Paul Merson has mocked Tottenham Hotspur on Twitter after Mauricio Pochettino’s Chelsea recorded a 4-1 win against their London rivals on Monday night.
In one of the crazy nights of English football, Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham ended up with nine men, there were goals disallowed left right and centre, including Nicolas Jackson scoring a first Premier League hat-trick.
Before the game, Paul Merson stated that he would be ‘shocked’ if Chelsea lost the match. Given that Spurs were top of the league, at the time, he got a lot of stick for those comments.
Well, the outspoken pundit was on Twitter to send off those critics as he told the people who called him ‘clueless’ to be ‘off to bed’.
Paul Merson isn’t shy to say what he feels, regardless of what reaction he is going to get, and he was adamant Chelsea would win because Tottenham would attack them and leave spaces in-behind.
And boy did they do that, even with ten and incredibly nine men, as Ange Postecoglou refused to shy away from playing his very high line.
Nonetheless, it resulted in Chelsea just picking them off time and time again, with Paul Merson issuing the following response.
Paul Merson reacts to Chelsea beating Tottenham
“All them people that called me clueless, hope you are off to bed,” said Merson.
Tottenham 1-4 Chelsea – A game for the ages
This will go down as an all-time classic. It’s crazy to think that Spurs actually opened the scoring through Dejan Kulusevski.
You would have thought that the luck was very much with the home team because his effort on goal did take a deflection before it wrong-footed the Chelsea goalkeeper, Robert Sanchez.
But that’s where Spurs’ luck stopped because, not only did they proceed to go down to ten men in the first half when Cristian Romero was sent off for a rash challenge, but they also gave away a penalty in that moment.
Before Micky van de Ven and James Maddison had to go off injured, then Destiny Udogie picked up his second yellow card early in the second half. Goals continued to get disallowed, even for Spurs, before their high line just outdid them and Chelsea sealed the points.
When is the reserve fixture at Stamford Bridge?!
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