Spurs (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

[idahoblues]

We never win at home and we never win away...

Didn’t win last week, didn’t win today

 

[blueabdi]

Its football, everything can happen. But what makes me sad is our genius pep repeats the same mistake. Why play Gundo, lewis and walker. Everyone sees they are not good enough. We can play akanji right back and ake as left to sort this problem.

 

[samuelyeboah]

would it be fair to say that our players seem a little.. disappointed in one another. there are less gestures of support. less pick-em-ups when a player makes a mistake. more body language displays of annoyance with one another. they almost seem universally annoyed with their fellow teammates. that's the real worrying thing. when we concede so many goals and so many of the exact pathetic counter attack goal, seeing players who week in week out do a shit job at recovering would start to grind on you if you were a fellow defender. stones seemed absolutely done with kyle. bernardo seemed mad with gundo.

 

[blueabdi]

Play some kids & play a tight system pep for the rest of the season

I don’t want to see any of these start any more games
Gundy
Rico
Stones
Walker
Bernie
Savi

I’d even drop Haaland & play extra midfielder right now.

We are getting worse every game

I think the problem is defense and midfield.

 

[Bluekiwi]

I think the problem is defense and midfield.

No, the problem is that the opponent's goal is too small, and they unfairly put a goalkeeper in it.

 

[vmsuhail]

Did we actually play the ball through to Haaland at all in that game?

Spurs played a high line and we have a monster of a striker that I don't recall us releasing at all.

For all the talk of injuries and poor form for certain players, that's a tactical cock up and is ultimately on Pep.

There was a moment when Haaland showed his frustration towards Gvardiol for not passing forward in the first half, with acres of space to run onto.

 

[vmsuhail]

Delusional, we're in a mess right now, Pep can't string two games together with the same defence and midfield and away at Liverpool next up. Not Pep's fault, bad timing with injuries and in vital areas.

Nunes has been one of our better players over the past few games, why he didn't start in midfield ?

 

[Mr. Shush]

Nunes has been one of our better players over the past few games, why he didn't start in midfield ?

Agree. Would have been better if Nunes was on left and Savinho started on right.

 

[vmsuhail]

But we are still 2nd with plenty of games to play

criticism, yes you can criticise but you will be a fool to because this squad has given its all over the last 6 or 7 seasons, Let's just get behind the team again and maybe come the time to hand out the medals we could be bowing receive more silverware

Were top of the table, now potentially 8 points off top.
Were 3rd in the CL, now outside the Top 8.
Were unbeaten in the PL for a long long time, now lost 3 in a row.
Are out of the League cup already.

Cling on to that 2nd position all you want, but it wont last long either. The reality is there are problems in attack, midfield and defence. I think the defence can be fixed as we've the personnel for it (and Dias will be back too, we can rotate Walker with Akanji), but midfield and attack will have the same issues.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Its football, everything can happen. But what makes me sad is our genius pep repeats the same mistake. Why play Gundo, lewis and walker. Everyone sees they are not good enough. We can play akanji right back and ake as left to sort this problem.

We have no alternative other than play more kids. That said Lewis is a kid and he looks totally out of place in the team right now.

We need yo buy a specialist LB and RB, a DM, an attacking midfielder, and a back up to Haaland soon as possible. But we need to make sure we're not panic buying and get the right players to enhance us.