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Today Spurs had a strong 3 man midfield (Sarr Bentancur Palhinha) in a formation that pushed up against our 1 man midfield (Nico) who needed support from his midfield teammates (Reijnders Cherki) who were tasked with supporting attack.
Did Pep see that Spurs were dominating midfield and ignored it (not wanting to admit mistakes) or did he think that we'd play over/around them.
We had 60% possession but the 40% for Spurs was used better.

Want to beat City?
Either 1) play high line have forwards press with close midfield backup and force errors as today
Or 2) sit deep with packed defence and midfield in 4-5-1 and when City lose the ball hoof it to rapid forwards to chase and win set piece chances
 
GRB said:
So, instead of reading the last 20 pages.

Are we fucked or just a blip?
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That's a very good question, and the answer is .....


..... I haven't got a clue!


We'll give it a little tweak next week, and see if anything improves .. as the Actress said to the Bishop!
 
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There was a small feature on Kompany last night, a city career retrospective, and seeing him play again really made me appreciate just how good we had it with players like him.

Not a single player currently playing for us comes close to Kompany, and I think that’s one of the biggest problems we have. No leadership!
 
Never expected this result but again silly mistakes costing us & still trying to play players in the wrong positions.

Pep was outsmarted today by spurs manager & I think we are going to see it a few times this season.

Biggest gaff is asking a new keeper to play like Eddie v spurs in his 2nd game.

Plenty of teams are going to go at us as we have zero fear factor & im not sure we have the players to get it back like we did.

Donaruma & Rodrygo are not answer & will be issues to move on for the next manager for me.

Squad is so unsettled with so many players not sure if they are staying or going! Just really bad planning catching up to us & likely going to cost us again this season
 
GRB said:
So, instead of reading the last 20 pages.

Are we fucked or just a blip?
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Fucked.

I love the man but let’s face it, Pep has done fuck all in the past ten months to solve any of our issues.
Weak as fuck, always looking to concede on the break and can’t break down any solid defences.

We will fight for CL place this season and I hope we get it and can maybe try again for the title next season if we spend well.
 
TheThirdDeano said:
There was a small feature on Kompany last night, a city career retrospective, and seeing him play again really made me appreciate just how good we had it with players like him.

Not a single player currently playing for us comes close to Kompany, and I think that’s one of the biggest problems we have. No leadership!
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I remember Kompany letting 3 goals in the space if 15 minutes at White Hart Lane in 12/13. It was a proper shit show.
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
I remember Kompany letting 3 goals in the space if 15 minutes at White Hart Lane in 12/13. It was a proper shit show.
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Ah fuck! You’re right!! He was a shit player and one example of a bad performance totally and utterly negates my point!!!!!!! Fuckkk!!!!!!!!!!!
Please don’t post any more examples like his astounding own goals or I’ll be really undone!!!!
 
I thought we were alright until RAN went off, then we conceded and looked like we’d never seen a football before after that. The second half in particular was wretched from players of this quality. Spurs didn’t have to get out of second gear to keep us quiet.
 
skillman said:
This angle is damning. How he’s passing to Nico’s right foot there is baffling me. Sarr is right there ready to pounce!

Cherki was the pass.

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That decision from Trafford is beyond ridiculous but equally Gonzalez shouldn’t be showing for if there unless he knows he has space to turn which he clearly doesn’t as the Spurs lad is right up his arse.

If he is adamant he’s ok to show there he should be on the half turn to take the ball away with his left away from traffic rather than into traffic.

I coach U16s and these are literally basics.
 
Maybe it's just a blip - our matches against the Spurs are always an aberration - it always seems to be their Cup final, their defence played like men possessed, and their midfielders gave our players no time on the ball, they also got away with some rough house tackles. Needless to say Spurs will not play like that against the red shirts.
The likes of Cherki and Reijnders struggled with the Spurs press, but our biggest problem was the back four, as good a footballer Rico is - he is not a defender and has no natural place in the team, and Dias is not the player he was, I think he is really poor now, both are soo slow, I can't understand why Nunes is not at RB ahead of Rico, he played some very good games at RB at the end of last season - and the defence is crying out for Khusanov ahead of Dias. We will improve hopefully, but there are worrying signs also that we have not yet become a cohesive unit - Frank managed to do this in a matter of weeks
 
GRB said:
So, instead of reading the last 20 pages.

Are we fucked or just a blip?
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