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The 'not taking it seriously' comes from playing a piss poor 11.
Strange choice of team,and we paid for it. If we had started with at least 10 of the 11 that finished the game, different result. Pissed off,as that's the easiest cup to win and we blew it at the first hurdle. Onwards and upwards.
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Every single one of those players who played tonight with the exception of Forster had played for the first team this season in a team that's won 7 points from a possible 9.
I saw people asking for Perisic and Solomon to start. I saw people say we needed to rotate our midfield. I saw people bringing Emerson in for Porro in the match thread.
Youre talking hypothetical. Theres absolutely zero guarantee we win that game with our strongest team at all. Do you think Fulham would have just rolled over or something?
It's not just an issue of player quality. If an entire team underperforms there are deeper underlying issues.
No team and no group of players will look good in a completely changed team. If you put PEH on instead of Sarr this weekend he'll look serviceable. Same goes for Emerson if he was to come in for Porro at the weekend, or Solomon ahead of Son.
This is the actual issue with switching out an entire team for a cup fixture, not only are the players worse individually but they, as a team, lack cohesion and familiarity with each other.
It was extremely arrogant to put out this sort of team... unless the club actually don't care if we win it or not.
It's not the end of the world, but if you're not critical of us essentially throwing a competition because we don't rate it as an insitution, I don't understand why you even watch football. The CC Is our biggest chance for a trophy yet we don't even try.
Hopefully they learned their lesson and don't do the same in the FA cup.
Hallelujah.
Nah probably not but given that realistically the fa and league trophies are the ones available to us, 9 changes appears to be an odd choice...particularly against another premier League team.
He said he wanted to see how they went. He has now seen.
Fucking get over it for Christ sake. I can taste your tears from here and I’ve currently lost my sense of taste and smell!!
Bring on Burnley and a return to Ange hall with the first team.
Enjoy your day (if you can!)
True dat. I thought they all had bottles with diagrams on showing info about the takers. Maybe Fraser had it upside down?
He has seen but at the cost of a trophy. That's the mistake.
It's alright to say he made a mistake for Christ sake.
With our strongest team by the time the competition final comes around? No reason why not.
These are very early days in the Ange era and the only way he was going to work out who he can rely on before the window closes was to shove them all on the pitch and see how they respond. I don't think making nine changes from the off was the way to do it but I understand the reasoning and that's why I've made my peace with it.
Also, we played abysmally for the most part and they were all over us at times but we still drew. Fulham offered no more in the final third than we did and a pen shoot-out is fundamentally a flip of the coin.
Clear out the has-beens and in with the new and hungry.
Last 2 words totally sum up your post content.
Good job
As a counter point: does sticking 9 squad members in together without the experience of playing together allow the good players to stand out? Excellent players should stand out but those 'mid-squad' members will probably always look bad. Therefore, can one game amongst comparative strangers be used as a suitable measure of performance?
Big shinny should be the stadium sponsor
those that think it was OK to make the 9 changes maybe right
but this season the manager has decided to play 433, he must have been training the team to play that way
SO WHY when he makes the first sub in an important game (the chance to go on to win a cup) he takes off the creative MF and replaced him with a CF, and the team have to change formation to 424, using 2 CF's that don't well off another CF
but this season the manager has decided to play 433, he must have been training the team to play that way
SO WHY when he makes the first sub in an important game (the chance to go on to win a cup) he takes off the creative MF and replaced him with a CF, and the team have to change formation to 424, using 2 CF's that don't well off another CF
Did Fulham not make 5 changes? Not really their virtual first team
You sure it’s Spurs you’ve been supporting and you’re not a gooner troll as you seem to be posting rubbish with the deliberate intention of winding genuine fans up?!
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You're chatting shit Totti
If we'd have played our strongest team we would've had a much better chance of winning that match
No guarantees of course but at least we'd have given ourselves the best possible chance
Some of us want to see our team win a trophy, the horror of it right? Only been 15 years and counting