Spurs (H) - Thu 19th Jan, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

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The Stockport Iniesta said:
Wonder if there's any chance of Haaland and Alvarez starting together. I'd like to see it soon, Alvarez is to good to sit on the bench in big games. We could really do with his energy to help get the high press back to what it was.
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Agreed. Would love to see the chaos Alvarez and Haaland can cause when played together. Alvarez's energy and Haaland's physicality and movement should cause huge problems for defences.
 
jim tolmies perm said:
You've got all the defence mechanism strategies off to a tee mate.
Still think you're not winning it after the PL/PIGMOL shafting we got at the swamp?
Deary me...
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Its looks like PL want a 3-way title fight and a 3-way top 4 fight, its so scripted we might aswell watch WWE.
 
jim tolmies perm said:
You've got all the defence mechanism strategies off to a tee mate.
Still think you're not winning it after the PL/PIGMOL shafting we got at the swamp?
Deary me...
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If that decision went against the rags or dippers ( Which we know it never would) they'd still be going on about it all over the media and Atwell and Oliver would be banned from officiating their games.
 
Watch our first tackle from behind on Kane will get a yellow if so we know it’s going to be a very tough game with Spurs playing with 12
 
Bill Walker said:
You can't not play players, we have 5 central defenders. All deserve game time.
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Hate this mentality.

I think a large part of our downfall this season has been a weak defence, often through injuries but also the constant changing of back four and more importantly centre back pairings.

I strongly believe if we can get a solid run playing a back four of walker stones dias and cancelo we will be able to mount a title charge.

This 'giving everyone equal game time' narrative is absolutely bollocks. Sort of comment you'd hear at my lads u12's team that.
 
SSL2 said:
Hate this mentality.

I think a large part of our downfall this season has been a weak defence, often through injuries but also the constant changing of back four and more importantly centre back pairings.

I strongly believe if we can get a solid run playing a back four of walker stones dias and cancelo we will be able to mount a title charge.

This 'giving everyone equal game time' narrative is absolutely bollocks. Sort of comment you'd hear at my lads u12's team that.
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agreed, the team's success is most important and a settled back 4 is a hugely important contributing factor to that. Couldn't care less about sharing game time around, our defence has been piss poor this season because its different every week. That needs to change!
 
SSL2 said:
Hate this mentality.

I think a large part of our downfall this season has been a weak defence, often through injuries but also the constant changing of back four and more importantly centre back pairings.

I strongly believe if we can get a solid run playing a back four of walker stones dias and cancelo we will be able to mount a title charge.

This 'giving everyone equal game time' narrative is absolutely bollocks. Sort of comment you'd hear at my lads u12's team that.
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I agree but I do think this is what Pep is doing. Constant changing to give all players game time.
 
SSL2 said:
Hate this mentality.

I think a large part of our downfall this season has been a weak defence, often through injuries but also the constant changing of back four and more importantly centre back pairings.

I strongly believe if we can get a solid run playing a back four of walker stones dias and cancelo we will be able to mount a title charge.

This 'giving everyone equal game time' narrative is absolutely bollocks. Sort of comment you'd hear at my lads u12's team that.
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Hear hear. Thinking the same myself. Akanji has been a good buy at 15 million but he doesn’t cover like Dias or move like John stones. Ake has not let himself down either but it’s still our best back four with the players you’ve mentioned. It didn’t look as good with Laporte next to Dias last year. It’s even worse this year.
 
SSL2 said:
Hate this mentality.

I think a large part of our downfall this season has been a weak defence, often through injuries but also the constant changing of back four and more importantly centre back pairings.

I strongly believe if we can get a solid run playing a back four of walker stones dias and cancelo we will be able to mount a title charge.

This 'giving everyone equal game time' narrative is absolutely bollocks. Sort of comment you'd hear at my lads u12's team that.
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I believe he said “game time” not “equal game time”
 
Stats are saying we'll concede considering the type of team we are playing against. It's only matter of whether and how many chances we create, and shots on goal of course. I am spending Thursday and most of Friday in Manchester, I 'll see some mates I haven't seen in a while, will have a few drinks before the game, totally relaxed, I gave up on the title with our defending and inexplicable winning quality of this Arsenal side.
 
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paulchapo said:
If that decision went against the rags or dippers ( Which we know it never would) they'd still be going on about it all over the media...
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You know it.

People are still fucking posting those "distorted perspective" Rodri "handball" (maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but it was certainly not as clear cut as the "freeze-frame at the moment it most looks like a handball but it's taken from a perspective that doesn't allow for parallax error) photos from Everton last season, stating that we only won the title by a point and this "corrupt decision in City's favour" was how we won that one point.
 
Victorinodennistua said:
Hear hear. Thinking the same myself. Akanji has been a good buy at 15 million but he doesn’t cover like Dias or move like John stones. Ake has not let himself down either but it’s still our best back four with the players you’ve mentioned. It didn’t look as good with Laporte next to Dias last year. It’s even worse this year.
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While all players make mistakes Ake and Akanji are more culpable. They play excellently for 99% of the game then switch off and cost us. Both were at fault for the rags winner. Ake didn't do enough to stop the cross and Akanji just let Rashford go unchallenged. He didn't even move fast just walked past him. Both are good cover and that's all they should be when everyone is fit.
 
We know how spurs going to play they know how we going to play and with there record against us recently they’ll be very confident especially Son and Kane also there right winger who will cut in and always have a shot of a cross to Kane!

Saying that it’s what we do we need to be on it and make chances play quicker because we play the slow control game it be a very tight game like at the swamp
 
waspish said:
We know how spurs going to play they know how we going to play and with there record against us recently they’ll be very confident especially Son and Kane also there right winger who will cut in and always have a shot of a cross to Kane!

Saying that it’s what we do we need to be on it and make chances play quicker because we play the slow control game it be a very tight game like at the swamp
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Need to be much more disciplined when the ball breaks down tracking runners. Spurs were poor on Sunday but they did create some chances, Kane normally has a field day bullying our centre halves.
 
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