It is a reflection of the rude health of Tottenham Hotspur when even their alternates can win on autopilot.
Andre Villas-Boas might have bleated about fixture chaos ahead of this confrontation, which arrived 48 hours of their last-gasp win at Cardiff, but his charges wore the workload lightly as two goals from a revived Jermain Defoe decorated an ominous victory that vaulted them into the fourth round of the Capital One Cup.
“We’re on the way to Wembley,” crowed travelling fans restless for a repeat of their run to the 2009 final, and on this evidence such optimism was hard to dispute.
The club cockerel is squawking with renewed gusto. Tottenham, level with Arsenal at the Premier League summit, looked capable of fighting on several fronts as they filleted Villa with a surgical precision.
While Defoe was the evening’s leading man, with a brace of clinical finishes to remind Villas-Boas of his enduring quality, Brazilian starlet Paulinho and Belgian newcomer Nacer Chadli also weighed in with elegantly-taken goals that emphasised the depth of the man-ager’s squad.
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