To some extent, yes. However, last season, we beat them 3-0 at home and then beat them in the League Cup Final. Kane and Son were not together in either game. So our real issue is why we constantly fail to stop this duo playing the Deja Vu trick upon us.Fuckers are our bogey team
I couldn't think of anything worse for a young player's development than chucking them on a game that you are chasing with 20 minutes to go and asking them to make a difference.I don't think Pep ever puts a youth player on when we are chasing a game. I imagine he thinks it's unfair pressure on them if they don't do well.
I’m going to go out in a limb and tell you Delap disagrees with you!I couldn't think of anything worse for a young player's development than chucking them on a game that you are chasing with 20 minutes to go and asking them to make a difference.
Young player wants to play football, shocker.I’m going to go out in a limb and tell you Delap disagrees with you!
The opposite of your negative take is that a young player who is given a chance, no matter how small, and takes it, is suddenly given significantly more confidence than anything negative that could possibly happen!
Get most of what you're saying Harry apart from the first sentence. We were clearly not the better team at defending on the day, masters of our own downfall.We were much the better team despite being below our best. But what I notice is that when we're playing well, you barely see a misplaced pass. Against Spurs we misplaced a few passes more than normal, but still passed the ball at a level any normal top four team would consider to be outstanding. We tried to draw Spurs onto us - hence the slow play at times and they stuck with their small team low block mentality. And yes, we were inches away from two more goals. If we'd won, Spurs would have been slaughtered on MOTD for their park the bus tactics and four defeats in a row, but because we gifted them their goals it's a 'masterclass' apparently. Can't help but think Ferna would have had us in a formation to have stopped the counter attacks at source (with him no doubt making the telling interceptions) - Kane wouldn't have had all that space for his pass for the first.
I couldn't think of anything worse for a young player's development than chucking them on a game that you are chasing with 20 minutes to go and asking them to make a difference.
Young player wants to play football, shocker.
It's not a "negative take", it's a fairly straightforward observation about how the City academy and Pep see the development of young players.
Theres so few actually making the breakthrough that there's a fair chance Pep could do better as regards the youngsters.Young player wants to play football, shocker.
It's not a "negative take", it's a fairly straightforward observation about how the City academy and Pep see the development of young players.