Tottenham's Winless Campaign Unravels in 2-3 Home Loss to Villa as De Zerbi Blasts Paper-Thin Team

In a Premier League heartbreaker at home, Tottenham succumbed 2-3 to Aston Villa, failing to record a single league victory across the entire season to date. After the match, head coach Roberto De Zerbi conceded to TNT that the side had generated multiple high-quality scoring chances in the first half, only to concede while a man down, and then lost the plot defensively in stoppage time. A second-half throw-in blunder gifted Villa the goal, which Buendia then followed up with a wonderful finish. De Zerbi admitted their attacking output had been acceptable but that the team looked far too fragile overall, blaming himself for failing to capitalise on their chances. He demanded the squad raise its match quality decisively—by tightening the shape, ramping up physicality, and making the right decisions both when defending possession and in the final third. On the subject of the home record, he said he would only evaluate work carried out during his own time in charge.