Match Threads Spurs vs Leicester - Match Thread - Day 14

[hutchiniho]

We’d have went 1 up after 3 mins and sat back for 87 mins.

The best teams hammer opponents and go at them. We sneak a goal and hope to see it out.

Absolutely agree
this is interesting. And atm classic Mourinho. But I remember his old Chelsea team been rock solid, getting the first goal but then going on to win 2 or 3-0.
Not sure why this has changed
Is there still a lack of trust in the starters and the permanent 2 man shield in midfield?
RB looked to be improved but MD really hasn’t worked out.
Improving Sissoko is a must for next season.
Leaves us far too limited.

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Just wondering .. was that albrighton kungfu kick into kanes stomach a red card offence?

I thought so.

 

[Escher]

Sorry but can you all stop doing this. Here in the States we can watch all the games but given the time difference I don’t necessarily watch them live so it’s really annoying to go on the Spurs match thread after watching our game to have someone tell me the score in other games I haven’t watched yet. I’m not sure what their relevance is in a match thread as opposed to the Race for the title thread

(Most of those games I mentioned aren't even played the same day)

You can't expect not to get reaction to the Utd game straight after ours in this thread either, especially when it impacts our top 4 position.

(The actual discussion of other premier league games is usually in the General Football sub of this forum)

(and in any case, revealing what happens in the first 3 minutes of the game is hardly the same as revealing what happens in the last 3 minutes)

 

[Spurs 1961]

Been out since early morning with work. Came home to find out that somehow the game wasn’t recorded.
Think I am lucky. Clearly I have been saved from a bigger pile of excrement than our usual standard of pony football

 

[mrlilywhite]

I respectfully disagree. A significant number of the players in this squad are from a side struggling since late 2018. We were playing with very limited tactical success, with the Poch philosophy of pressing front foot football having fallen away very quickly since that time. It was not a coincidence that it took nearly a year and Jose taking over to get an away win. It was a very tough 2019-20 season with multiple injuries, an exhausted squad and very very limited creativity.

Jose has managed to fill some key positions with Dan Levy at a minimal cost, improve existing squad players, get Ndombele to fill in the creative midfielder role and adopt a rapier type counter attacking approach which has proven to be generally successful. We were hard done by in the Liverpool game, the Newcastle game was robbery and the West Ham game was a freak result. Jose has continued to learn about this squad. It is increasingly clear that the likes of Winks, Alli, Sissoko, Aurier have either peaked or are limited players. He has managed to put together a plan that ekes out the best qualities of the players of the squad which has been a generally successful approach this season. The Everton game we were well beaten and in this game Aurier gifted away a game which was under control but blunt. Ndombele was clipped on the ankle in the first few minutes and was struggling since then and was substituted during the half. Lo Celso followed suit pretty quickly. Sissoko and Aurier had a very poor game and the own goal from Vardy not tracked by Sissoko summed it up. If we finish top 4, Jose will have done a fantastic job. Wouldn’t mind a league cup to go with it. I do see Kane going to Madrid though. Or Bayern

I like your optimism, but forgive my glass half empty ideology when it comes to Spurs, to suggest it's more blind faith from where I'm standing. I missed the first 20 mins of the game and didn't realise that he took a knock. If I'm being totally open and honest, I'm seriously not a fan of this style of the game we're playing. I want teams to come to our ground and know that we are going to give them a tough time and offer them lots to think about. I've seen far too many games lately where we just say,

"try and score against us and look we'll give you the ball more so you can have as much time as you like and we'll try and use the odd moment where we can break the play and counter you, whilst sitting quite deep to give us more work to create a chance against you, we'll likely try and do that every 20-30 mins, we'll do it through Kane, as we'll generally bypass everyone else"

That is pretty much what I see every game and whilst the man city game was a good result, it was at times brutal viewing from a purist perspective.

 

[Blackrat1299]

I wonder who Jose will throw under the bus?

 

[hutchiniho]

So.. anyone willing to admit that our style of play and tactics are poor yet?

I said it weeks ago this style of play doesn’t win league titles and some of the players we have starting for us won’t win us league titles either. Time to wake up people

It won’t.
It may or any given day beat a top side however, which means we might go on to win a cup.
Not defending the tactics by any means.
I think there is still a lot of work to be done with this side to make to a consistent challenger
in all honesty it’s not too dissimilar to Poch’s final season.
Jose may grind out a cup.
Let’s see what happens on Wednesday

 

[Nynorsk]

We use to have a parked bus at the back and a Ferrari up front, but this was just taxis all over the place.

 

[hamsup_sotong]

I wonder who Jose will throw under the bus?

Aurier duh and the ref

 

[Gbspurs]

I wonder who Jose will throw under the bus?

Questioning "some players" attitude. I get the feeling he is starting to turn on Ndombele again.

 

[Gbspurs]

Aurier duh and the ref

He actually defended Aurier

 

[midoshairband]

If Arse go above us I might be in touch

think i’ll be in touch if that happens!

 

[Blackrat1299]

I think Leicester managed to control Harry quite effectively.

 

[handsomecake]

from twitter: McTominay scored more goals than Bale, Bergwijn, Lucas, Vinicius, Lamela, Lo Celso and ndombele in 2 minutes.

 

[guiltyparty]

I turned off at half time and took the kid to the park. The weekend has been shitty enough without watching that. Looked well off the pace even before the goal. Shame it was Aurier as he’s been so good of late.

Ah well, looks like Michael Caley at The Athletic was right and all the xG evidence suggested we were due a huge falloff as our big chances to goals ratio was unsustainable. We’re going to have games where the strikers don’t score with every shot and this is what happens when we do

Got to keep all the cups spinning as we should never judge this season on not winning the league as that would be silly

 

[DEFchenkOE]

Absolutely agree
this is interesting. And atm classic Mourinho. But I remember his old Chelsea team been rock solid, getting the first goal but then going on to win 2 or 3-0.
Not sure why this has changed
Is there still a lack of trust in the starters and the permanent 2 man shield in midfield?
RB looked to be improved but MD really hasn’t worked out.
Improving Sissoko is a must for next season.
Leaves us far too limited.

Don't forget at Chelsea they made massive investment the first time round at a time when other teams weren't making anywhere near that level of investment and they only really had man u and arse as serious competitors. The CL was a closed shop as those guys were always way ahead of anyone else. The league just isn't like that anymore.

 

[spursfan77]

I turned off at half time and took the kid to the park. The weekend has been shitty enough without watching that. Looked well off the pace even before the goal. Shame it was Aurier as he’s been so good of late.

Ah well, looks like Michael Caley at The Athletic was right and all the xG evidence suggested we were due a huge falloff as our big chances to goals ratio was unsustainable. We’re going to have games where the strikers don’t score with every shot and this is what happens when we do

Got to keep all the cups spinning as we should never judge this season on not winning the league as that would be silly

There’s just not enough goals from other areas of the pitch. Central midfield has nothing. If the forwards don’t score we need to get lucky from a set piece. Ive said it for months. We need new central midfielders.

 

[Barrd10]

Absolutely agree
this is interesting. And atm classic Mourinho. But I remember his old Chelsea team been rock solid, getting the first goal but then going on to win 2 or 3-0.
Not sure why this has changed
Is there still a lack of trust in the starters and the permanent 2 man shield in midfield?
RB looked to be improved but MD really hasn’t worked out.
Improving Sissoko is a must for next season.
Leaves us far too limited.

The teams around us have got better players now. So Jose’s tactics won’t win much now. What he won at ManU were cups which you can win with good draws.

 

[shelfboy68]

The teams around us have got better players now. So Jose’s tactics won’t win much now. What he won at ManU were cups which you can win with good draws.

Jose setting up a team to be organised and disciplined is the basis of a club that can go on to win things.
But we also can't expect to defend for 80 mins with only having 20% possession as this invites too much pressure on ourselves.
I think he still needs more players to get us playing the way he wants which is a bit further forward.
The league is very competitive this year and with our failure to grab nothing more than 1 point this week has seen us temporarily fall away from the top, we just need a couple of results to get us up and running again.

 

[Amo]

We finished 6th last season and people are shocked and upset that it doesn’t look like we are going to win the title. Ok.

Oh come on. The points dropped over the last week (bar one against Liverpool) have been forfeited not lost