Which part? All of it?
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Match Spurs vs Leicester City 20 Dec 14:15
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Every one of their players seemed quicker and fitter than ours for some reason. Both teams played a lot of games, but they won almost everything
They need a midfield
It’s like they don’t know what good football is.
Big José fan??
We all know when the team plays shit, and we get pelters from Woolwich, Chelsea and West Ham fans, we don’t need the same pathetic shit from our own so called fans.
After a couple of good results playing 'hit-them-on-the-break', this tactic now appears to be our default way of playing (even at WHL).
In the first half I couldn't believe us playing with a back 8 with Kane and Son in midfield and essentially giving up 70m of the pitch to Leicester.
Lo Celso and Ndombele should not play together. Marooning Lo Celso on the right wing defied belief!
Bringing on Lucas and Bale and leaving Hojbjerg and Sissoko as our creative hub was mad.
Aurier (penalty) and Sissoko (failing to challenge in the air) should hang their heads in shame.
A lot of this is down to Mourinho.
We need to regroup for Wednesday and come back on Boxing Day with a more aggressive attitude.
In the first half I couldn't believe us playing with a back 8 with Kane and Son in midfield and essentially giving up 70m of the pitch to Leicester.
Lo Celso and Ndombele should not play together. Marooning Lo Celso on the right wing defied belief!
Bringing on Lucas and Bale and leaving Hojbjerg and Sissoko as our creative hub was mad.
Aurier (penalty) and Sissoko (failing to challenge in the air) should hang their heads in shame.
A lot of this is down to Mourinho.
We need to regroup for Wednesday and come back on Boxing Day with a more aggressive attitude.
Exactly. Been here 13 months now, whats gone before is pretty much irrelevant. We've had plenty of time to see what he brings to us not Chelsea in 2005. Any defence or indeed criticism of him needs to be based on his work here.
I don’t think that detracts from the fact we were good.
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'Tanguy Ndombele 5
Appeared to take a knock in the second minute and was hooked at half-time after barely making an impression'.
Makes Mourhino decision to take him off very explicable.
And Mouhino wasn't to know Lo Celso was about to pull up a minute into the 2nd half.
2nd time we've played Ndombele and Lo Celso together, and 2nd time we have lost
Aurier has played well so far this season, but his brainfart came back into his game - gave away a penalty for no good reason just before HT.
Sissoko has always been great athlete but not great at football including tackling, jumping to head ball or anything except powerful running. Probably ok against bottom half of PL but not top half. So no surprise found out for the 2nd goal.
One underlying problem is probably tiredness - Too many key players (Kane, Son et al) started with 30 minutes against Antwerp (10/12) just 4 days after playing Woolwich, then Palace (13/12), Liverpool (16/12) and then Leicester (20/12). Too many matches in quick succession......and its been a frenetic season before that. Need all starters to have complete rest against Stoke. Especially Kane and Son.
Need all the players to be rested before Wolves in 7 days time, as that has become an essential win to avoid dropping down the table further.
'Tanguy Ndombele 5
Appeared to take a knock in the second minute and was hooked at half-time after barely making an impression'.
Makes Mourhino decision to take him off very explicable.
And Mouhino wasn't to know Lo Celso was about to pull up a minute into the 2nd half.
2nd time we've played Ndombele and Lo Celso together, and 2nd time we have lost
Aurier has played well so far this season, but his brainfart came back into his game - gave away a penalty for no good reason just before HT.
Sissoko has always been great athlete but not great at football including tackling, jumping to head ball or anything except powerful running. Probably ok against bottom half of PL but not top half. So no surprise found out for the 2nd goal.
One underlying problem is probably tiredness - Too many key players (Kane, Son et al) started with 30 minutes against Antwerp (10/12) just 4 days after playing Woolwich, then Palace (13/12), Liverpool (16/12) and then Leicester (20/12). Too many matches in quick succession......and its been a frenetic season before that. Need all starters to have complete rest against Stoke. Especially Kane and Son.
Need all the players to be rested before Wolves in 7 days time, as that has become an essential win to avoid dropping down the table further.
Want to hear something weird I saw the Leicester City warm up pre game and I knew we were in for a bad afternoon. Oh and Kane looked weary in the bloody warm up. Why did we buy Vinicius
I’m not worried about other fans - I never have been. I just hate to see Tottenham play with zero ambition. It really hurts me Billy.
Unfortunately, turgid football only 'works' when you're winning... turgid football, coupled with defeat is unbearable!
Jose has built his career on winning ugly... "we won a Trophy, so you can't complain with the style... or lack of"
But when that same 'style' results in a defeat, there is no hiding place... which is why I predict several of our players will be under the bus tonight...
If you win ugly, it's part of the bigger picture... it gets Trophies... but if you can't win ugly... blame someone else!
Me too but I don’t act like a clown and give other teams fans bait to bash us ove the head with..
A week ago we were top of the league, to me that showed ambition and a poor week will not change my opinion,
Sadly, I think today shows what we’re still up against within our squad. The mentality is improving but we are long way off being title winners. I still trust and back Jose. He has a plan and system that works. Players were just not on it today. Probably mentally knackered from a difficult week but title winners find motivation within difficult periods: our players go missing. Errors aplenty today too. If we can have a reset against Stoke and Fulham then perhaps we can go on another run. But, this does look again like Poch’s last full season: as soon as we start being talked about as contenders, something in our collective mentality crashes.
Totally agree with your overall point. However, I think we’ve been decent this season overall. We were on it against Liverpool, just fucked up where it mattered. I remember plenty of dodgy games in and amongst the fun of Redknapp and Poch. When it’s working, our counter attacking this season had been great to watch.
Like I said I’m not bothered about other fans. If we are to sacrifice our identity for trophies, at least let’s win some trophies. I’ll be honest mate, I can’t watch this rubbish and pretend I’m enjoying it.
I'm pretty sure it's in Harry's contract that if he is fit he plays every league game and cannot be subbed off unless injured
Didn’t we spend £150 million on a midfield the summer before last and got Hjobjerg in this summer?