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What our opponents' fans are saying about us 18/19

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Shadydan

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You know you've done something right when RAWK are saying nice things about us.

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=314337.15880

Did not see that result coming. Congrats to the resident Spuds. Could have done with it being tighter but I still think they’re gonna have to take the 2nd leg seriously enough to affect their league fixtures. You lot need to build a statue of Son outside your new stadium, the little git’s carrying you at the moment.

Dortmund without Reus and Paco, and some of their defenders. Spurs should have won

A full strength Spurs maybe. I wasn't expecting that scoreline with Kane and Alli missing.

Dortmund don't have the depth of squad that Spurs and the Premier League sides have though.

Seriously you have to respect the work Spurs are doing. Brilliant result

Checked the score before and didn’t expect to see that!

Fair play to Spurs, its probably one of their most significant European results and against a very good team (even though BVB had quite a few defensive injuries).
Had conflicting emotions in the game - would have preferred a balanced tie so they have to focus hard on the 2nd leg...they still need to I think. But at least it seems like they will have 2 QF games to contend with.

But generally speaking the farther the English teams progress, the lesser our revenue share is from the split English pool. But given that league is a higher priority, dont mind City and even Spurs going as far as they can without winning the actual thing.

Always thought Son would have made an excellent red and 4th attacker in our lineup (similar to Firmino in terms of danger and bringing others into play). Pains me to see him at Spurs, but he is a helluva a player.

Well, I should get over my coveting and get real. No here comes the Son, he typed disappointingly.

Great win for Spurs, but it leaves me with a couple of questions :

How strong really is the German league?

And

Is Dortmund's defeat not so much to do with the strength of the German league and more to do with the CL experience within their sqaud?

I think the 1st question will be answered next week when we play Munich and City play Schalke

Fair play to spurs. A great result for them. Pochettino really is getting the best out of his squad - a very good manager.

It does raise questions about the strength of the german league - all eyes will be on us against Bayern

Dortmund are an excellent team. They were missing their best player in Reus, along with a few others.

Still a great result for Spurs of course. That's 6 wins in 7 for them now since Kane got injured. He's not as important to them as people make out, Eriksen & Son are their key men.

Does it? Spurs can beat most sides in Europe. They beat Real Madrid 3-1 last season and they won the whole thing.

thats a great result for spurs...didn't see it coming

thought Dortmund were a very good side but I heard they had their injury problems too... still, Leicester caused them more problems than that! Spurs are defo in the quarter finals.

dont see them as a traditional rival and dont have any hate for them really so good for them and the decent fans among them. Not the cocky ones with some sort of superiority complex with us
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I dont think they'll win the thing and im sure this victory will be talked about alot, along with how good a job Pochettino is doing etc. but to be fair its mostly justified

Good result for them last night but that Dortmund team isn't ready for a serious Champions League campagin. How many lads in that starting 11 were 20/21 and under, 5 or 6 wasn't it including 3 in their back four.

The entire Dortmund team are starring in How To Train Your Dragon 3. They're all playing the part of Toothless.

Nah but really, Spurs are twattycakes.

well done spurs, great result.

Wish we bought Son before these did, he's a cracking player.

You know what, fair play to them, I did not think they would smash Dortmund like they did and as always, Son is some player, think he's excellent although it annoys me when people say he is underrated, everyone literally knows he's class.
 

tommo84

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RAWK saying how crap the german league is, will be hilarious if they go out to Bayern who are 2nd to the team we beat 3-0

For no other reason than football is bonkers sometimes, I think our win last night (and the nature of the scoreline) makes it more likely they'll struggle vs Bayern. I'm pretty sure Liverpool are currently a better team than Bayern but football is littered with daft results which don't make sense when compared to form. Us thrashing German leaders Dortmund only for EPL leaders Liverpool to then get mullered by Bayern would be just another 'didn't see that coming' moment in the history of the Champions League.

Also it doesn't make sense for RAWKers to be slating the Bundesliga. Klopp's reputation is built almost entirely on what he achieved in the Bundesliga, and many of their posts about our win claim they've rated Son for years - even since before he came to Spurs - which again would mean they rated him based on his performances in Germany.

Anyways, I'm not going to try and unravel their logic. What a night, what a performance (2nd half) and what a win!
 

Gassin's finest

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https://www.football365.com/news/ch...sers-ole-gunnar-solskjaer-mauricio-pochettino

Tottenham supporters
You can normally judge a football club’s success on the basis of how much it annoys a certain section of their rivals’ supporters. After every tweet that has dared to praise Pochettino’s overachievement over the last two years, Arsenal fans have angrily accused bias and/or hyperbole.

But when one journalist tweeted his report from Wembley last night, one Arsenal supporter gave the game away. ‘Yeah, but they won’t even get past the quarter-final,’ was the response. After seven consecutive Champions League exits at the last-16 stage, it’s a difficult look to pull off. Tottenham supporters will have walked into offices and schools across London with a spring in their step on Thursday morning.
 

Hotspurious

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West Ham fan no 1:

The one thing I thought from last night is Ali can't play Champions League or England level football, he is too one dimensional. Moura, Son, Eriksen are all dynamic, can pass and move, have a few strings to their bow, Ali's stats are incredible but against big teams he is a non-factor as he isn't getting the half chances he gets in say the Premier League. What he is good at he is very good at but I think you need more than that when it gets to that level.

West Ham fan no 2:

Ali? if you mean Alli you're just wrong .... his record against big clubs is better than most strikers ....

Dele Alli's big game goals:
2016 v Manchester United
2016 v Manchester City
2017 v Chelsea (2)
2017 v Manchester City
2017 v Chelsea
2017 v Arsenal
2017 v Liverpool
2017 v Real Madrid (2)
2018 v Chelsea (2)
2018 v Manchester United
World Cup quarter-final v Sweden
2018 v Chelsea
2018 v Arsenal


He might be an obnoxious diving **** but he's most definitely a big game player


Love it when a fan of a rival shoots down a fellow fan like that. Fan no.1 cannot respond to that!

Also.... I hadn't appreciated just how good his record is against the top teams really is until I saw it listed like that.
Yeah, that is quite amusing. If anything, Dele could be criticized for needing a big match to get the best out of him. He’s exactly and precisely the opposite of being a non-factor in big games.
 

Timberwolf

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West Ham fan no 1:

The one thing I thought from last night is Ali can't play Champions League or England level football, he is too one dimensional. Moura, Son, Eriksen are all dynamic, can pass and move, have a few strings to their bow, Ali's stats are incredible but against big teams he is a non-factor as he isn't getting the half chances he gets in say the Premier League. What he is good at he is very good at but I think you need more than that when it gets to that level.

West Ham fan no 2:

Ali? if you mean Alli you're just wrong .... his record against big clubs is better than most strikers ....

Dele Alli's big game goals:
2016 v Manchester United
2016 v Manchester City
2017 v Chelsea (2)
2017 v Manchester City
2017 v Chelsea
2017 v Arsenal
2017 v Liverpool
2017 v Real Madrid (2)
2018 v Chelsea (2)
2018 v Manchester United
World Cup quarter-final v Sweden
2018 v Chelsea
2018 v Arsenal


He might be an obnoxious diving **** but he's most definitely a big game player


Love it when a fan of a rival shoots down a fellow fan like that. Fan no.1 cannot respond to that!

Also.... I hadn't appreciated just how good his record is against the top teams really is until I saw it listed like that.
Such a weird criticism calling Alli one dimensional. If anything his problem is that he has too many dimensions: good close control, excellent vision and passing (especially on the break), a striker's eye for goal, great at scoring with his head.

I'm still not sure what his best position is or what kind of player he will eventually become, but he's such as fuck not one dimensional.
 

Gassin's finest

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Such a weird criticism calling Alli one dimensional. If anything his problem is that he has too many dimensions: good close control, excellent vision and passing (especially on the break), a striker's eye for goal, great at scoring with his head.

I'm still not sure what his best position is or what kind of player he will eventually become, but he's such as fuck not one dimensional.
He's what Bobby Robson would have called a "Fantastista". Like Michael Laudrup, Cruyff, Hoddle or Le Tissier. Not an out and out attacker, nor a traditional midfielder, but operating in between the two. Just a wonderfully talented and creative footballer, who seems to just glide around the pitch, making stuff happen out of nothing.

He has no ceiling to his ability other than any limitations he puts on himself; and this season has demonstrated thus far that he's realised this himself.
 

Giovanni

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Its a tricky one with pool in the cl.....

They win they have more games although we risk them winning the comp. It also hampers their league challenge.

They lose and we can all laugh loudly at them. But they stand a much bigger chance of winning the pl.
 

fortworthspur

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Yeah, that is quite amusing. If anything, Dele could be criticized for needing a big match to get the best out of him. He’s exactly and precisely the opposite of being a non-factor in big games.

well he's never scored in the biggest game of all to those guys - against West Ham.
 

Col_M

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This argument about the German league being poorer than the prem and BBD having injuries to their strikers...... how do they explain PSG without Neymar and Cavanni?
 

RichieS

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Such a weird criticism calling Alli one dimensional. If anything his problem is that he has too many dimensions: good close control, excellent vision and passing (especially on the break), a striker's eye for goal, great at scoring with his head.

I'm still not sure what his best position is or what kind of player he will eventually become, but he's such as fuck not one dimensional.
Andre?!
 
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