Goalscorer Davies: “I feel like I’ve got a good relationship with the fans here”
Mon 05 January 2026, 12:20|
Tottenham Hotspur
Ben Davies thanked our fans for their vocal backing after his goal against Sunderland on Sunday.
The Wales international defender marked his first start of the season with a close-range effort following Micky van de Ven’s low drive to break the deadlock at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, our first goal of the New Year and one that put us in the driving seat against the men from the north-east.
Chants of “Davies again, Ole, Ole” and “Ben Davies, he scores when he wants” rung around the ground at several points throughout the contest, with the long-serving left-back at the centre of a number of key moments at both ends of the pitch.
Naturally frustrated to have drawn the game 1-1 in the end, Ben – who received a similarly rousing reception when he came off the bench for his first appearance of the campaign against Slavia Prague in the Champions League – nevertheless reserved a word of gratitude for our supporters when asked about those songs.
“It was really nice – those are the things you miss in football when you’re not playing, so to get out there, to score today, to hear the fans… I feel like I’ve got a good relationship with the fans here. I think we’ve all gone through good and bad times together and right now, I feel how hard it is at times but we’re building something and we’ve really got to stick together. I definitely feel part of that.”
I think we’ve all gone through good and bad times together and right now, I feel how hard it is at times but we’re building something and we’ve really got to stick together.
Reflecting on the match as a whole, Ben regretted not being able to capitalise when we were 1-0 up.
“It was a game of two halves, really,” he said. “In the first half I thought we were very good, dominated the ball, dominated the game and could have scored a couple. In the second half they came with a lot more intensity, we probably struggled on the ball to match it at times but there were opportunities where they went a bit gung-ho and left a few spaces in behind and that’s where I think we probably missed the chance to capitalise and make it 2-0.
“You want to punish teams when they take risks against you and in the second half they definitely did, there were moments where they left the defenders one-on-one and it was like a 50-50 moment that could have gone either way. Those are the moments where you really need the ball to bounce in your favour and to be clinical when you get the opportunities. Then obviously when they put the pressure on like they did, they got the goal, which was a bit of a sucker-punch really.”
