Spurs (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

[Afterthefact]

If the opponent welcomes you into their end, your wingers sit absurdly high and their only move is to cut in, and the rest of your team sits above a centrally organized defense like a cloud … how would your striker ever get the ball?

 

[Ghost of 76]

Not a chance of that I'm afraid unless we change tactics. What's the point of having a 6' 4 ' monster and not feeding him. " Feed the Norse and he will score "

Absolutely! After signing the striker everybody wanted, you'd have thought any City midfielder receiving the ball would be looking to feed one of his many runs in behind, but time & time again they pass it sideways as if they're scared of giving the ball away.

 

[Chris B]

Looking at the replay of their goal it strikes me that we were setup as if we are a team that plays long, but still tried to play short passes into feet. You can’t change the way you play overnight. It does feel like Pep has overthought things again in a big game, and it’s cost us again.

 

[ancoats]

it's over for everything, lost the dressing room only means one thing, the manager leaves,
now It's up to the club to address what they want from this season, just let it just wind down and rebuild in the summer or let the manger leave with grace on his own terms and bring in somebody short term,

Pep knows, We know, Everybody else knows, time is up Pep can do no more for our club

 

[franksinatra]

The match went as expected in all honesty.

We look completely toothless upfront nowadays and the system as a whole looks completely broken.

From the players who played last year we have lost a lot of the ‘footballers’ in the side whether it be Laporte, Cancelo, Zinkchenko Stones, Foden, additional midfielder as a striker and the replacements Ake/Lewis/Akanje/Grealish/Haaland are a step down in quality in that regard.

Haaland brings other qualities, and lots of them, but were not utilising them.

Last season we seemed to be constantly getting overloads in wide positions, getting in behind sides but now its square, slow passes and hopeful crosses into the box.

The system we have played in previous years is broken as we have lost the ‘footballers’ to implement it.

 

[skillman]

Lol. I reckon you own that pic when we're dogshit.

Kinell. I’ll put it in the calendar next to every game

 

[wattle]

We are a mess at the moment:

Players not interested/looking for an out/end of deal & looking for a new pay day:
Silva, Gundogan.

Not 100% fit or Woefully out of form:
Walker, Stones, Dias, Laporte, Phillips, Foden, KDB, Rodri.

That lot are the core of our best 11.

Pep and the board have a big job to do this summer, with such erratic form the league is now unlikely this year, Arsenal drop points and we don't take advantage.

We have been spoilt over the last few years, the odd player injured or out of form has been cover by others, this season it's happening to many at the same time.

FA cup and Champions league will have to do.... hopefully.

On a brighter note, look at Liverpool.

Fa cup and champions league will have to do???

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

The players don’t believe in Pep’s system anymore, the confidence is gone and they look lost. The Spuds goal was yet another self inflicted disaster, only a few weeks after we did exactly the same at home. Fuck about and lose it, they pounce. Then of course they have eighty minutes to hang onto it, they don’t need to take any chances and can shithouse their way home knowing the usual PiGMOL **** of a referee will give them every fifty fifty. letting Cancelo go with no replacement seemed petulant. I think Pep will walk at the end of the season and I will wish him well.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

it's over for everything, lost the dressing room only means one thing, the manager leaves,
now It's up to the club to address what they want from this season, just let it just wind down and rebuild in the summer or let the manger leave with grace on his own terms and bring in somebody short term,

Pep knows, We know, Everybody else knows, time is up Pep can do no more for our club

Then Foden and everyone else has to go, Pep stays.

 

[hilts]

Even Kyle admits we are crap at creating stuff at the moment.