Spurs (H) - Post-Match Thread

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Beg to differ with a lot of posters on here , we played fine going forward and created enough to win three games , our defence was shocking today , all four of them contributed to three poor Spuds goals , our defence has been rock solid all season so i am putting this down to a bad day at the office and Spuds being a f*cking irritant.
We have given the Dippers hope and that is all , still in our hands and its very rare we put two poor defensive performances together , so we need to brush ourselves down forget about today and go to Everton and take three points.
Spuds,Everton and Rags were always going to be tricky run of games , if you offered me six points from nine i would have been Ok about it , so we now have to win the next two. Lets not throw the team under the bus after one defeat in 20 games.

 

[bluemc1]

if scouser win game in hand and beat us we are level right ?

Correct

 

[Indaparkside]

Why are pep or the players not allowed to be criticised when performance isn't good?

Theres a weird element to our fan base that buries the head in the sand.

Pep nor the team are perfect, they nearly are. But it's fair criticism.

It’s not burying your head we had an off day shit happens we move on we’re top of the league ffs

 

[Lavinda Past]

Making changes has never been Pep's strong points. In fact, he's abysmal at it.

Brilliant manager, but no-one is perfect and his in-game tactical management is pretty crap IMO.

As I said earlier.... Awful game management. Playing Laporte ahead of Stones is just daft imo.

 

[wolviedinho]

Midfield was the main problem today. It was bypassed at ease and put huge pressure onto our defence who where all over the shop as a result.

Bernie should be center mid.
Gundo instead of Kev at present.
Stones needs a proper run in the team.
Foden is all over the place being moved so often.
Rodri without Bernie is no good. Look at last season.

Pep needs to take a look at his decisions. Time for him to stop changing the players role each game. Go back to what go us on to the run over Christmas.

 

[city warrior]

You shouldn't concede a goal like Spurs winner so soon after getting back into the game. It was poor management from the sideline.

Poor management. Cancelo loses an easy control, Walker misses a super easy pass. What do you want Guardiola to do? These are profesionals, they shouldn’t need a manager to tell them to keep the ball and concentrate when we just scored an equalizer at 92 minute.

 

[Hayley Croppers chopper]

the referee was shocking letting them time waste and the spurs players holding and fouling city players at corners
and the goal and pen was given by VAR ? the ref should have given the pen without VAR because it was clear pen and the player should have been given a 2nd yellow

He added 7 minutes then played it out to just under 10.
As for the penalty, it happens that fast, they had at least 7 in the box, and we must have had 5. How does he keep an eye on every single player.

 

[grandsolo]

It is. Win their game in hand and beat us and they go top. They no longer need other teams to take points off us

it’s also in our hands as well tnough

They need US to lose to them. It’s no more in their hands than it is in ours, and now the pressure is on them

 

[Indaparkside]

if scouser win game in hand and beat us we are level right ?

IF is correct if your auntie was your uncle

 

[chaddblue]

if scouser win game in hand and beat us we are level right ?

No they’re top

but obviously that’s assuming all results and scores are the same, which won’t happen

 

[Corky]

so what she should have said is the titles in the ballance because it's not in dipper hands

It is just like it was in ours after the 4-4 game just before Wolves away in 2012.

 

[Newman Noggs]

A poor/average team with good strikers stands a decent chance of beating a team with no strikers. All we can do is regroup and hope Cancelo and Rodri can pick it up again.

 

[balotellishaircut]

Only criticism I have against Pep is stop bigging up teams and players before we play them, why do it it always backfires, that **** Kane is prime example

 

[eyalluvitt]

Cancelo goes through periods when he is fantastic then has a spell where he is a bit meh...happened last season, hence he disappeared at the end of the season and didn't play in the CL Final, and it's happening again now...that was a truly shit show from him today, lazy tracking back and making the wrong decisions going forward.

Remember that awful 0-2 home derby when he was horrible, occasionally he does have regi blinkers and against the better teams it’s costly.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Our defenders were shite today. Even the rags would have fancied their chances against us today. Play like that against Liverpool and we'll get battered.

Play like that against the rags and we will probably lose

 

[Bazzmand Show]

It’s not burying your head we had an off day shit happens we move on we’re top of the league ffs

Yeah we are top of the league at the moment, but things could go tits up quickly pal.

Theres no point being the best team in the world if you dont bring home the chocalates.

 

[Metalartin]

Well, the only positives from this game, is Pep will be able to use this performance as an example why the players need to be on it in training every day and listen to what it is he's telling them because standards can slip fast if they aren't doing that. He'll also have a lot to point to for the players individually, for them to work on. To make sure they aren't the weak spot of the team, for other teams to target.

Also, it's not often we lose. There's always going to be bad performances, it helps you appreciate how good we have it most of the time. It also gives us perspective, most of the time(like when we only win 1 or 2 - nil), when we say we've been awful, we really haven't. Sometimes we're just not at our best(impossible to be at your best 100% of the time) and a little unlucky.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Why is it always fucking Spurs?

 

[wolviedinho]

Summed up pretty well here

Manchester City captain Ilkay Gundogan, speaking to Sky Sports: "I remember us being here before the match saying we need to be careful when we lose the ball in transitions.

"It feels in all three goals we invited them to score. We gave the ball away too easily.

"It didn't feel very hard because they defended very deep. For some parts of the game we moved the ball quite well, we created enough chances to score goals.

"But we gave the ball away, and I haven't seen that from us in some time to give away so many chances.

"There is a long way to go [in the title race], if we didn't know before we know now.

"Now we've got to work hard over the next couple of weeks."

Top player and the only midfielder to come out of that game with any credit.

 

[waspish]

Why are pep or the players not allowed to be criticised when performance isn't good?

Theres a weird element to our fan base that buries the head in the sand.

Pep nor the team are perfect, they nearly are. But it's fair criticism.

we been brilliant on a great winning run can players/pep have one game where nothing worked we played shit?

I for one will not slag the players of even though so could pick out half a dozen players who were piss poor! They get a pass this game.