Just in our row to the left of us were 6 empty seats throughout the game. I’ve never seen the new stadium this empty in a standard match.
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Match Tottenham vs Forest Monday 21 April 8pm
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Forest have done incredibly well to be where they are, but the style of play works against teams who want to attack. You saw Everton match them up in their set up, and Everton beat them as they couldn't break the low block.
It works now, but those kind of systems always get worked out. It's inevitable.
It works now, but those kind of systems always get worked out. It's inevitable.
I think that's one of the daftest things I've heard him say. So what if we get awarded a penalty that shouldn't have been and it results in us winning the game is he gonna kick up a stink and say no I don't want the 3 points?!
such a dumb prickI agree. 90% of our squad are just not premium quality. They are a mix of under 23 team, journeymen and wannabe/maybes.
And yet they turn up day in day out at facilities as good as Real Madrid’s. They have zero pressure from within the club to succeed and will never need to work a day in their future lives. There is no jeopardy.
That’s ultimately why they are not being blamed as much as Ange, The players are not picking themselves and choosing to be this inept. They just are.
17th looms and there is zero embarrassment.
It’s pretty sickening overall. But you buy players from teams in and around 17th, you tend to end up 17th.
Are you seriously using a cross to literally nobody as a good chance?
Yesterday was absolutely endemic of the Ange Era. Lots of the ball, lots of sniffs at goal, but wide open at the back and easy to score against and easy to defend against.
Maybe it was Easter , maybe it was people just can’t be arsed anymore & can’t sell their tickets or didn’t bother to list them. I don’t know
I remember Woollich doing something similar with publicizing attendances
He does struggle to adapt, you're right. Yesterday however wasn't down to that. 2 sloppy mistakes from Vic caused us to lose. We created the chances and had the big opportunities. Poor finishing let us down.Work other teams out and adapt?
No mate that ANOTHER one of his gems. The nonsense never ends.
We played the usual game of trying to overwhelm the opponent with possession.
Forest are very good at dealing with that. We lost because, as always, we weren't prepared for them to come at us and get a few goals. We were all at sea for 20 minutes. They should have had 3 or 4. 1 marginal offside and a couple of other chances all before we clicked into gear.
They also clearly decided 2 was enough and just let us play keep ball like so many do. They kept us where they wanted us. They restricted us to the chances they knew they could defend. It's literally like a big bloke holding an angry kid back by his forehead. We've seen Newcastle do it. Woolwich do it. Leicester do it twice. Wolves do it multiple times. And so on and so forth.
We try to do silly little passes around our own back 4 to tempt these teams out, but more often than not, all it really does is play ourselves into actual trouble rather than creating space and opportunities.
This is because on the rare occasion a team presses our back four and we beat that press, we then take 47 passes to get it into the final 3rd and allow them to get back and reset.
It's just the same old shit. All the time.
I remember we were linked to him quite a bit a few years back, lots of dissenting voices because he wasn't quick enough, and didn't have the technical ability to play Trequerista to a Ballon D'Or winning standard or something...
Thing is, he does seem to know how to defend, which is quite useful for a centre back.
No question he is the worst Tottenham Manager in my lifetime.
Ironically if we win the Europa he'd go down as the most successful in a portion of Spurs fans lifetimes.
I thought WE were supposed to 'want to attack'??
We've been worked out for over a year... And we don't play 'low block'...
I just don't get us!
We didn’t look dangerous last night at all. Just sporadic moments that lacked quality. hopeful balls into the box, crosses from areas that are easier to defend against. How often do we get round the back of teams.
We didn’t dominate either. We just let the game drift with meaningless possession, until the last 15 minutes when Bergvall came on and injected some energy and purpose into moving the ball.
obviously awful again out of possession
We didn’t dominate either. We just let the game drift with meaningless possession, until the last 15 minutes when Bergvall came on and injected some energy and purpose into moving the ball.
obviously awful again out of possession
If you watched yesterday and thought we don't want to attack then I'm not sure what you were watching.
They missed one good chance that Micky saved us with a last ditch tackle the other two were shots that rolled to Vic.
We hit the post had one clawed off the line at the same time lost our main playmaker through that reckless keeper tackle. Are you saying Frankfurt deserved something and we deserved nothing yesterday from what you stated as the same performance?
Spot on this is still part of the Messi Pep derangment syndrome. An even more contentious bit of lore is that keeping the ball makes you an 'exciting' team. It doesn't it's about what you do with the ball and how you're players move off if when you do that's exciting.
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Tel should have been in on the far post like how we scored quite a few of our goals. We had 17 accurate crosses they had one from which they scored.
I’m disappointed and frustrated with this season as most but last nights performance was better than most. If you choose not to agree so be it