Chris Coleman has told Sky Sports that he saw Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Winks telling Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish to get up early on in yesterday’s game.
Winks and Grealish clashed after just five minutes at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium yesterday.
The Spurs midfielder charged in to make a tackle, with Grealish collapsing to a heap on the floor.
The Villa playmaker is an expert at drawing fouls, but he is often accused of going down too by pundits.
And it seems that Winks was quickly wound up by the Villa captain last night.
When Grealish went down, the Spurs man was seen talking and gesturing towards the 25-year-old.
And Coleman said: “Harry Winks is smiling there. He’s telling Jack Grealish to get up!
“I’m not sure whether Jack has got one over the referee there.”
That incident was about as close as Winks got to Grealish all night.
After that foul, Grealish really grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck, as Villa ran out 2-1 winners over Tottenham.
Spurs were massively off the pace in the contest and struggled to stop Villa’s attacking momentum.
In the end, Dean Smith’s side managed to take 20 shots, and could have won by a greater margin if they were more clinical.
Grealish was at the heart of everything good they did, and Villa fans must be delighted that their captain is now looking back to his very best after so long out with injury.
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