Spurs (H) | PL | Post-Match Thread

JWCH-99 said:
Anyone denying that the fans need a kick up the back arse are in denial. Atmosphere crap- the players do their job and we are there to support the team and we can barely do that this season. You wouldn’t think we’d won 4 in the last 5 titles and got one of the best managers and teams in the world with the way people bitch and moan on here and around me at the ground. We aren’t owed anything except from some effort from the players and by god have we got that in recent years. High expectations are good it shows we are evolving as a club but the feeling of entitlement has to go.
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Not the most grateful fans are we? We’ve become very entitled and the booing was quite frankly shameful.
 
sky tot said:
Thought Pep was having a go at the players when he said Rico was fouled 4 times but he had no help ….
This is why I think we lack a proper leader . Fernandinho, Kompany wouldn’t have let Spurs players kick shit out of a young lad like that
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Rodri should be captain - plays the most anyway, and he usually likes sticking his nose in
 
Can someone remind me, what was that game years ago, I think FA Cup and possibly against Spurs. Keegan was the manager and Sun Ji Hai was man of the match and it was a massive comeback game

(P.S. some or most of those details maybe wrong! but tonight reminded me of it).
 
JWCH-99 said:
But is that really justification? I don’t disagree that there has, but we are watching the best we will probably ever see in front of our eyes and far more than anyone football fan of any team could ever expect…
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We watched that in 2018. We're not watching it now.
 
Poor first half where we were really passive...lots of possession but doing nothing with it.

Second half the midfield and wide players started to actually run at players .......Mahrez will get a lot of the plaudits and he played well but for me it was started in the second half by Rico Lewis and Alvarez......Alvarez was dropping deep, picking up the ball on the half turn and running at players.....He was doing it in the first half but kept getting hacked down. Gundo also suddenly remembered how to play.....

Stones did well (though think he could have done better for the second goal initially when challenging kane on the through ball) but Akanji again positionally is suspect.....great physical defender when challenging for the ball, great with the ball at his feet but out of possession he gets dragged around.

We still need to step it up but hopefully this is a boost that we needed
 
Sorry to be the party pooper, but that game sums up our season - brilliant and dreadful. I'm not surprised Pep was prickly in the interviews after watching that. Let's be honest, we won because Spurs didn't come out and sit back and defend in numbers. If that was practically any other team in the PL, we don't come back from that.

The end of that first half performance was absolutely rank. It's right up there for me with the crap we saw back in the 90s. I love Pep, but these quick-fire moments where we concede quick, pathetic goals is happening far too often for me. Liverpool, Lyon, Monaco, Real Madrid, United last week, Spurs this week etc etc - they happen too often and in big games. It's on him this and he's not showing any attempt at all to prepare the team not to collapse and lose all control of the game. How can a team that has complete control for 85 minutes be so brittle to throw games in the other 5 - if that?!

Quite honestly, giving two of the simplest, cheapest goals away within 2 minutes is absolutely unforgiveable. Great teams are built on great defences and at the minute, our defence is a lottery who gets picked and in what position. And behind it all is a keeper who's not on his game.

Ederson is on thin ice with me. His passing in the first half was shite. He isn't concentrating and needs dropping. Simple as that, he is not on form and quite honestly he was at fault for both goals. The pass to Rodri was shocking and that 'save' to Emerson(?) was a joke. I would've dropped him at HT for Ortega to be honest. He needs his backside kicking. It's no good setting up the 4th goal if you've let 2 in.

Second half we saw the best of this team. It infuriates me why we cannot start games like we did in the second half - on the front foot and going for their guts, they just couldn't handle us at all. I thought Mahrez and Grealish were superb - Mahrez tormented them and Grealish tried to grab the game but just lacked that 'something'. I still think he's a great player in the wrong team. I really like Lewis as well, his attitude and general play is superb.
I'm sure the neutrals loved this game, it had a bit of everything. However, I'm not neutral. This result might paper over cracks with some people, but we've got problems. A better team would've seen that game out 0-2.

I am normally completely wrong about football. I've had decades of backing the wrong team, the wrong manager and really hope I am with this result. I hope the outcome is we get belief that we can beat anyone. I just feel the balance is wrong - good teams come back from behind, but great teams don't need to do it.

As I've said before , I do think that once Pep finds the right balance we'll be unstoppable - again.

COME ON CITY!
 
JWCH-99 said:
But is that really justification? I don’t disagree that there has, but we are watching the best we will probably ever see in front of our eyes and far more than anyone football fan of any team could ever expect…
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I get what you're saying mate and I'm doing all the aways like you. We're acknowledged to have one of the best away followings. But 3000 mad away fans doesn't translate to home matches, it's just not possible.

It is what it is - when we've got 50odd thousand attending, it's just a different vibe, especially on a Thursday fucking night.
 
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