Spurs vs City post match

[Mike N]

While I'm thinking, is there a bigger cheat in the league than Danny Rose?

 

[Walking on the blue moon]

Sorry if it had been posted, but I thought this is a pretty good analysis of the match by Michael Cox.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...iola-eriksen-spurs-manchester-city?CMP=twt_gu

We did have a plan B, but it was probably implemented too late and it should have been plan A when we are missing players like KDB and Nolito. Though perhaps if we hadn't tried the original plan first, we wouldn't have known it wouldn't work.

Anyways, it is better that we lose and learn a lesson in October than pay the price in December or February.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Rose was a twat in the game at the Etihad last season too.

 

[MarsLlama]

While I'm thinking, is there a bigger cheat in the league than Danny Rose?

Sky Sports love the prick- three times they elected to show a five second close-up of him writhing on the ground instead of the City attack that was going on at the time.

I love Pep but I think he needs to take some of the blame for the loss. We knew Tottenham would press high and be physical before the game and not a lot was done tactically to combat that. We also knew that Tottenham have the two quickest fullbacks in the league and we started our two slower and often less reliable ones.

Sick of everyone saying that Bravo looks uncomfortable when in fact he is playing in exactly the same way he has for years. So what if Son gets really close to him before he clears? That's the fucking point. Very rarely does he make an actual mistake doing that and the booing of the Tottenham fans won't affect him, he's used to it. Not enough credit for the penalty save either.

I also think Nolito was nearly as big a miss as De Bruyne. Still a bit pissed off at him for that moment of complete stupidity against Bournemouth- I don't think it was a red but that's beside the point, it was still a stupid risk.

 

[simon23]

Agreed the defence had a poor game but we cannot depend on Kompany, he wont last half a season, what was missing was De Bruyne for me and getting caught in possession was a real problem, once they get the fitness and are quicker to offload the passes, it will come, too many players need too many touches to control the ball hampered us big time, Fernando in particular guilty of that.

6 wins and a loss is still a fantastic start and one we would have all settled for at the start of the season, Pep Included.

the defence did have a poor gambit it wasn't purely down to this...the selection of fernando and navas did us no favours

 

[blue62]

Thought the game highlighted a lack of balance in the squad:

Sterling / Navas / Sane fighting it out for 1 position on right-wing
The moment we lose Nolito - our lack of options for left wing ends up with Sterling / Navas looking less effective there
Gabriel Jesus will partially address this when he arrives, but given difference in team ethic + tactics since MP left, I would have preferred Pep to ask Nasri to stay + assess what he can do.
If other players have improved under Pep - why not Nasri who can play both left + more centrally with level of ball retention that Pep Loves.

Surprised Sagna + Clichy didn't start.
Is Pep really saying that Zabaleta + AK are our first choice full-backs in a difficult away game?
I don't particularly like Walker at RB for Spurs but I thought his aggression from the first whistle set a tempo / benchmark for Spurs that we struggled to match.

The fact that he started Zabs & AK tells you what he thinks about Sagna/Clichy. Yesterday he will have learned more in defeat. None of our current fb's are the answer in any particular combination. Minimum 2 new fb's required and don't expect new contracts Zab, Sagna or Clichy they will all be released in summer.

 

[Mike N]

Rose was a twat in the game at the Etihad last season too.

The scream he let out says it all about him.

 

[bondsman]

Just read a statistic in the Mail that said we have only won 39% of games when the two Ferns play together, and won 73% when they don't, interesting :-)

Don't need stats to argue Fernando should not be starting.

 

[kaz7]

I was very surprised he went with zabba and nando,both too slow against a young fit team and didn't change it before he did,it was like last year all over again

 

[pml79]

I was very surprised he went with zabba and nando,both too slow against a young fit team and didn't change it before he did,it was like last year all over again

Maybe pep was trying to prove a point or finally show to the top brass what we need or what Pep needs carnt see him doing the same against Liverpool n arsenal who I think are the other two away games we will get beat