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Match Middlesbrough v Tottenham Hotspur, FA Cup 5th Round, Riverside Stadium, Tuesday 1st March 2022 at 19:55 GMT, LIVE on BBC1

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Thanks for nothing once again, Tottenham Hotspur.

I’m tired of being embarrassed by our performances. The whole game felt like we were second best and didn’t want to go for it.

The season’s done now, it’s hard to see a way of getting top 4. It’s difficult to have any optimism of how this club goes forward
We will find ourselves here on 31 August waiting for Levy time….fucking disgusting ownership and nothing is going to change with these bastards running the show.
 
Only positives I can see -

Bentancur and Skipp back soon

One game a week for Conte

Remote chance of top 4

that's it.
Don't do it to yourself.

There is
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chance of top 4.

We can't even put back to back performances together, let alone get results at Anfield, Old Trafford or against West Ham, or Woolwich at home. I can't see anything other than 4 defeats from those games.
 
Can’t be fucked anymore, same noises will come out after the loss from the players and manager - nothing changes.

These cunts earn more in a few days than I earn in a year, they couldn’t give a fuck.

Then they’ll go and do interviews saying “we need to win something” or “we need to be better” look in the mirror you fucking morons, you cunts are the only ones who can do that!!!

/rant
 
So many fans putting the blame on Conte tonight.... Look at the bench first, it's piss poor.
I think the 'Boro bench were hardly household names...
Yet 19 year old Coburn came on and 10mins later scores the winner...

Bergwijn or Scarlett coulda done the same... and the headlines woulda been about them (Albeit in far less time in Scarlett's case!)

All about attitude in these games.

Boro's was spot on, our stunk the place out.

We played the part of "humbled giants knocked out of the cup" to perfection!

Could see it coming a mile off...
You CAN just smell it sometimes...
And we fucking STANK!!
 
Fuckin' rubbish...... Sat off them for 75-80mins and gave them a massive foothold in the game.

Are our players all just passive little pussys or is Conte playing every team as if they are Man City?

Crap subs & tactical changes and some very poor individual performances.



M'borough better than us in every department tonight.

Fuckshitwankbollocksarse!!!! :bmj:
 
Conte was right, we are weaker in numbers, we would have had better options with Ndombele and Locelso in the squad.
Now stuck with Wanks and PEH
 
With who though?

3--5-2 is his preferred formation, he played it everywhere he has managed except for Chelsea because of the players they already had there when he came in making much more sense for him to go 3-4-3.

Do you think he just randomly decided not to play his preferred system or he sees that with the lack of MFers, zero quality in MF and with Kulu off to a good start it makes more sense to play Kulu over White/Devine?
It’s really irrelevant who he plays there, you could play Moura or Kulu on the right of a flat 3 for all I care - he’s been wedded to 343 ever since he’s arrived, in spite the fact 2 of our better performances (Liverpool and Leicester) came in a 352.

Maybe he doesn’t think 352 works as effectively in England? Who knows. If it is his “preferred” formation for us, it seems odd he let 3 CMs go.

What I do know is that persisting with 343 isn’t going to help us at all. It’s clear it doesn’t work.
 
The midfield did not lose us this game.
Both Kane and Son had poor games. A bog standard game from either and we score before they did.
But for sure we need creativity in midfield.
And the only sensible thing Murphy said all evening was we should have made our subs earlier.
And VAR would have given Harry a goal.
 
Conte has to be doing better. If the only way he can deliver is by having the top players he might as well go tonight.

Not top players but some quality.

Who do you honestly think is winning with these players?

He won at Inter without the top players, won at Juve before they got top players, won at Chelsea when they year before they were out of the top 4.

He has shown he doesn't need better players than everyone else to win but he does, like every quality manager, need some talent.

There is a massive gulp between Wanks and PEH and the best players.
 
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