Ange Postecoglou and Johan Lange may be forced into Tottenham January transfer decision

It proved to be an excellent week for Ange Postecoglou and his Tottenham team as they claimed two very important victories. Firstly keeping their silverware hopes alive with a 2-1 win over Manchester City in the Carabao Cup, Spurs then followed it up with a convincing 4-1 win at home to Aston Villa on Sunday afternoon.

For the second game in succession against the Midlands club, Postecoglou's side put them to the sword with four second-half goals. Helped by Brennan Johnson's strike so soon after the interval, Dominic Solanke helped himself to a double and James Maddison completed the scoring with a fine free-kick.

Very much a day to remember for Tottenham fans, the only negatives to come out of the game were Cristian Romero and Richarlison having to leave the pitch through injury in the second half. Romero's exit was due to a foot injury sustained in a poor challenge on Aston Villa's Morgan Rogers, with Richarlison appearing to pull his hamstring when crossing the ball for Solanke to score his second of the day.

It was the second time Romero had left the pitch early in the space of five days. Postecoglou and Tottenham will be hoping for positive news on the World Cup winner, especially with Micky van de Ven currently in the treatment room after straining his hamstring against City.

Tottenham are in a much better position defensively than was the case 12 months ago, with the head coach this time having Radu Dragusin to call upon. Spurs are perhaps one too short at centre-back at present and they cannot really afford to sustain any other injuries in the position.

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With the January transfer window not too far away in the distance, it will be interesting to see if Tottenham do look to strengthen at centre-back at the turn of the year as they look to compete on four fronts. That was a talking point on the latest episode of football.london's Gold & Guest Talk Tottenham podcast.

As well as discussing the defensive absences right now, Spurs correspondents Alasdair Gold and Rob Guest also reflected on a great day against Aston Villa, Solanke's superb showing and also the contributions from Dragusin and Ben Davies. Thursday's Europa League tie away at Galatasaray was also on the agenda as Postecoglou could possibly choose to rest a number of players to ensure there are no further injury blows heading into Sunday's game at home to Ipswich Town.

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