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Match Super Cup Final - Spurs vs PSG, Weds 13th Aug, 8pm

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Beemac said:
Franks methods are Brentford. Small club mentality “let’s steal the game from the better team”. If Spurs are going to progress they need a manager who knows that to win the league you’re going to have to “go for it”. That requires going into every game mentally as the favourite and taking the match to ManC, Woolwich, Liverpool, Chelsea etc. Fuck the result let’s believe in what we have instead if trying to restrict “better teams”
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Oh dear

I'm not sure we watched the same game of football.
 
Beemac said:
Franks methods are Brentford. Small club mentality “let’s steal the game from the better team”. If Spurs are going to progress they need a manager who knows that to win the league you’re going to have to “go for it”. That requires going into every game mentally as the favourite and taking the match to ManC, Woolwich, Liverpool, Chelsea etc. Fuck the result let’s believe in what we have instead if trying to restrict “better teams”
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Mariner said:

View: https://x.com/thespursweb/status/1955580992011559380?s=46
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He might wanna take advantage as he might have to play a part on Sunday!

Airfixx said:
Yeh; I just hope tonight didn't take too much out of the likes of Kudus & Bentancur.
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...at least it went straight to Pens!
1/2 and hour more, just to lose on pens woulda killed us!
Gmspurs said:
Maybe we needed to lose the battle to actually eventually win the war.

Still sucks though when you're 2 nil up with five minutes to play.
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Well, technically 10 if you include injury time, but I get your point!
 
Rafa’sWand said:
Exactly the point I’m making. Both were poor but nothing bad can ever be said against the blue eyed boy? Tel was on for 5 minutes more. All the subs struggled because it was backs against the wall stuff and we’d decided we’re camping in our box for the whole last 15/20.
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Blue eyed boy? What is this nonsense! I give fair criticism and have no agendas against any of our players.

Bergval literally had a few mins at the end. Tel was on much earlier and the drop off from kudus was alarming.
 
Jaynola said:
Chin up, lads. Yeah yeah yeah Paris are exhausted from their 140-game season, haven't really started their pre-season yet, weren't at 100% tonite etc. That's still the team that battered everyone last year incl mighty Inter Milan 5-0 in the CL final and Real frighin Madrid 4-nil at the CWC.

Still, we were seconds away from beating them in normal time, and they really weren't serene for most of the match. Weren't far off in the shootout either, could've gone either way.

The boys worked hard for the club, the manager did his job, as did the fans at the ground.

We live to fight another day.
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you must admit Bentancur was good today? surely
 
Don Pedro said:
The drop off from our subs was alarming though.

Palinha - Archie
Kudus - Tel
Richy - unfit solanke

Just more proof that our season will inevitably collapse once we have an injury crisis again. The squad depth is very poor. Too many teenagers who just aren't at this level yet
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Tbh i dont think we will have an injury crisis like last season. For 18 months Ange frenetic tactics were pinging hamstrings left right and centre.
 
Beemac said:
Franks methods are Brentford. Small club mentality “let’s steal the game from the better team”. If Spurs are going to progress they need a manager who knows that to win the league you’re going to have to “go for it”. That requires going into every game mentally as the favourite and taking the match to ManC, Woolwich, Liverpool, Chelsea etc. Fuck the result let’s believe in what we have instead if trying to restrict “better teams”
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All the thickos who know fuck all about football coming out the woodwork.

What would you have liked?

Ange arse-out ball for us to get romped 4-0 in the first and 4-0 in the second by PSG?

Thick as shit.
 
nasm_f said:
Yeah you're right mate, what we needed was a "player" who can't keep the ball under pressure and is only effective when the ball is swung across the box from the opposite flank into the box, that would definitely would have helped protect a 2-0 lead.
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Johnson does have a little bit of shithousing in him, too - might have been useful? Sometimes he runs back.
 
1882 said:
He might wanna take advantage as he might have to play a part on Sunday!


...at least it went straight to Pens!
1/2 and hour more, just to lose on pens woulda killed us!

Well, technically 10 if you include injury time, but I get your point!
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Yes but when it's 85 minutes on the clock you say 5 minutes to play plus stoppage

But yes technically 10.


Doesn't make me feel any better though.
 
Don Pedro said:
The drop off from our subs was alarming though.

Palinha - Archie
Kudus - Tel
Richy - unfit solanke

Just more proof that our season will inevitably collapse once we have an injury crisis again. The squad depth is very poor. Too many teenagers who just aren't at this level yet
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Spot on. The delta between the staters and the subs was massive. Frank will learn a lot about players tonight.

Them bringing on Ruiz and Lee also had an impact on that too mind….
 
FightingIllini said:
Okay, fine, the positive to take from the game is that Thomas Frank set us up correctly to take full advantage of the fact that we'd be playing a team that wasn't fit and had no playing rhythm together.

Which isn't nothing, that adaptability was on display, and we'll do something completely different against Burnley, once again keyed to what's needed on that day.

But what will be needed on that day is beating a team playing 100%, tonight's game was a fraud perpetrated on the fans by UEFA and FIFA thinking they can force the best teams to play money-grab showpieces without training.

Don't be fools, guys.
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This is a perfectly reasonable and entirely accurate post.

Frank needs to be backed.
 
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