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Match Tottenham Hotspur vs Crystal Palace - Sat. 2nd March 3pm
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Reasonable take, but I really don't think there is much opportunity for our 6 to be carrying through lines when those lines are compressed in about 15 yards of of pitch 15 yards from their end, I'd much rather our 8's, FB's and attackers (that's 7 players) were doing the riskier things in those areas.
When we are being pressured deeper, that's when we want/need Bissouma breaking some lines and helping us play more.
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Think he got a fortunate bounce when the defender kicked the ball into him instead of clearing it, but that doesn’t happen if Johnson isn’t aggressive and pressing it. Definitely want to see more of that from him!
Ahh ok i see it now , perfect deflection. Good example of why you give it 110% no matter how small your window of opportunity.
We need to jam the ball forward as much as possible against teams like Palace. Even more than “normal”.
Last 15 minutes we did just that and the results were there. Way too much lateral and backwards passing before then. Why even consider not shoving it up their ass when they’re sitting back and absorbing pressure.
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Can Villa please drop a point it two?
Last 15 minutes we did just that and the results were there. Way too much lateral and backwards passing before then. Why even consider not shoving it up their ass when they’re sitting back and absorbing pressure.
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Can Villa please drop a point it two?
Ange eluded to this after the game. Can't recall if it was the presser or the Spurs TV chat.
Imagine, mate, just imagine
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Ange said in the post match that Sarr was dealing with a back issue since returning from AFCON. He's still training but he's restricted so not fit to start I guess.
If it wasn’t a pen then he should have been booked for a dive. As he wasn’t, I assumed they just didn’t want to give it.
We really need to start playing sooner in matches, we can't keep just burning through the first half without creating any chances.
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Not sure there can be many complaints with this overall performance tbh.
We dealt with a low block team better than we have all season. Limited them to pretty much nothing outside of a set piece goal, which if you've seen us this season has been rare for months. We controlled the game and turned it on when we needed too.
Only negative I can have is first half we were a little slow and didn't have the same intensity of the second half. Whether that's something we're doing by design and just slowing down to try and get Palace to press us to kill them I don't know - but id like for us to start quick and then perhaps control the game before ramping up the intensity again towards the end.
It’s not that easy (start quick). Agree with the rest, I guess he can tell them to take risks with the ball in the final third and try off the cuff, random runs and passes. Don’t be afraid to flick it, dummy and lose the ball
Fully agree on the 6 carrying.
Palace made that game dull yesterday. All the talk about Glasners bold strategies etc bollox, they just tried to kill the game and we found ways to beat them.
More I think about it, the more I think it was an encouraging performance.
Whilst I don't think Ange is one too dwell on previous games, I do wonder if the Wolves game was in the back of some of the players' minds.
Don't want to make a mistake and allow Palace to get a goal early and make it tricky for us, don't want the atmosphere to go flat, don't want to potentially be on course for back to back home losses etc.
Which should never be the case and over time will be something Ange will drill into them. But that was a much better showing from us against a team who pretty much didn't want to play football.
Doesn’t look like it. Finally seen a replay and the palace defender sticks a foot out and trips him up. It’s a pen all day.
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Romero is something else.
Thought Johnson changed the game when he came on , good fight as well to win the ball for the first goal , aside from the one on one Timo played good as well
It's just that we lacked when we were passing the ball about in the first half near their 18yrd box. any sort of killer pass., going past a man. or many ideas.