Tottenham Pre Match Thread

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tolmie's hairdoo said:
It won't happen, but this should be the team, plenty of legs and just enough guile to pose enough attacking threat to edge it.

...........................HART.....................

......SAGNA...KOMPANY....OTAMENDI...CLICHY....

ZABALETA....DELPH....FERNANDINHO.....STERLING
............................KELECHI................
........................AGUERO............................
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Are you hearing any rumours about the place about why we are performing so badly?
 
Even with our injuries, we could still put out a very strong team. Pellegrini has to react this week. If not, and he just goes again with the same team and shape then we'll have to get lucky and do a Leicester and score from 2 set pieces to win.
 
karen7 said:
Are you hearing any rumours about the place about why we are performing so badly?
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Why would there be rumours, Karen?

Fact is, injuries, players passed their sell-by date and too many games, has exposed this current cycle for what it is, we're nowhere near as good as we think we are.

Has been the case for 18 months.

The players are trying, even if they haven't had their eyes opened yet to what a proper, tactically astute manager will do for this club. Fans, also.
 
end of story is we cannot afford to lose this one. draw is not so bad. win id take

have to pack midfield. spurs are quite strong in the middle with that deli alli and erikkson. those are the two whom will be dangerous against us.

personally I would go with a mourinho approach

4-5-1

Get bony in (if fit) to draw fouls.

Pack the middle

Stop the supply to kane

And score from set peices.


Sterling -Fernandhino - Fernando - delph - Kolarov


BONY / AGuero
 
Can't believe he won't pick Yaya and to be honest without Dave we will need his control of the ball and the game. Fern and Delph just don't have that ability and as for playing Kola in midfield then after his distribution last week that's a big risk.

I'm not a great Fernando fan but think his defensive skills will be needed.

So -

Joe

Zaba. Otter. Sagna. Clichy.

Fernando
Fern. Yaya
Nacho. Raheem.

Serge.
 
The player we'll miss the most this weekend will be Navas, his presence alone would've nulified their fullbacks pushing on and also give us an outlet on the counter if he got in behind.

I'm just hoping with a full weeks rest and no mid-week game we can have a word with ourselves, regroup and go again, i'm not feeling that confident though.
 
MaineDAWG2008 said:
end of story is we cannot afford to lose this one. draw is not so bad. win id take

have to pack midfield. spurs are quite strong in the middle with that deli alli and erikkson. those are the two whom will be dangerous against us.

personally I would go with a mourinho approach

4-5-1

Get bony in (if fit) to draw fouls.

Pack the middle

Stop the supply to kane

And score from set peices.


Sterling -Fernandhino - Fernando - delph - Kolarov


BONY / AGuero
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Not a bad Idea in all fairness. Think sometimes you have to go for a more defensive approach to kill off teams that we know are in form and have pace on the break.

Unfortunatley MP only plays attacking against any english opposition which is why we get caught on the break/give soft goals away every game against a half decent team that find out weaknesses straight away.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Why would there be rumours, Karen?

Fact is, injuries, players passed their sell-by date and too many games, has exposed this current cycle for what it is, we're nowhere near as good as we think we are.

Has been the case for 18 months.

The players are trying, even if they haven't had their eyes opened yet to what a proper, tactically astute manager will do for this club. Fans, also.
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Just curious as to if there was anything else going on
 
middleton___blue said:
Not a bad Idea in all fairness. Think sometimes you have to go for a more defensive approach to kill off teams that we know are in form and have pace on the break.

Unfortunatley MP only plays attacking against any english opposition which is why we get caught on the break/give soft goals away every game against a half decent team that find out weaknesses straight away.
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yep, agree. And we all know MP will go with the predictable lineup of fernando fernandhino yaya in midfield leaving our fullbacks exposed.
 
Fowlers Penalty Miss said:
Fourth in the league, and not out of the race.

I'll be buying a Wembley ticket for a final soon, which most supporters of any team would give their right arm for, my payment for the game in the final stages of the Champions League goes out today, and we are still in the FA Cup.

It's a really shit season so far, isn't it?

We beat Spurs on Sunday, Arsenal beat Leicester, and the whole complexion changes.

Stop being so melodramatic.

There is loads of football still to be played, and we are still in the race.

I'd loved to have seen this place 20 years ago. Fuck me, a dose of Prozac would have been sent to every new subscriber.
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Getting rather tired of these posts telling how happy I should be and how great things are compared to the bad old days. However, I am a fair minded person normally and if we are still in 3 competitions having won the Cup Final in three weeks time I will come on here and beg forgiveness for being so melodramatic!!!!
 
pavelsrnicek said:
Will Spurs press high and play a high line? If so we're probably better to try our recent cup tactics of a quick mobile team and be happy to cede possession and try and play balls for forwards to chase or be ready to counterattack. Means the crowd would have to be patient as well.
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Sure that we have a quick mobile team? I thought the main problem right now is an injury reduced overplayed out of steam squad.
If the players were fit and fresh the 2nd half performance at Sunderland would puzzle me. And the last defeat would be due to weak mentality against a 'poor underdog' who has to be beaten.

No, I still hope 7 days time of recovery will bring back some kind of competitive power of legs and mentality. Let's see.

Maybe City still fits the hunting position much better than being the rabbit. But we somehow should control the gap to the top.
 
cibaman said:
At the moment we seem to be relying on Aguero to keep us in the hunt. But if we can just keep in touch for the next month until a few of the injured players (especially Kompany) are back we could put a run together. With City things can swing from despair to jubilation (and back) fairly quickly. And the other contenders will drop points.

If Aguero and Kompany each play in more than 10 of the remaining fixtures we will win the league.
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A bold statement and it might just come true. However, we are running out of road and I just can't see VK staying fit till the end of the season. Finally lose on Sunday and that's it folks I'm afraid. Although I'm sure we will still have people on here saying we can still turn it around.
 
Danamy said:
The player we'll miss the most this weekend will be Navas, his presence alone would've nulified their fullbacks pushing on and also give us an outlet on the counter if he got in behind.

I'm just hoping with a full weeks rest and no mid-week game we can have a word with ourselves, regroup and go again, i'm not feeling that confident though.
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Yep till the players see the team Pellegrini picks
 
St.Pauli support said:
Sure that we have a quick mobile team? I thought the main problem right now is an injury reduced overplayed out of steam squad.
If the players were fit and fresh the 2nd half performance at Sunderland would puzzle me. And the last defeat would be due to weak mentality against a 'poor underdog' who has to be beaten.

No, I still hope 7 days time of recovery will bring back some kind of competitive power of legs and mentality. Let's see.

Maybe City still fits the hunting position much better than being the rabbit. But we somehow should control the gap to the top.
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Against villa we played Delph, Fernandinho, Sterling and Kelechi. Pity we don't have Navas this weekend.
 
Father Paul said:
A bold statement and it might just come true. However, we are running out of road and I just can't see VK staying fit till the end of the season. Finally lose on Sunday and that's it folks I'm afraid. Although I'm sure we will still have people on here saying we can still turn it around.
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Sounds like your losing your faith there Father.
 
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