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I am starting to get a bit concerned that our midfield isn't working, but hopefully it will come together soon.
I am starting to get a bit concerned that our midfield isn't working, but hopefully it will come together soon.
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I'll give the lads a bit of credit for bouncing back after another atrocious bit of VAR goes against us at home yet again.
But it should never have come to that, we need to learn how to kill games off rather than hanging on for dear life as our luck will run out at some point if this continues.
Hopefully Doherty is one that will settle and we'll see the best of him soon. He's not had a great start to his Spurs career, I'll agree!COYS. Basically shat myself when Bale scored. Both horrible and glorious. The story of my sordid existence.
Odd game. Think the yellow really knocked Tanguy and he struggled to dominate the midfield afterwards. With Toby and Dier we're always going to sit back, as they're both shipping liners, so it's no surprise that we invited pressure.
To be honest, the only real negative was Doherty's performance. Obviously give him much more time, but he doesn't look like a seasoned RB out there. Erratic and likely to leave acres of space behind him. We already have Aurier filling that role.
I'm gonna tune out of BBC Five Live right now... can't stand Chris Sutton deliberately doing his best anti-Spurs Adrian Durham impression... I don't know what other team can win a game, and get SO much immediate vitriol!
Liverpool fucking robbed their way to a win yesterday, and yet that's the HALLMARK OF CHAMPIONSTM We win a game, albeit fortuitously, and are 2nd, a point ebehind Liverpool, and yet we're somehow imposters who should be in a relegation scrap!
Winning ugly is apparently only a good thing when other teams do it.... when we dare have the temerity to win ugly, we're undeserving, and should be docked points!!
The media fucking HATE it when we win HATE IT... and that makes me LOVE it all the more!!!!
COYS
#WINUGLY
Love that
To your point, Brighton's xG was 0.3That was the worst commentary I have ever had to endure that wasn't ManUTV!! They made out that Brighton completely bossed this game and should have won! We were poor (bar the first 20mins and we managed the last 6mins of injury time brilliantly). But Brighton didn't threaten, Lloris was a spectator and their goal was from the most ridicules decision I think I've ever seen (because he watched it repeatedly and still gave it!!). We hit the post twice and had LoCeso go inches wide. We were lucky not to concede a pen from Doherty.
First game this season where Ndombele didn't make an impact.
Lamela & PEH really were the only players that I thought were properly on their toes outside of the first 20mins.
Very well taken goal by Bale, lovely cross by Reggie.
Brighton are a good side and have made teams work hard in almost all of their games apart from last week but what it does show is that our Midfield is still struggling. We are still not a good side to watch if Ndombele, Kand and Son are not clicking.
Anyway, job is done and Up The Spurs!
PEH and Tanguy/Gio is a good start, but they need a lot better than Sissoko to complete it.Three points. Get in.
I am starting to get a bit concerned that our midfield isn't working, but hopefully it will come together soon.
Either way, we are #1 in GD, we're a good team manThat's one of the weirdest stats I've ever seen used to prove a point. Surely the difference between #1 and #20 is about 2 or 3 goals?
How on earth?Kane has been voted MotM
To your point, Brighton's xG was 0.3
Same can be said for Lamela and Son. I thought our attackers played hard but all struggled pretty bad. Hopefully they'll get their stuff together next match.Lost count on how many times Kane fell to the ground today. Tremendous effort
With respect, that's SO disrespectful!But it’s Brighton! We can’t be grinding out results against Brighton at home. We play like we are the underdog. What happens when we play city chavs scum and dippers? This style of play is not sustainable. Brighton still passed the around better than us. All we had was long balls out.
I thought he was very decent, especially in the second half. Better than Tanguy certainly.Sissoko probably MotM