Match Thread | Spurs vs Man City (15/08/21)

[CityPar]

Mendy and Ake are an accident waiting to happen. Spurs enjoying attacking our left but equally Grealish & Sterling look like that could be very fruitful for us on our left. Torres is anonymous but to be fair we're hardly playing to him. We've dropped the pace so will need fresh legs soon to pep things up. Pardon the pun!

 

[paulsimpson]

We'll win this, 2-0 City

I'll hold you to that ;-)

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

We havent been the same since we've lost a main striker in Aguero, sigh. As many have said, our speed in transition is significantly slower. When we had Sane, Silva, Aguero we were so fast in transition.

As always, Mendy looks shaky and unreliable. Good for backup fullback, but definetly not a starter. We need KDB and Jesus to come in.

We need Kane ASAP since PEP has not trust in Jesus unfortunately.

It’s a hard one, I know what you mean in terms of penetration and fluidity, however we control the tempo much more effectively which is reinforced by the results, less easy on the eye, undoubtedly but it’s a results game and this is more effective... that’s not to say a striker of Kane’s ability doesn’t evolve us again!

 

[Revolver]

Hardly surprising we look a little slow and despite having most of the ball we look vulnerable. It has all the feel of a loss which is typical away to these lot. Hope I am wrong obviously.

 

[chesterbells]

Quick half time check into the match thread. Remember why I avoid it, that’s me out again. Will check in next August.

FFS, at least make some comment about the match whilst you’re here then.
Goodbye.

 

[bert38]

Nothing changes with Sterling

He’s literally just walked through the bloody door.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

We'll win this, 2-0 City

Hooray.

 

[IT and Me]

Fuck it. I’m going for 4 - 0 City.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Did anyone else think Grsalish was fouled inside the box? I'd like to see that again. Surprised more was not made of it, but then again maybe not surprising.

I thought that aswel. But clearly not a clear and obvious error. Seemed to think that the foul occured first outside the box but im not so sure there was contact outside the box.

 

[Damanino]

thats now 3 halves in a row for Torres to be invisible. I dont know if he has really bigger future centrally than from wide. I think from wide he would be better than mahrez today so far at least we could get him on the ball bit more.

 

[Wanchope n me Dickov]

Why did the Alty fan call over Tanganga & his captain rather than book him for his 7th foul? If he was on a yellow I could sort of understand it.

 

[Mancity1980]

We need Kane.

Just pay the £150M (or £175M plus Mendy).

I thought Mendy was awful in that half, unforced errors leading to Spurs counterattacks, anymore of them could be fatal today.

 

[SidJames]

I didn't think we looked too bad.

Up front is what is killing us, not converting possession and chances.

Hopefully we will get Kain and just revert Sterling back to being a winger.

Too much of our play breaks down with him losing possession running down blind alleys.

Gwt him back to hugging the touch line and crossing.

 

[Blu1]

Make sure no silly counter attack & I don’t see them scoring. Midfield needs a bit more composure

 

[mccity]

Yeah he just needs to defend and he will have done ok ..

I mean he has defended.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Sterling must have a curse on him for him to be constantly slaughtered on here regardless of how well he is playing, compared to his team-mates.

You can only say what you see
First 45 was a rinse and repeat of last years poor performances thus far.

 

[BlueBanger]

Theres definitely a goal in it for us, been several times when Torres has made a run to stretch the defence and we just decide to pass it back.

Exactly this. Torres has played the striker role to perfection...maybe we are too used to playing without one at the moment.

 

[kun]

Ffs, he played 5 weeks ago, a professional never loses the first touch, go and watch the ex pro's in 5 a sides, hardly any fitness but can still control a ball.

Do you think charity 5 a side is comparable to elite level professional football? FFS.

Pros all have a good touch but to get more consistency in your ball control you need training, fitness (physically and mentally) and momentum. I'll agree Sterling will never have the first touch of Mahrez, Foden or Grealish, but it is still above average (better than Sané's was at City).

 

[Stelea]

He’s literally just walked through the bloody door.

He his still giving the ball away and running into people.

 

[lonestay]

Was it 17?

May have been I have been drinking shots everytime it's mentioned I can't even see the telly anymore !!!