Serious question, what was your take on how we completely changed once Sissoko came on yesterday? I know you're not a fan but surely you can appreciate his influences with such a contrast in the before & after demonstrated right?
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Serious question, what was your take on how we completely changed once Sissoko came on yesterday? I know you're not a fan but surely you can appreciate his influences with such a contrast in the before & after demonstrated right?
I think the overall consensus is that we simply improved because we added numbers to midfield so Wanyama wasn't up against 3 and we got rid of playing 5 at the back which helped no one.
Do you think Dier would have made as much of a difference if he had come on though? Sissoko is the heartbeat of the team at the moment. If people choose to ignore that or accept that that's up to them but he drives us like nobody else does at the moment and is a crucial component to a team that has reached the semi finals of Europes biggest competition.
I don't think we'd have performed as well if Dier came on. He isn't as mobile or as powerful as Sissoko in terms of winning the ball back, turning with it and moving the ball upfield.
But it would have stemmed the amount of chances Ajax were creating regardless. Adding ANYONE in midfield would have helped. Foyth, Skipp, Dier, anyone. It was Wanyama vs. the rest out there for 30 odd minutes.
Winks was the big miss. Sadly.
And Trippiers!!
As Totti said above.
I've already answered this in here a few times. Before the game and before the sub I said I'd happily see Sissoko on for Sanchez (it ended up being Vertionghen through injury) as we desperately needed to get an extra body into our midfield so we could at least compete with them there, with and without the ball, better. It was a terrible set up from Poch, not just because of the advantage we gave them playing with 3 CB's, but also playing Llorente, who can't work without the ball with any kind of energy, meant they could just walk past our first line, creating massive overloads in midfield, which pulled defenders (and Wanyama) all over the place.
Sissoko was fine, in as much as nobody was great last night, but I think we could have put Skipp on and we'd have still improved immensely, because it was the structure more than anything that was terrible.
What we miss desperately is Winks, his ability to show for the ball, allowing us to play from front to back, never panicking on the ball, keep it recycling and doing it constantly.
Sissoko was fine last night, but didn't do anything spunktatsic either, and there are still too many times when players are desperately looking for an out ball and he just stands there pointing because he doesn't want it under pressure, he did it again last night. And carrying the ball forward a couple of times might get the crowd excited, but there's rarely anything intelligent at the end of it. I'm sorry mate, but I will never be bowled over by what he does, he's a big unit that makes a splash with odd moments, give me someone who quietly goes about actually doing things intelligently any day, even defensively.
Nearly a compliment
Nearly but even if you do say something complimentary we then get an anti Sissoko rant
Get help mate
Would you prefer a billionaire shiek or russian oligarch in charge?
You have an agenda against certain players, your brain simply refuses to allow you to praise them in any way apart from maybe a back handed compliment, it's just no, no their shit and i know best.
It's a shame as you obviously like your football and have a decent knowledge, not as much as you like to think you have mind.
That stops me and i would imagine many people from reading what you have to say, maybe climb down occasionally and stop being so superior, people would engage more freely.
We all have opinions but you put yours across as fact and that winds people up.
You probably don't care anyway but just my two penneth worth.
Not sure if has been mentioned before but at the start of the game the atmosphere was out of this world, I couldn’t even hear the CL music cause of all the yids! For everyone who went last night and contributed, well done!
I would imagine some have memberships and have been to games as Spurs fan or neutral - not much the club can do about them buying tickets.
Apart from Winks and Aurier, we can field the same team that we did against Dortmund.there is no need for kane to play Wednesday, we scored 3 goals against city without him and we can do the same against ajax!besides its not worth the risk of him inuring himself before the final!
Shame it didn't inspire the players.......or maybe it did and they would have been even worse without us
Which is far enough however, when 90% of them are in a line in the same row then something smells a little 'fishy' to me.
I gotta be honest... this time yesterday, I was just relieved I'd got a ticket... I didn't even LOOK where in the ground I was supposed to be... HAD it been in the away end, I still would've chanced my arm.. and HAD we scored, I'd have been THAT guy who junps up to celebrate in the WRONG END!And in modern football that makes sense.Look at the flags you see round the ground on a match day.Who's to say some of the Ajax fans don't support both and got tickets as members? I know that's not going to be the case with them all, but i can see where the stewards are coming from.
That doesn't mean i have to like it though
As it was, I was right next to the Ajax fans, and saw a few in the 'home end' but to be honest... those 'Spurs fans' around me spent most of the half moaning, complaining and giving their tactical insight to players 40 yards away who COULDN'T HEAR THEM, I was glad to move to the South Stand for the 2nd half...
Honestly, I think I've realised the major difference between English/Our fans and those from abroad...
OUR fans think they know everything, and instead of SUPPORTING the team, spend their time barracking and shouting their disapproval (as if Trippier is gonna cut inside and beat his man 'cos some know it all prick in the East Lower shouts at him!) rather than just offering their support for 90 minutes (which, as FANS, is all we can do) like the foreign fans seem to do.
I Know Dortmund seemed not to notice how the game was going with their NON STOP singing, regardless of the scoreline... but Ajax fans seemed to have more of an understanding that THE FANS role is to support, and the Coach/manager is there to berate/cajoule/encourage the team tactically!
What's the point of one guy telling Eriksen to "get stuck in"?? He can't hear him! He's better off trying to start a chant/song that gets the WHOLE TEAM GOING...
that, after all, is what fans are there for!
Do you understand the concept of "support?" Because you show no discernable sign of it.
Quite aside from my reservations about your knowledge of what football is, all I see from you are post after post of you shitting the club I support, the players who represent it and the man who is THE MOST effective manager the club has ever had in terms of consistency, league position goals scored and in the time I have been supporting ( since 67) the most enjoyable performances I have witnessed. No silverware but city, Chelsea and Utd. have shown that money buys everything.
You are obsessed with stats to the point that you can't see who actually can play and who can't or isn't and your massive conceit and arrogance drips through all of your posts. How you can call what you do is how you "enjoy" your support is a mystery.
You are universally ridiculed and abused by plenty of other supporters than just me and you still don't take the hint.
Yet I'm the one with the problem?
Why don't you try to see yourself through our eyes? You write your posts, not your detractors. Stop being such a self appointed know all, it really is fucking unappealing.
No is my answer. But as more and more time goes by and more and more crap clubs like city and chelski win things and become these apparent huge clubs. I sometimes think what if..... and I also wonder if that is the only way nowadays to actually win.. of course everyone would prefer to be on their big horse exclaiming how we won it properly.. but I just don't think it will happen. Unless weirdly you have american owners like Liverpool who knew nothing about football, but have somehow grasped the proper way to make money is to be successful on the pitch and therefore to invest and buy world class players...
He'll be on the bench
I want you to be right....... But I doubt it.