Our only weakness is our relative lack of pace in the centre of our defense and Shitty got such an array of different skill sets that Pep can exploit us by deploying all his speed merchants.
Nevertheless, I'm still very happy with the draw for the Spurs of yore would have just folded and lose by more than half a dozen.
Can we put this to bed now?
I wasn't anywhere near as confident before this game as I was before we beat Chelsea.
Chelsea were full of confidence, so naturally tried to continue playing the same way. We outplayed them in every area of the pitch and won 2-0.
When we beat Man City, they were in decent form and tried to play their way. We outplayed them in every area of the pitch and won 2-0.
Today, we faced a Man City team that was failing with its usual tactics, had a point to prove and has a manager that had learned from previous mistakes. As you say, they set out to stop us from playing our game, instead of trying to play their own game.
That is absolutely massive. With ten days until the next league match hopefully he won't miss any matches.Kristof Terreur
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Toby Alderweireld confirmed that he felt tight in his hamstring, but that it doesn't look bad. Precaution. #COYS #THFCpic.twitter.com/MMFHVBJx9z
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Alderweireld came off because he felt his hamstring was about to snap. Didn't want to take the risk to be out for 5-6 weeks. #thfc #coys
9:38 PM - 21 Jan 2017
That is a huge point because it keeps our momentum going and stops heads from dropping. City may have outplayed us for the most part but they made us look bad and we still came back from two goals down.
They were great off the ball and kept our forwards out of the game most of the time but thankfully not many teams have the quality to do that. Hopefully Poch and the players can take lessons from today and keep improving.
They hardly tri d to stop us, they just attacked us for the whole game which had the desired affect but they did not set up to stop us.
Kane offside, Gerrard? Watch again, you Scouse prick!
You've made me think of this:Was kane really offside for the build up? Stevie g is convinced but i didnt think it was so clear cut
He's only got one knee...Both goals may well have been avoided if we had simply had a third CB on the pitch. There was too much space between our defenders for Sane's goal and Sterling's chance. I'd say this is positioning, rather than lack of pace.
When Sterling is running beyond the defensive line at full speed, how many CBs would be able to turn 180 degrees and catch him? I can't think of one!
Poch said as much in his post-match interview.anyone think that we may have went into this game a bit too confident.
anyone think that we may have went into this game a bit too confident.
He's only got one knee...