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Match Brighton (H) - Saturday (16th April) 12:30

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Momentum for top 4 was in our favour. Beautiful sunny day. Fans packed in. The chance to really assert and cement our ascendancy. We should have been hungry like a pack of wolves. We should have been out of the traps with fury, excitement and intensity. How the flipping fuck can you not be totally up for a game like today?! What’s the point of being a footballer if you go hiding on an occasion like this…

Fuming!
 
CarrieFi said:
I did stick a cheeky £1.50 on Brighton to win after seeing the first 5 minutes 😬
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You won, Carrie. Enjoy the money, I hope it makes you very happy.

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Raumdeuterz said:
Not a single shot on target. At home. To Brighton.

Fucking shocking result & as bad a performance as anything we saw under Nuno. Conte must be absolutely fuming.
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100%. We can all take and accept losing, no matter how painful, if the team put in a performance, show some desire, commitment, etc. Absolutely none of it out there today. Just don't understand it. Vintage Nuno shite.
 
CSWY said:
Momentum for top 4 was in our favour. Beautiful sunny day. Fans packed in. The chance to really assert and cement our ascendancy. We should have been hungry like a pack of wolves. We should have been out of the traps with fury, excitement and intensity. How the flipping fuck can you not be totally up for a game like today?! What’s the point of being a footballer if you go hiding on an occasion like this…

Fuming!
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Being Spurs, this is where we should have feared the worst.
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LEGO Boy said:
100%. We can all take and accept losing, no matter how painful, if the team put in a performance, show some desire, commitment, etc. Absolutely none of it out there today. Vintage Nuno shite.
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It was baffling. Important game and they played it like it was an international friendly or some shit. Players barely worked up a sweat, I was on the verge of chucking something through the screen when in the 86th minute Brighton had the ball and were just tapping it about. NOBODY was fucking pressuring them! We were acting like a relegation threatened team happy for a point.

They were very well organised, got their tactics right & were sneaky, but on our own side the total lack of any desire was horrid to watch. It's a very common cliche to blame players not trying when your team lose, but in this case holy shit was there a basic lack of effort.
 
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Thin Lilywhite Duke said:
My read on it is: with the current state of the squad Conte has us set up to play excellent football with one tactic but nothing else to change it up if the other team completely stifles us.

Meanwhile, Potter has Brighton running through walls for him and following his tactical instructions to a tee (beyond the sum of their parts). He seems to have set them up this week to counter our tactics perfectly.

Combine that with us having an off day, and...

(I also think we missed Conte being mental on the touchline shouting instructions. Doesn't seem like he's 100% back after covid)
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For those citing Potter as the potential successor to Conte... We'd turn him into a bearded Santini in an instant!

His anti-football tactics today were disgusting...but worse was that we couldn't find a way to beat it...

It was like watching vintage Wimbledon & Burnley Hove Albion....

If Conte can't fix it, no one can!

I'm Never doing pre match optimism again!
Fuck that, optimism is for losers!

It's actually all my fault, I walked up the High Road on the SUNNY side of the street... Opposite to my normal route!
 
1882 said:
For those citing Potter as the potential successor to Conte... We'd turn him into a bearded Santini in an instant!

His anti-football tactics today were disgusting...but worse was that we couldn't find a way to beat it...

It was like watching vintage Wimbledon & Burnley Hove Albion....

If Conte can't fix it, no one can!

I'm Never doing pre match optimism again!
Fuck that, optimism is for losers!

It's actually all my fault, I walked up the High Road on the SUNNY side of the street... Opposite to my normal route!
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Ah someone who understands.
 
We were due a stinker tbh. Let’s hope that’s it now and we can get back to winning ways.
It has genuinely fucking ruined my Saturday though.
Off to the pub later - avoiding anywhere with football fans or TV screens.
Cheers Spurs. Never let me down, letting me down.
 
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