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Match Prediction

  • Spurs to Win

    Votes: 251 91.3%
  • Spurs to Lose

    Votes: 12 4.4%
  • Score Draw

    Votes: 11 4.0%
  • Goal-less Draw

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Total voters
    275
  • Poll closed .

SirNiNyHotspur

23 Years of Property, Concerts, Karts & Losing
Apr 27, 2004
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I’ve also learnt my lesson and will stop gloating with mates until it’s full time. Blown up in my face too many times.
Let my guard down today, should have knew, no one to blame but myself, note to self as a Spurs fan wait until at least 9-0 up with 30 seconds to go before celebrating
 

Teddy Klinsmann

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Aug 5, 2008
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It’s been due to us. We always batter them but the last 2 - 3 trips to their place we’ve gone 3 up and then shipped late goals.
 

Spurs_Bear

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Jan 7, 2009
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Well, that's made me break my posting hiatus......

Really I want to question all those who were going 'amazing first half'. Get fucking real, it was a lethal opening first 15 mins, after that it was rubbish stuff. Even as the first half went on we were wide open, had four stood up doing fuck all defensively, less than diligent in our application, and were giving West Ham encouragement they could grab some goals back. The second half was just more of the same but worse. All round fucking lazy stuff. And no one did anything about it.

Mourinho never got a grip either tbh, we were going through the motions and nothing changed from the sidelines, some subs happened (mainly as if they were scripted, whether necessary/needed/wise or not), we still went through the motions, eventually it got punished.

The goals were perfect examples of an hour plus of laziness and taking our eye off it. Sissoko just doesn't bother challenging with his man. The second I see everyone blaming Sanchez - more like Moura has been on the pitch 2 minutes and just doesn't bother to go back in with his man and leaves him to nobody and so they're at point blank range firing a ball across the face of goal. Ok the third is a wonder goal, but we see idiotic players giving away the ball and giving away dumb free kicks to invite more pressure. These were just a late punishment of stuff we'd been doing for most of the game by that point.

The ending might have been freak, plus Bale really should have wrapped it, but we got punished for as a collective doing nothing to tighten up and kept inviting West Ham to get back into the game, increasingly stopped playing, and eventually got a massive punch about the face for 75 minutes of relative shit.

In general everyone has been buzzing (mainly due to one result and transfer junkie cravings being fulfilled) but I don't particularly like what I have seen so far and find it really unconvincing still. Lethal on the fast transitions in a few phases of play, but really this is more Redknapp-esque chaos open bollocks football than anything else - which I never thought I'd say about a Mourinho team. We'll score plenty, but we look wide open to also get fucked a plenty whenever the opposition has the ball. Even against United the first 25 mins it was end to end chaos, where every pass for both teams got them through midfield and at the back four, until they spectacularly imploded. You might have some good days playing like this, and murder cannon fodder opposition, but I don't see it achieving much ultimately. We must tighten up, and must control games better.
Welcome back.
I’ve got to be honest, I think calling Redknapp-esque is disingenuous to Redknapp-esque, that last 45 was Gerry Francis.
 

0-Tibsy-0

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Aug 13, 2012
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Mourinhos low block tactic won’t work when we don’t have a defensive midfielder and a really strong defensive line. Plus it just invites pressure.
 

Gspurs11

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Aug 19, 2012
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No idea why we’re sitting back on a 3-0 lead when WE’RE SO SHIT AT DEFENDING.

The players will be knocked psychologically for the next few games because It doesn’t matter how many we score, we’re always going to concede.

No clean sheets this season in any competition. So poor. Forget any league challenges with this shower at the back
 

spursfan77

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Aug 13, 2005
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I’m so fucking angry. Should be used to it by now really. But they always still got it in them to piss us off.
 

stormfly

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Dec 6, 2006
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Every team will fancy their chances with set pieces against us now. Expect some great dives from the opposition anywhere near the box now.
 

Dov67

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Jul 1, 2005
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how many crucial goals have we conceded from totally needless free kicks given away by Aurier in dangerous positions.

He can play like Roberto Carlos on acid 89 mins, but you can count on him to shit the bed at some point.
 
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