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Player Djed Spence

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Zest said:
His play is reverting to the groups mean.

If 2-3 others made plays like the drive and exquisite cross, that fires the adrenals to supply energy for more of it. The utter lack of impetus the team provides just drains it in all of them.

Look at Porro, most goal involvements since arrival up to 3months ago, now a shell of that player, Udogie ditto. It’s the environment.
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Hmmm, not sure I agree, actually. I see your point and perhaps admire his desire to just get it all done himself, but it is still counterproductive.
 
dudu said:
Hmmm, not sure I agree, actually. I see your point and perhaps admire his desire to just get it all done himself, but it is still counterproductive.
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Last night, three times in the first 20minutes, Son had the ball where with coherent shielding he could have sprung us forward into a threatening position. Instead he turns the ball over meekly.

That’s 3x DJed has to spring out, then spring back, as a micro example. Draining the impetus hugely after long spells of attritional (attempted) defending.

For me it’s the training/conditioning which is most culpable, as we just appear drained as a unit. One or two (most games) have good spells, but now almost every game we gas out, meaning Spence (in this scenario) ends up trying to intricately build with almost impossible angles/weights of pass to hit.

Might seem strange, but throw ins are also getting me very disgruntled, we seem to never practice, as if you watch any other prem team they seem well capable of building from a throw, ours always take an age and there seems no patterns of muscle memory. Wonder if there are stats on throw in turnovers as I’ve never seen the amount from memory, Porro ceaselessly looks lost for an option on the right (no surprise really with Johnson and Son as the supportive recipients to those two, Kulu slightly better but only marginal).

Great big mess.
 
Zest said:
Last night, three times in the first 20minutes, Son had the ball where with coherent shielding he could have sprung us forward into a threatening position. Instead he turns the ball over meekly.

That’s 3x DJed has to spring out, then spring back, as a micro example. Draining the impetus hugely after long spells of attritional (attempted) defending.

For me it’s the training/conditioning which is most culpable, as we just appear drained as a unit. One or two (most games) have good spells, but now almost every game we gas out, meaning Spence (in this scenario) ends up trying to intricately build with almost impossible angles/weights of pass to hit.

Might seem strange, but throw ins are also getting me very disgruntled, we seem to never practice, as if you watch any other prem team they seem well capable of building from a throw, ours always take an age and there seems no patterns of muscle memory. Wonder if there are stats on throw in turnovers as I’ve never seen the amount from memory, Porro ceaselessly looks lost for an option on the right (no surprise really with Johnson and Son as the supportive recipients to those two, Kulu slightly better but only marginal).

Great big mess.
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The way Son kept getting challenged and falling over early on made me think that there was something wrong with his boots

Powder puff doesn’t cover it!
 
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Zest said:
His play is reverting to the groups mean.

If 2-3 others made plays like the drive and exquisite cross, that fires the adrenals to supply energy for more of it. The utter lack of impetus the team provides just drains it in all of them.

Look at Porro, most goal involvements since arrival up to 3months ago, now a shell of that player, Udogie ditto. It’s the environment.
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Massive handicap playing left back too. Limits his game by 50%. He’s done well and there and got away with it but in tighter spaces vs a better team, it was rough
 
The Spence truth is now obvious.

Spence is the best right back Spurs have.

The bald miser has probably instructed Ange to never play Spence at right back in case the supporters notice that Spence is our best option in that position and the 40 million punt on Porro, a man who rolls around on the floor like a schoolgirl and struggles to defend against a National League winger, will prove to be another N'dombele spaff fest.

Porro is an absolutely shite right back who isn't good enough to be an actual winger.

40 million.
 
This kid is better than Udogie.

Also, this kid could play well as a winger. His dribbling is 💯. If he works on his finishing I wouldn’t mind trying him as a RW or LW.

This goes to show you sometimes the “experts” in football (top managers like Conte, mediocre managers like Ange) can be full of shit and make decisions that are not logical.

The fact that that Conte the Cunt refused to give Spence an opportunity because it was a “club transfer” is utterly diabolical.
 
It's hard to understand why so many different managers didn't rate him.

Is it because he looks like he wants to cry all the time?
 
One of the few decent performers today. Would love to see him actually played in his bloody natural position.
In fact, he should have, with Reggie on the left, given that neither can play on Thurs and Porro has been flogged to death.
 
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