Spurs (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

[citymad]

Simon Hooper is a fucking cheat!

Hardly but he should be dropped down to the championship for total incompetence. Absolutely abysmal.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

What's the bollocks calculation behind that

With their chances they were expected to score 0.49 goals. It’s not rocket science

 

[Gray]

Get a grip you drama queen, you sound like a proper fanny wipe or rag. Shite performance today but this team won the treble last year. We’re struggling without Kev and boulders. Say what you like which was bollocks btw about Spurs but they were excellent today rode their luck snd picked us off like they usually do. Deserved the point.

If Haaland hadn't missed 2 sitters and the Alvarez & Doku shots had been just inside the woodwork we would have been out if sight by half time.

 

[BlueMoonday]

Grealish wasn't offside.

I know he wasn't, I never said he was.

 

[webelieve]

Rodri is trying to do the work of two players. That is then putting pressure on the defence. We look very open at the moment.

 

[Brewster's millions]

People will blame the ref for an isolated clanger, but it wasn’t his fault that once again 3 painfully cheap goals were given away.

Time to go back to a proper back 4 for a few weeks until they remember how to defend.

I don’t understand why we’re asking Akanji to play in midfield when he can’t do the job that Stones can.

If players aren’t available and tactics can’t be used, then we need to adjust and make the best out of the situation. There’s zero game management at the moment.

 

[warringtonblue]

Grealish and Ake should be starting every game, Doku and Gvardiol don't give us anywhere near as much control as we had last.season which was the bedrock of our success

Watch Ake for their third

 

[jollylescott]

Our game management and control of games is missing, we don't look comfortable when leading which is very unlike City. Desperately, need Stones back for Villa.

Yep we have to get Stonesy back on the park. He's our best defender and we miss his calming influence so much.

 

[BlueMoonday]

I'm.livid over that decision but hope we don't go down the cry arse route and release a statement like the dippers and Artteta did

 

[vanchi]

The defence is under pressure because the midfield is so open. Teams just walk through our midfield. Don’t understand the tactics at all this season.

this! everyone’s focusing on defense but what about the midfield, or better, what midfield?

 

[Eoiyflem]

No?

Goes in the category "I've seen them given".

If Hooper had have given it (he was NEVER going to), I think perhaps VAR would have been deep into "not a clear & obvious mistake" territory.

Ballix, I've never seen that given

 

[G-Star Medium Rare]

Yes the ref messed up the decision in the last few minutes, but we should have been 5:1 up by then.

 

[Bluemoonie92]

No urgency to our play anymore. Should have been out of sight at ht but that second had was gash. Draining sometimes

 

[super_city_si]

sorry i dont agree. the treble was built on a back 3 with rodri and stones in front of them with gundogan, de bruyne also blanketting the midfield.

this season, the midfield is…….rodri and bernardo trying to run everywhere and….Alvarez? its a forward 4. basically 4-2-4. its shite.

Bingo! Spot on mate

 

[Gorbachev]

Maybe. We aren’t a shambles, for sure. But we aren’t playing well defensively and an aging, post-injury KDB is not going to fix that. I don’t see us finishing out of the top four, but I also think it may be a stretch to win the table.

I think that way too much emphasis is being made on De Bruyne coming back and turning it around for us. I hope he does but when a player has been out for so long, especially in their 30s it could take him until next season to get back to full form.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Looks clearly onside to me. Even if it was offside it's definitely close enough to justify playing on and letting VAR assess it if it came to anything.



Agreed there's no guarantee he'd score, there was a lot of work left to do, he's no prolific goalscorer and the whole team's finishing was a bit shoddy all afternoon. But I can't see any good reason for the ref, having played advantage, to stop play there.

Definately onside.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

Think you might have done that.

 

[Tolmie scores]

We were outplayed in the second half. We were much better in the first half and should have scored 5 goals. But in the second half, Spurs movements were much better and looked more dangerous.

Agreed. We look fked in a lot of games.....thing we haven't done well is rushed buys..we knew Gundo and Mahrez would be iff..Palmer not fancied. .lot of quality and hard workers gone...jesus ..Raz ..in parricular without an effort to replace properly. Looks like we have just got a bit jaded.crowd as well. ..

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

We didn’t win the treble playing like this last season, last season we had a defence that could actually defend

FINE margins though. The defence has been caught out by very good attacking teams who have done their homework. We have to give opposition teams some credit.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Watch Ake for their third

A pitiful jump wasn't it