Spurs (h) pre-match thread

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Akiva said:
People seem bemused to discover we are really weak at the back. Really? That's basically the story of our season.

We have no choice but to play to our strengths here because I personally wouldn't fancy us keeping Spurs out if we played defensively, particularly sitting back, regardless. We need to keep the pressure on and the mistakes to a minimum to have any hope of getting a result here.
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Would feel a lot better if we had more protection in midfield. I would have played Kompany in defence (Wtf do we have to lose) and Fernando with Yaya in the centre. We need a repeat of the Arsenal second half performance and Fernando was pivotal to that.

We have the weakest keeper and weakest back four in the top 6 - both need more protection than what's in that side.

I'm fearing the worst.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
Fine this guy 40 grand!
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BlueBlood27 said:
Does anyone else feel that Zabaleta's legs are gone? The guy is fantastic, a legend, brilliant football brain and positionally excellent, but I just think he struggles to get up and down the wing like he used to. And a half-decent winger can turn him far to easily.
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yep. part of the problem with defense, too many legs are gone.
 
Four at the back definitely the right decision. We'll probably have the lion's share of possession anyway and a 3 would have been dangerous against these. Don't mind Aleks so much in a 4 but would have gone with Stones.

Spurs will know our game plan from the outset - slow build up, if they lose the ball in our half, we'll politely wait for them to organise and attempt to thread the eye of the needle on the edge of their box. They've lost one of their better defenders this week so hopefully we'll have some luck with this. But with the speed we have up front, occasionally I'd like to see us hit them on the break, (I've had a look and it's still not against the rules) and having a few more shots, or at least feinting to shoot might open their defence up.

Sane was getting the hang of it before his injury so looking forward to seeing him again. All set up for 60 mins of Leroy and half an hour of Jesus.

Smash the cocky cockerneys and it's almost the perfect day.
 
I'm going to have to turn the sound off, otherwise I'll smash the tv. BT are worse than SKY for biased commentary.
 
Just seen our line up. Christ, going to be difficult. I'd imagine their midfield aren't shitting it.
 
Can't see us not losing this. Fuck, even a draw would be something special. Why we're playing without Fernando or Delph is beyond me.
 
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yep. part of the problem with defense, too many legs are gone.
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I agree. But lots of decent teams have slow defenders, they just adapt and play 20 yards deeper with midfielders helping out and a well drilled offside line. We throw every man forward and leave ours scrambling around the half way line!
 
It's funny the Spurs supporters did that. The same could of been said about Lloris a couple years back.
 
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