Spurs (H) - Post-Match Thread

[Tb1981]

The place will be an absolute bear pit on Saturday night. Tough game.

Always a tough game but recent results have been good.
Need a few players to find some form Bernardo, foden and Kdb
A Leeds win against Liverpool followed by us beating Everton and Chelsea winning the cup would be a good week!

 

[Bill]

no planning or tactics can compensate for a professional footballer passing the ball to an opposing player . we did that all day long .

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

IMO this is a problem with the CB partnership. Laporte is slow and easily turned, we’ve seen that for a couple of years now, and the more Dias plays with him the more he seems to be trying to nip things in the bud like Otamendi used to.

Stones is much faster and more comfortable covering back and mopping up if that ball in behind is played, which is why he and Dias fit so well together as a pair.

Yes, and what is making it worse is that Dias is now doing the same thing, getting easily turned on the halfway line and making wrong offside decisions. Dias has been booked twice in our last 4/5 games early doors for getting too close to the attacker on the halfway line, getting beaten easily and having to foul their player.

 

[paulchapo]

The place will be an absolute bear pit on Saturday night. Tough game.

Spot on I've mentioned this. It was against Leeds and it will be double that against us. Forget they hate Liverpool they need the points. Not a place for shrinking violets our players better be up for the battle.

 

[Bentheblue]

no planning or tactics can compensate for a professional footballer passing the ball to an opposing player . we did that all day long .

We even did it in the Sporting game.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

A lot of folks saying , Trafford, Pool, Everton etc will follow suit, yes it’s possible, but the level of cynicism on display by Spurs plumbed new depths. Rangnick won’t do a Conte, nor will Lampard, even Bingo will have the arrogance to think he can go toe to toe, yes still pissed off but let’s keep things into perspective.

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

Infuriating to lose that game. A lifeline getting the penalty and then giving a goal away is just horrendous.

Doesn't help that defensively we played the worst we've ever played under Pep. Nobody played well and Rodri couldn't make simple passes.

Next two games suddenly very big.

MASSIVE

 

[Zenmanc]

I appreciate how well we've done this season and last but I will be truly relieved when this whole false 9 experiment is over. We have so many world class players... it's inevitable that even without a true 9 we'll score goals... but we've gotten used to it. If we had a proficient finishing war head at the top of our attack, it'd change this team and the way opponents line up against us. I simply don't think we'll win CL this year as a result of our lack of striker and we'll scratch at this point to win the league. We're fortunate Liverpool haven't been their best this year while Chelsea have stuttered and ManUre have been impotent. I know it's a bit of a flap, but I'm so tired of what is essentially playing chess without a queen.

 

[blue whippet]

As it happens, i got up to make tea soon as the final whistle went.
I can tell you now that pulling a large, open, bag of frozen peas out of the freezer upside down can soon take your mind off a shit result..

Ha ha, bet you will be finding those all over the show for weeks now!

 

[blue whippet]

Yeah! It was a game that after five minutes I didn't think we'd win, but getting back to 2-2 on 92mins we should have copied exactly the tactics Spurs adopted throughout the game - five at the back, timewasting, feigning injury, et al, and we end up with a point. Every time Spurs got into our half it was invariably 2 or 3 versus 2 and we defended like headless chickens. Do that, and I suppose that's what you deserve. Fuck all!

Indeed. The result and performance were disappointing but in terms of levels of disappointment getting back to 2-2 and faffing it up in injury time tops the lot.