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Match The Bodø Affair - Part Two: Bodø/Glimt of Nordland vs The Mighty Tottenham - 2000hrs 8th May 2025 - UEFA Europa League Semi Final Leg 2
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I don't see it that way. They may not have had the physicality of a Tony Pulis Stoke City, but they were clear 2+ goal winners at home for their own technical reasons and of course their pitch. We just trained well to nullify it and used some Premier League physicality to our advantage. It helped that we played the first leg at home and pressed them early and Ange had played them before and we had a plastic pitch to train on. We had way more of a blueprint for the away leg than Lazio etc.
I'm even convinced that our away semi final leg against Liverpool would have made us think this game was going to be harder. But overall they still deserve more credit as a technical side and us nullifying them deserves credit. They were expected to win and we stunk the place out. If anything we brought some Champo style and caused an upset.
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I appreciate hearing your take. I personally didn’t expect the BeeGees to win- not sure why so many did- just because of a plastic pitch? They are a very slow side compared to us.
Ange Postecoglou: Tottenham boss hits back at critics as Spurs reach Europa League final
Ange Postecoglou took aim at Tottenham's critics after they reached the Europa League final as he remains on course to continue his record of wining a trophy in his second season.
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Can't help himself.
Has to go, regardless in my opinion.
Nothing has or will change my view.
Their home record suggested they'd beat anybody by 2+ goals. Regardless of the reason for that, I think us expecting that prepared us.
I genuinely believe we didn't play as many short passes through central defensive midfield in case we got caught on the ball or the ball got stuck or our players boots got stuck or we didn't know where the bumps were, etc...
I even saw Richy being caught out by the high bounce and we did well to adapt.
If we had no knowledge of them and played the first leg away with a bit less experience it could easily have been Galatasaray all over again.
Rekon they’d have a bottom 3 championship budget at best, probably the lowest. Their gate money is bottom 5 league one numbers. Have the European money to beef up the budget a bit. They’ve done incredibly well to get to a second tier European semi final.
No one fancies an away group game there in December when it’s -15!
A lot of the European games are played when it’s way below freezing in appropriately artic circle conditions. The media conveniently forgot to mention we’d be playing in 7 degree rain like it’s Falkirk away in November.
My thoughts exactly- they’ve become easier to beat at home as it’s become warmer. Yea we did well to beat them but we’re not even a safe draw against the 18th place prem team. Folks should enjoy what they can, but I really hope they don’t get ahead of themselves in this.
They were actually really shit, they like to pass the ball and never do anything with it...the amount of times we got back into shape when they nicked the ball off us because they just wanted to keep the ball for possessions sake.
I don't get how their home record is so good and how they've beaten all these teams, it was light work for us.
I don't get how their home record is so good and how they've beaten all these teams, it was light work for us.
I take the point, but it has been 27 degrees in London already this year. So it could still have been a potential banana skin culture shock regardless for various reasons. For example, hypothetically, if we lined up with the likes of Werner and Moore instead of Dom and Richy, it may have been a lot worse than Tamworth away.
So I'd prefer to give credit to our current strongest XI and the benefit of the doubt that they may have won a few more Premier League games too. My point is that starting 11 and those tactics would have done better against Everton or Liverpool away etc. in the league as well.
We played there when it’s “warm” and 7 Celsius. An early group game it’s going to be below -10 no way are we winning that game earlier in the season in the group stages when we struggled to beat absolute dross like qarabag and ferencvaros, did you watch our euro “league games”?
they play good and smart football at times just lack a bit of pace in attacking areas. I’m surprised they beat lazio over 2 legs though. Think Dane scarlett would easily be their highest earner which puts things into perspective.
For one day in the year and what was the temperature at 8pm? Yes if we’d had our best XI for more of the season we’d have won more games, we didn’t though. We haven’t got a strong enough squad and have really suffered which Ange has to be accountable for. We have 3 senior/natural full backs in the whole squad. Zero youth players to cover.
I appreciate we’ve got through and have been lucky to draw bodo/glimt who probably have a smaller budget than Plymouth argyle
Werner is probably on a comparable weekly wage to their whole starting XI
We played there when it’s “warm” and 7 Celsius. An early group game it’s going to be below -10 no way are we winning that game earlier in the season in the group stages when we struggled to beat absolute dross like qarabag and ferencvaros, did you watch our euro “league games”?
Think Dane scarlett would easily be their highest earner which puts things into perspective.
Their general play was crap, their physicality was crap, their fitness was crap, none of this can be excused with the pitch.
I don't want him to manage Spurs next season, but admire the way he handled this prezzer.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46oS_d244D0
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46oS_d244D0
I think they played at a level higher than their wage budget - bottom of championship. Their gate receipts/season will be the same as my local lower half league one team.
We can thank their crap physicality and fitness so we didn’t have to play lazio in a semi final instead
Just listened to Ange 5Live post match. Well done sir love how he told where to go and absolutely stuck up for us, didn’t allow those parasites to use as a reference or background noise to ManU.
I wish he could turn it around here, I still have my gripes and doubts but what he said was gold.
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View: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-daily/id261291929?i=1000706904687
I wish he could turn it around here, I still have my gripes and doubts but what he said was gold.
Apologies to busy to edit just scroll along
View: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/football-daily/id261291929?i=1000706904687
I really like him as a person. He seems a great bloke and I love how he hits everything with a straight bat in these press conferences and defends the club. I'd have loved nothing more than for him to have been able to push us on domestically and mount a challenge but he's not been able to. That ship has surely sailed now. He deserved the benefit of the doubt when we had all those injuries. But the players all came back and we were still insufferably shit. If we win the final we can part on good terms. He goes with his head held high and reputation intact. We can press the reset button and start afresh.
I hear that but players aren’t consoles it’s not just power up and return doesn’t mean up to speed. Look at Destiny recently he’s been outstanding it took him months, some on here wrote him off same applies to all returnees individually and as a unit.
Now before the usual suspects descend into apoplexy because I’m not calling him a fat useless clown who’s out of his depth because China and Scotland snigger emoji etc. Our league is position beyond unacceptable, his stubbornness for insisting we maintain playing as we did with players who were not suited is naive and downright stupid. I can go on.
I’m still sour about the City jibes, still have a serious gripe with the ear cupping and short temper and most of serious doubts as to what he’s actually capable of with a full squad but I don’t believe the flavor of the week replacements are much better. Are we getting Inzaghi or Enrique with a £300m budget no. So if he actually wins our first trophy in how many years and return us to the CL Is it prudent to just get rid? I’m not sure
He’s spot on. It’s been a tough season but would love to end things well with Ange. He talks sense a good proportion of the time.
Pity we can't sack "supporters"Ange Postecoglou: Tottenham boss hits back at critics as Spurs reach Europa League final
Ange Postecoglou took aim at Tottenham's critics after they reached the Europa League final as he remains on course to continue his record of wining a trophy in his second season.
Can't help himself.
Has to go, regardless in my opinion.
Nothing has or will change my view.
There's nothing he said in that piece that isn't true, and you're pissed off because he was describing people like you. You need us to lose to justify your prejudice.
"Nothing has or will change my view."
Isn't that Ange ethos that you've been condemning all year?
Hypocrisy