Spurs (h) pre-match thread

[City_Sean]

Don't know why but I've this feeling that we're going to absolutely tonk them. Play Jesus near Aguero, drop Silva and have Sterling and Sane as fullbacks.

Bravo
Otamendi Kompany Stones
Sterling Fernando Yaya Sane
KDB Jesus
Aguero

We've absolutely nothing to be scared about in terms of Spurs being a counter attacking threat. It's time for these players to retaliate and fight for their manager.

 

[GeekinGav]

If Bravo starts, i'm having a tenner of Harry Kane scoring a hat-trick. I may as well get something out of it, cos City won't with that joker in the goal.

 

[GeekinGav]

Don't know why but I've this feeling that we're going to absolutely tonk them. Play Jesus near Aguero, drop Silva and have Sterling and Sane as fullbacks.

Bravo
Otamendi Kompany Stones
Sterling Fernando Yaya Sane
KDB Jesus
Aguero

We've absolutely nothing to be scared about in terms of Spurs being a counter attacking threat. It's time for these players to retaliate and fight for their manager.

Sterling and Sane cant defend, if they bother tracking back Rose and Walker that all. We don't need to match one of Spurs' direct attacking threats with an 'open-door' policy.

 

[Peggy's a blue]

http://www.thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/threads/the-mighty-spurs-abu-dhabi-fc.20180/
Can the mods look at this please, and advise if reference to City as Abu Dhabi FC is a racist and/ or statement that could incite hate, seriously pissed off with this demeaning of our club!

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

http://www.thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/threads/the-mighty-spurs-abu-dhabi-fc.20180/
Can the mods look at this please, and advise if reference to City as Abu Dhabi FC is a racist and/ or statement that could incite hate, seriously pissed off with this demeaning of our club!

Don't fret. Who gives a shit what they think of us. Just hope, come 19:30 tomorrow night they're crying into the bottom of a glass.

 

[Peggy's a blue]

Don't fret. Who gives a shit what they think of us. Just hope, come 19:30 tomorrow night they're crying into the bottom of a glass.

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

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

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

Can only remember 1 decent Spurs fan in a multitude of shite, when i lived down south.
Knew loads too, as was born down there.

 

[Danny_Johnson4]

Don't know why but I've this feeling that we're going to absolutely tonk them. Play Jesus near Aguero, drop Silva and have Sterling and Sane as fullbacks.

Bravo
Otamendi Kompany Stones
Sterling Fernando Yaya Sane
KDB Jesus
Aguero

We've absolutely nothing to be scared about in terms of Spurs being a counter attacking threat. It's time for these players to retaliate and fight for their manager.

Not going to comment on the team etc, bar agreeing with 3 at the back its all opinions and it is not the worst team ive seen at all

But had to say the point you make is very good RE spurs counter attacking threat
Bar Walker and Rose, who we should be pinning back anyway, even in a back 3; they are not a real threat on the break

They squeeze you in and press you in your own half, but they are the kind of team you can cut open if your build up is perfect and you beat the initial press
It is why the CL campaign was so poor for them, Leverkusen and Monaco are both decent footballing sides who are composed from the back, and they broke the spurs press time and time again
European football is based on counter attacking sides at the top level, and Spurs just are not that

I honestly think say 17 of the past lets say, 20 goals we have conceded, are some form of break or counter from the opponents
Just off the top of my head but skimming through my memory I am probably not far wrong

We have to be precise and brave when playing out tomorrow night, if we do that; I genuinely see chances being created when in previous games we have had little

 

[Pleatfooted]

Mersons backed us to win 2-1,were doomed

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Walker yes but imo Bertrand's better than rose

Bertrand is a smoother player than Rose, but Rose is a tremendous player. I would have Bertrand at City.

 

[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 :-)