Ratings and MOTM vs Man City

[Gilzeanking]

Wonderful day..wonderful match . The very definition of the roof coming off when Sonny scored . We've been through a bit of shit recently and that made it even more deafening imo .The Glory Halleluuulya song similarly has never been solustily sung by so many.Spine-tingling stuff

Great day for Levy looking out on his stadium packed with ecstatic fans after the appalling bad luck of Covid hitting all his figures to kingdom come...here was his vision realised and the start of the fightback...some pics at the end of players going to the vast wall of flag wavers was like the Bernebau, so huge are those stands. Felt like we are a superclub in that stadium .

Hard to pick out MoM etc everyone did their part . The concern was..would the players buy into Nuno's system and I think we got a clear answer to that . I was yakking on previously about intensity being the key..and there it was. A marvellous platform to build on .Hopefully this level can continue , consistency has not always been our forte .

Couple comments on the players . I'm not Dele's (8) biggest fan , but in the 2 friendlies and vs City he really put a shift in off the ball..tackling tracking back etc . Well done for seemingly arresting his decline .

On Lucas (9) he continued his blazing friendly performances and superb training efforts . One sequence in the Spurs stadium training session had him , Sonny and N'Dombele doing a mini run and shoot from 25 yards competition . His performance was stunning with numerous powerful well placed shots past the keeper scoring way more than Sonny and of course TN who treated it all as a joke(wanker) . Lucas won by a mile ofc.

All of which super surprises me that he has so few goals...and yesterday there he was again pulling a weak shot miles wide .
I was a forward and remember that moment in my head 'FUCK I'm through on goal DON'T FUCK IT UP '.....which of course can have a disastrous effect. I see that in him...sports psychologist needed ?...just a smidge more ice in the veins and he could be a real killer imo .

Don't expect we'll forget this marvellous day for a loooong time .COYFS

 

[Black]

I thought Sanchez had a good game, the Sanchez of old.

Its funny how Jose made of lot of you hate our current squad. Short memories.

 

[spids]

Everyone was an 8, some were 9's. Japhet was a 9.5.

 

[Gollorius]

All superb, however I went for Tanganga because Pep had clearly targeted him and was made to regret it. Phenomenal stuff.

Lucas was a stand out too.

 

[walworthyid]

I thought Sanchez had a good game, the Sanchez of old.

Its funny how Jose made of lot of you hate our current squad. Short memories.

That's Jose's MO. A poisonous, self-serving man who alienates everybody at a club in order to continue the cult of the special one.

A pernicious disease.

Sanchez was excellent and showed what he can do in the right system.

 

[PLTuck]

I'm going to fully admit that I have done a complete 180 on Lucas. I never really warmed to him, and would have been fine with him being sold, up until the start of preseason.

Having watched all preseason and yesterday's game, I now think he's massively important to us and will be a key player. It did look yesterday as though some of our players are enjoying stepping out from Kane's shadow. I'm sure it's not just us fans who weren't completely comfortable with the tactic "give it to kane".

Were it not for Tanganga pretty much single handedly dealing with City's 2 most dangerous players, Lucas would be my MotM

 

[jurgen11]

I'm going to fully admit that I have done a complete 180 on Lucas. I never really warmed to him, and would have been fine with him being sold, up until the start of preseason.

Having watched all preseason and yesterday's game, I now think he's massively important to us and will be a key player. It did look yesterday as though some of our players are enjoying stepping out from Kane's shadow. I'm sure it's not just us fans who weren't completely comfortable with the tactic "give it to kane".

Were it not for Tanganga pretty much single handedly dealing with City's 2 most dangerous players, Lucas would be my MotM

Without Moura we would have never got to that CL final. For him to be dropped must have been a huge kick in the teeth.. He moved on and has been the epitome of professionalism, usually giving his all. I hope he has a stand out season.....he could be a TRUE legend

 

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10s all round to every fucking one of them for fighting for each other for the first time in too long. Both centre backs superb, Tanganga is going to be our captain, Skipp once he grew into the match was immense and anybody thinks Dele not up to it? Fight me!

18 months and about 6 hours of driving to attend this match, fucking worth it.

Aaaare you watching Harry Kane.

Where on Earth did you drive from if it took you 18 months?

 

[Marty]

Its funny how Jose made of lot of you hate our current squad. Short memories.

And it's exactly what happened at Man U too.

Same coach, different players indeed.

 

[Saoirse]

Lloris - 7
Tanganga - 10 MoTM
Dier - 8
Sanchez - 9
Reguilon - 7
PEH - 8
Skipp - 9
Dele - 7
Bergwijn - 6
Son - 8
Moura - 9

GLC - 7
Doherty - NET
Romero - NET

Rarely go for a 10, but for Tanganga to come in and have two top players in his pocket all evening was just so, so special and especially pertinent this week. What a man.

Special shoutouts as well to Dier, Sanchez, Lucas and Dele. Many of us perhaps too quick to give up on them on that evidence! Not sure I go along with entirely blaming Mourinho, plenty were underperforming well before that hence Poch's sacking. But more of the same sure as hell won't go amiss! COYS

 

[Gilzeanking]

Without Moura we would have never got to that CL final. For him to be dropped must have been a huge kick in the teeth.. He moved on and has been the epitome of professionalism, usually giving his all. I hope he has a stand out season.....he could be a TRUE legend

Yes , I've been watching him . One of his qualities is his interceptions .He is so fast over a yard that he can sometimes toe-end the ball away from a defender . Also he sets traps eg Oppo CB has ball and it looking for an out . Lucas checks the angles and may leave a pass open to the oppo LB (say)...but is waiting to spring if CB is tempted to do that pass ....but Lucas won't do all this every match (last season) .Lets hope Nuno can help .

This speed over a yard also means that when faced with a defender , he can move to the side before the defender, so will instantly have
a wide field to pass /run where he wants . This is without feints... its speed with the ball .

And back to his shooting. He strikes the ball so well, his shot is very powerful and in training v accurate . Get him on a shrink's couch
and dig out the prob , from childhood I reckon ..maybe he didn't want to pee in potty .

 

[yido_number1]

Lucas for me but extremely close with Tanganga.

Great to keep a clean sheet against city but we did give a worrying amount of good opportunities to them when watching it back. Either way a great start to the new reign and hopefully we can add that little bit of extra quality that pushes us on.

 

[AnotherSpursFan]

Big shoutout to Fabio patrici too, he brings very good positive energy to the club