Tottenham Fan View: Spurs must find their shooting boots against Fulham

Call it karmic justice; our uppance very much come.

It feels like only yesterday that we were enjoying a good chuckle at the swift unravelling of Liverpool’s season, after defeats to Swansea, Southampton and Wolves, in one catastrophic seven day stretch in late-January.

Now it looks as if Tottenham’s pursuit of silverware could be reaching its own abrupt conclusion.

Spurs are at a crossroads and they’re in danger of blocking every path, in an attempt to find the right one.

Defeat against the Merseyside club last Saturday all but ended any remote chance we had of catching Chelsea, while succumbing to the Jupiler Pro League’s 8^th best team, Gent, on Thursday, has put Pochettino’s Europa League ambitions in jeopardy.

Without even the comfort of a return leg at White Hart Lane, these are looking like moderately dark times.

In attempt to finish off an otherwise depressing week with a modicum of optimism, Tottenham travel to Craven Cottage on Sunday, hoping to brush past Slaviša Jokanović’s Fulham and into the F.A Cup quarter final.

A nice idea in theory, but burdened by the fact Spurs have just plumb forgotten how to score. Rarely a useful quality in knockout football.

In the last four games in all competitions, Tottenham have notched a total of zero goals from open play. Besides his penalty against Middlesbrough, Harry Kane hasn’t found the net in over a month. Vincent Janssen can’t even make the bench.

Having opted for a full-strength side on Thursday, logic suggests that Pochettino will serve up the undercooked version in West London tomorrow, which seldom ends well.

I’m struggling to think of one occasion in which our back-ups proved themselves to be of the required standard. Hueng-min Son’s goal return is quite handy and Harry Winks is certainly an exciting talent. If you enjoy a fiercely whipped cross then Keiran Trippier might be right up your street. But after that?

If Spurs’ understudies were able to make a five-course dinner of beating Wycombe Wanderers in the last round, how on earth do we suppose to tackle a fairly expansive Fulham side who’ll be hellbent on causing an upset in the capital?

Of course, if you read the papers, this fixture is less about progress into the 6^th round than it is an elaborate scouting mission for Ryan Sessegnon. I’m putting money on him scoring the winner.