Spurs (H) - Post-Match Thread

[coolcity]

Massively below normal standards but it's happened to every great team in history and always will. Even with the lethargic performance - plenty of effort but lacking energy and the poor defending especially, we had twenty-odd shots to their six (mostly poor attempts by us it has to be said) and dominated the game. Time wasting Spurs just took the gifts we gave them - the space we gave to Kane. The time wasting and fake injuries paid off for Spurs - we would never do that. I've had a bad back for forty years - have to live with it, but whatever miracle cure they gave Kane, I want some........

Agree to a point (especially about the back probs, would give anything for a miracle cure right now), but I don't think we were that much off the pace and it's the media hype that sows the seeds. I try to disregard the post match hype because it all centres on a few seconds - a missed shot here, a goal conceded there - is all it takes for the media to make the difference between them saying something like "superb performance that you'd expect from the champions" to "masterplan from Kane" and so on.

In otherwords, without really changing anything on another day we'd have scored 2 more and they'd have scored 2 less. The way we play is always going to be vulnerable to the counter attack and the teams with better strikers are more likely to take advantage, so we're bound to lose the odd one here and there.

Again the media are hyping up the "title race back on" theme but it was never off, certainly not unless they think it's all down to one result. While we probably can't afford too many slip ups, I don't see Liverpool going through the rest of the season with a 100% record so I'm not overly concerned. Fact remains that to win the title, they still have to win their game in hand, beat us at the Etihad, match every other result we get, and better our goal difference. Not impossible but you'd be mad to take the bet.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

There has been 3 positions that have been needed to adressed in the last 2 or 3 years .A striker to replace kun then a midfielder to replace fern and a left back.I am hoping we can get lucky until the summer and hopefully these positions will be rectified.

If we signed a goal machine striker, I doubt we'd score more goals than we do now. A specialist goalscorer would just take up more of the total number of goals as a proportion. We don't do the 'striker getting on the end of crosses' thing - we score from all around the pitch. We don't rely on a single goalscorer - Pep convinces every player that they should be scoring. From what I've seen, Alvarez is not an out and out striker - he gets involved quite deep, goes past defenders in a variety of ways and seems to be the ideal Pep style player in the sense that he doesn't lurk where you'd expect him to - very much a player that likes to pull defences out of shape by wanting the ball in places defenders don't want to go. Has a pretty special shot - seems to pick his spot.

 

[Bill Walker]

Again the media are hyping up the "title race back on" theme but it was never off, certainly not unless they think it's all down to one result. While we probably can't afford too many slip ups, I don't see Liverpool going through the rest of the season with a 100% record so I'm not overly concerned. Fact remains that to win the title, they still have to win their game in hand, beat us at the Etihad, match every other result we get, and better our goal difference. Not impossible but you'd be mad to take the bet.

I'm certainly more concerned now, I liked the big gap, felt comfortable to be way ahead of those scouse twats.
They now have more motivation to keep winning.

Pretty shocking we lost at home to a team that've lost their last four games and their motivation.

 

[Bill Walker]

If we signed a goal machine striker, I doubt we'd score more goals than we do now. A specialist goalscorer would just take up more of the total number of goals as a proportion. We don't do the 'striker getting on the end of crosses' thing - we score from all around the pitch. We don't rely on a single goalscorer - Pep convinces every player that they should be scoring. From what I've seen, Alvarez is not an out and out striker - he gets involved quite deep, goes past defenders in a variety of ways and seems to be the ideal Pep style player in the sense that he doesn't lurk where you'd expect him to - very much a player that likes to pull defences out of shape by wanting the ball in places defenders don't want to go. Has a pretty special shot - seems to pick his spot.

All the more puzzling then when we put on about 200 high crosses in this game.

 

[butlerkb]

Just trying to help here , watching the match on replay again a cyoing Asian guy called Son , good player and a young Bruce Forsyth lookalike called Kane , both really good, might need keeping a watch on , next time we play Spurs

 

[cleavers]

All down to Pep that shit show.

We lined up and played the whole game with a stupid 235 formation, fucking ridiculous, even if our 2 CB's only have one player to deal with, it was obvious from the first few minutes how spurs would deal with it, sit deep, bring us on to them, wait till we gave the ball away and launch it over our midfield, it happened once before they scored, and every time they did score, including the offside.

We weren't clever, giving the ball away too much early on, but our defending was rank, it was obvious in the early minutes that our full backs were too advanced, and spurs played deep enough to go over our midfield (and full backs), and get at us.

spurs were actually shit for the most most part, and for large parts of the game we were far better, and didn't have a great deal of luck, but we were just the gift they needed after a shit run with that stupid formation imho.

 

[chaddblue]

Maybe now having a realistic chance of catching us will spook the dippers and they’ll turn to shite due to the absurd overwhelming expectation weighing heavy on them from the cult

 

[BuzLightyear]

Not playing well. Does the bare minimum by passing it to others.

I don't know why he keeps doing that - he has the ability to do so much more. Pep needs to talk to him.

 

[BuzLightyear]

The dippers are still the same side we comfortably out played at Anfield this season. We’re still points clear at the top. Both us and Liverpool will drop more points before the end of the season.

This was a tough game after an away trip in the Champions league, but we’re still favourites and we’ll still win it.

Yes, we roasted them in the first half but didn't score then. We came back brilliantly in the second half after Salah's goal etc but we must take our chances or like Spurs, they'll score on the break. They've just added a letal-looking guy to their front 3. Potentially 4 goalscorers while we are relying on goals from midfielders and wide men. I'll take a point right now which might be enough to edge the title.

 

[MadchesterCity]

Well I am off to shag a hooker. Cya guys!!

Which rugby team?