Harry gets some terrible treatment from defenders, and not much protection from referees.
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Ex-Spurs Player Harry Kane
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Nah, his finishing today was complacent. Like the rest he didn't take the game seriously enough. If this game had been against Woolwich he would have scored a hat trick, but because it was a less exciting opponent he took it easy.
It's an unfortunate and weird coincidence that Kane's return has seen us go 4 games without a win.
But he ain't the problem and neither is he the solution.
Him laughimg is less arrogance as opposed to if not I cry mentality.
The issues are the manager's choices and a collective mindset that still needs to toughen up and then find consistency.
But he ain't the problem and neither is he the solution.
Him laughimg is less arrogance as opposed to if not I cry mentality.
The issues are the manager's choices and a collective mindset that still needs to toughen up and then find consistency.
Yeah true.
Like the 3 goals he scored last week against Woolwich.
To score a goal you need to have a chance. He had one chance against Woolwich and scored.
He had 8 shots today, 5 of them off target.
Don't think he's the problem.
Many of our mistakes have come from the back and even more from midfield.
Many of our mistakes have come from the back and even more from midfield.
We can rightly have a moan about the missed chances but everything has to start from defence. If the back line, with a proper midfield set-up, had held firm, we sneak a 1-0 win.
When you dominate to the extent that we did in the first half and create several huge chances, you need to score them. We shouldn't need to sneak anything when we are so superior to Southampton and opened them up so many times.
All areas of our team are not working at the moment, we are not scoring more than 1 goal a game and we aren't keeping clean sheets either.
Why should the defence and midfield have to be perfect but the front man can be completely shit. If someone has so many chances, every chance missed is like scoring an own goal.
Because even the best teams have to have to grind out tough wins and if you have a chop-and-change back-line that goes wobbly often enough, you're going to struggle. I think there's a reason why you see some teams win things when they are very well organised, even if they don't strike the fear of god with their attacking options.
I don't think anyone is arguing against that, and it's criminal how we couldn't finish more of our chances in the first half. However, if we didn't lose our discipline and produce those defensive brain farts in the 2nd half, we might have been able to nick it or at least come away with a point.
Why cant the attacker stay perfect and scores from the chances presented to him. If we arent creating chances then thats one thing, but Kane had lots of chances to score a hattrick of goals. And he should have. Why not expect the same standard from the striker that we expect from defenders and midfielders. We shouldnt have to keep clean sheets to win games if we are creating so many chances.
So Kane was as responsible for the defeat or more than the defense.
Between an attacker being perfect and the defensive line and shape holding firm, I know what I'd focus on as a realistic priority. I'd wager a guess that more matches end up 1-0 or 2-1 than 7-6 or 5-4.
Not all matches have to end up 7-6. But we should have won it 3-2 from what the team created if the striker hadnt failed. Unfortunately there were failures by the striker and defence. But kane being shit in a match is as bad as any other player being shit and blame lies with Kane as well.