- Jun 14, 2008
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So let me get this straight...when Mourinho sets his team up to sit deep and defend with 2 banks of four at places like the Etihad, The Emirates and Anfield he's known as a tactical mastermind and lauded for having the foresight to get something out of the game and when Atletico Madrid setup exactly the same way in their games where they defend with two banks of four and let the opposition have the ball and counter Simeone gets praised to high heaven for creating a game plan to deal with the better teams, yet when Pochettino does it it's not the Spurs way and had we won it would have been a defeat? Do me a fucking favour.
I've seen more positive signs today than at any time this season because we can finally build on something and take confidence from it, we saw a team who have been chastised for their defending these past two seasons put in a dogged and sturdy performance that was worthy of praise. Did you not feel proud that players like Kaboul, and Rose who have been written off by many including people on here before a ball was even kicked this season put in the type of performance that we've been demanding?
And finally we have a manager who is willing to change his philosophy and cater to the opposition, how many times have we gone to places like these, played open football and been picked off? Again how many times have we bemoaned the manager for not having a 'plan b', would you rather we played open football and get absolutely tanked like last season?
I find it astounding that any fans should moan at this performance, yeah okay going forward we made many bad decisions and should have made much more on the counters but I believe that it was down to poor confidence...put it this way I'd rather the defence looked solid than the forwards because at least we can build from the back.
Good analylasis of the game Im personally happy with the result as poch set the team up right We broke when we could and Only a better more confident final ball would have seen us come away with a win.
The defence was the platform for the result with lloris and kaboul outstanding i hope We can build on this defensive display going forward.