Spurs (a) pre-match thread

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We are virtually guaranteed the title and Spuds a top four spot , and with their FA Cup semi-Final looming i am hoping they will have their minds on the Rags next week , there tactics are similar to the Dippers pressing the opposition and if they arent 100% in their attitude i think we can chalk up another Wembley win which will help banish the memories of the last couple of games. The last few seasons we have finished the last half dozen games strongly , lets win six on the bounce and break every record going,
 
A win would set us up nicely for next week but I have this nagging feeling they'll turn on a performance of the season and then roll over against the rags next week.
 
Will be a very hard game and a point would not be the worst result. Bernardo and Serge need to start for me.

Who is the ref ? About time we got some decisions going our way.
 
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The opposite, you literally just brazenly went against the grain, again, with another poster despite it not making any sense.

Our "fitness levels" weren't low when United came back to even 2-2, it was just after HT we'd a changed team from mid-week and they simply scored two good goals (at least one of which was preventable) they were simply better than us. Liverpool were also just better than us when they were 3-0 up.

You said that the team is, undoubtedly I agree, suffering from fatigue but you're fitting it in around your "there's never a negative" narrative. Our recent performances, over 90 minutes, have for a number of reasons been poor but to sweep it under the carpet as fatigue doesn't make you a bigger blue as you might think it does. We were shit in the second half against United when they came back, numerous mistakes of our own and the officials.

So no, Liverpool and United didn't "only play well because we were tired", that's foolish.
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Against Liverpool, we played with incredible intensity in the first half. It is very possible that physically we couldn't keep that up for 90 mins. But I think psychologically we must have been deflated by the disgraceful refereeing - the players are human beings and at some point you can start thinking "they just are not going to let us win".

United is more of a conundrum. We were so vastly superior to them in the 1H. In the 2H, our level did drop off and made rookie defensive mistakes. I don't really buy into the complacency argument that some have offered: this is a derby after all; our two most senior players played in the QPR game so are well aware it's never over till the final whistle; and all the players know that United came back from 2-0 down just a few weeks earlier at Selhurst Park. I have to put it down to "just one of those things". That said, if Atkinson had had an iota of a conscience we would at minimum have drawn the game.
 
Going to be a tough game this. We're at our lowest ebb psychologically and may be physically drained and Peps been found out to be a foreign bald fraud. Spurs are obviously going to play out of their skins and have Kane who is scoring for fun.
5-0 City win.
 
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