Voted Kane MOTM but Eriksen and Davies also immense.
Special mention to Sissoke who played well, hopefully did not pick up an injury.
Special mention to Sissoke who played well, hopefully did not pick up an injury.
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How did Pochettino get Schneiderlin to be one of the best DMs in the PL?
He's looked bang average at Man U and Everton.
Did we dodge a bullet or would Pochettino have had him performing?
Of course it does, silly!But but doesn't buying loads of players and spending loads of money mean one team gets better and not buying lots of players and sticking with your team from the previous season means the other ones get worse?
We drew at Goodison last season, we obliterated them today.
When I saw the lads shift and move here.....
I thought, "we are going to roll this."
Look at the shape and pressure we are putting on them. He's got no options but to air it out forward under duress, and then we pick it up and recycle it back in. Fantastic.
A great game to watch.
But I will predict the following:
We will ship at least one goal, possibly two this season from fuck ups in the back. It is going to happen.
We have been lucky so far but that will not last all season. I just hope when it comes that it doesn't cost us points. There is a time to pass out of the back and there is a time to just hoof it, and it feels like the team has been told to try and play it out at your feet despite the risk. Perhaps this gives some advantage by bringing the opposition out of position, but jesus it gives me heart burn at times.
In any case, onward and upward.
COYS
You could congratulate him on winning the transfer windowLooking forward to work tomorrow, more so after the conversation overheard Friday afternoon in the open office with a bluenose saying he hates Spurs and so badly wants to win and a gobshite intern (typical goon) backing him.
Knowing the bluenose (he knows I'm a Yid) he quietly had a word with the intern who went suddenly quiet as I made it clear I wasn't happy with what shit he was spouting in an open office about my team.
The way we dismantled them yesterday and made them look average with their £45m buys doing FA was glorious. Verbal pelters are incoming first thing Monday.
The future's bright, but its the relative benches that show that better imoIt was so fun to look at the starting XI today and realise just how far we've come in the last few years. Outside of a couple of world-class stars (who we knew we couldn't keep) like Modric and Bale, we've never had such thorough quality in my lifetime.
Here was our team lineup on September 11th 2010 in our 1-1 draw against West Brom at the Hawthorns:
Cudicini
Corluka
Kaboul
Gallas
Bale
Lennon
Palacios
Huddlestone
van der Vaart
Modric
Pavlyuckenko (hi Freudlyuchenko )
In seven years, I think it's clear how far we've developed the team, and perhaps Levy suffers from how gradual it's been. Just because we haven't had the disgusting financial doping of Man City doesn't mean we've not come on leaps and bounds.
Oh, and all while the new stadium is looming over North London. The future is bright, the future is Lilywhite.
Fuck me - you really have all the answers, you must be Jose Mourinho.A decent left back would fake down the line, cut inside then switch to right wing quickly and take 4 or 5 of our players out the game. Its all about not panicking on the ball and having ability to beat the first man then look up.
The way to beat us is to keep your full backs wide and keep spraying balls left to right and back again to wear out the press. With so many Spurs players close to the ball we are vulnerable to a long ball in behind or a flick on to a pacy winger / striker.
Decent sides will be able to do this, especially in Europe. But premier league fodder will have all sorts of problems. As we saw yesterday.
Fuck me - you really have all the answers, you must be Jose Mourinho.
I never realised that football was so simple and predictable.
I wonder why no-one else has spotted it?
Sissoko.
Didn't see the whole game just the half hour highlights, but if the club would have made him an option would have voted for him.
He needs some love.
Ayyyyy easy now brehOf course it does, silly!
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