Match Threads Spurs vs West Ham - Match Thread

[spur_souljah]

West Ham soo happy, such a small club who will never win anything. All they are interested in doing is beating us. Shame our first loss had to be to that pathetic club.
Anyway hope they enjoy that 11th place at the bottom half of the table where they belong with that lifeless manager and stadium.

 

[Phomesy]

Why wasn’t Son given the pen second half? Looked nailed on from high in the South

 

[scat1620]

Indefensible recruitment policy is indefensible.

 

[jondy1]

Easy in hindsight but Eriksen was playing so deep I thought he was in the back four we should have been at these from the whistle not bugger about for 75 min dare I say we missed trippier badly today

 

[SirNiNyHotspur]

Davies, Toby, Rose, Sanchez, Foyth, Dier, Vic. Seven defensive minded players on the pitch and quite possibly one of the worst defensive performances I’ve seen from us in recent time.

Why don’t we shoot!? Why don’t we cross?!
We’re in danger of doing an Arsenal and only looking to score the ‘perfect’ goal. Cross the ball. Shoot when you have an opportunity. Force them to make mistakes.

Injuries have played their part but we have to start working on plan B’s in these situations.

7 defensive players because we left ourselves short we in the summer, our only attacking options on the bench are a guy that Poch probably didn’t plan on using again and Llorente who is just too slow, we need some attacking pace on the bench to speed things up when we’re struggling. We dont have a plan b as we don’t have the players to do it

 

[RickyVilla]

That's the effect that laying new carpet has.

 

[SugarRay]

Fine first half. Awful second half.

Very poor result but, so many injuries, far bigger game Tuesday and lack of depth has done for us

 

[scat1620]

Give it a fucking rest

He's bang on the money.

 

[tippspur59]

Just had to be West Ham didn't it, bitter fcuks.

 

[RamonVega'sShinners]

Bad result but some people need to get a bit of perspective. Just blaming players isn't fair. Long season and we don't know who is responsible for lack of signings but we are looking very tired. Will be excruciating if we blow top four and get knocked out in the semi's due to not having bodies and being knackered.

 

[wrd]

People crying calling it unacceptable get some perspective, our biggest game in our history Tuesday and we didn't have a proper midfield. We had to rest certain players and had 2/3 players playing out of position. We are in a fine position for top4 so stop having a paddy and look at the big picture.

 

[shelfmonkey]

Without the swearing I said virtually the same to my six year old. I was explaining that Eriksen never tackling anyone grates because he's paid so much yet avoids all physical contact while players literally run past him.

No six year olds present in my gaff, fortunately.

 

[SdB]

Why wasn’t Son given the pen second half? Looked nailed on from high in the South

Never a pen. Son was weak and simply looking for it.

 

[Ledders Army]

Same ref as against arsenal & goes against us again. Poch should say something but he'll just get another touchline ban. Has any other manager had a ban this season? We lost both games which could now cost us top 4. We were bad but any other team in the top 6 would get a pen for the challenge on Son which changes the game.

 

[THFC_SWE]

Pathetic performance. We will get hammered by a rested Ajax.

And if Arsenal and Chelsea win tomorrow, I think we will miss top 4.

 

[IfiHadTheWings]

Pathetic from the fans today. Same goes for the majority of the players.

Lets hope we were saving ourselves for Tuesday...COYS

 

[Shadydan]

What the hell was Poch thinking with his subs. The game did not need Llorente at all and he takes off our best player who is the only one who looked a threat the whole time he was on. Big fat 0 rating today. Dele needs a talking to. So sick of his lack of urgency...

Probably wants to keep Lucas fresh for Ajax, Llorente did stink the place out when he came on though

 

[Colonel_Klinck]

Why wasn’t Son given the pen second half? Looked nailed on from high in the South

Because it wasn’t a pen. Minimal contact.

 

[rossdapep]

We had pace with Son and Moura.

What we lack is some fucking brains and ability in our midfield, and better and quicker movement of the ball.

Decision making in the final third. Some examples;

Alli not threading son in with a firsr time pass.
Son trying to shoot across goal and into a defender when he should have gone the other way.
Alli then playing a first time pass with the pace of a snail.
Alli (countless times) not playing a quick pass through the middle.
Alli, taking forever to decide which pass he will play then getting tackled.
Dier (then Wanyama) trying to pass through the lines yet somehow passing straight to the defender in front of him.
Son, continuously running into traffic instead of into the space in front.

I was tearing my hair out that first half as if we'd had an ounce of conviction we'd have comfortably been in front. They weren't protecting their defence well enough and Alli and Eriksen were getting into great spaces.

That game highlighted our lack of depth, burn out of players, creativity from cm and dynamic fullbacks.

We should be home and dry now. and losing to them F****d off

 

[wrd]

Probably wants to keep Lucas fresh for Ajax, Llorente did stink the place out when he came on though

Why he or Wanyama came on and risked injury, I'll never understand