Ndombele should have come on the moment they scored their pen. Play him as a 10 if you don't trust his defensive work rate. We needed a goal.
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Plot twist: Son = highest rated player for this mob.
Anyone seen the first half possession stat anywhere?
There's no problem lumping the ball upfield if there's Kane or Son in the general vicinity to get on the end of it. In the second half yesterday we resorted to lumping it upfield when we had no player within 40m of where the ball landed.
That last bit is spot on I think.. Poch deserved the money to rebuild the squad. He knew the squad needed improvement and identified some players to make that happen.
Yes he was stubborn with his tactics and rubbed players the wrong way sometimes. But he had a plan on the field which was well coached.
I can see JM playing defensively with no crowd.
Agreed but that wasn’t the gist of my conversation
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I thought Sanchez should put more efforts on practicing his heading clearance technique. So many times, he headed the ball to dangerous area.
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Winks did showed some improvements.
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I was surprised that Lamela got started. He played in the central area to lead the attack. This position where he rarely played. He looked energetic and quite often dropped back to help the midfield. However, I was disappointed that his final passes were awful. Our attacks were always terminated by his misplaced final pass. Doesn't look Lamela is better than the current version of Alli.
The fact that the author of this thinks Son was top performer makes the rest of what they write irrelevant. Probably some South Korean fanboy/girl- unless of course it is based purely on stats for things like dribbles and shots attempted which underlines the ineffectiveness of rating players on statistics alone. Certainly not Son’s best game!
You're Borodin55, aren't you?
Nice, stealthy use of the albeit. Everyone was too busy with the mental image of Mrs P in bed, in Spurs pj's, to notice it.
No I'm Spartacus !!
Just did some searching on him. Poor old fucker was in his sixties. I've quite a few years left before I get there.
Kane is a certain kind of player, an Ian Rush type, deadly in front of goal but can’t really pick up the ball early and run with it, like Sonny can, for instance.
So I think he needs a particular type of play (high press?) and specific service.
It shouldn’t be generic attack football (and certainly not a defensive centric strategy) when Kane is playing, the team strategy has to revolve around him, because, surprise surprise Jose, only goals win games and Kane can do it for you if the attacking strategy is considered and right.
Our Harry is not match fit but I don’t believe that explains his lack of participation in the ManU game, I think he was out of the game strategically and when you have a player of Kane’s quality who can win games, you’ve got to consider him central to the match strategy, I don’t think Jose did that at all the other night.
So I think he needs a particular type of play (high press?) and specific service.
It shouldn’t be generic attack football (and certainly not a defensive centric strategy) when Kane is playing, the team strategy has to revolve around him, because, surprise surprise Jose, only goals win games and Kane can do it for you if the attacking strategy is considered and right.
Our Harry is not match fit but I don’t believe that explains his lack of participation in the ManU game, I think he was out of the game strategically and when you have a player of Kane’s quality who can win games, you’ve got to consider him central to the match strategy, I don’t think Jose did that at all the other night.
No I'm Spartacus !!
No, I’m Spartacus..!
Begs the question of why isolate and starve the best threat we have, it seems we were more concerned about utd which considering our defence is understandable.
I have him on ignore, so no idea what he thinks. You've been here before though mate.
That's not a bad thing.
Oh for crying out loud a footballer will not ask to come off. He's the England captain and someone I should think should also be the spurs captain. There are plenty of people in the right jobs to assess fitness and performance. Jose gets all that info and decides. We DO NOT have a striker on the bench. Why are we going to take one off?