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Tottenham 2 Sunderland 0
SUNDERLAND'S search for an away win in the Premier League continues. Not since a Steve Watson own goal against West Brom at the Hawthorns nearly two years ago have the Black Cats registered a top flight victory away from the Stadium of Light.
And to be honest they never really looked like breaking this run, let alone get a result, until the last ten minutes of the contest, when the away side realised there was a football match to win.
Tottenham absolutely battered Sunderland in the first half and, as the cliché goes, if it were a boxing match the referee would have stopped in before the break.
The visitors laid siege to the home side's 18 yard box and only a combination of good fortune, bad finishing and competent goalkeeping kept the Black Cats in the game after Aaron Lennon opened the scoring in the second minute.
Roy Keane's side continued their laboured and pedestrian style until the last ten minutes when they turned the tables on the visitors and camped on the edge of Spurs 18 yard box, - and had four efforts cleared off the line.
Kenwyne Jones, Michael Chopra, Liam Miller and Murphy all had efforts agonisingly hacked off the line as the home side hung on to claim the three points.
Maybe substitute Robbie Keane's 90th minute strike, which squirmed under the body of an otherwise excellent goalkeeping display, put a gloss on the victory, but the reality is that the home side should have had the game out of the away team's sights by the turnaround.
The Black Cats should be commended for the way they bounced back in to the game but they need to remember a football match lasts 90 minutes and not just ten.
5:36pm Saturday 19th January 2008
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