Match Threads Spurs vs Brentford - Match Thread - EFL Cup Semifinal

[beats1]

So I can't be the only one who thought that alot of people were celebrating way too early and talking about finals when we haven't even played the second leg yet

 

[Russ1201]

I want City in the final, don't trust those diving VAR fucks

If we get united ,we be minus a goal from the start when they get their standard penalty.

 

[Gilzean at the near post]

Very good team performance tonight. Both well worked goals. The N'Dombele pass to Son for our 2nd was quality

 

[wiggo24]

I like that. Saw some of our pass maps in the last month or so and they looked so disjointed, that looks much more like it. Establish something like that against the lesser teams and we will win a lot of games. Jose can always save his classic style for the big games.

I liked how we worked the corner of their box a few times today too. Nice to see a bit more craft. Baby steps but encouraging.

Imagine upgrading Sissoko for Sabitzer (or even a fit Gio) in that lineup!

Yeah there's something pretty Liverpool-esque about it with the advanced full-backs, midfield shape and Kane dropping deep with Son and Lucas nice and narrow. Hopefully a good sign of some tactical development to play to our strengths and maintain a bit more control against "lesser" sides.

 

[SUIYHA]

Decent performance overall. I'm nowhere near buzzing the way I was after our last four LCSF wins (1999, 2008, 2009 and 2015) but a final is always something to get excited about, even if it's a long time away, and we know that whoever we play will be a team that we have deservedly beaten already this season.

Really hope that we can get a full house at Wembley by April but it's unlikely. I went to a few games during the earlier rounds of the 2008 cup run but was only a Bronze Member at the time so couldn't get a ticket to the final, I did make it to the 2015 final but we lost that one, will be just my luck if we do finally end the drought but I can't get into the ground again!

 

[TheChosenOne]

If we get united ,we be minus a goal from the start when they get their standard penalty.

They might even rig the penalty shoot-out like last time showing video replays of our lots taking pens

 

[Riandor]

Quadruple still on

 

[tippspur59]

Oh dear! You are joking of course? Comparing a Champions League Final to a League Cup takes some brainwashing! Let’s face it we won a couple of matches against second tier sides. We just sneaked past Brentford who were unlucky. Mind you we did at least have 50% of the ball so a big change.

Winning a LC final is nothing. We have won it several times and has never even registered as meaningful. It certainly won’t if we win it again. Sure beating one of the Manchester clubs again would be nice but the LC is worthless and always has been.

Every League Cup we won back in the day was massive, it may not be these days but back then it was great and meaningful.

 

[limmel]

Oh dear! You are joking of course? Comparing a Champions League Final to a League Cup takes some brainwashing! Let’s face it we won a couple of matches against second tier sides. We just sneaked past Brentford who were unlucky. Mind you we did at least have 50% of the ball so a big change.

Winning a LC final is nothing. We have won it several times and has never even registered as meaningful. It certainly won’t if we win it again. Sure beating one of the Manchester clubs again would be nice but the LC is worthless and always has been.

It has been a long time since 61, maybe reinvest your time in another team or try to enjoy the one that we have now? Just saying..

Think we still had polio in 61, so it wasn't that great.

But hey, otherwise , enjoy your hate that we achieved a final..

Spurs supporter?????

 

[TheTanguy]

Quadruple still on

 

[DenverSpur]

Oh dear! You are joking of course? Comparing a Champions League Final to a League Cup takes some brainwashing! Let’s face it we won a couple of matches against second tier sides. We just sneaked past Brentford who were unlucky. Mind you we did at least have 50% of the ball so a big change.

Winning a LC final is nothing. We have won it several times and has never even registered as meaningful. It certainly won’t if we win it again. Sure beating one of the Manchester clubs again would be nice but the LC is worthless and always has been.

Sorry but history says you are wrong. Winning the LC can and should be a stepping stone to winning the Premiership.
Before Mourinho won the League with Chelsea he won the LC, Before Mancini won the League for MC he won the LC, before Pellegrini won the League for MC he won the LC, before Guardiola won the League for MC he won the LC. Also before Ferguson won the League for MU he won-the FA Cup( and then the ECWC). Wenger also won the FA Cup as well as the League in his first season so obviously didn’t think that going for the League Title meant treating the Cups as worthless. Except for one offs like Blackburn and Leicester most teams who win the league for the first time or at least after a long time without winning it have done so after experiencing winning trophies like the LC. No Trophy is worthless because as a team you have to work hard to overcome other teams striving to win it. This helps instill a winning mentality because the players can believe that if they put in the effort and buy into the managers tactics/plan trophies are possible.

 

[GodGomes]

Oh dear! You are joking of course? Comparing a Champions League Final to a League Cup takes some brainwashing! Let’s face it we won a couple of matches against second tier sides. We just sneaked past Brentford who were unlucky. Mind you we did at least have 50% of the ball so a big change.

Winning a LC final is nothing. We have won it several times and has never even registered as meaningful. It certainly won’t if we win it again. Sure beating one of the Manchester clubs again would be nice but the LC is worthless and always has been.

 

[nedley]

I don't think the challenge was intentional but his foot had no business being that high. Definite red card, not even sure how some can debate that.

I dont think anybody is.

 

[luRRka]

I dont think anybody is.

Theres loads of brentford fans saying it shouldn't be a red card cos he slipped

Mind you, that's on twitter which is full of idiots

 

[Gassin's finest]

It’s a clear red card. Nothing further needs to happen though. Hopefully Hojberg is ok.

Seen far worse, frequently. I once saw Pat Van den Hauwe at WHL do a two footed waist high tackle, causing the opposition player to almost do a 360 in the air..... Pat didn’t even wait for the ref, he just walked off down the tunnel

I loved that guy... early hero.

 

[spursfan1976]

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...size-of-wembley-whatsapp-joke-swallowed-whole

Someone explain to me what lasagne-gate has to do with going to Wembley?

 

[Marty]

It’s a clear red card. Nothing further needs to happen though. Hopefully Hojberg is ok.

Seen far worse, frequently. I once saw Pat Van den Hauwe at WHL do a two footed waist high tackle, causing the opposition player to almost do a 360 in the air..... Pat didn’t even wait for the ref, he just walked off down the tunnel

Pfft. Neither hold a candle to Jason Cousins.

 

[mightyspur]

 

['O Zio]

Maybe it's just me, but Ive watched the tackle back a few times now and o can't for the life of me work out where people are getting this "he was trying to do a trick" from. For me it's just a tired and frustrated lunge. I doubt he meant it to be quite as high and to connect quite as violently, but I just don't see where people are getting this "trick" angle from, even our own fans seem to be coming out with this as well.

As others have said it's still a red all day long either way because it's wreckless. Luckily it sounds like Hojbjerg is ok but it could've quite easily gone a different way.

 

[Yid-ol]

Maybe it's just me, but Ive watched the tackle back a few times now and o can't for the life of me work out where people are getting this "he was trying to do a trick" from. For me it's just a tired and frustrated lunge. I doubt he meant it to be quite as high and to connect quite as violently, but I just don't see where people are getting this "trick" angle from, even our own fans seem to be coming out with this as well.

As others have said it's still a red all day long either way because it's wreckless. Luckily it sounds like Hojbjerg is ok but it could've quite easily gone a different way.

I think he was trying to put one foot forward and then knock it behind that leg to get away, he stumbled and lost control and his leg planted into Hojbjerg's shin.