Spurs (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

super_city_si said:
We won because we smothered teams. Total control so they sat so deep they couldn't break. We are now playing rush footy, risk taking and trying to outscore.
Its so far from everything Pep holds sacred, I dont know whats going on with him.
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For the first time since his first season, due to a combination of injuries and poor transfers, he doesn’t have a squad that can implement what he wants.
Our midfield is a complete mess.
Maybe we can hang on until Kevin and John are back but even they may not be enough.
 
Midfield is a real mess at the moment. Without KDB and Stones, we’ve only got Rodri and Bernardo. And they’re both already being run into the ground because Phillips, Kovacic and Nunes aren’t good enough to be starting proper matches.

We’ve got no-one who can replace Stones in his role. Akanji is game but nowhere close to Stones’s level - technically, tactically, positionally or as a defender. Pep obviously doesn’t think Lewis coming inside from fullback is a viable option, for whatever reason. But we can’t keep leaving Rodri stood on his own with acres of space all around him - especially if we’re going to continue picking 3/4 players liable to lose balls and create turnovers.

If Stones is still unfit, and Lewis isn’t considered, then the only real option is to sit another midfielder alongside Rodri (Bernardo, maybe Kovacic who might be ok with Rodri holding his hand). But the problem then is that we wouldn’t have any attacking threat from fullback either, so we’d end up effectively with a 6/4 defensive/attacking split, which would diminish us going forward. No easy fix.
 
sh249 said:
Midfield is a real mess at the moment. Without KDB and Stones, we’ve only got Rodri and Bernardo. And they’re both already being run into the ground because Phillips, Kovacic and Nunes aren’t good enough to be starting proper matches.

We’ve got no-one who can replace Stones in his role. Akanji is game but nowhere close to Stones’s level - technically, tactically, positionally or as a defender. Pep obviously doesn’t think Lewis coming inside from fullback is a viable option, for whatever reason. But we can’t keep leaving Rodri stood on his own with acres of space all around him - especially if we’re going to continue picking 3/4 players liable to lose balls and create turnovers.

If Stones is still unfit, and Lewis isn’t considered, then the only real option is to sit another midfielder alongside Rodri (Bernardo, maybe Kovacic who might be ok with Rodri holding his hand). But the problem then is that we wouldn’t have any attacking threat from fullback either, so we’d end up effectively with a 6/4 defensive/attacking split, which would diminish us going forward. No easy fix.
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He will have to come up with a solution on Wednesday. No Rodri, no Grealish and heavens knows who else will be missing.
 
Aguero, Gundo, Kompany, Silva, Tevez, Zabba, Hart, Bell, lee , Summerbee, players come and players go, get over it, this present squad is what we are working with, nothing more , nothing less.

Some proper fan boy pussies on here, get over it, your heroes have gone
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