Spurs (A) - Post-Match Thread

[Brad mcfc]

Frustrating because we have so many chances to score. The opposition gets one chance and buries it.

 

[Blue Hefner]

He's a tidy passer but he's constantly out of position when a team breaks on us. He's too slow to be out of position as much as he is. Watch a team when they attack and Rodri is 10 yards away from where he should be to break up the play. Mostly in FRONT of the ball. As a DM he offers zero protection.

He's such an ineffective DM.

For that first goal: No way should Aurier have the time to turn in centre midfield to play in Son. With his back to goal, if Fernandinho was in there he's up his arse. Instead Rodri is 10 yards away so Bernardo has to tuck in and can't in time. Aurier has all the time in the world to play it over Son. Shite.

Yep. He's either behind the ball when he should be in front or in front of it when he should be behind. How Kane had so much time and space for the second should be the first question when they are back in on Monday and the second question should be why the fuck did Rodri give them the ball to take the free kick for the first

 

[Burtonblue]

He's a tidy passer but he's constantly out of position when a team breaks on us. He's too slow to be out of position as much as he is. Watch a team when they attack and Rodri is 10 yards away from where he should be to break up the play. Mostly in FRONT of the ball. As a DM he offers zero protection.

He's such an ineffective DM.

For that first goal: No way should Aurier have the time to turn in centre midfield to play in Son. With his back to goal, if Fernandinho was in there he's up his arse. Instead Rodri is 10 yards away so Bernardo has to tuck in and can't in time. Aurier has all the time in the world to play it over Son. Shite.

It was a question of all the holes in the cheese lining up for the Son goal. Several small individual errors contributed but the biggest fuck up was Eddy rushing out into no man’s land and gifting them the goal.
You can’t lay the blame exclusively at Rodri’s feet. I though he had a pretty decent game, especially first half and saved a certain goal from Hojberg I think in the second.

 

[waspish]

Yep. He's either behind the ball when he should be in front or in front of it when he should be behind. How Kane had so much time and space for the second should be the first question when they are back in on Monday and the second question should be why the fuck did Rodri give them the ball to take the free kick for the first

Because we ain’t game smart under Pep we to nice look at spurs blocking our free kicks or just holding the ball we give the ball back to them they take a quick free kick we on the back foot asleep while son runs through!

Game Smart we ain’t and as a club we should wake the up.

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

The backroom staff is stale, time to freshen that up, someone with the balls and ability to challenge Pep.

Ultimately, the buck stops with the boss but I agree, it’s all a bit pally.

 

[Esteban de la Sexface]

Cancelo has the least amount of footballing intelligence I've ever seen from a top level player. He looks lost a lot of the times. He is a good athlete, but he just switches off completely at times. Some of his passes when under zero pressure are diabolical. He'll stand there, look like the power has gone off up stairs and just kick it anywhere inside. Same happens in defending. It will take a second or two of vacancy before it registers that, oh ya, fuck, I'm a defender.

 

[Craig]

Exactly, sometimes you set up to stop the opponents strengths, we don't, unless we play the 7th best team in France in a Champions League tie, then our manager sh1ts himself.

Haha very funny but also bloody true!

 

[blueinsa]

Dominate what? Possession stats?

We created little or nothing, we were not peppering their goal with shots.

Dominated.

Had we finished the game with 33% possession and just 4 shots on goal this place would be off its head with how shit we where.

We dominated the game and sadly it was a shit result but very much a result the powers that be wanted.

Maybe we will score against spurs again soon and they will let the goal stand and perhaps results will change?

I won't hold my breath though.

 

[stan bowles]

I understand that completely but yesterday I don't think we could be critical of Kev's effort. He was all over the pitch and if anything was trying too hard. Just think of his effort to get back and stop the second whereas Mahrez, Walker and Rodri just didn't make any effort.

I guess the point I try and make is that since Riyad became a regular we have gone away from playing fast, crisp attacking. That is a fact and it happened since Pep made it clear that he felt bad about keeping him on the bench. You are right we need to play with both wide men being effective I would like to see Sterling on the right (where he looks better) Torres on the left and a midfield three of Kev, Phil and either one of Rodri, Gundogan or Bernardo. That would give us more balance right away which is why we need to move on from the right winger stopping most of our threat by either taking too many touches or trying to take on ridiculous shots. That is the only reason I feel we would be instantly better as a team without FFS in the team.

I also think we need to play a true left footer at left back. Delph & Zinchenko were both not good fullbacks but at least he gave us balance. Cancelo has done ok but is a right back and it didn't help Torres yesterday having a player that cuts inside all the time. Walker had a very poor game and maybe the rotation should be on that side. It's not good that we still don't have a reliable left back.

Overall with the likes of Palmer coming through the future will be much better but it seems to me that Pep finds it easier to drop and rotate Phil and Bernardo more which doesn't help any rhythm. I've calmed down a bit after yesterday's missed opportunity but having 4 shots on target out of 22 is a big issue and we cannot have our main threat (supposedly) having a less than 5% rate of on target attempts. It's still early enough to put it right - first action means no place for you know who.

Second action...as soon as the first one is over, is no place for Bernardo Silva. Stop making out it's a rhythm issue with him. He's not delivering to the same extent Mahrez isn't. The reasons are of no importance. I also think it's time we looked at the goalkeeper position. Yesterday, those two goals don't go in if it's Allison between the sticks. Ederson needs to up his game or I'd be looking to upgrade.

 

[Blue Hefner]

Second action...as soon as the first one is over, is no place for Bernardo Silva. Stop making out it's a rhythm issue with him. He's not delivering to the same extent Mahrez isn't. The reasons are of no importance. I also think it's time we looked at the goalkeeper position. Yesterday, those two goals don't go in if it's Allison between the sticks. Ederson needs to up his game or I'd be looking to upgrade.

If Foden turned in the performances these two do, we wouldn't see him for months!

I disagree regards the keeper - he had very little cover so needed to close the players down. Perhaps he could have done it better but I think he's the least of our problems