Adebayor’s Brace Keeps Spurs’ Hope Alive

Emmanuel Adebayor scored twice as Tottenham beat Newcastle United 4-0 at St James’ Park on Wednesday night  to keep their fourth place ambition alive.

Spurs started the brighter and were gifted two early chances courtesy of poor defending from Davide Santon.

On 19 minutes, though, Tim Sherwood’s side got the goal their play deserved. Nabil Bentaleb created some space down the left and when Krul could only palm his delivery out Adebayor was on hand to tap in from six yards.

After the break, the Gallowgate End thought they might see a flurry of attacks in the direction of Lloris’ goal but it was Tottenham who doubled their advantage and Krul again should probably have done better.

Adebayor had a shot from just outside the area which the Dutch ‘keeper couldn’t hold and Paulinho reacted quickest to slot into the net.

Hatem Ben Arfa was also introduced in the hope of giving his side and the home support a lift and his cross to Mathieu Debuchy was somehow tipped over the bar by the exceptional Lloris.

Sherwood had strength in depth from the bench too and when Andros Townsend’s shot was saved, Adebayor’s follow-up looped over Krul and into the corner.

With two minutes remaining the rout was completed when Nacer Chadli found the top corner beautifully from the edge of the area to rubber stamp an impressive away performance.

Townsend could have heaped more misery on Pardew’s side but Krul raced out to deny him from point-blank range.

The result keeps alive Tottenham’s hopes of playing Champions League football while Newcastle look set to miss out on Europe once again.