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Match Prediction

  • Spurs to Win

    Votes: 139 75.5%
  • Spurs to Lose

    Votes: 12 6.5%
  • Score Draw

    Votes: 31 16.8%
  • Goalless Draw

    Votes: 2 1.1%

  • Total voters
    184
  • Poll closed .

ajspurs

Well-Known Member
Jul 7, 2007
22,987
31,167
Dele needs to up his game. Incredibly wasteful today. Over playing, not passing, missing straight forward finish's and generally being off the pace. We could have scored 3 or 4.

It's whenever he gets the ball now I'm just very rarely convinced he'll do the right thing and when he does it's a surprise. Such a frustrating player. And with that all said he'll probably score today.
 

mmidgers

Well-Known Member
Jul 21, 2009
1,682
3,334
Another game where were struggling to beat a poor team ? honestly can't wait for this season to be over
 

punkisback

Well-Known Member
Apr 10, 2004
4,410
7,278
Bergwijn excellent. Not as flashy as Lucas or Son but actually keeps the ball (a trait our front 4 badly needs). Played a couple of lovely balls through and protected the ball well for the pen as well.
Agree, we've got to many head down individualistic players in the lineup Moura, Son and Dele who just want to do it all themselves and don't want to pass! We need more providers and creators in this lineup.
 

Colonel_Klinck

Well-Known Member
May 19, 2004
12,637
23,217
That was a shit pen. I hate it when players wait for the goalie. Just smash the ball in the corner ffs. We should just bring on Kane for pens.
 

DFF

YOLO, Daniel
May 17, 2005
14,225
6,090
There is sooo much space to exploit. Lo Celso or Ndombele would absolutely ruin them with their passing. We should make the change at half time.
 

Timberwolf

Well-Known Member
Jan 17, 2008
10,328
50,217
Swap Dele for Grealish and we’d be 4-1 up.

Hate saying it, but he’s a much better footballer than Dele is.
He does the simple stuff so much better. Dele is capable of the truly sublime but fucks up constantly by playing as if the simple stuff is beneath him.

You could honestly make an hour long compilation of Alli trying to nutmeg players in a promising position mid-way inside the opposition half only to play it off their legs and give the ball away.
 

dudu

Well-Known Member
Jan 28, 2011
5,314
11,048
We've grown into the game, we've needed to.

Hopefully we can control it a bit more now.

Great to see Davies back and I'm absolutely loving how intelligent Steve B is.
 

Wadec

Well-Known Member
May 14, 2014
1,761
5,434
Bergwijn has been quality, some lovely runs and a great weight of pass to Aurier for the corner.

They are there to be hit on the break, need Ndombele on in second half to release us quickly.
 

hughy

I'm SUPER cereal.
Nov 18, 2007
31,842
56,934
I've noticed Bergwijn very rarely wastes a pass, even if it's nothing special. Very good trait to have.
 

mpickard2087

Patient Zero
Jun 13, 2008
21,886
32,513
Absolute fucking chaos out there.

Alright conditions are tricky and you have to allow for that, we've also been against the strong wind first half it looked like, but lets be honest we were absolutely not at the races for the first 25-30 mins and could quite easily have been three or four down. It was horrendous stuff and the right side of the team in defence (sometimes Dier, almost always Aurier and Alderweireld) in particular were, and largely have been, atrociously bad.

We started getting glimpses of how open Villa were and that you could easily get at them, then equaliser came all of a sudden from the set piece, since then the momentum has gone to us and those glimpses went to confirmation that Villa were pants down, bent over, and asking for it. Then it was our turn to have quite easily scored three or four. Eventually got, and just about bundled in, the penalty.

I wouldn't like to predict the result if both teams come out in the same manner second half. I'd hope we can at least have a more solid platform and defensive effort, whilst we look to exploit the big holes in their defence.
 

rockpop23

Active Member
Sep 19, 2005
149
161
This team is just too frustrating to watch at this point. We really need a complete overhaul of our backline. A Sunday league team are capable tearing our defence down
 

barry

Bring me Messi
May 22, 2005
6,505
15,345
Not gonna lie, I'm enjoying watching us more than I have for a long time. You just never know what you're gonna get. It's fucking exciting.
 

jonnyp

Well-Known Member
Jun 11, 2006
7,149
9,628
Mourinho's tactic of having Aurier playing as a winger is such a shit tactical move. Creating so many problems for us on the right.
 

bubble07

Well-Known Member
Dec 27, 2004
22,959
29,896
We need to persevere with alli. It's no accident that he gets himself in goalscoring positions. He is just bang out of form with his finishing
 
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