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Same players who beat city and Leeds largely
Oh come on you saying they can play again 4 days later? They should still have enough left in the tank to see if boro if they had the right attitude and passion. Sitting back and chasing the ball prbly doesn’t help. Plus how many boro players played Saturday.
It doesn't change the fact the players are shit.
We lose to lower teams all the time under all of our managers.
Lost to Vitese under Nuno, Dynamo Zagreb with a 2 goal advantage under Jose, lost to Colchester under Poch.
The players are crap what I want is to see what he does when he has options. There is nothing that he could have changed as a manager that would have produced a better performance from our shit players.
Agreed I was saying sane thing. We basically do nothing fir most of the game. The first half might as well not have happened from a spurs angle. We did bugger all except few odd moments. This isn’t the first time we have done this. We do it most games just piss around with the ball rolling it around at snail pace going nowhere slow and wasting minutes. We only play with some energy and zip when go behind.
Why did Doherty get into more goal scoring positions that Kane? Why did Doherty have more touches in the opposition half that Kane?
Of course, not suggesting that Doherty was great or indeed better than Kane - but Kane is not performing at the level we require. He's losing challenges, not making runs and looking lacklustre.
The fact that Kane 'turned it on' vs City is an indication of his intentions.
How about he change the bloody formation and spring a surprise every now and then? He’s so predictable ffs. Look at Wilder doing wonders with Boro, the way they’re playing. Do you mean to tell me they have better players than Spurs?
Conte needs to wake up. He’s being given a pass here.
I can think of a positive.
Less games for us to watch that shit.
I'm done with this season.
Has anyone seen a replay of the penalty appeal yet? If it was a fair tackle then Kulusevski is even slower than I thought
Because Kane can’t pass to Kane.
Touches in opposition half means nothing comparing a right back to striker. Of course the right back will have touches passing the ball around the back.
Getting into good positions is laughable at a wing back position. The whole point of wing backs is that they will be in open positions.
With analysis like that, I have to wonder how well you know the game.
And the whole point of a striker is to...strike.
Kane only touched the ball once in the opposition box in 120 minutes.
Son and Kane's movement was static and when they were given the ball they lost it - 26 times in fact. More than every other player on the pitch combined.
They didn’t play well. Same as Doherty. Thats the only point I was making. Was doherty abnormally poor? No because this is pretty much his standard. Kane and son were abnormally poor but they can’t carry the team every game.
Why else would Kane who was majestic against city and Leeds be so poor against boro? The effort was the same so what was different? I believe it was 100% down to fatigue - don’t give me the we’re not trying or didn’t care or were too cocky bullshit. These players want to win things the effort was 100% you could see that at the final whistle.
The squad is too small though you could argue why when 3-0 up with 20/30 minutes left against Leeds conte didn’t take Kane and son off ? Though of course we would not have seen the marvellous 4th goal for the Kane/son combo!
4 northern away games in the space of 11 days including the atrocious conditions at turf moor - bloody hell im knackered and I didn’t play a single minute!
We were poor, they were good, thought Johnny Howson was outstanding tbh. McNair (who asked to leave United btw) and Fry were both really good at the back.
Kulu was brutal first half and Sonny was very poor and when those two aren't at it, Harry is feeding off scraps as the squad have little creativity somehow after our awesome, 6 out of 10 at least etc. January window.
Sessegnon is nowhere near good enough btw.
Kulu was brutal first half and Sonny was very poor and when those two aren't at it, Harry is feeding off scraps as the squad have little creativity somehow after our awesome, 6 out of 10 at least etc. January window.
Sessegnon is nowhere near good enough btw.
Middlesbrough played 4 days before the game, same as us. They've also played 8 more league games than us this season. Not like we've had European football as an issue for a while either. They're also playing in a brutal league, we strolled to a 4-0 win over Leeds whereas they lost 3-2 to Barnsley. Every game in the championship is a slog.
If it's an excuse for us, it's an excuse for them. Except they out pressed us all game. It's one thing looking sad at the end of the final whistle, it's another to get stuck in to a battle against a team who are giving everything and fighting for every loose ball. Our players weren't up to that challenge, they didn't fancy it enough, and we lost because of it.
And 3 of them relegated in the season they won the cup.
You seriously think the Leeds game was a stroll? I’d rather be away to a team bottom of the championship and only half hour down the road than our trip to Leeds. Middlesbrough lost that game so not sure how much they exerted themselves. The champ may be a slog but the tempo and intensity of the prem is on a different level. Boro deserved the win just observing given the lack of rotation what a heavy work load our players had in the previous 11 days and though we matched biros desire and effort we lacked their energy
He wasn’t poor against Boro.