Spurs vs City post match

I think most of us had a sneaking suspicion how this one would pan out the moment we saw the lineup. We had a handful of half decent periods of play and was unlucky with the few half-chances we created. Thought the ref was far too quick and eager to punish our players for the same type of fouls he was gladly letting Spurs get away with. I said in the match thread that it looked like Pep had taken a page from Peller's playbook for this one. No doubt he has learnt from it. Onto the next game.
 
Better team won. At times it felt like they had an extra 2 players on the pitch so you have to give Spurs a lot of credit. From our point of view it is worrying to see Kolarov drift back to his old ways. He won't last long in this team with more performances like that. I would like to see Sane get more game time but clearly Pep doesn't trust him enough yet. Stones was our best player today by a mile which says a lot about the other defenders today.
 
Not too arsed about the result, in the sense that losing away at a side who will obviously be there or thereabouts is no disaster.

The concern, though, is that we still look awful against teams that press us. Poor midweek, even poorer today - against the first teams really prepared to have a go at us. Zaba, Kolarov, Fernando, and to a lesser extent Otamendi - you can't play with people as limited as that against decent teams.

Second half we made a contest of it, but over the 90 minutes Spurs were miles better than us, in every single aspect of the game. And that's the worry, given that we were only missing De Bruyne of any note (plus Kompany, of course, bit that's now the norm, unfortunately).
 
Stones - can hold his head high.
Kolarov - back to his usual tripe.
Zabba - I hate to say it but he has lost more than a yard and is not fast enough for the Premier league.
Navas - showed why he will not be picked ahead of Nolito when his suspension is over.

Can't believe why Pep chose to pick the team he did with what looked like a Pellegrini team, that played like a Pelle team.

For all euphoria around Spurs winning, if Silva would have taken his chance after 3 mins the game might have been so different.
 
Once again when some of our first choice players aren't available the rest of the squad is too poor to replace them. Zaba, Kolarov, Fernando, Navas, Delph etc. these players simply are not good enough and when they play we drop several levels.

New full backs are a must, a reliable defensive partner for Stones is a must, a new midfielder is a must. Drop the players who are past it and replace them with players who can actually slot into the team without us going to shit.
 
we always saw this game as a game we could drop...

hard to lose but we were never going to walk the title.
 
I think we're seeing the advantage teams like spurs, liverpool and Arsenal have this season over us,Utd and Chelsea in that they have an established settle team all with a manager with at least a season behind him.

Still a lot of work to be done but if we're gonna win it this season it's gonna be a lot closer and harder than our unbeaten run would of suggested. Bring it on!

Oh and Deli Alli has a face only a house brick could love.
 
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