

A Rafael van der Vaart goal knocks the brave Hornets out of The FA Cup.
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Only good things to take away are Cudicini's amazing performance and the fact that VDV should get some confidence from his first goal in about a dozen starts. Horrific showing overall :/
We didn't win the cup in 91 by playing thrilling football against the top teams. We got lucky draws and scrapped it out until the semi-final where we absolutely destroyed ars*nal at Wembley.
This for me has good omens about it. We played so well against Man City and lost, so playing badly and winning I have no complaints about.
I don't even want to count how many times that excuse has been used this season, the one where we all say that playing like s**t and winning is the mark of a really good team. Yes, good teams do need to have that ability, but this was against a team that's sitting 18th in the league under us! And they made a team of superstars look like rookies!
The players themselves are as much to blame as Harry's squad selection. Why he played most of our first team instead of our subs who have been given almost no playing time this season, I don't know. And remember that we only have three days before our next EPL match-up which we should be using to get back on a winning streak. I have no doubt that playing our bench would've produced a game far better than this one.
Our subs did splendidly against Shamrock Rovers both times and also held out well against Rubin Kazan. I refuse to believe that Watford are such a strong side that we need to play most of our first XI to beat them.
http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2012/01/28/2870663/rafael-van-der-vaart-admits-tottenham-didnt-deserve-to-beat