Match Threads Bodo/Glimt vs Spurs

[1882andallthat]

I said after the AZ tie we will now see the real Tottenham, with our players coming back we're going to see the best of us and it'll be in the Europa because the league doesn't matter.
I'll say it again, see what we can do when we can put our best side out.
The team that beat Frankfurt and now Bodo would not be 16 it would be challenging for top 5.

We won’t quite be able to put out our best side because of injuries to Madders and Bergvall but I like the sentiment of what you’re saying.

 

[Dakes]

Football gods, I'm begging.....

Seems to have forgotten the true history of the Tottenham. It's being revived.

 

[worcestersauce]

We won’t quite be able to put out our best side because of injuries to Madders and Bergvall but I like the sentiment of what you’re saying.

I'm gutted about those two injuries but I guess we have to accept one or two injuries during the season, to be honest that's just Arsenal level of injuries as opposed to the annihilation levels we've faced this season.

 

[teok]

Seems to have forgotten the true history of the Tottenham. It's being revived.

The utd that 'knows how to win things' is long gone. I'd say it's a pretty evenly matched final on paper.

 

[Dakes]

The final is the day before my best mate's funeral.

Don't know if I'm gonna make it back yet but it'll be a really weird feeling.

He wasn't really into football but was a United fan as a kid, didn't really have a team later on but some of my other mates and his brother are United fans.

So yeah, it's going to be a very strange feeling

My sincerest condolences to the loss of your friend Ross. Death of a loved one hits hard.

 

[Dakes]

I want the whole club to approach this like we can win it. Get properly focused. I felt with the Champions League final we were there for the experience whereas Liverpool were there for the win.

Can't agree with this enough. The UCL final was like an extraordinary day out. This time around our minds should only be on one thing - winning da ting

 

[spurs mental]

This morning and last night was the first time I've felt something for Spurs for a good while, I've missed this.

Lets fucking go

 

[Gilzeanking]

Yes, its nice we have beaten the minnows and are in the final.

But for me the team seem totally devoid of guile. We have become an effort team. I felt after 1/2 hour the only way we'd score was from a set piece so blunt is our forward line. Have we sunk to Stoke levels where our best chances of scoring are dead ball situations ?

It's actually tiring watching our players labour with zero finesse around the pitch. We genuinely look a mid to lower Prem team to me The Spam match was the same. To me, we are right back to Gerry Francis levels... I don't think this is all Ange's fault either...the players beyond our defence just seem without any skill. There truly is no Spurs player that excites when getting the ball. This is rare in my 50 years fandom...we always had someone with skill. Not anymore imo.

Yes, well done on the trying, the boys put in a big effort, its the minimum for lower Prem teams ofc. We can't complain about Ange motivating the team, well done Ange, we've got effort in our locker at least.

it's just we are now so achingly ordinary and for me, no win vs Norwegian minnows is going to change that.

 

[TonyK]

The only manyoo player that I feel can hurt us in the final is Fernandes so we just need someone to stand on him anytime they have the ball.

Garnacho is capable of scoring a worldie but in most games he is anonymous.

Think our defence and forward line is much better than theirs. And even with Maddison and Bergvall missing, I think Bruno and Casemiro will struggle with a bit of pace and athleticism in the middle of the park.

Let their ex-players spout the myth that they know how to win trophies. Their teams of the past with Becks, Giggs, Ferdinand etc may have known but this is a far inferior Manyoo team. And we have already proven 3 times this season that we know how to beat them. That will be a huge concern for them will be in their heads for sure!!

Bring it on!!

COYS!!!!!!!!

 

[jakuba]

The utd that 'knows how to win things' is long gone. I'd say it's a pretty evenly matched final on paper.

We’ve beaten them 3 times this season on an aggregate of 8-3 and they’ve not beaten us since Conte was in charge. Amorim hasn’t won games back to back this season either.

If the press wasn’t full of ex United and Arsenal twats the rational assessment would be to say we’re favourites even if only by a small margin.

 

[SpursSince1980]

Yes, its nice we have beaten the minnows and are in the final.

But for me the team seem totally devoid of guile. We have become an effort team. I felt after 1/2 hour the only way we'd score was from a set piece so blunt is our forward line. Have we sunk to Stoke levels where our best chances of scoring are dead ball situations ?

It's actually tiring watching our players labour with zero finesse around the pitch. We genuinely look a mid to lower Prem team to me The Spam match was the same. To me, we are right back to Gerry Francis levels... I don't think this is all Ange's fault either...the players beyond our defence just seem without any skill. There truly is no Spurs player that excites when getting the ball. This is rare in my 50 years fandom...we always had someone with skill. Not anymore imo.

Yes, well done on the trying, the boys put in a big effort, its the minimum for lower Prem teams ofc. We can't complain about Ange motivating the team, well done Ange, we've got effort in our locker at least.

it's just we are now so achingly ordinary and for me, no win vs Norwegian minnows is going to change that.

Misery. Sheer misery.

I feel compassion for you. As what happened last night seems to barely bring you a modicum of delight in what has been the season from hell.

Some of the rhetoric on here the other day by certain fans about preferring the great football under Poch, but not winning things, to potentially playing attritional football and winning our first truly major trophy since 1991.

I could give a cold fuck in hell if we end up 17th this year, but win the Europa League. Would be a rare ray of light in months and months of darkness.

Could give a monkey’s taint how we got there or what it would take to get us over the line. As those big trophy night or semi finals like in the CL are bliss. Inject it in my veins.

 

[Albertbarich]

I thought it was a real mature performance. We held shape well and I think we sussed that for all their pretty passing patterns they’re lightweight and athletically a level below us.
I also note that both Biss and Bentancour look comfortable and much better in the double pivot.

 

[Legacy]

The utd that 'knows how to win things' is long gone. I'd say it's a pretty evenly matched final on paper.

They beat Man City in the FA Cup final last year. They beat Newcastle in the League Cup the year before.

They don't hoover up the trophies like they did under Ferguson, but they have been far more successful than us in finals since he retired.

 

[coy-spurs1882]

They beat Man City in the FA Cup final last year. They beat Newcastle in the League Cup the year before.

They don't hoover up the trophies like they did under Ferguson, but they have been far more successful than us in finals since he retired.

and you know the ref is going to do them a favour, always

 

[spurs mental]

Yes, its nice we have beaten the minnows and are in the final.

But for me the team seem totally devoid of guile. We have become an effort team. I felt after 1/2 hour the only way we'd score was from a set piece so blunt is our forward line. Have we sunk to Stoke levels where our best chances of scoring are dead ball situations ?

It's actually tiring watching our players labour with zero finesse around the pitch. We genuinely look a mid to lower Prem team to me The Spam match was the same. To me, we are right back to Gerry Francis levels... I don't think this is all Ange's fault either...the players beyond our defence just seem without any skill. There truly is no Spurs player that excites when getting the ball. This is rare in my 50 years fandom...we always had someone with skill. Not anymore imo.

Yes, well done on the trying, the boys put in a big effort, its the minimum for lower Prem teams ofc. We can't complain about Ange motivating the team, well done Ange, we've got effort in our locker at least.

it's just we are now so achingly ordinary and for me, no win vs Norwegian minnows is going to change that.

What matters in cup competitions is winning the game if doesn't matter how you get if done.

Last night was the most professional, mature, solid performance we've seen from Spurs for some time. The same against Frankfurt.

We are going into these games with a game plan, and managing the games with our superiority. The result is all that matters. You heard the players last night after the game. The clean sheet was so important to them, because they knew if we did that we were going to Bilbao..

Enjoy the moment, savour it. We've got a huge opportunity to do something massive now as a club. Something we've all been crying out for, for almost 20 years.

I don't care if we win with a goal off Harry Maguires arse in the final, the result is all that matters.

 

[Gassin's finest]

The narrative is going to be all around Man Utd for the next fortnight. How they need to win.

No. They need to lose. That club, from their fanbase to the class of fucking '92, need to be proper humbled. To experience being fully shit. To suffer. So they can be finally broken out of that insufferable hubris and entitlement that they've been strutting around with since the mid 90s. 100% fuck them, their plastic fans, their Theatre of (broken) Dreams. I know we have direct London rivals, but Man Utd are the one club I absolutely cannot stand.

And we will beat them.

 

[dontcallme]

Just checked the final date to confirm. 21 May, on my birthday. What a birthday gift it would be!

Would be great, but more likely:

 

[Gassin's finest]

Scholes is insufferable.

Man.U probably are favourites because of their history and know how to win as a club absolutely but that suits us fine put the pressure on them and something feels different this season kind of like the Ramos league cup win season, random up and down or mostly down league form but enough quality to win a cup.

I remember Roy Keane once saying something like "everyone thinks Scholes was this quiet, boy next door type. But he won't shut up now will he?"

I remember his regular red cards for his leg breakers, he's a nasty little ****.

 

[Dakes]

Would be great, but more likely:

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Nah, I have a feeling that we'll see something different this time around. It won't be business as usual. Ange knows how to win finals.

 

[gavspur]

The final is the day before my best mate's funeral.

Don't know if I'm gonna make it back yet but it'll be a really weird feeling.

He wasn't really into football but was a United fan as a kid, didn't really have a team later on but some of my other mates and his brother are United fans.

So yeah, it's going to be a very strange feeling

So sorry to hear of your loss mate.

I lost one of my good friends in Dec just gone. I’d literally done a radio show with him two weeks before up in the media centre next to The Shard, so it absolutely flawed me, couldn’t get my head around it. Still can’t, to be honest. His funeral was the day before NYE. They played a slide show of old photos, and one of them, him as a kid, he was in his Spurs shirt. God bless him. Even just typing that has brought a tear to my eye.