Spurs (h) pre-match thread

[HarrytheBlue]

Funnily enough, it's almost like we are at our best when the other team attacks aggressively. Whilst we are attacking and the other team is defending, if their defence is any good, we struggle. But we are lethal when they have been attacking and they lose the ball when they are out of shape. So maybe we should not be so gung-ho, just be patient and wait for our chance? Instead of our relentless and increasingly desperate pressure, and then we get caught out again?

I dunno, it's a puzzle.

Pep's way of playing is to pull the opposition out of shape (it's not totally tika taka). He prefers to keep possession in a particular part of the pitch with short passes, patiently draw the opposition in (and out of shape), before a long diagonal or square pass is sent to the wide player on the other side of the pitch who isn't being tightly marked and who runs diagonally towards the box and feeds the strikers. Just need the right players to do it. Only Silva and Nolito are a natural fit for that style - similar, but not identical, to Spain. KDB and Sergio have to compromise their natural style in that way of playing.

 

[Mike N]

Thanks Preston, but who the fuck do these pricks think they are! God they are a detestable set of bastards!

Always were. They're a close second to the swamp-dwellers.

 

[Peggy's a blue]

Always were. They're a close second to the swamp-dwellers.

Correct but, I hate saying this but the swamp dwellers have won stuff, even by foul means, these twats have won fuck all!

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

Wouldn't it be just perfect if the Spurs post match thread is pepoered with comments like "amazing debut", "best debut I've seen for a long time" etc.

 

[teddykgb]

Pep's way of playing is to pull the opposition out of shape (it's not totally tika taka). He prefers to keep possession in a particular part of the pitch with short passes, patiently draw the opposition in (and out of s hape), before a long diagonal or square pass is sent to the wide player on the other side of the pitch who isn't being tightly marked and who runs diagonally towards the box and feeds the strikers. Just need the right players to do it. Only Silva and Nolito are a natural fit for that style - similar, but not identical, to Spain. KDB and Sergio have to compromise their natural style in that way of playing.

People enjoy mocking those who have read Pep Confidential but he makes his feelings about possession for possession's sake quite clear throughout the book. Those who bemoan our pointless possession would find an ally in Pep Guardiola -- he's surely as frustrated by it, if not more so. The point is to pass quickly and accurately to create space and then pounce, not to pointlessly probe and rack up posssession stats.

 

[Peggy's a blue]

Wouldn't it be just perfect if the Spurs post match thread is pepoered with comments like "amazing debut", "best debut I've seen for a long time" etc.

Do you honestly think these bigoted bastards would be so magnanimous!

 

[bugsyblue]

Spurs manager just called out our fans and said Spurs are a bigger club. Hopefully this will be the incentive we need to show him he's wrong tomorrow!

 

[ballinio]

Yeah miles bigger, we got bigger crowds in the 3rd div & remind me when they last won the league.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

Do you honestly think these bigoted bastards would be so magnanimous!

Surely every blue wants GJ to do well?

 

[Peggy's a blue]

Yeah miles bigger, we got bigger crowds in the 3rd div & remind me when they last won the league.

1961 was the last time, trust me :-)