Spurs (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

[Chak19]

The fact that Rodri is so vital that one injury to him makes us fall apart is a joke.

We already saw it last season when he got suspended, Is Pep just incapable of finding a plan without him ? he's the best manager ever so I'd say he should.

 

[M Gaudino]

the other issue is tactics. why come out all guns blazing AGAIN. make it a dull game, stick your midfielders deep and the full backs in line with the centre backs. tire out the opposition with dull possession and get into the second half without giving away easy counter attacks.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

One season too many. Nothing lasts forever.

They've given us a lot.

Back and trust Pep. Top four and a cup would be nice.

 

[simon23]

One team well coached, one team all over the place.
No surprise to us despite the media “shock”.
Spurs- can see they do actual coaching- 9 shots, 7 on target, 4 goals. We are far to easy to play and beat these days,

Us- pathetic in all aspects. Do we have a defensive coach, zero desire to put bodies on the line and all over the place. Midfield we all know about, it’s embarrassing now.
But my god, how shit are we up front.
23 shots with only 5 on target and half of those were pathetic attempts. Players not knowing the very basics of football and leaning back time and time again when blazing over.

Walker, Gundogan should not be in our team. Silva, Savinho and Lewis are squad players at best.
Stones, Ake, Akanji too injury prone and 2 need replacing.

We will be 11 points behind the Dippers when they give us a hiding next weekend. Forget the titles, its impossible with our squad, Top 4 is going to be a real battle this season and i would not be surprised if we missed out.

Squad has sadly been neglected with a lack of strengthening our 1st 11 over the last few years and awful transfer activity and its now showing. 1 striker is the entire squad and Zero goals or assists from our wingers and quite possibly one of the worst midfields in the PL sums up the awful mess our last few summers have left us in.

Next week could be a Rags level thumping there

Spot on

 

[It'sBlue93:20]

I blame Doku…

We need Doku.

 

[bellsouth]

The midfield lacks so much physicality. I’m very confused as to why Pep thinks Nunes couldn’t have done a better job in that midfield than who we had.

It’s hard to find anything positive in that midfield

 

[Blue tiger]

Ederson had a good game, he’s been one of the only positives in this abysmal run

Agree without Eddie has been one of the only ones in this run who hasn't really done anything wrong. Stopped us from being completely humiliated against Bournemouth. A game I thought we were even worse than today. The finishing today was as much a problem as the defending. If Haaland miss fires like he did today it's hard to see who is getting the goals at the moment. I'm hoping this is the rock bottom for the season, but I think next week will be sadly.

 

[Gabriel]

Nope. Exception that proves rule maybe [emoji23]. I mean compared to Savinho for eg chalk and cheese.

I generally agree. Part of our problem is that we’ve gone from having wingers that didn’t give the ball away to wingers that struggle to keep it, When you add them with Haaland and Foden, our midfield has to be built to shuttle in both directions, which it isn’t.

 

[VOOMER]

One season too many. Nothing lasts forever.

They've given us a lot.

Back and trust Pep. Top four and a cup would be nice.

No we can't.

 

[Trickyblues]

The post I replied to was around the concession of the 4th goal.

Why did Akanji move out of the way of the pass? What was Walker doing? What was Ake doing?

 

[Vic]

Spurs. Shark team.

Everyone's learned what we taught. And we've forgotten.

 

[west didsblue]

There’s grim, very grim and then there’s today.
Wtf was that all about?

 

[bluetonium]

Absolute wank. I think we had less shots on target than shots they scored from. Easier to tear apart than a paper bag, less creativity than I've seen in a Pep team ever and the positional sense of a gang of paralytic parrots.

Fair few need dropping as they're consistently making the wrong calls. Trouble is, is it's a lot of them and we can't replace them all. But what we can do is get Kev in there and get Jack in there and try and have a bit of control.

It's too much for Savinho, gundo is trying but he looks a yard off the pace, gvardiol I was surprised by his poor turnout but he was worse than Walker...

We seem unsure on when to press as we know that pressing and seeing the ball go long means we're in trouble. It creates huge gaps as one or two go and the rest don't.

Far too much leaving it to the next guy, somebody else can take accountability. If we lose the next two then we're on for a very difficult season and probably a trophyless one.

I don't see that fire, I don't see the right application, I don't see that creativity let alone the belief that we're going to win. Pep has a job now, remove the pressure, get some lights around the place and win the next game. It can switch back that easily but that longer it goes on now the harder it will get.

 

[Prater70]

All down to Gvardiol early errors for me. Scoreline should have been completely different. Zinchenko cost us goals but so does this guy. In fairness to him he was signed as a centre back.

 

[It'sBlue93:20]

Surely Nunes has to go in midfield for the next one. Even one of the defenders as a #6 would be an improvement in what we have.

 

[Kippax77]

This is just an awful run. Thank heavens Pep is staying.

At least we will have Dias, Grealish , KDB (hopefully Doku) all back.

Worst time to face Liverpool aswell. We are brutal on the transition against the best transitional team.

Yeah at least Grealish got in on the act by having a huge say in their 4th

 

[Sky Blue Mon]

Where do you start?

Well l will start with those supporters who left early a load of fucking tossers and bloody entitled wankers they were a disgrace. I'm fucking boiling

 

[simon23]

I’m almost in shock.

We wanted 5 in a row but not this.

Fucking hell. Not a single even average performance. Like watching Pep’s first season.

Why are you in shock...its been obvious since the Rodri injury - blantantly obvious

 

[bluemoon32]

Some of the players need to find their fucking gonads again

 

[citymad]

Gvardiol good going forward but is appalling at defending. Why the hell goes he give so much room to his winger. It’s going to be horrible next week when he faces salad. Slot will take advantage of that.