Match Threads Southampton vs Spurs - Match Thread - Day 2

[yankspurs]

Winks, Dier & Lucas need selling. Mourinho ball is not it.

 

[Metalhead]

Something seriously wrong within this club.

Not the club but definitely the team. Personally I feel patient about it - this is going to be a long haul and we definitely need more quality incomings but some have definitely already made their minds up.

 

[Jamturk]

How we miss Eriksen and Dembele

 

[Wsussexspur]

Can anyone remember the last time they sat down and actually enjoyed watching us play?

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Hmm I know we scored two offside goals but I just can’t get past this sitting off and not stringing many passes together style of play.
Big 2nd half needed

 

[InBlackAndWhite]

If Ings didn't spend half his career in the treatment room, he would be world class.

Easily one of the top 3-4 stirkers in the league.

 

[lukadownthelane]

What is this? Long balls or head down running into opposition. No tactics. No desire. This is like watching a u11 C team play football

 

[richard_gleeson]

Just don't see what any manager sees in winks and dier. It's like there's some secret that fans just don't know about. Everyone can see they're not good enough but they get games for club and country.

 

[thebenjamin]

In all the excitement of Bale I'd actually forgotten that Mourinho's only tactic is to smash it long

 

[taricco]

Let’s be honest. This isn’t about whether individual players are playing or not. It’s about the lack of any real system and any confidence or motivation to pass the ball around or press high up the pitch.

 

[The Long Suffering One]

I know it's still early days for him with us, but PEH doesn't look like the typical DM we are craving for.

 

[noiseboy55]

0 shots. 0

 

[Grapo2001]

Early NDombele promise fading...

 

[jurgen]

Can we use Jose’s connections and influence to sign all the players we need, and then get rid after the window shuts?

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

How we miss Eriksen and Dembele

And poch

 

[wirE]

Soton dominating the game at the moment. Afraid this is yet another loss coming in if we don’t turn things around asap. Winksy off and GLC in

 

[cjbyid]

Jenas is right.

This hoof the ball up top and hope someone runs onto it is dreadful.

I don't get his tactics at all. If there is any.

 

[jolsnogross]

In the spell before that goal, it just beggars belief to watch Spurs stand off and not pressure the opponent in possession until they are well in our own half. It gives them lots of head up time on the ball to play through us, short and long.

Meanwhile, when we try to play it out from our own box we have no move lined up after just two passes. Resulting in a lump up field, even without being pressed too much.

This counter attacking "style" against the league's modest sides is a joke.

 

[thecook]

Jenas spot on in commentary. Is just long ball, we just don't get the ball down and play effective football.

yep we might as well just sign Andy fucking Carroll over Ings with the way we are playing!

 

[Super Tottenham]

I bet it’s sissoko that comes on