Temperamentally unsettled? If timing is crucial to comedians and goalscorers, Dele Alli struck exquisitely last night to rout Real Madrid and, he will hope, the questions that had been mounting about a fitful season. Alli scored twice and played a key role in Tottenham’s wonderful third goal Times photographer marc aspland“Like the winter, it’s coming,” Mauricio Pochettino, his manager, had said of Alli’s ‘A’ game. This was a collective performance to send a chilly blast through Zinédine Zidane and his embarrassed European champions. It was an evening which may have come straight from…

Source: The Times November 02, 2017 00:02 UTC