Spurs (H) - Sat 23rd Nov, 17:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[Franny 1234]

Do you spend half your life checking up on old posts? Your not alone by the way.

I was thinking that's some research carried out by Kaz. Good to see somebody checking out for RAGS.CTID

 

[citytill1die84]

Fucking come on City

 

[ninjamonkey]

I still expect a win tomorrow, kovacic will be a monumental loss for the games afterwards though, particularly Anfield where we're likely to get slaughtered by route 1 football. Still think we need to find a totally new way of playing because sticking increasingly inept players in the rodri role and expecting the same game has seen us lose 4 in a row and it will only continue if we persist.

Having no kovacic either could force his hand into switching but Pep has shown no signs of changing things, he'll just stick gundogan in that role instead now with him unable to stop any counter and defenders bombing into positions they cant defend from and we'll continue to be wide open.

I want to see a natural flat back 4, no inverting, just a standard back 4 that can defend as a unit and not be constantly trying to fight fires a man down every time we dont have the ball. Ideally if we have enough fit defenders i'd have stones as the actual dm not a defender moving in there with bernardo alongside him then 3 attackers behind haaland. At the minute that should be savinho right, Nunes left and kdb or foden central. With kdb, foden, savinho, nunes and doku to pick from, any 3 from that list is more than enough to be capable of creating enough chances to win us games, let them do their thing with a solid defensive unit behind them, we don't need to be committing defenders forward constantly, we need a stable defence more right now.

I don't expect to see that though, reckon he persists with trying to get players to fill holes and we play the same way which probably means we see something like

Ederson
Walker
Stones
Akanji
Gvardiol
Gundo
Bernardo
Foden
Savinho
Nunes
Haaland

 

[samuelyeboah]

whoever starts i'm begging, begging, to see a normal back 4 defend like a top 4 team and not like a league 1 team. everyone else.. good luck

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Will be watching this with a Spurs mate in a Spurs pub. Probably keeping quiet. He says Tottenham have "too many injuries and won't be able to compete with City's deep bench." (Ha!)