- Oct 17, 2006
- 10,708
- 25,296
3 points and a clean sheet
Harry my MOTM
Harry my MOTM
It’s a clear joke and a reference to Mourinho’s pep talk. Get over yourself.Thanks for your erudite & informative contribution to this thread.
LEGEND
Fair play mate, comment & rating withdrawn ?It’s a clear joke and a reference to Mourinho’s pep talk. Get over yourself.
Great post, agree with it all and love the first bit.Mourinho has often been described as being anti football. If anti football means identifying the oppositions frailties and exploiting them while identifying oppositions strengths and nullifying them, then we could’ve done with a lot more anti football while this squad was at its peak. We might have even won something.
There’s the potential caveat to today’s performance that Leicester have injury and suspension issues, I say fuck them, nobody made excuses for us when we had similar.
Today we scored good goals built by well constructed, slick attacking moves. We showed purpose with the ball and intelligence without it. We beat the premier leagues best example of a counter attacking team in the last half decade at their own game. I’d have loved a second half massacring including a perfect hatrick for Kane but I know that Jose would rather protect the well deserved comfortable lead than risk it for the sake of platitudes. Bird in the hand and all that...
Lloris, one gaff aside, was very good, dealing with corners routinely easily, keeping focus on their many pot shots, and making once world class save.
Aurier doesn’t need to be discussed, he gets top marks just for how he’s coming through for us right now, but he played well regardless and seems happier as a more typical right back than a winger.
Sanchez looked confident, quick, and read the game very well.
Alderweireld, aside from one block, I don’t overly remember which tends to say good thing about both him and the team.
Davies was very good, like Aurier seems to prefer playing as a typical full back rather than a hybrid left back centre back. He passed and overlapped well and defended unflappably.
Sissoko was a weaker link in the first half, gifting Leicester possession and ergo attacking opportunities more than once and making poor decisions on the ball. Improved in the second half with good work on the flank to ensure our solidity but also more consistency with his passing.
Winks was the reverse Sissoko, with a good first half where he used the ball well and kept it in the areas we wanted it, not Leicester. Beautiful pass to Son deserved a goal. Fizzled out second half.
Lo Celso blocked, dribbled, tackled, and had more touches than any other Spurs player outside of our defence. Didn’t get on the ball as much as I’d like but in a match where we give up so much possession it’s forgivable.
Lucas was again very good. Two deserved assists (one sumptuous, one a tad fortuitous) and deadly on our counter attacks generally. Great work off the ball and left it all on the pitch.
Son was very good, worked hard and was dangerous on the counter. Unlucky that his goal was taken away for an OG but his diligence, pace and sharpness throughout enable us to be as dangerous as we were on the counter.
Kane, well, was the best version of himself. Bullies Leicester centre backs physically, two world class finishes, explosive running, skill in abundance and a passing masterclass that deserved two assists but for one deflection and one slip. Which he’d got the hatrick.
Bergwijn, Lamela, Gedson and Skipp came on purely for freshness (and some game management) as the game has become attack v defence, so can’t really judge them.
Kane was back to near his very best today and that was in all facets of his game and not just two sublime strikes.
Clear MotM but I particularly think Toby has also rose to the occasion and him and Sanchez just look calm and composed and completely settled in Jose's system.
Plenty of positives to build on.