Scrolled down to Sissoko read the first line, binned this shite thread
If you can’t do it without an agenda, dont do it at all. All the while probably thinking Sessengon was like Messi today.
From the BBC
There were pluses for Spurs in the outstanding performance of Moussa Sissoko but they currently look a side short on spark
Plus every single Spurs fan I know, and 99% of people on here thought he was excellent.
Putting the goal on him while flippantly ghosting over it and heaping praise on Sanchez shows how out of touch you are.
Its boring and deliberately dishonest.
I just do not understand how that performance from Sissoko could be deemed good, let alone "outstanding" or "excellent".
In a game in which our midfield was utterly abject, devoid of impetus, lacking any tempo or creative spark. Winks got through more ball away to Chelsea than Sissoko and Wanyama put together against Woolwich. And if this was about quality over quantity that would be fine, but it's absolutely not. Sissoko lacks intelligence, creates nothing, initiates nothing with clever vision or intuition. The best we get is a couple of bulldozing charges upfield, with him overrunning the ball and coughing it up. The rest of what he did was basic, rudimentary stuff.
he was also very culpable in their goal, allowing Ramsey to run past him, just stood there and stuck his fucking hand up. Can you imagine the fucking slaughtering Trippier would have got if he'd done that?
If the criteria for MOTM or being deemed excellent is so low, then Trippier would have been a much more worthy candidate. He was excellent defensively, saw a shit load more of the ball than Sissoko did, completed double the passes, in defensive, midfield and forward areas, and made bette use of the ball (3 key passes, Sissoko 1), set up a goal that was disallowed for offside (not his fault) also played a nice ball into the channel for Son (I think) which was about the one incisive pass anyone made all game. He wasted a couple of great opportunities to put better crosses in, but then it's not like Sissoko created anything either is it. Sissoko made 15 forward passes in 93 minutes FFS.
So why would people call that performance great from Sissoko?
You accuse me of having an agenda, but my not rating what Sissoko offers is far more rational than your spending every week week telling us Eriksen is shit.
I do not rate Sissoko. What is there to rate about Sissoko, if you value intelligent (offensive and defensive) football, technical ability, cognitive functionality (defensive or offensive)?
He doesn't want the ball under pressure, he stands there hiding and pointing while people like Winks do his fucking workload and their own. When he has the ball there is no game brain, it's a hot potato 90% of the time. We are in a funk as a team, we have been outscoring our performances and performance metrics for a long time (and that's not just a casual observation - it's supported by performance analysts like stats bomb) because of people like Kane and Eriksen, and one of the reasons we are in a funk is having stupid units like Sissoko where our midfield footballing engine and brain should be.
I watched about 50% of every minute of every single one of Sissoko's games at Toulouse, don't rate him then, didn't rate him at Newcastle, even as an AM. And nothing he's doing now has made me rate him. I credit him for things he does, like the challenge on Aubameyang, or when he's had OK game. But there is very little he does that a kid from our academy couldn't do for about a tenth of the wages. He creates fuck all, he rarely ever instigates anything that leads to fuck all. He doesn't want the ball under pressure, what fucking use is that in a league where everyone pressures? He never plays an incisive pass to his full back, he has massive defensive lapses that I've continually highlighted, one that contributed to the goal against Woolwich.
I didn't like watching Dier in our midfield, so why should I enjoy watching Sissoko. It's not a personal agenda against Sissoko, it's a personal preference for a set of values.
I find the jingoistic tub thumping about him much more illogical, especially coming from someone who calls one of the most hard working and productive players in this league who plays for us "shit". Idiotic hypocrisy.