Tottenham v Dnipro: Europa League – live!

Football News | Article posted on February 27th, 2025

It is important to stress that Tim Sherwood was joking. The subject was Roberto Soldado and the Tottenham Hotspur
manager was asked whether he had tried any old tricks in an attempt to
rebuild the striker's confidence – even getting him to bang balls into
empty nets in training. "What about if he misses?" Sherwood shot the
way things are going for Soldado, the possibility cannot be discounted.
The £26m signing from Valencia missed an open goal in last Thursday's Europa League
last-32 first-leg at Dnipro and on Sunday he fired over from an
extremely presentable opportunity at Norwich City in the Premier League.
Tottenham lost both matches soldado's first season in
English football has been an ordeal, in which the errors have tended to
stick more readily in the memory. The 28-year-old is actually
Tottenham's joint-top scorer with 10 goals yet there are caveats – five
of them have come in the Europa League and four of his five in the
league have been penalties said much, though, about Sherwood's
breezy and ballsy man-management style that he was prepared to poke a
little fun at Soldado who, he said, would start in the return tie
against Dnipro at White Hart Lane on Thursday sherwood
added that he had offered Soldado reassurance since the Norwich game. He
told the striker the tide would turn and he simply needed any sort of
goal, even one that deflected in off his backside to make it happen. He
also pointed out that even the very best players endure barren spells;
Liverpool's Luis Suárez, for example, is on a run of one goal in eight
starts. "No one is pointing any fingers as Liverpool are winning games,"
Sherwood this article is provided courtesy of The Guardian