Amongst the disappointment of losing to Aston Villa at home on Saturday there was one moment that shone through, we saw the much-prolonged and anticipated debut of American DeAndre Yedlin.
The Full-Back was signed from the Seattle Sounders last summer, but was then loaned back to complete the MLS season before joining up with Spurs in January. But we hadn’t seen him anywhere near the first-team until Saturday and may fans started to wonder what the logic was in holding him back.
It’s down to clever man-management from Mauricio Pochettino. It’s easy to forget that Yedlin is a 21 Year-Old coming to England and Poch has let Yedlin settle down in the country first before throwing him into the deep end of first team football.
Now after a string of impressive outings for the U21 side, he made his first forte into the first team and should remain there for the rest of the season. Considering that Kyle Walker is out injured and Vlad Chiriches and Eric Dier are having to deputise there it leaves us with a lack of width defensively and a lack of threat going forward on the break.
Starting Yedlin in the remaining six games that we have this season would be beneficial to us and to him. As these games are perfect to settle him in and prepare Yedlin for next season, also it gives us a new dynamic option as he offers a lot going forward with his blistering speed and awareness with the ball.
So there may not be much to play for but there is a lot to learn from some of our players and Yedlin can show a lot of his worth to the Spurs faithful in this final run-in of fixtures and maybe DeAndre can start to make a name for himself in N17.
