Spurs (H) - Sat 23rd Aug, 12:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[jimharri]

Yeah you are right about Potter.

Not sure the example of Lampard is relevant - he tried to go to high too soon in his managerial career. His decision to manage Chelsea was clearly one led by emotion and not experience or ability and they never end well.

Spurs will be at least be more organised and wont play that suicidal high line they did under their previous manager. who was so stubborn to a point of damaging his own reputation

My point was that Lampard was very good at a smaller club, like Frank at Brentford. When he went to bigger clubs, driven by emotion or not, he wasn't up to the job. Will Frank be at Spurs? Only time will tell.

 

[mac]

After today’s showing, I can’t see anything but a significant City win. We are back. The so called blip was probably needed after untold dominance and success, which is impossible to maintain at such a level.

3-1 City.

Chaz and Dave cunts!

So called blip. I know what you are saying. Any other team that would be a fantastic season. Shows how far we have come. Shows the standards we set. We are still the team every one wants to beat.

 

[noseve]

Spursy ain't a title winning team and for me it's beyond belief they are in the CL

Which also highlights the contrived nature of the European Super Cup, with them coming within 5 minutes of winning it?

 

[jrb]

This could be a tricky game.

Spurs are already playing better than last season.

It certainly isn’t going to be an easy game.

There is a possibility of a potentially upset.

City need to be on top of their game.

 

[noseve]

Without Rodri we are less capable of forcing teams to sit back in their third where Cherki is at his best.

Didn't we just win 4-0 by not doing that?

 

[balotellishaircut]

In my opinion to win the league you have to do the double over these cunts, us blues have a big role to play next weekend to make it uncomfortable when there on the ball.

 

[lasereyes]

I guess the line up depends on whether Rodri or Gvardiol are fit. Unfortunately I’m assuming we’ll still be without Rodders, so this is the team I’d like to see.

………………..Trafford
Nunes….Stones……Gvardiol….Ait-Nouri
……………..Gonzalez
Bobb……Reijnders….Cherki…Marmoush
……………..Haaland

First home game of the season, and we owe these bastards, get all our best attackers in and fucking smash these with pace and power!

Rodri hopefully on the bench and gets a few minutes to start his renaissance

 

[Tolmie scores]

Didn't we just win 4-0 by not doing that?

Very different proposition next week

 

[Tolmie scores]

We were awful last season.

Just stall on the Sav sale so he can't play (to be on the safe side).

We're due to give these fuckers a good seeing to.

Clears throat....Have you ever seen Tottenham win the league....

Remember Savs first few games with us " what a player we've got etc" fast forward 10 months! ..its way too early to be talking about our debutants like we did Sav..but many are ...including pundits..wait till March i say. If debutants form drops and Bobb starts to struggle we will need Sav

 

[alexmcity]

Didn't we just win 4-0 by not doing that?

Pep said he wasn't happy with the 2nd half and it's not difficult to see why. We lost control and had 35% possession 15 minutes into the 2nd half, which is poor vs a relegation candidate...

Normally, we defend by forcing the opposition to defend and winning the ball back quickly after losing it. That will never change as long as Pep is here. And rightly so.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

We owe them for that shitshow last season.

They were flattered by the score though.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Remember Savs first few games with us " what a player we've got etc" fast forward 10 months! ..its way too early to be talking about our debutants like we did Sav..but many are ...including pundits..wait till March i say. If debutants form drops and Bobb starts to struggle we will need Sav

The problem is that Sav has not improved despite being coached. He doesn’t look up before crossing. It’s a fatal flaw. Pace is not enough.

 

[alexmcity]

The problem is that Sav has not improved despite being coached. He doesn’t look up before crossing. It’s a fatal flaw. Pace is not enough.

IIRC, Savinho was our top assistant in the league. His problem isn't crossing but shooting. Had he added 6-7 goals to his 7-8 assists, that would have been an excellent return, given his age.

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

I know, which is why I was so hacked with our performances last year. Take out our shytee form in the autumn, but in the old format we would have got through probably as 2nd in group.

I'm expecting another lousy set of 8 fixtures for us this time, with the very tricky away games timed to chime when we have some very difficult away PL fixtures in the 3 days following.

I hope we do meet them again and karma to that 2019 cl quarter final robbery/ aka reffing/VAR corruption that took place to deny us a semi final place.

I still can still taste the disappointmet of that night and Aguero’s disallowed goal

 

[Zenmanc]

--------------Trafford
Nunes--Stones-- Gvad---RaN
--Bernardo--Nico G--Reijnders
---Bobb------Erl-----Marmoush

Love the idea of Cherkis dynamism but need Bernie in early for his stability.

 

[citeh94]

Trafford
Nunes Dias Stones Ait-Nouri
Reijnders Nico G
Bobb Bernardo Marmoush
Haaland

Still bitter after last year, let’s fucking thump them!!

 

[I'msingingingtheblues]

Kick off time 12:30 (BST).

Lets get it out of the way, 3 points to Spurs and move onto Brighton.

Serious note probably only change Doku but up against Porro he might stick with him. How often does Pep go unchanged though? Maybe bring Nunes in?

Looking forward to it, hoping for a good atmosphere.

---------------Trafford
Nunes--Stones--Dias--Ait-Nouri
--Bernardo--Nico G--Reijnders
Bobb-------Haaland----Marmoush

Whilst Rico generally plays well against teams that don't offer a physical, pacy threat down our left, he's probably not strong enough against spuds and Nunes was (not for the first time) very sloppy when he came on yesterday - he's not good enough to feature against the top teams. I would try to develop Khusanov as a RB if we're not going to buy one - he has pace, strength / aggression and could be part of a very strong back four / three.

 

[Zenmanc]

Rodri hopefully on the bench and gets a few minutes to start his renaissance

Think he's not kicking a ball in a match until after the first break.

 

[Zenmanc]

Have I missed something?

155,522 posts?

I'm guessing you've missed alot.

 

[jimharri]

155,522 posts?

I'm guessing you've missed alot.

Not really, but okay.