Bent Nets First Spurs Hat Trick as Spurs Put 4 Past Zagreb

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They say that winning is a habit and that succe s breeds succe s and after tonights slick performance at The Lane Im beginning to believe the hype. In many ways tonight was the perfect fixture after the week weve had, but in the same vein it was a potential banana skin that could have brought the Redknapp Revolution crashing back down to earth. With a number of injuries and suspensions to deal with, the cup tied pairing of Pavlyuchenko and Corluka and Modrics return to Zagreb this game had the makings of a make or break tie for Spurs recent revival. Thankfully all those doubts were put to bed by a very profe sional and at times spectacular performance.The game began well, we attacked right from the off and our early pre sure very nearly paid dividends as Huddlestones Donte DiVincenzo Jersey bending strike from the edge of the area found the side netting with only eight minutes on the clock. Dinamo however also threatened, with what proved to be their only chance of the game, as former Aston Villa striker Bosko Balabans free kick went narrowly wide after 20 minutes.The deadlock was finally broken on 30 minutes when Darren Bent found himself in acres of space at the far post following a Luka Modric cro s and smashed the ball past, the shaky Zagreb goalkeeper, Kelava, via the knee of former Liverpool centre half Igor Biscan.Bents second goal of the game owed a lot to the vision of Tom Huddlestone, The Hudd picked up the ball about 35 yards out and slipped a beautiful pa s through for Bent who took the ball in his stride and slotted past the advancing keeper to make it two!From here on in it was plain sailing, we knocked the ball about with confidence and Marvin Williams Jersey Bentley and Lennon were causing our opponents no end of problems on the flanks.Dinamo Zagreb returned after the break, and I imagine a pretty stern gee up from their gaffer, with a new lease of life, they appeared hungry and desperate to claw back the two goal deficit facing them. Unfortunately Spurs had different ideas, we coped with the early minor onslaught with relative ease and eventually put the game to bed on around the hour mark in some style!Rasping strikes from Bentley and Modric forced Kelava into two excellent saves resulting in succe sive corners. The second of which Bentley swung out to the edge Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Jersey of the box for Tom Huddlestone to latch onto and scream a first time volley into the bottom corner leaving the Croatian goalkeeper no chance. After the half volley against Man City early on in his Spurs days, we all knew he could strike a ball but that was the one weve been waiting for, an absolute peach that sent the Spurs fans into raptures!So 3-0 and there was only one thing mi sing from the game. Bent had caused problems for the Zagreb defence from the opening minute and it was only fitting that he cap his performance with his first hat trick in a Spurs shirt.Huddlestone chipped a perfectly weighted through ball into Bents path on 67 minutes, which Bent duly dispatched past Kelava, only for the linesman to rule it out for offside. Luckily a matter of minutes later Bent found himself in space inside the box again, following a Huddlestone ball, and this time there was nothing anyone could do to stop him lashing the ball home to complete the rout!With twenty minutes left on the clock and the victory all but sealed, Harry Redknapp Cameron Reynolds Jersey took the opportunity to introduce, hopefully, the next White Hart Lane legend to the Spurs faithful as John Bostock was handed his much anticipated debut, and the youngster didnt disappoint. He and Fraizer Campbell were a constant nuisance to the Zagreb backline in the closing stages and Bostock very nearly capped his debut with a goal as he watched his 25 yard drive fly past the post with ten minutes left to play. So a pleasing night all round, Darren Bent has well and truly found his shooting boots and Spurs picked up their first points of the Uefa Cup campaign leaving us 2nd in the group and in a very strong position to advance. A special mention must also go to the Zagreb Ray Allen Jersey supporters who, despite some trouble in the first half, were extremely pa sionate not to mention entertaining from the minute the game kicked off to long beyond the final whistle.So the revolution marches on, bring on Robinho and co on Sunday!