Nope you are completely correct, he plays a high intensity, hound down the other team and dominate the ball setup, this though of course means some teams will on purposefully look to hit us on the break and defend deep which funny enough is what COnte played. It'll take time and i think some results will be bumpy but it will get there.
Yeah, I don’t know if this is something that’s sometimes done with inverted fullbacks or something he did at Celtic, but I wondered about bringing Son in and Udogie overlapping more often - he looks like he has the strength and pace to go past a player. We got very few crosses in.
I'm presuming with our high-line this is something he's been asked to do to eat up the space and pressure the attackers. A clever CF/winger would have him on toast if he isn't careful.
What didn't help was there was no water in the stadium so the pitch was dry AF...
Yeah, nine months. Could make a baby in that time. Cosmic.
Agreed. Scoreline the same but the feeling in the match as a whole was so different. Last time was our first match post World Cup, we were all hoping we had shed the "give teams a one or two goal head start" shit that we had adopted and what did we do? Gave Brentford a two goal head start, got totally outplayed and then scored a couple of goals after we were forced to have a go at them. I remember watching it on TV and basically giving up and getting on with other things because we looked incapable of stringing two passes together never mind scoring and then Kane's goal reeled me back in. Then Pierre scored and we nearly won it when Kane hit the bar. In all of that, Conte never seemed to clock that if we had played with that intent from the start we could have won not just that game but several others under his management. This is why Ange is so loved already, he is the antithesis of Conte.
It was a farce. Sonny was arguably tripped by Jensen. The ref was on the spot and didn't give it. Not a clear and obvious error so VAR should have butted out.
I said to my wife about 10 minutes before kick-off "it's a bit of a free hit, this game. I'm not expecting anything special." yet I was probably more emotionally invested than I had been for any Spurs game in the last 18 months. I was absolutely gripped from first minute to last, to the point where it was making me feel a bit sick. It felt like a cup game at times, real "on a knife edge" stuff, particularly towards the end of the first half.
Absolutely. I wasn't looking forward to any games over the last year or so, but I'm already looking forward to next weekend with anticipation even when it's United. We got a result last season when we were in the absolute shit, no reason why we can't do the same again with more positivity around the team
I'd love to see a referee having the guts to look at the monitor and then say, 'no, I still don't think that was a penalty'
These decisions Howard Webb said last season that it would be left to the on field referee to decide and VAR should not get involved. Let’s see what happens for the rest of the season. Really soft decision which should not have been a penalty in my opinion.
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