Match Threads Palace vs Spurs - Match Thread - Day 4 - KO 12:30pm

[Barrd10]

Maybe I watch games differently these days, while Palace had the ball did they really test Hugo? Were the crosses dangerous or comfortably dealt with for the most part?

Until the penalty I didn't think they would score to be honest. They couldn't hit a barn door at that point.

Yes Palace are a poor team that are more used to playing counter-attacking football. We cleverly allowed them to have more of the ball by being pretty terrible in possession. So they struggled to get good opportunities. Still we hardly had a shot. I can’t remember anything progressive from us apart from Moura going on a mazy run and actually passing successfully at the end of it. Unfortunately we gave it away with the next pass.

 

[Pebble Dash]

They were on top before the sending off.

The game was just a mess from us. We only had Lucas on who would take on players, and they just could him.

I agree it was a mess but I wasn’t thinking Palace looked like scoring any time soon prior to Tanganga imploding. At least at 0-0 we had some wriggle room with the remaining subs and formation tinkering. Once they scored it was game over.

 

[Matthew]

Missed the game, was at work - was the game as bad as the s score line suggests?

 

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

What's more laughable is most didnt want Traore because "Lucas can do the same job".

Talk about end product, no ones going to have end product in this team. At least he can take the ball up the other end of the pitch. Everyone on here seem to love players who pass it sideways under pressure, blooming eck

 

[WannaDanceWithUdogie]

Here come the anti Levy Brigade ?

With the circumstances surrounding the build up to this match this is not a surprise result. We lost keyplayers to injury whilst on international duty, and one who played today not fully fit. Of course our clubs decision to allow players to travel to avoid sanction backfired when FIFA let others who did not do the same off the hook. We were away up against a team who had most of their squad training together for the past two weeks. BT Sport were setting this up nicely for Palace, starting with their selection as the early game straight after an international break. The writing was always on the wall In my view.

Clearly we did not play well after first 5 minutes, but mass changes to starting 11 aleays likely to cause problems. The cause not helped by a first half injury, a second half red card which was largely down to the referee failing to spot a foul on Moura just before the first yellow card. In fact in my opinion the referee let far too much go throughout, several players should have seen yellow in the first half. Palace eventually got their reward, and of course out come the anti Levy Brigade in numbers, spouting the crap we hear after every defeat. So predictable, so boring. To call for the manager to go already us pathetic! Equally so some of the comments about Royal who up to a point had a reasonable debut in my view

Kane and Dele need to take a look at themselves and quickly. Their attitude on tge pitch does not look good. Nuno has to learn from this defeat.

Anyone thinking we should just splash the cash each transfer window just take a look at how that approach has worked out in the past for Leeds, and more recently Barcelona and Real Madrid. I do not want us to build success on stolen or blood stained cash. Levy is not perfect, but he will get us to the best financial position without the mass appeal of United / Liverpool, or a rich owner happy to throw cash around like confetti. He has just been appointed to the European Club Union board, a very powerful position in European football, which should bring some long term benefit to the club. He is almost certainly going nowhere. The haters need to get over it and get behind the team. All the negativity after just four league games is not good.

It is simply criminal not replacing Bale and Vinicius and that's entirely on Levy

 

[Barrd10]

This is the problem. It’s worse than heroin

More methadone - a cheap mans heroin.

 

[L-man]

Missed the game, was at work - was the game as bad as the s score line suggests?

Worse

 

[Bulletspur]

Missed the game, was at work - was the game as bad as the s score line suggests?

Worse....seriously

 

[WannaDanceWithUdogie]

Missed the game, was at work - was the game as bad as the s score line suggests?

Worse

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Missed the game, was at work - was the game as bad as the s score line suggests?

We were lucky to keep it down to just 3.

 

[jonnyp]

Missed the game, was at work - was the game as bad as the s score line suggests?

Worse if anything

 

[THFCSPURS19]

I blame @Rob - everything was fine until he changed SC.

 

[dorsetyid]

Seeing a number of palace fans saying that was the easiest game they have ever had in the prem. what an absolute embarrassment.

 

[rossdapep]

I'm not disagreeing with you per se, Tony, but Nuno isn't responsible for the terrible midfield - that falls on the recruitment side. Our central midfield is woefully underpowered.

We know, it's a truism, that games are won or lost in midfield. But we have no options there. There were no senior players we could have played in the middle today apart from PEH, Skippy and Dele. And I'm not offering that as a defence of anyone. It's an indictment in fact - that our recruitment has been abysmal for far too long now.

What's the point of spending money on the next big central midfielder (Sarr) if we don't have enough in the middle right now? The striker issue is a lesser problem. The central midfield is where the biggest problem at Spurs lies and it seemingly wasn't even looked at this summer.

Exactly.

Nuno supposedly told Winks to find a new club. There is weight behind that considering Winks hadn't featured much until today.

The fact that ANOTHER coach is having to play him is solely on those above him.

Ndombele wanted to leave and Nuno is right to not play him if he feels his head isn't in it and he may move on.

Lo Celso is out of his hands completely.

It's up to the club to give Nuno better options, especially in the most important area of the field.

 

[Sykes]

It's almost as if not replacing Eriksen is still coming back to haunt us!

 

[Hazelton]

This is the problem. It’s worse than heroin

At least heroin addicts aren't as ashamed

 

[Spotter]

Midtable sides lose at places like palace - that's the way it is.
#sayno will take the blame and this result and performance has badly winged him.
But the fault lies with parasiti, for a dreadful transfer window. I've no idea why he is worshipped on spurs community.

Probably because he is one of the top in Europe for the job . Rome wasn’t built in a day he needs three transfer windows to sort things . It’s not like instant coffee and buy £300m transfers in one go

 

[Spurs_S.A.]

It is simply criminal not replacing Bale and Vinicius and that's entirely on Levy

It was criminal choosing another coach similar to the last one that didn't work.

 

[Dean]

To dare is to show zero attacking intent.

No courage, no heart, no brains. Wizard of Oz FC

 

[Hitch]

Just hope Conte isn't mental enough to take the Arsenal job. Let Fabio take another run at persuading him next summer (after a year of wearing down Levy). Spend this season getting things in order for him to take over. A bit fantastical obviously and almost certain not to happen, but let me dream!

Realistically think we're stuck with Nuno at least through next season, lest things become completely calamitous. It's not that I hate the guy. He's a decent coach but we're competing against some absolute monsters in this league. The only way we're ever going to make the great leap forward, without a sugar daddy, is by getting in that next level elite coach...or getting lucky in finding someone who can become that. Unfortunately I sense that Nuno's ceiling is already set in that regard. Elite coaches are so very rare, making it all the more frustrating that Conte currently remains out there unattached.