Micky van de Ven has played down the furore over his standoff with Thomas Frank after Tottenham’s Premier League defeat by Chelsea on Saturday, insisting it was misinterpreted and blown out of proportion. The centre-half preferred to focus on how the team had bounced back to thrash FC Copenhagen in the Champions League on Tuesday – a game in which he scored a thrilling individual goal.
Van de Ven was all smiles after the Copenhagen victory, his surge and finish from one box to the other drawing comparisons to Son Heung-min’s Puskas Award‑winning effort for Spurs against Burnley in 2019. It was a vivid contrast to the post-Chelsea scenes when Spurs were booed off by their home crowd, having also been jeered by them during the game.
