Last season, if someone said to a Spurs fan that Nacer Chadli was one of their most important players, they would be likely to have laughed in your face. This season is very different. Having scored just once in the Premier League in 24 appearances last year, the Belgian international midfielder has scored six in ten so far this time around - doing what the club's misfiring forwards can't seem to be able to do. He's performing well, trying hard and popping up with the aforementioned important goals. Without him, it's terrible to think where Spurs would be this season - they could seriously be in the bottom the three - and the times he has scored in matches when Spurs have drawn or won by a single goal (such as against Arsenal or Aston Villa) back that point up emphatically. He's one of the first names on the team-sheet now and fair play to him for working hard enough to get there after an opening season in which he was labelled a flop.
