm the club were targetting Stewart Downing and had made a final bid for the player. An outrageous piece of attempted spin, from the usually media-savvy Dutchman, which showed a total lack of respect for Middlesborough, who responded by wittily declaring their own interest in Aaron Lennon.

Spurs' man of the match: Lee Young Pyo - An impossible task to pick a bright spot in such a poor performance, so the South Korean gets the dubious honour by default having managed to draw three fouls from Kilbane in quick succession to get the Everton player sent off.