We are not, never have been and never will be Athletico Madrid. He will achieve nothing with us if a clean sheet is necessary for us secure any sort of result.Serious lack of mentality. Which I thought Jose came in to fix?
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We are not, never have been and never will be Athletico Madrid. He will achieve nothing with us if a clean sheet is necessary for us secure any sort of result.Serious lack of mentality. Which I thought Jose came in to fix?
Shit seems to happen to us a lot when we're 1 -0 up.That's great they had more "ambition" and "purpose" but over 90 minutes we created more chances and deserved to win.
A draw isn't totally underserved in the sense that this is football and shit happens.
Fuck that noise, we need a goal, Sissoko ain't gonna provide shit. It's playing for a draw leaving him on in that situation.Oh give me a break.
We needed Sissoko in the midfield at that point.
Winks was off so we were playing with our back 4 (Regy/Serge pushed high up too), then just Hojbjerg and Sissoko in midfield. Sonny, Kane, Lamela and Carlos were all committed to attackign so we needed Sissoko for cover.
You could argue subbing Sissoko off for Lamela instead of WInks, but we did need him on after both Lamela and Carlos came on. Get some sense.
So we had no good chances in the 2nd half except for one that's a goal 9/10 times?I'd have more sympathy for Mourinho if we had created a good amount of chances both halves and Fulham nicked one. It happens.
But that's not what happened at all, we had no really good chances the second half outside of the Son miss off the post which we didn't create, it was a gift from Fulham giving it away cheaply.
We had a ton of really good attacking play in the first half even with a more defensive starting XI. This is why I can't understand people saying it's the players. How can the same group play so well in the first and then so obviously change the approach and play so poorly in the second?
Different lineups with different players against different opponents and getting the same result, there only seems to be one overriding factor connecting all of it.
Tell me what did Winks provide? Answer sweet FA. I can’t wait till he’s out the door. Does nothing creative, wants the ball gets it and passes it back, absolute waste of space.Oh give me a break.
We needed Sissoko in the midfield at that point.
Winks was off so we were playing with our back 4 (Regy/Serge pushed high up too), then just Hojbjerg and Sissoko in midfield. Sonny, Kane, Lamela and Carlos were all committed to attackign so we needed Sissoko for cover.
You could argue subbing Sissoko off for Lamela instead of WInks, but we did need him on after
both Lamela and Carlos came on. Get some sense.
AVB had peak Bale. For one season.FIFY.
sorry. We remember AVB differently. (Both dull managers tho - AVB had peak Bale, mind you...)
Kane's last shot at goal came in the 30th minute. Not his fault his manager sets up like he does. But that's what Jose is doing to HarryHaving two chances and scoring one is actually an excellent return in Kane's case.
This isn't especially aimed at you but your post made me think about expectations. Fans in general have a wonky perception of what a sitter really is, but Spurs fans in particular have been spoilt by years of watching Kane and Son finish with almost unprecedented efficiency (compared to the rest of the league, and most of Europe as well).
What people describe as a sitter usually has an xG of less than 0.5. That doesn't just mean that not scoring is predicted to be more likely than scoring: it means that over the tens of thousands of goals that were analysed in the process of creating xG models, less than half of all similar chances throughout history have been scored. When you put a chance at less than 50%, it's not really a sitter anymore.
And yet the exact same manager who got you to thinking just a few weeks back that we actually could is now responsible for ensuring that we actually can't.
I think he’s trying to hold onto Winks, and assumed he could put him on against a Fulham side. Sadly, wasn’t good enough to impose himself and ended up playing a PEH-lite role.Also, the fact that Mou is emphatically pro-Winks but shunning Dele and Bale is ridiculous. FFS. We’re wooden.
N'Dombele was pretty much the only player this evening looking for a forward pass, and was tracking back and winning ballsSanchez and Aurier are never Spurs players.Dele offers more than Ndombele without any doubt.Make a call on Bale?On the left?
Tottenham never learn. Top of the league not so long ago, they have drifted out of the title race because of José Mourinho’s conservatism. It has become a recurring theme, yet Spurs seem unable to find the cure.
Beyond stupid.Fuck that noise, we need a goal, Sissoko ain't gonna provide shit. It's playing for a draw leaving him on in that situation.
Take him off and bring a ball-player on an absolutely possess the shit out of Fulham.
Sanchez will send me to an early grave, every time the action is near him my heart is in my mouth. Even for a basic 5 yard pass sideways to Dier under zero pressureI have never been that big a fan of the Aurier, Sanchez, Sissoko triangle of catastrophe.
Jose can't fix the mentality of shit players like Aurier Winks Sanchez and Sissoko they are not good enough.Serious lack of mentality. Which I thought Jose came in to fix?