Spurs v goons pre season game

[SydneySpur]

Dele has done well, getting into fantastic positions

 

[Longshot]

Good effort from Dier!

 

[Beech]

If this goes in I'm on the pitch.

 

[boone]

Arsenalmania and chill

 

[Igula]

Dele running into to trouble but saved by poor reffing.

Another nothing game from him.

 

[Spursidol]

 

[Hampshire Spur]

Good defending by us. Need a striker soon.

 

[bus-conductor]

Seems I've heard this before and am in such agreement with it that it seems I may have even said it a time or two myself. Then why do you always call for a 433 or rail against the diamond when it's personnel and tactical instruction that matters more than static, starting formation?

My problem with the diamond wasn’t the diamond per se, but the idiotic application of it with daft shit like Moura centrally up top, Sissoko as the 6, Dier as a fucking 8 etc. The structure didn’t help it hindered the tactical intention.

I don’t like 3cb systems generally, but Poch’s 3421 in 2016 was great, worked and put people and collective in a system that got the best out of them.

I’ve called for us to play 433 because I’ve generally felt we have a squad more suited to that format in the last few seasons. Many of the players we’ve bought, we bought because they’d played well whilst in 433 systems, then we’d ask them to play a different remit in a different system and wonder why they don’t work.

We’ve rarely had CM’s multifunctional or rounded enough to play double pivots (few CM’s are really at highest levels IMO), but we’ve constantly players that way, Dier, Winks, Sissoko, Hojbjerg, Lo Celdo, Ndombele.

Son is a wide forward (from either side) not an AM. Lamela bought after a great season as a inverted WRF in s 433 at Roma. Moura always played as a WF n PSG’s 433.

I don’t understand why we’ve constantly prioritised getting an extra attacking player into to format when that additional attacking player is invariably a fucking bumbler - thus sacrificing control with and without the ball just to bumble even rarer attacking moments.

Poch’s early 4231 was good when we were a very young, energetic hard and high pressing team and we could overload those forward areas, but that 4231 became less effective as it aged and the dynamics and application dropped off.

 

[ILSpur]

ILSpur how many 10K runners do you see built anything like Skipp???

Haha. Plenty. 10k is not a very significant amount.

 

[StripiestPilot]

Nuno has clearly made his judgements on the squad, who is trusted and who is not. The senior players who didn’t play more than 10 minutes today are rightly only the shit list.

 

[COckneY Spurs]

Dele running into to trouble but saved by poor reffing.

Another nothing game from him.

Dele looked better today than he has for the past year or so…high hopes for him this season…

 

[Tomo]

Ignoring Kane, we already have Vinnie gone so no other striker. Let’s get one in quick because I think we can sort of work with the rest of the squad for the first few games till hopefully more transfers are completed.

Didn’t mind that game.

 

[meaningless-friendly]

Pretty happy with the win. Lo Celso did well off the bench, Tanganga did well at right-back (we should keep him here and get rid of Doherty). Son had a quiet one but took his goal well, Lucas did ok, Dele had good chances. Dier and Sanchez were good, solid.

And Woolwich were quite poor to be honest, especially 2nd half. But they made a lot of subs in the 2nd half too.

 

[Doom Funk]

Damn I love Sonny

So glad we have him

 

[Hampshire Spur]

'Mind' the gap gooners.

 

[Beech]

Gotta dash to make the HMS Piss The League.

But good performance overall that. Always good to beat Woolwich even if it's pre-season, and we completely deserved it too.

 

[TheRealTI]

Think Lo Celso is going to have an absolutely massive season.

 

[Zest]

Haha. Plenty. 10k is not a very significant amount.

 

[Hampshire Spur]

Too timid arteta. He will be gone before end of season.

 

[SchmoodSpur]

Certainly more encouraging than anything seen under Mourinho