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Match Tottenham Hotspur v Chelscum - FA Cup Semi Final
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We can but hope but yes we have to rely on other sides doing us a favour while winning difficult games
I just hope our season doesn't fall away like last season but we've been great this season and didn't deserve such an abject biased performance like Atkinson's today
Yes we can blame Poch for the selection, Hugo for the 1st and Sonny for their 2nd but Atkinson dictated how the game flowed by allowing Chelscum to continually interrupt our flow with fouls that, either weren't given, or not punished properly with some yellows like Toby got (and derived) after 3 mins!
The man is a disgrace and should be refereeing the Northern Premier for the rest of his career with melts like Totti and the Dane watching
Maybe one day you'll learn to fuck off you miserable pretend cunt
Please do.
Not in the mood for the little cuntz right now.
Their parents need a shoe-ing as well.
Wankers.
Conte is a clever shit. He put on his runners to press us and harass us in the first half like Liverpool and City did. They got 2 goals out of it. Then when we had the momentum, they sat back defending deep, and let us have the ball, so we play the hapless hero, huffing and puffing but never getting close to the winning goal. Then he brings on fresh attackers to deliver the killer touch as we were running out of ideas and getting tired.
We have to face the fact that too often the big teams in the big matches have figured us out. We can have plenty of easy possession in front of the opposition and feel like we deserved more just based on that, but that attitude wont get us anywhere. We gotta be faster on the counter attack. Several times today, we were in a counter attacking situation but the ball out then the first touch were poor and that slowed everything down enough for Chelsea to get everyone back behind the ball again. That one-touch passing plus explosive running power up front still elude us.
We have some shit to figure out in the summer.
We have to face the fact that too often the big teams in the big matches have figured us out. We can have plenty of easy possession in front of the opposition and feel like we deserved more just based on that, but that attitude wont get us anywhere. We gotta be faster on the counter attack. Several times today, we were in a counter attacking situation but the ball out then the first touch were poor and that slowed everything down enough for Chelsea to get everyone back behind the ball again. That one-touch passing plus explosive running power up front still elude us.
We have some shit to figure out in the summer.
I respectfully disagree- Davies has been in plenty good form recently. We had the formula against them down pat based on our last league match and didn't need to change the plan at all. Why Poch thought he needed to do so is a bit of a mystery to me.
You hadn't made your mind up by then?
This is the guy who celebrated his side, Blackburn, winning the title by creosote grandson his fence!!
As you do.....
Can't help but feel gutted after that.
Sure, we were the better team, but as the likes of Chelsea and Leicester have proven, you don't NEED to be the better team to win things. Chelsea had 5 shots on goal and scored 4 goals. You can't keep out that sort of ruthlessness and expect to win the game. I don't think we tested Courtois enough and I thought the line up was as suspect as the substitutions made by Pochettino.
Hats off to Eriksen who I thought was probably man of the match. Thought he bossed the game and his assist for the second goal was out of this world. Wasn't particularly impressed by the referee, seemed reluctant to give Chelsea players yellow cards despite numerous fouls, particularly from Ake and Luiz. It took Alonso to throw the ball away to get a yellow despite it being his fourth yellow card offence of the game but that's neither here or there, I can't blame the referee for making a silly slide tackle on Moses or leaving Hazard unmarked on the edge of the box.
Pochettino and the team are still young and learning. They will still believe they can catch Chelsea and it's a big game in the week with Chelsea playing before us and us having to travel to Palace who will be even more up for it now that Hull and Swansea picked up points today. Don't really know what else to say, we played very very well and we lost. It felt different to 'bottling Tottenham' or 'Spursy' simply because we weren't really ever in front and we didn't necessarily blow the game. Once we learn to be able to win games when we AREN'T playing well against the top clubs, we will be up there consistently I feel. I would like to think games like this will make the players hungrier but I guess we'll have to see.
Sure, we were the better team, but as the likes of Chelsea and Leicester have proven, you don't NEED to be the better team to win things. Chelsea had 5 shots on goal and scored 4 goals. You can't keep out that sort of ruthlessness and expect to win the game. I don't think we tested Courtois enough and I thought the line up was as suspect as the substitutions made by Pochettino.
Hats off to Eriksen who I thought was probably man of the match. Thought he bossed the game and his assist for the second goal was out of this world. Wasn't particularly impressed by the referee, seemed reluctant to give Chelsea players yellow cards despite numerous fouls, particularly from Ake and Luiz. It took Alonso to throw the ball away to get a yellow despite it being his fourth yellow card offence of the game but that's neither here or there, I can't blame the referee for making a silly slide tackle on Moses or leaving Hazard unmarked on the edge of the box.
Pochettino and the team are still young and learning. They will still believe they can catch Chelsea and it's a big game in the week with Chelsea playing before us and us having to travel to Palace who will be even more up for it now that Hull and Swansea picked up points today. Don't really know what else to say, we played very very well and we lost. It felt different to 'bottling Tottenham' or 'Spursy' simply because we weren't really ever in front and we didn't necessarily blow the game. Once we learn to be able to win games when we AREN'T playing well against the top clubs, we will be up there consistently I feel. I would like to think games like this will make the players hungrier but I guess we'll have to see.
I'm going to laugh my fucking head off when Hazard leaves for Madrid.
You cunts are being harsh. We were by far the better team, and if was really Son's penalty challenge that let them in at all.
I blame Toby for the first. He didn't need to take him out.
TBH I hate every single Chelsea player. They are all scum even Kante. Dembele and Wanyama are way better than Kante. Not a single one of their players would make it into our team. You can say I am bitter and just angry but it's true. Even Hazard is a cunt of a player who isn't that good. I hope every single one of them die in a bus crash on the way back to <removed> manor.
Not sure how it's Hugo's fault. He was unsighted. Not sure why we don't put a man on the post. From where was it wasn't even a free kick. Stupid sliding tackle for their pen.. hard enough to beat em without them getting two gifts like that.
Did you watch the Liverpool game? Mane tore him a new one. Davies cant handle pace at all.
Europe will be a great leveller for Chelsea , it's a weird time to say it but I think they're on the decline
glad someone dug out that slaphead Shearer, he's the most fickle pundit out there.
glad someone dug out that slaphead Shearer, he's the most fickle pundit out there.
Yes- they tried to press us at the start, but, I would say it was more down to our poor passing around midfield than their brilliant play. I agree though that they managed the game well once they got ahead and that Conte timed his double substitution very well. Costa I thought was shit but Hazard of course was a difference maker.