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Match Threads Coventry vs Spurs

Date
Sep 18, 2024
KO Time
8:00 pm
Score
1 - 2

Match Prediction

  • We are knocked out the cup

    Votes: 77 42.5%
  • We Advance to the next round

    Votes: 104 57.5%

  • Total voters
    181

mackelman

Member
Dec 5, 2006
34
87
Phew. Needed that win. However it came. Confidence clearly on the floor. Looked absolutely clueles for most part. Really happy for Brennan. Seems a top guy - just need to use him properly. If anything, game showed how truly pointless the Werner re-loan was. Concerned how recruitment boffins felt that to be a direction of travel. Time to focus on clean sheets for a bit and go again from there. Fragile.
 

Westmorlandspur

Well-Known Member
Feb 1, 2013
3,669
5,947
I agree, I wasn’t digging Brennan out at all I completely understand it’s just a sad state of affairs that a young player isn’t celebrating with fans after he’s just scored a late winner because of how he’s been harangued by his own fans
Yes but most likely not from fans in the stadium.
 

Reece_Spurs

Well-Known Member
Sep 10, 2011
882
5,432
Is that actually true?

If so absolutely disgusting and disgraceful from our fans.
Heard it clear as day mate in the live Sky Sports broadcast, it was so clear at times I was shocked the commentators didn't apologise for bad language heard as they usually do. Was 100% spurs fans aswell as it seemed to be being picked up by the pitch mic in the South/West corner..
 

theShiznit

Well-Known Member
Jul 26, 2004
18,722
25,715
Phew. Needed that win. However it came. Confidence clearly on the floor. Looked absolutely clueles for most part. Really happy for Brennan. Seems a top guy - just need to use him properly. If anything, game showed how truly pointless the Werner re-loan was. Concerned how recruitment boffins felt that to be a direction of travel. Time to focus on clean sheets for a bit and go again from there. Fragile.
All that Werner has/had going for him was he was cheap and available.

How can it be that someone half as quick (Kulu) can be so much more effective as a winger?

Just shows you how technique trumps pace.

Now if only we could find someone with both :whistle:
 

Impspur1

Well-Known Member
May 8, 2014
2,959
6,925
Not great but we’re through and so pleased for Johnson. We needed this just to get a run going and build confidence, which looks lacking all over the pitch, which for a team that has been playing decent football is surprising
 

theShiznit

Well-Known Member
Jul 26, 2004
18,722
25,715
It's more movement for me. We're pretty much static majority of the time.
Which is crazy when you think of the third man running we had early last season.
I appreciate that teams sit narrow and deep now but surely that shouldn't stop movement?

It just has to be more nuanced and the movement more dynamic. Just not sure we have the players that appreciate that space and have the technique and speed to marry those things .
 

Reece_Spurs

Well-Known Member
Sep 10, 2011
882
5,432
It's more movement for me. We're pretty much static majority of the time.
This is the issue with us, we are far too predicable. No one makes runs in behind even when we counter attack, very rarely do we switch the play quickly or mix it up and whip higher crosses into the dangerous areas even when we have Richy or Solanke. We've almost been over coached to play 1 way and 1 way only and it's hurting us because firstly we don't have the top quality wingers to do what Ange wants, and secondly, because it really forces the few creative players we do have to go against their instinct and try something different and creative, so they tend to go side wards or back in the final third.
 

npearl4spurs

Believing Member
Sep 9, 2014
4,998
13,904
Knowing Spurs, Werner on the right would be a world-beater but we'll never find out. Poor Timo, left in some drain somewhere in Coventry
 

mackelman

Member
Dec 5, 2006
34
87
Which is crazy when you think of the third man running we had early last season.
I appreciate that teams sit narrow and deep now but surely that shouldn't stop movement?

It just has to be more nuanced and the movement more dynamic. Just not sure we have the players that appreciate that space and have the technique and speed to marry those things .
Absolutely. Feels like our attacking game has regressed massively and is incredibly over-structured: i.e. Work it wide and pull it back. Don't believe Liverpool are in any way more technically proficient than us - their movement/smarts are night and day though.
 

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