Match Threads Chelsea vs Spurs - Match Thread

[Westmorlandspur]

No. There is no extra time even.

No. There is no extra time even.

My mistake it’s just the final. We are a bit short of pen takers.

 

[jolsnogross]

Well, if pressing is important to our game, then we could use Parrot or Sterling, or another youngster with legs and engine and desire. If the important thing is to be over 26 and have lots of Premiership experience, then we’ve got Llorente. It’s the kind of decision any top coach has to make all the time.

Of course, but our forward injuries and absences force Poch to choose between your scenarios, when normally he doesn't have to. And these choices are fraught with uncertainty because you don't know if two young lads will be overawed or outsmarted despite (or because of) being keen as mustard. I suspect we go with wingbacks and pressure on Chelsea's deep playmaker, like we've done successfully before, but with the caveat that our #9 is far less active than our usual one and our niggly attacker (Dele) is also absent from that press.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

The Quadruple is still on.
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I gotta feeling we are going to get through this semi. Somehow.

The only quadruple we might achieve is to have four fully fit members of our regular starting XI by mid February

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Llorente with a quadhatrick tonight.

Llorente a quadriplegic tonight

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

My god I sound like a miserable twat. That’s what happens when your five old wants to party at 4.15 in the morning

 

[mightyspur]

I just hope we don't manage to concede because of another unforced error. Too many of them this season

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Of course, but our forward injuries and absences force Poch to choose between your scenarios, when normally he doesn't have to. And these choices are fraught with uncertainty because you don't know if two young lads will be overawed or outsmarted despite (or because of) being keen as mustard. I suspect we go with wingbacks and pressure on Chelsea's deep playmaker, like we've done successfully before, but with the caveat that our #9 is far less active than our usual one and our niggly attacker (Dele) is also absent from that press.

I don’t think Poch does tactics at all, so I don’t think he’ll see that choice at all. He’ll choose the older, more experienced player, but I don’t think he’ll alter the way we play as a result.

 

[tooey]

My god I sound like a miserable twat. That’s what happens when your five old wants to party at 4.15 in the morning

If that was mine he/she would be dancing the early hours away alone, in the garden shed.

 

[wrd]

Auriers with the team.

 

[mightyspur]

I don’t think Poch does tactics at all, so I don’t think he’ll see that choice at all. He’ll choose the older, more experienced player, but I don’t think he’ll alter the way we play as a result.

You don't think Poch does tactics? Does he just play by the 'Arry school of coaching? "Go run around a bit!"?

 

[mightyspur]

If that was mine he/she would be dancing the early hours away alone, in the garden shed.

Agreed. @doctor stefan Freud is obviously one of these "gentle parenting" types

 

[Hakkz]

If that was mine he/she would be dancing the early hours away alone, in the garden shed.

I don't understand. Isn't that where they normally are?

 

[$hoguN]

With so many injuries it’s going to be a difficult game to win. Let’s hope we can be competitive and see where that takes us

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

My god I sound like a miserable twat. That’s what happens when your five old wants to party at 4.15 in the morning

Mate, that’s what 3-year olds do. At 5, you can give him sha

You don't think Poch does tactics? Does he just play by the 'Arry school of coaching? "Go run around a bit!"?

Not as extreme as that, but he’s a very strategic coach. He’ll change the basic shape, but I don’t see much evidence that he works on the detailed interplay of players in the way a lot of other coaches seem to. He won’t (in my opinion) have done anything different in training this week just because he’s chosen to play Llorente.

 

[Hazelton]

Really can't see us getting through this with so many injuries but I have faith that the boys will give everything and that's all anybody can ask. Come on you Spurs, let's do this and keep proving the doubters wrong, myself included.

 

[LexingtonSpurs]

Sissoko at the stadium!

 

[Bulletspur]

Ah yeah, don't really remember the game besides the result.

I was also questioning the slight at Lloris' penalty-saving ability - as there seems to be a strange anti-lloris theme which keeps rearing its ugly head...

In my opinion Gazzaniga in the limited games he has played has proved himself a competent keeper, a better penalty keeper (saved 2 against Watford earlier in this competition) and a better distributor of the ball than Lloris. If you interpret that to be a slight or an anti Lloris theme, then that's your call. Others opting for Gazza over Lloris is with merit, especially if the game goes to penalties, and not slight on Lloris as you believe.

 

[spursfan77]

I wonder if he will be tempted to play with both Davies and rose ahead of him.

I hope we don’t go to a back three as we rarely look as settled as with a back four.

 

[idontgetit]

I just hope we don't manage to concede because of another unforced error. Too many of them this season

 

[ralvy]

They can't score goals, we have, pretty much a fully fit defence. We got this.

Cheers mate, you just gave us the kiss of death.