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Match Prediction

  • Spurs to Win

    Votes: 216 93.5%
  • Spurs to Lose

    Votes: 6 2.6%
  • Score Draw

    Votes: 8 3.5%
  • Goal-less Draw

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Total voters
    231
  • Poll closed .

spids

Well-Known Member
Jul 19, 2015
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Winks is not a DCM. Positioning defensively is poor. Verts has to come on at LCB. Lo Celso has to come on in CM. Eriksen has to come on in CAM.
 

ILS

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Jun 21, 2008
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6,913
Sanchez isn’t a good defender. Has no aerial awareness or capabilities whatsoever.

Our defense has slowly gotten worse since the first season Poch took over. Gone are the days of us having anywhere close to the best defense in the league.

Get that he wants to make a point with Jan and Eriksen but you have to pick your best team.
Don't forgot being bang average with the ball at his feet.
 

WiganSpur

Well-Known Member
Aug 31, 2012
16,026
32,758
There is a very worrying possibility that poch literally has no tactical answer to breaking down a deep defence that just let's us keep the ball on the halfway line.
Too many times it's bloody turgid stuff with a long shot or two bailing us out 90% of the time
 

mpickard2087

Patient Zero
Jun 13, 2008
21,894
32,582
People saying we don't pass it forward enough are not watching the game. I'd implore a lot of you to not follow the ball in a lot of these matches and watch what the front four are doing.

You just see a narrow bunch doing random things, all playing up against the defence, hidden behind the opposition midfield, walking not finding space, and waiting for the ball to be progressed into the final third before we try to do some random individual stuff to pick the lock. Often it's fucking impossible to try and find them.

It will be a torturous struggle to break teams down with such a lack of attacking idea and drilled ways to construct possession and attacks, its a massive oversight we need to do much better at.
 

Ekmek

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Jan 29, 2014
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2,523
more like poor movement ahead of him. he lost the ball once which was on him but otherwise he's done well, i'd like to see him be a bit more forceful with his forward runs though.

Well he gifted Newcastle there second best chance by staying behind playing there strikers on side.
 

thePessimist

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Jul 4, 2012
1,269
3,355
I'm seriously starting to worry that we're reaching the end of the line with Poch. We've been on relegation form since april and I've seen nothing to suggest that we're about to improve..
Our shit form started long before april...
 

glacierSpurs

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Sep 28, 2013
16,163
25,473
I'm alright for Poch to whiny but I just hope he can let the football does the the talking first. Right now we just are not convincing At ALL.
 

thecook

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Jan 17, 2009
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11,319
For the first time since he's been at the club, I'm starting to wonder whether Poch has the answers to drag us out of this malaise.

you're very much not alone. i'm not sure how much longer i can keep the faith
 

bozzaSPUR

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Aug 31, 2012
475
541
People saying we don't pass it forward enough are not watching the game. I'd implore a lot of you to not follow the ball in a lot of these matches and watch what the front four are doing.

You just see a narrow bunch doing random things, all playing up against the defence, hidden behind the opposition midfield, walking not finding space, and waiting for the ball to be progressed into the final third before we try to do some random individual stuff to pick the lock. Often it's fucking impossible to try and find them.

It will be a torturous struggle to break teams down with such a lack of attacking idea and drilled ways to construct possession and attacks, its a massive oversight we need to do much better at.
I agree. A sideways/backwards pass is often because there is little or no movement up front
 

Spurs72

Don't Call It A Comeback
May 20, 2008
565
484
Not good enough in the 1st half l, very poor, poch stop being stupid/Stubborn play Eriksen.
 

agrdavidsfan

Ledley's Knee!
Aug 25, 2005
10,918
13,352
Winks is not a DCM. Positioning defensively is poor. Verts has to come on at LCB. Lo Celso has to come on in CM. Eriksen has to come on in CAM.

He’s not a top 4 premier league midfielder he’s became a Pochettino experiment or almost a teachers pet he offers nothing he doesn’t have one ability that makes me think what a player.

The role he does can be done by any player Tom Carroll could have done it bentaleb could have done it and mason did do it fans need to wake up with him.
 

jolegend

Well-Known Member
Jul 8, 2005
3,888
3,076
People saying we don't pass it forward enough are not watching the game. I'd implore a lot of you to not follow the ball in a lot of these matches and watch what the front four are doing.

You just see a narrow bunch doing random things, all playing up against the defence, hidden behind the opposition midfield, walking not finding space, and waiting for the ball to be progressed into the final third before we try to do some random individual stuff to pick the lock. Often it's fucking impossible to try and find them.

It will be a torturous struggle to break teams down with such a lack of attacking idea and drilled ways to construct possession and attacks, its a massive oversight we need to do much better at.

Doesn’t help that they have sissoko and winks on the ball who couldn’t play a through ball if their lives depended on it. I like both players but you don’t need both of them.
 
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