With those players coming in it will mean being even better defensively
It will also mean we can play a bit higher up the pitch because Dier and Toby are not the quickest.
With those players coming in it will mean being even better defensively
It’s not even the fact we lost the game, or even the penalty or OG, it more annoying what we did (or didn’t do) in the rest of the game. There were literally no positives for me to take from that.I'm normally optimistic, but that was pathectic today.
Can accept the draw at Palace, where they battled admirably, can accept the defeat at Liverpool which we battled admirably - but lost, but that today was fucking bolllox from the first minute.
So he needs a new team then! The only players he doesn’t want to change is Kane and Son. Come on.I think everyone needs to take a breath and realise that Jose has been here for a year and we have come a long way in that time.
Mostly we look difficult to beat and we have the tools up front to hurt any team.
It is still a work in progress and I believe it wont be until next season at the earliest that Jose has the players he needs to mount a title challenge.
I think he wants 2 top centre backs, another 2 centre midfielders and a right back.
Once he has them I believe he'll be able to fully implement his style of play and it will be easier on the eye.
Douche. ?FYP.
Sorry, Jez - I couldn't resist!
I'm normally optimistic, but that was pathectic today.
Can accept the draw at Palace, where they battled admirably, can accept the defeat at Liverpool which we battled admirably - but lost, but that today was fucking bolllox from the first minute.
Carbon copy of the Chelsea home game last season.
I like your optimism, but forgive my glass half empty ideology when it comes to Spurs, to suggest it's more blind faith from where I'm standing. I missed the first 20 mins of the game and didn't realise that he took a knock. If I'm being totally open and honest, I'm seriously not a fan of this style of the game we're playing. I want teams to come to our ground and know that we are going to give them a tough time and offer them lots to think about. I've seen far too many games lately where we just say,
"try and score against us and look we'll give you the ball more so you can have as much time as you like and we'll try and use the odd moment where we can break the play and counter you, whilst sitting quite deep to give us more work to create a chance against you, we'll likely try and do that every 20-30 mins, we'll do it through Kane, as we'll generally bypass everyone else"
That is pretty much what I see every game and whilst the man city game was a good result, it was at times brutal viewing from a purist perspective.
But do we?Yet we have two eights in the team ...
Lo Celso and Ndombele are both eights, they play better from deeper, there is no argument on this.But do we?
Because as I see it, we have Ndombele playing the 10 role, Lo Celso playing further forward today and Sissoko and Hojberg linking up defence and attack
It looks horrible to watch as sissoko isn't good at passing, today I saw Hojberg actually get frustrated. He found a pocket of space called for it Sissoko wanted to pass but wasn't confident with the outside of his foot so Hojberg so Hojberg went deep to collect, he collected and the pace had gone they set up 2 banks of four and it ended with a typical cannonball pass from the CB's
Lo Celso and Ndombele are both eights, they play better from deeper, there is no argument on this.
Isn't that what he had with his Chelsea teams?Back to the 433 argument for me, with Ndombele and Lo Celso playing ahead of Hojbjerg. Would be so much more effective than shoehorning one of them into the no.10 position.
Front 3 would then be Kane, Son and one other but I fear this would be too attacking for Jose so doubt we will ever see it.