Spurs (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[mancity111]

Sky banging on about Spurs damaging our title hopes. In my mind, we have no hope whatsoever. We need to start thinking about making top 4.

Pep is clearly on his last legs and the players are responding accordingly.

The only thing I will say in defense of the squad is that a number of them are fairly new to the club and it usually takes time to gel but its clearly obvious we have no leaders and Rodri is no where near the player he was before his injury and may never be again.

I suspect he will be off in the summer back to Spain and Pep is most likely in his last season at the helm and its showing.

I think he should have gone on a high after the 4 peat.

Clearly the quality of the squad and game plan is not up to scratch to dominate teams on the scoreboard anymore.

Given that Forest in 17th have more than one point per game the gap between top and the rest has narrowed and the standard at the very top end has dropped appreciably.

We have stuttered in the past two seasons and have not strengthened the squad to previous levels and it shows itself too often during games.

All things must pass and we are only starting our rebuild but it will obviously have to be under a new manager.

 

[Jonas.shaffer]

Without Doku and Cherki, this team has no creativity; it's sad.

Love him or hate him, we're undoubtedly a better team with Doku. I hate how injury-prone he is.

 

[super_city_si]

That could be true. Wonder if they told Guehi and Semenyo before they signed.

Haha good point. Fuck knows at this stage. It was bad though.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

On the train coming home, feel totally deflated, hope the players do as well

Haaland was having a good old laugh with the Spurs players near the end.

 

[paulchapo]

We were absolutely abysmal today

We were. Even in the first half against a devoid of confidence Spurs we were strolling about like it was a pre season friendly. However after going 2-0 up we should have killed the game. Worrying mentality and loss of form in some players.

 

[wolviedinho]

The players not running through brick walls for pep is a sad reflection on them and us as a club in 2026.

It will be interesting to see how they get on after pep.

Any player who can’t match the effort and commitment of opponents needs to be sold.

Pep was supposed to give us the edge with his approach and tactics. It only illustrates that the time is about right now to find a replacement. His legacy is intact, name the new stand after him and get the statue built.

The players are not delivering for him and that was one of his main strengths.

We look unfit and slow. How is that possible?

It’s not easy viewing the great man struggle. Let’s not make it worse.

 

[HypnoticBlue]

Another game controlled by the officiating, Spurs should love gone into the break with either 10 men or 7 players on a yellow, we get kicked to fück every game and it’s all within the laws of the game because half the time it’s not even given as a foul.
Spurs 1st goal was a foul by Solanke with a kick straight through Guehi making the defender kick the ball into the net.
The persistent fouling by a player who should’ve already been red carded (Muani) and Gallagher was allowed to continue.
Then the wrestling of Haaaland for a penalty was brushed away by the co commentator to rescue Neville who was about to say it’s a foul and a penalty! It was before the ball as in play, yeah of course it was.
The lacklustre performance from the Blues once the creative player has been fouled off does help us but the man of the match as far as far as PL, Sky & Pigmol are concerned was without doubt the referee Rob Jones from Merseyside! (He referees in Birkenhead in his spare time and not allowed to referee dippers & toffees)
Enough for me, I’m sick of shouting at the tv at outright bias against us, it’s a fücking joke, bent cünts.

 

[Norbert D]

I dont think we (fans) have become soft and entitled. I think we have evolved and started to believe in ourselves and our team more than ever. Of course we have watched crap for many years and we learned to accept it. Why should we revert to that? We are supposedly a top European club now. We are supposedly managed by one of the all time great managers. It isnt unreasonable of us to expect better performances than we have seen recently.

We cant win everything. There are always going to be times when there are better sides around but let's not blame the fans for showing their frustrations... its a passion we dont seem to be seeing on the pitch recently.

That’s where the rubber meets the road. A lot on here remember the bad old days, Jamie Pollock OG, Bury at home etc etc and think everything is a bonus and we should just be glad we got lucky, that’s not an unreasonable outlook BUT it ignores we aren’t THAT cups for cockups club any longer. We pay top wages, have top players and managers, have the best training facilities money can buy and have an income amongst the biggest in the world. We aren’t little old City any more. That’s a fact that some are unwilling to accept.

 

[Phil1]

We have to be honest here.

Pep’s style isn’t working anymore. We are very predictable and we can only thrive when the tempo is slow and we are in control.

For me, he’s run his course and we need a change. He isn’t going to change. So the club has to.

ATM in my head I'd prefer him to stay and see how we adapt with a fully fit and firing squad but for the first time I wouldn't put up too much of an argument if he was to call it a day. Certainly not sacked like some suggest, but at the end of the season so he walks with some dignity and hopefully a trophy or two.

 

[herrock]

Yes the goal should of been disallowed, but that just covers over how crap we were for 25 minutes after half time. Do we take sedatives at half time, because we come out half asleep with no energy.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Haaland throws himself to the ground...the holding was before...test contact does not make a 6foot 5 human fall over....he was playing for it and deservedly got nothing

He's being grappled by two defender.
He's positioned where the ball is heading.
He's held and he can't jump.
Why should he still attempt to get to the ball whilst being disadvantaged?
He, as we are told, "had every right" to go down in order to force the ref to react; so fucking what if he "threw himself to the ground". He's not the first and he won't be the last to exaggerate the foul, but it's still a foul.
He didn't initiate the contact, they held him.

It's not a kick or a slap or any other sort of foul that happens in an instant. It's being held. By two blokes, before, during and after the ball is in play. Did the ref blow to stop the corner and address the contact before the ball was in play? No he fucking didn't.

It's a foul and it's a penalty, pal.

Learn the fucking basics ;)

(anyway, some very talented people are about to make pottery on TV and I need to calm down, so I'm going to watch that and try to forget about this shit-show of a match, have fun gas-lighting people with you "knowledge" whilst I'm away)

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

We always start the second half terribly, wtf goes on at HT??? We know we're in transition but can't explain why this is and its been months now

It’s a head scratcher. My only take is that teams play very deep against us in first half’s. They don’t need to run too much. We can usually get through the block and score but expending energy doing it. They then step it up in the second and invariably make 5 subs and we have no response as at any one time half the squad appears to be injured or have a knock

Either that or we just dont do proper fitness and conditioning work

 

[Phoenix900000]

Forget blaming VAR or the officials, that 2nd half was nothing to do with them
You're chasing the title 2.0 up away to a very poor Spurs side and turn off and wave the white flag

Just pointing out

And you're right it doesn't explain how poor we were in the second half

But some of these descions are affecting results (giving pens/goals that are wrongly disallowed or rightly chalked off for being offside/sending players off etc)

 

[Tolmie scores]

Love Haaland dont get me wrong and not his fault we didnt win, far from it, but have said before, once went 2 nil up he wasnt really needed anymore.

and he should have taken his chance ffs... that's what he lives off, Because spuds downed tools first half he had his rare 1 v 1... he needs to dink those in as he doesn't get many other chances....

 

[cookster]

Bottom line, we have a very good squad and Pep isn’t currently making them better than the sum of their parts.

That used to be his Super Power now it's his Kryptonite.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Love him or hate him, we're undoubtedly a better team with Doku. I hate how injury-prone he is.

I said Pep fucked up Doku by leaving him on too long against Madrid away and got pelters for it, he was fully fit and firing until fatigue fucked him over that game and he hasn’t been the same since. To be at his best he needs to be 100% fit.

 

[ancoats]

Didn't work for Pellegrini. Suspect it won't be announced until his replacement is lined up.

Would love us to win some silverware, but considering our away record and general apathy, I don't see it. Feels like another season of drifting and then whatever comes next season with transition under whoever. Just hope there's a plan behind the scenes.

When you're building a new squad you can not let this sort of thing happen ? it will be 2 seasons of rebuilding and little progress, I truly believe in rebuilding in the summer of a title-winning season,

Pep and City fucked up and admitted to it that after the 4 in a row title season, we should have started the rebuild
6 months is a very big time scale to watch it all fall apart, also you can't do nothing about it till the winter transfer window.

its the simplest things sometimes that will kill you and that rebuild should have happened

 

[Marvin.]

Yes the goal should of been disallowed, but that just covers over how crap we were for 25 minutes after half time. Do we take sedatives at half time, because we come out half asleep with no energy.

That goal changed everything. We perhaps let it, but this is the PL and if Spurs get a head of steam at 1-2, they will push hard

 

[super_city_si]

Neville banging on about how bad the defence is - I don’t have a problem with the defence as individuals, it’s those up front that are doing fuck all.

Haaland was rubbish

Ait-Nouri is shite, we always get worse when Rijnders comes on and we didn’t have a shot in the second half.

Just so slow and weak

The reijnders sub was baffling. We were mired in a fight and he has the least balls of anyone.

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

Haaland was having a good old laugh with the Spurs players near the end.

Course he was. It's another game he can tick off before the World Cup.