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mawspurs

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Winning at Chelsea was one step beyond Mauricio Pochettino’s battered and bruised Tottenham side on Thursday night, but as the Spurs boss defended and praised the valiant effort of his players, it was hard to disagree with him.

Source: Evening Standard
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Any other year and we go through to the final on away goals.
Seems to be Chelsea mugging us off due to rule changes every time.

What's the betting the football league change the rule back to away goals next season?
 

JC-Rule

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I can't help but feel that our stack up of injuries is what eventually cost us.

If Levy and Lewis, don't find the extra funds to invest now, then i'm not sure they ever will.

Things could go further south from here.

Lose to Palace at the weekend, have a little wobble in the league, with a tough double header vs Dortmond in the CL, and what once looked like a cracking year, will be so hard to stomach.

Please, please please, invest in players now and stop hedging, Poch and team has done their absolute best with what they inherited.
 

Yakflange

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Yip we only competed for one half out of 4.

Not so (in my opinion).

First half of the first leg was fairly even. Second half of the first leg was painful to watch, but we dug in well to get the result. Obviously where we lost it was the inexplicably poor performance in the first half of the second leg. The second half of the second leg we were running on empty but gave it our all and definitely competed - don't forget we "won" that half 1-0.
 

Yakflange

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Lose to Palace at the weekend, have a little wobble in the league, with a tough double header vs Dortmond in the CL, and what once looked like a cracking year, will be so hard to stomach.

Alternatively - beat Palace, keep up our brilliant form in the league and beat Dortmund and it's looking like an excellent season. I'm going to keep drinking from my half-full glass.
 

Shadydan

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They were so much better than us over 2 legs. We really can’t have any gripes.

They weren't really, they had the majority of possession in the 1st leg but didn't do much with the ball, all foreplay no penetration.

2nd leg they were better on the night but after we scored they shit themselves, I wouldn't say they were so much better than us at all.
 

Spurs 1961

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Not so (in my opinion).

First half of the first leg was fairly even. Second half of the first leg was painful to watch, but we dug in well to get the result. Obviously where we lost it was the inexplicably poor performance in the first half of the second leg. The second half of the second leg we were running on empty but gave it our all and definitely competed - don't forget we "won" that half 1-0.

In fact I was there and thought this was a game that showed some maturity as we were able to hold onto a lead. Contrast with Juve last season or the cup semi and ManU or the away leg against Inter. All games we should have won but lost to so called more experienced 'professional' outfits. The second leg we did suffer in that first half but showed our fight by coming back well, with a depleted team, against a side that has been at the top table for 20yrs
 

Spurs 1961

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I can't help but feel that our stack up of injuries is what eventually cost us.

If Levy and Lewis, don't find the extra funds to invest now, then i'm not sure they ever will.

Things could go further south from here.

Lose to Palace at the weekend, have a little wobble in the league, with a tough double header vs Dortmond in the CL, and what once looked like a cracking year, will be so hard to stomach.

Please, please please, invest in players now and stop hedging, Poch and team has done their absolute best with what they inherited.

It would be interesting to see how the mighty Liverpool would manage without Fabinho, Henderson, Milner, Mane, Salah and Firmino all at the same time. I think they would be saying how little strength in depth they have and how they need to buy players. We have had our top three midfielders out for much of the season (OK Dembele has now gone) and then on top of that had our top four goalcorers all missing at the same time.

Harsh on us but we do need to have some perspective here! Only City have the quality to begin to cope with this type of problem and sure if we are prepared to spend £50million for bench players and pay £150,000 a week for such (much more of course for the first choice players) then we might have a chance
 

JC-Rule

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It would be interesting to see how the mighty Liverpool would manage without Fabinho, Henderson, Milner, Mane, Salah and Firmino all at the same time. I think they would be saying how little strength in depth they have and how they need to buy players. We have had our top three midfielders out for much of the season (OK Dembele has now gone) and then on top of that had our top four goalcorers all missing at the same time.

Harsh on us but we do need to have some perspective here! Only City have the quality to begin to cope with this type of problem and sure if we are prepared to spend £50million for bench players and pay £150,000 a week for such (much more of course for the first choice players) then we might have a chance

your point is a valid one. But I'm not advocating going as far as Man City or Pool, I accept we are doing it a different way, no issue there.

I'm saying we should be investing in the squad, a little, rather than zero investment at all for two transfer windows.
 
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