Erik Lamela treble leaves Mauricio Pochettino excited for winger’s future

Onomah’s performance on the night aroused massive praise from Spurs fans on social media as his Ghanaian mother watched the game from the stands.

Monaco fielded a strong line-up, needing a win to have any chance of joining Tottenham in the knockout stage, but Lamela swept Spurs into a quickfire lead on two minutes, when he turned in a cross from Ben Davies.

Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino has recognised the importance of his squad as Spurs prepare to welcome AS Monaco to White Hart Lane this evening.

Tottenham are playing at home this week where they will face French side Monaco.

Louis van Gaal’s team weredumped out of the Champions League on Tuesday night with defeat at Wolfsburgwhich meant they finished third in their group and instead progressed to the second tier European competition.

He also spoke before the game about the possibility of bringing in new players in the January transfer window, saying: “With the balance we have got now in the team we need to be careful”.

Mousa Dembele has been ruled out due to illness but Nabil Bentaleb and Nacer Chadli are back in contention after recovering from injuries. “Maybe, yes”, Pochettino said recently, according to the BBC.

However, the three-goal cushion was restored in the 77th minute. I expect Monaco to go out and play a very attacking style of football since they will want to win. “He is more confident and looks a different player from two years ago”.

“I’m very happy. Job done and we are first in the group”. Erik Lamela opened the scoring for Spurs but a late Stephan El Shaarawy goal split the points.

“It is a good opportunity to finish first and win the group”.

Newcastle is now tied on points with Norwich City and Bournemouth, but the team remained in the bottom three by virtue of a lower goal differential of -14 as compared to the Canaries’ -10 and the Cherries’ -12.

He wrapped up his hat-trick and made it five goals from five games in this competition eight minutes before half-time when Son exemplified Tottenham’s high-pressing game and fed Lamela to fire high past Subasic.