Ratings: Tottenham vs Leicester, FA Cup 4th Round, 24 Jan 2015

[scat1620]

10 -
9 -
8 -
7 - Soldado, Lamela, Fazio
6 - Rose, Chiriches, Dembele, Townsend
5 - Vorm, Kaboul, Capoue, Paulinho
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

EDIT - moved Townsend from a 5 to a 6, because I forgot that he took the penalty. Might well come back later and drop Capoue and Paulinho to 4, but they can stay at 5 for now.

 

[neilp]

10 -
9 -
8 -
7 - Soldado, Lamela, Fazio
6 - Rose, Chiriches, Dembele, Townsend
5 - Vorm, Kaboul, Capoue, Paulinho
4 -
3 -
2 -
1 -

EDIT - moved Townsend from a 5 to a 6, because I forgot that he took the penalty. Might well come back later and drop Capoue and Paulinho to 4, but they can stay at 5 for now.

I guess you were the only one who watched the game...

 

[Lufti]

Vorm - 5 Some decent saves, but poor decision making and a sloppy goal conceded
Chiriches - 7 -Did a decent job, made a fair few tackles, got up the wing fairly well and wasn't wasteful with the ball
Fazio - 5 Poor positioning today and his slow turn of pace saw him exposed today. On a couple of occasions the opponents just strolled between him and Kaboul, and at one point he was backing off so much that the opponent was able to just jog into 6 yard box with the ball
Kaboul - 5 Always out of position, never held his line with Fazio and didn't use the ball productively
Rose - 5 Okay going forward, couple of tackles, couple of bad decisions, often too high up the pitch allowing the other team to counter
Capoue - 4 No urgency, lathargic style, didn't look like he wanted to be there, over hit passes, playing safe, passes with little weight on them, often passed behind team mates
Dembele - 4 See above and add often slowed down the play
Paulinho - 4 See above, liked to drop right the way back to take the ball off the CBs' toes, missed a handful of good chances including one which should have been scored but was instead skied over the bar from about 8 yards
Lamela - 7 Fruitful when on the left, played some nice passes to and off Soldado, attacked his full back quite well, worked his way out of tight spots well and wasn't guilty of overdoing it like he can be - had a tendency to drift inside a bit too much though and congest the middle. Was worse when he was moved on to the right, and for some reason he'd always want the ball with the opposing defender in front of him rather than going past the opposition off the ball and then receiving a through ball - meant counter attacks from our own half were ineffective.
Townsend - 6 Showed for the ball a lot, attacked the opposing full backs but became predictable with his constant cutting in and his crosses were wayward. Scored another confident penalty.
Soldado - 6 Linked up well with the midfield, showed some nice touches and passes, won the penalty but often dropped deep or went wide due to being starved of the ball which meant we lacked an option in front. If you're going to do that then you need to do it the way Kane does whereby he drops deep but drives forward with the ball moving the whole team forward

 

[IGSpur]

Vorm - 6 - He pulled off a world class save at thes tart and followed it up with another good one. But he never comes off his line or tries to claim. He missed an opportnity to mop up and relieve the pressure which lead to the corner that resulted in their first goal. And he was at fault for the second. Good and bad in one game
Chiriches - 6 - Decent game
Kaboul 6 - Dominated in the air today but his positioning is sitll poor
Fazio 7 - Think he was better than Kaboul better positioning etc. Done a nice little maradona.
Rose 7.5 - Really liking his tenacity. Maybe caught out a couple of times but his end product is really coming on

Capoue - 6.5 - Better than the other two. He did put in some challenges but seems really careless. Can't really fault him for anything though
Dembele and Paulinho - 4 - Leicester's midfield destroyers. How can these two players have played in the midfield at the World Cup but breakdown our attacks more than their DM. So many times there would be a break one of them would get it, not pass on turn and pass back. Or run to the back four get the ball pass back and run off. Infuriating. While Paulinho was worse than Dembele, Dembele is probably more frustrating as it looks like he has the ability to be doing soooo much more. What a waste of talent. I watch him and get convinced we need to keep him but there is seriously no point if we had to keep one of the 3 should prob be Capoue as he at least tries to pass forward.

Townsend - 6.5 - Tried hard again. His ball control can be poor and some of his passing was off. But he is a trier and I will always support him because of it. Wasn't his day. Oh and he still carreid on his penalty run
Lamela - 7.5 - May be slightly generous, but he played some nice passes and was definitely our most threatening player. Was good coming off the right second half and was a massive threat. Lost the ball a couple of times but good for first game bacl
Soldado 7 - was having a really good game. Good passing looked a threat and one the penalty and a couple of freekicks.

No subs did anything of note from what I remember.

EDIT- In my slight rage I forgot to add. Paulinho missed 2 fantastic chances. One he was through on goal and toe poked it right at the keeper. The other Lamela crossed to him and he missed. 3.5

 

[JimmyG2]

Voted goat to see what the votes were of the people actually there
Pleased that only 35.000 actually witnessed the game
and that I wasn't one of them.
Our late goals the result of our training regimes and fitness.
What were their late goals down to then.

 

[scat1620]

I set this poll up so that you could see who people voted for. On an unrelated note I'd like to say that I think @gp13tot and @St José Dominguez both have a fantastic sense of humour.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

I am concerned that Poch seems to pick some starting elevens out of a hat.

 

[BK007]

I just saw the BBC highlights for our match.

Kaboul needs to go. He gets caught out of position or beaten on 4 instances. It's a damn highlight reel. It's depressing.

 

[Larryjanta]

Had a night to stew on it.

Good: Lamela, Rose
Fine: Soldado, Towsend, Fazio
Poor: Vorm, Chiriches, Paulinho, Ade, Eriksen, Poch, Fans
Shit: Kaboul, Capoue, Dembele

 

[0-Tibsy-0]

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham-v-leicester-city--player-ratings-10000454.html

 

[Lufti]

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham-v-leicester-city--player-ratings-10000454.html

Paulinho 7

 

[prawnsandwich]

http://windycoys.com/2015/01/tottenham-hotspur-1-2-leicester-city-some-thoughts/

Worth a read.

 

[prawnsandwich]

Surprised nobody has anything to say about windy's appraisal.
The gist is that both Capoue and Dembele did not help very much defensively. I agree and question why we had 2 players who are not renowned for their attacking prowess and who windy pointed out were not very good defensively were selected for this game.

 

[IGSpur]

I make him right, but what else was Poch really to do. He could have mixed up the CM partnership but I think he'd rather not leave anything to chance in the CoC play our best team and give 2nd team to FA CUP and hope for the best. Rather than send out 2 weaker teams and potentially nto qualify for either

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Surprised nobody has anything to say about windy's appraisal.
The gist is that both Capoue and Dembele did not help very much defensively. I agree and question why we had 2 players who are not renowned for their attacking prowess and who windy pointed out were not very good defensively were selected for this game.

Complacency Imo

 

[Blackcanary]

Surprised nobody has anything to say about windy's appraisal.
The gist is that both Capoue and Dembele did not help very much defensively. I agree and question why we had 2 players who are not renowned for their attacking prowess and who windy pointed out were not very good defensively were selected for this game.

Honestly, it strikes me that they were picked by default really. Benji and Mason were rested, Paulinho was playing in the AM3. C'est tout. Nobody else to pick unless he wanted to bed in a youth player.

Whatever your (and mine) critcisms of Dembele and Capoue, they're capable,experienced players. We could have anticipated they wouldn't exactly be a high-octane pairing (to put it mildly...) but there should have been the quality there to see us through. You can't predict laziness and lethargy.

 

[prawnsandwich]

Honestly, it strikes me that they were picked by default really. Benji and Mason were rested, Paulinho was playing in the AM3. C'est tout. Nobody else to pick unless he wanted to bed in a youth player.

Whatever your (and mine) critcisms of Dembele and Capoue, they're capable,experienced players. We could have anticipated they wouldn't exactly be a high-octane pairing (to put it mildly...) but there should have been the quality there to see us through. You can't predict laziness and lethargy.

Both are experienced players and the logic in playing them is clear. Like the CP game if stuff had not happened we could well have held on and won this game. Both games we took off Andros and we go from a winning position to lose.

 

[Spurger King]

Honestly, it strikes me that they were picked by default really. Benji and Mason were rested, Paulinho was playing in the AM3. C'est tout. Nobody else to pick unless he wanted to bed in a youth player.

Whatever your (and mine) critcisms of Dembele and Capoue, they're capable,experienced players. We could have anticipated they wouldn't exactly be a high-octane pairing (to put it mildly...) but there should have been the quality there to see us through. You can't predict laziness and lethargy.

Every game Paulnho has played under Pochettino has been as an attacking midfielder, with two midfielders (most commonly Stambouli) behind him, so it was certainly a system he's used to. As you say, Pochettino was making the most of his experienced squad players and we justifiably expected more from them.

I won't complain about the line-up, but I'm somewhat reticent about showing my confidence in Pochettino's motivational skills.

 

[DCSPUR]

the team Poch should have put out was easily good enough to win
That they did not when these players should be desperate to break into the first X1 says much more about them and their recruitment than it does about Poch'ino

 

[Blackcanary]

Every game Paulnho has played under Pochettino has been as an attacking midfielder, with two midfielders (most commonly Stambouli) behind him, so it was certainly a system he's used to. As you say, Pochettino was making the most of his experienced squad players and we justifiably expected more from them.

I won't complain about the line-up, but I'm somewhat reticent about showing my confidence in Pochettino's motivational skills.

Yep, this is a really good point: Do those players see a future here? Do they want a future here? If they're here until we can sell them then just how does Poch keep them motivated?

They're valuable squad players for us, so it's pretty important we don't end up with a core group who are Poch's 'boys' and and another group of demotivated malcontents.