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Tottenham's most important games

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I was enjoying the discussion of the 1995/96 season and thought It would be good to talk about which games we think are the most important to Tottenham in terms of legacy and impact. Many games seem decisive when they're played, only to turn out to be false dawns. Others seem innocuous, but time reveals them to be pivotal. Think of games like the reply against forest that saved Alex Ferguson's job, or the miracle of Bern that marked a reversal in the fortunes of West Germany and Hungary.

A game I think that get's overlooked is Tottenham's 2-1 win at Villa in late 2014. Pochettino may well have been on the verge of getting sacked, only for a late turnaround and Harry Kane's first league goal of the season to save us (he'd go on to get another 20).

The game itself is also just a cracker of a match. Late goals, a huge fight, Lamela running around waving an invisible card to get Benteke sent off, Kane's crap free kick winner, so much great stuff. It's also emblematic of the late winners that stopped that season being a complete disaster.

Overall, it's a game that seems to have risen in importance as the years have gone on. I'm curious to see what games you guys consider pivotal and important, for both good and bad reasons, particularly those that aren't as well known.
 
Losing to Gent on aggregate felt like a low from which we have moved forward well, particularly in Europe.

That was a gash night.
 
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Saw the thread title " Tottenham's most important games" saw a league win against Aston Villa and .......

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Personally I think it was the 5-3 vs Chavs and beating the Arse at home that showed what this team could achieve. No way was Poch close to being sacked before that Villa game. Not a chance.
 
Both games against RM last season’s CL for me closely followed by the fight back at Juve away
 
I think beating City to get CL for the first time was pretty damn important.
It broke through the glass ceiling, & since then we have kicked on, with a bump or 2 along the road.
 
The game that sticks in my mind as the most pivotal for me in terms of buying into Poch was the Woolwich home game later on in that 14-15 season.

It was February, Bentaleb had just got back from the ACN and gone straight back into the team. Results and performances had been erratic.

We lined up in a 4231 with Dier and JV at the back with Lamela, Dembele and Eriksen as AM’s.

Every single player was on it, but it was the three academy kids, Mason, Bentaleb and Kane who were the driving force in what was the most vicious pressing and playing performance I’d seen from a Spurs side.

Kane was tireless, leading the press from the front, ably supported by Dembele, Lamela and Eriksen (this front 4 was statistically our most efficient pressing group and was still being used at the beginning of 15/16) but real stars of the show were Mason and Bentaleb. They were fucking relentless. They tenaciously devoured everything that moved, and both could play football too, and they just dismantled what was still one of the best footballing teams in England.

We’d beaten Woolwich infrequently previously in recent years, but we’d rarely managed to outplay, outwork, outsmart and beat them at the same time.

This was how I’d always dreamt of watching a Spurs side play. Not just with a bit of panache, but with a cohesive, collective voracious intensity without the ball as well as with it.

This is probably still my favourite game of Poch’s era.

This is what I feel we have lost lately. We’ve drifted back to being a little bit too much about individuals again.

It’s great that we have individually talented players, but because the collective cohesiveness and work ethic, even our basic pressing has dropped off, we now miss those players so much more when they are not around, or not in form.

This is why I’d like Poch to get back to those basics, get a couple of hungry kids out there who’ll die to succeed, get some of that intensity back, even at the cost of some individual flair if necessary.
 
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The game that sticks in my mind as the most pivotal for me in terms of buying into Poch was the Woolwich home game later on in that 14-15 season.

It was February, Bentaleb had just got back from the ACN and gone straight back into the team. Results and performances had been erratic.

We lined up in a 4231 with Dier and JV at the back with Lamela, Dembele and Eriksen as AM’s.

Every single player was on it, but it was the three academy kids, Mason, Bentaleb and Kane who were the driving force in what was the most vicious pressing and playing performance I’d seen from a Spurs side.

Kane was tireless, leading the press from the front, ably supported by Dembele, Lamela and Eriksen (this front 4 was statistically our most efficient pressing group and was still being used at the beginning of 15/16) but real stars of the show were Mason and Bentaleb. They were fucking relentless. They tenaciously devoured everything that moved, and both could play football too, and they just dismantled what was still one of the best footballing teams in England.

We’d beaten Woolwich infrequently previously in recent years, but we’d rarely managed to outplay, outwork, outsmart and beat them at the same time.

This was how I’d always dreamt of watching a Spurs side play. Not just with a bit of panache, but with a cohesive, collective voracious intensity without the ball as well as with it.

This is probably still my favourite game of Poch’s era.

This is what I feel we have lost lately. We’ve drifted back to being a little bit too much about individuals again.

It’s great that we have individually talented players, but because the collective cohesiveness and work ethic, even our basic pressing has dropped off, we now miss those players so much more when they are not around, or not in form.

This is why I’d like Poch to get back to those basics, get a couple of hungry kids out there who’ll die to succeed, get some of that intensity back, even at the cost of some individual flair if necessary.
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That was my first and only nld at White Hart Lane, it was absolutely crazy. The team didn't seemed fazed by the Arse goal whatsoever, just continued and absolutely played them out of the park
 
I actually think finally beating Woolwich for the first time in 11 years was a pretty big important moment for us.

We FINALLY got one over on our rivals who we were so trying to overtake for the last few years. We then went and beat Chelsea a few days later and then a few weeks later went to the Etihad and beat Man City to guarantee Champions League football for the first time.

That season we were fighting for top four, to break into that hard to reach place but whenever we played against the big boys. we more often than not faltered. Man Utd at home? Smashed 3-1. Chelsea away? Smashed 3-0. Woolwich away? Smashed 3-0. Liverpool away? Lost 2-0.

But then it all changed on one cold Wednesday night under the lights when a young debutant named Danny Rose grabbed the headlines.

Ever since then we've just continued to rise, as Boltonspur Boltonspur said. we've had a few bumps on the way, lost some key players but overall we've now grown into a team that's having the likes of Barcelona rest key players before playing us, a brand new 60k stadium on the horizon and one of the best strikers in world football playing for us.
 
bus-conductor said:
The game that sticks in my mind as the most pivotal for me in terms of buying into Poch was the Woolwich home game later on in that 14-15 season.

It was February, Bentaleb had just got back from the ACN and gone straight back into the team. Results and performances had been erratic.

We lined up in a 4231 with Dier and JV at the back with Lamela, Dembele and Eriksen as AM’s.

Every single player was on it, but it was the three academy kids, Mason, Bentaleb and Kane who were the driving force in what was the most vicious pressing and playing performance I’d seen from a Spurs side.

Kane was tireless, leading the press from the front, ably supported by Dembele, Lamela and Eriksen (this front 4 was statistically our most efficient pressing group and was still being used at the beginning of 15/16) but real stars of the show were Mason and Bentaleb. They were fucking relentless. They tenaciously devoured everything that moved, and both could play football too, and they just dismantled what was still one of the best footballing teams in England.

We’d beaten Woolwich infrequently previously in recent years, but we’d rarely managed to outplay, outwork, outsmart and beat them at the same time.

This was how I’d always dreamt of watching a Spurs side play. Not just with a bit of panache, but with a cohesive, collective voracious intensity without the ball as well as with it.

This is probably still my favourite game of Poch’s era.

This is what I feel we have lost lately. We’ve drifted back to being a little bit too much about individuals again.

It’s great that we have individually talented players, but because the collective cohesiveness and work ethic, even our basic pressing has dropped off, we now miss those players so much more when they are not around, or not in form.

This is why I’d like Poch to get back to those basics, get a couple of hungry kids out there who’ll die to succeed, get some of that intensity back, even at the cost of some individual flair if necessary.
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It was only after getting rid of crap players like Mason and making Dembele first choice is when we actually become a title challanger the season after with Dembele being our best player of 15/16. I hope we dont go back to play the hungry kids again.
 
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City 0-1 Spurs Crouch
Turned the corner that year, AVB set us back YEARS
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Apart from he didn’t.

I really don’t understand this mindset - it’s utterly bizarre.

We finished 5th in his first season 1 point off 4th and then 6th in the season he got sacked. We can hardly be set back years when in the second season after his departure we finished 3rd.

In addition he was responsible in part for Lloris, Dembele, Vertonghen, Eriksen bring at the club who have been instrumental in recent seasons.
 
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Apart from he didn’t.

I really don’t understand this mindset - it’s utterly bizarre.

We finished 5th in his first season 1 point off 4th and then 6th in the season he got sacked. We can hardly be set back years when in the second season after his departure we finished 3rd.

In addition he was responsible in part for Lloris, Dembele, Vertonghen, Eriksen who have been instrumental in recent seasons.
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Yeah 4th is better than 5th and 6th......

This is an old debate, and some on here deny it. But it’s a fact.
CL is generally considered better than no CL.
 
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