Spurs (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Stoned Rose]

Replaced them with average to poor buys in Kovacic and Nunes.

Nunes a particularly bizarre, panic buy. Not shown he is City quality at all.

Be careful mate.

You’ll have the “too soon to tell, you have to give him at least 4 seasons” mob after you.

 

[bluemoon32]

What's with all the doom and gloom we're only 3 points off the top. Through in the Chumps league. We can win the lot when KDB is back.

Come on you blues.

It was Spurs 2nds but you are right, up the blues

 

[eyalluvitt]

 

[waspish]

We usually defend from the front.

Teams are beating the press by playing quick accurate passes across the back line and into midfield.

losing more 50/50 duels.

Short in midfield control leaving us easy to play through.

New players are not consistent and maybe not as good as the players they replaced.

No Kev or Stones. Especially the latter in keeping the middle tight and a big help to Rodri.

You can’t ignore last seasons achievements and the impact it seems to be having.

Pep is also going easy on the players that achieved so much. We can’t start attacking them now after what they have given us. Hopefully the down turn won’t last too long.

Expectations need to be reevaluated.

Suck it up and onto Villa we go.

More teams now are being brave on the ball and press as good or better than us now! Think pep needs to start playing hoof ball

 

[dublinblue12]

 

[PistonBlue]

We’ve been here before haven’t we?

We look a bit leggy, a bit out of sorts, missing top players and things ain’t quite going for us. Some poor performances in unlikely areas and we get punished. It’s football, it happens. What matters is how we react.
Pep questioned our desire last year and got the answer he wanted. Don’t ever write this club off.

Just a quick word on the ref. He got the advantage correct initially. What happens next is anyone’s guess. I’d like to know why he blew when he did and for what reason. Maybe well the token apology from Webb.

 

[mick10]

Ref was bent but all our own fault.

Some players doing barely the minimum and think turning up is all that's needed.

Without KDB, Haaland has no service and the midfield and defence are all over the place.

Haaland plenty of service and is missing bucketloads?

 

[Claytop]

We’ve had some absolute shocking decisions against these over the years.

 

[Double R]

Throwing away the lead 3 times against Chelsea was bad enough, we then did it against Liverpool, but to do it twice at home against a shite Spurs side is absolutely shocking.
We are a defensive shambles at the moment and an infuriating team to watch.
Honestly we could have one hand on the trophy right now if we didnt constantly shit the bed.
And what is it with these late bastard goals. Cost us against those three teams aswell as Arsenal.

 

[blue whippet]

Disappointing to yet again drop more points at home. We currently have an inability to convert enough of our chances to make it count. This is causing us problems as we are also currently unable to hold on to a lead and appear vulnerable to every counter attack against us. Any team that breaks at speed and shoots at goal has a chance against us.
A number of our players are slow on the ball and an equal number seem to think they can pass the ball through three opposition players and find a blue shirt.
Yet again the goals we conceded came from our mistakes, players easily being nudged off the ball, blind passes and slow reactions.
Our problems are compounded by little to come off the bench and change the game. We have been the better team against Spurs, liverpool and to a lesser extent against Chelsea but have come out of those games with only 3 points.

Finally the ref was crap, he should be sacked completely after the farce at the end of the game. Grealish wouldn't have scoreed anyway but that's not the point.