Tottenham end 253-day win drought
- Tottenham beat Aston Villa 2-1 on Sunday, May 3, with Conor Gallagher and Richarlison scoring to give Spurs consecutive league wins at last. - The result ended a 253-day wait for back-to-back Premier League victories and lifted Roberto De Zerbi’s side to 17th on 37 points. - That matters because Spurs had gone winless in the league in 2026 before this week and were sliding toward relegation.
Tottenham’s season has been so bad that a normal away win suddenly feels like a plot twist. But that is what happened on Sunday, May 3 — Spurs beat Aston Villa 2-1 and, for the first time in 253 days, stacked one Premier League win on top of another. That sounds like a tiny milestone for a club with Tottenham’s budget and ambitions. In this season, it is huge. It changes the mood, eases the relegation panic a bit, and gives Roberto De Zerbi something he has barely had since arriving — proof that this team can repeat itself. ### Why is two wins such a big deal? Because Spurs have spent most of this season lurching between false dawns and fresh collapses. One decent result would show up, then the next league game would wipe it out. The club’s own form line made that brutally clear before Villa — loss, win, draw, loss, then win. Sunday turned the victories. ### What actually happened at Villa Park? Spurs won 2-1 away to Aston Villa in Matchweek 35. The Premier League’s results page lists it simply — Aston Villa 1, Tottenham Hotspur 2, full time. Tottenham’s club page shows the same scoreline and the starters used by De Zerbi. The key thing is not just that Spurs won, but where ### Who scored for Tottenham? The available match listings point to Conor Gallagher and Richarlison as the Spurs scorers in the 2-1 win. That matters because Tottenham have spent much of the year looking short of reliable goals and short of reliable midfield control. Getting decisive contributions from those areas in the same match is basically the blueprint De Zerbi has been chasing. ### Why does the 253-day number matter? Because it captures the scale of the drift. A club can have a rough month. It can even have a rough winter. But going 253 days without back-to-back league wins means every small recovery kept breaking apart before it became momentum. It is the football version of trying to climb stairs while sliding until it finally stopped the slide. ### Where does this leave Spurs now? Tottenham moved up to 17th with 37 points after 35 matches. That is still a dangerous position, just one place above the relegation zone on the Premier League table shown on the club page. So this was not an escape act. It was more like buying air. The next result still matters a lot. ### Why had the mood gotten so dark? Because before this week, Tottenham
