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Match Prediction

  • Spurs Win

    Votes: 69 78.4%
  • Newcastle Win

    Votes: 6 6.8%
  • Score Draw

    Votes: 11 12.5%
  • Goalless Draw

    Votes: 2 2.3%

  • Total voters
    88
  • Poll closed .

JCRD

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At the start of the thread I posted this:-

I'm not looking for kudos I just honestly believed it and strangely enough I honestly felt we were going to get the result all game, Newcastle were playing out of their skin in defence but I just felt it couldn't last and as the game went on it started getting a bit more desperate and sure enough it broke.
Good move to bring on Rose and Llorente, it added a whole lot more dynamism down that flank and Nando gave us a target and I thought he played that role really well once he got going.
Walked out of Wembley smiling like a cheshire cat into blue skies and sunshine, a perfect afternoon.:)

Hindsight 2020 ;)
 

Westmorlandspur

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I was at the game... Bloody 2 hours to get home!

Felt that after failing to capitalise on the dominance of the opening 20 minutes, we got too comfortable and lost some urgency and concentration. Newcastle had been uninterested up until that point, but one mistake and they could sniff an opportunity.

Delighted and relieved with the win, but we should be thumping teams like that. We had them torn to shreds and should have done much better. Nando should have started and Rose and trippier either side of a back 3 would have given us far more potency from the flanks. Jan is a fair full back but he has a centre backs touch.

Must be more ruthless in my opinion.
Newcastle don’t get thumped. They have the 7th best defensive record in the league and 2nd worst goals scored. No wonder when they play 9 back and one up front. Benitez is a top manager but defensive is what he is.
We are doing ok. Harry poss back for Chelsea or definitely Arsenal .
 

CoopsieDeadpool

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It's dull. In the toxic bowl that is Wembley.
Im at the other end of the stadium and you can hear the geordies..
Norwigians to the left of me.. Koreans right behind... Fuck off.
But you ****s at home slaughtering us.. Get here ffs.. Larging it about your giving it at the new lane.
. Fuck off even worse.



 

spursfan77

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Newcastle don’t get thumped. They have the 7th best defensive record in the league and 2nd worst goals scored. No wonder when they play 9 back and one up front. Benitez is a top manager but defensive is what he is.
We are doing ok. Harry poss back for Chelsea or definitely Arsenal .

I think if they had been more positive against us today they wouldn’t of lost.
 

CoopsieDeadpool

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If ever there was supposed to be one post made after another. The difference between Tottenham past & Tottenham current.

So proud of where we are as a club right now! COYS


Time was in the past that'd be a 0-0 having failed to break them down. Good win. and the spurs go marching on.

Again had to rely on a late goal, bloody nervy viewing! So good to keep going right until the end though and it's a good trait to have, even though I'd much rather we didn't have to.

COYS!
 

CoopsieDeadpool

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Time was in the past that'd be a 0-0 having failed to break them down. Good win. and the spurs go marching on.

Again had to rely on a late goal, bloody nervy viewing! So good to keep going right until the end though and it's a good trait to have, even though I'd much rather we didn't have to.

COYS!


Good teams grind out the result.


I can't say it's always fun to watch but we keep grinding our way forward.


It's really not too long ago that such statements were being made about Alex Ferguson's Man Utd team.

I'm not saying Poch is as good as Ferguson, or we're as good as United were. I'm just pointing out that we're doing exactly as they used to do, and were constantly sucked off by the pundits & media. Yet we're just merely keeping up with their beloved Man City & the unquestionable brilliance that is Jurgen Klopp, and barely a thing is said.
 
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CoopsieDeadpool

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Usually don't, but decided to check this thread out at halftime.

The absolute shite some people chat is embarrassing.


Brilliant isn't it ? There's literally nothing better than coming to this thread after the game has finished & seeing some of the shit that people chat. :rolleyes:

Then again, if there was ever an expert on chatting shit :cautious:
 

DiamondLites

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Brace yourselves for the MOTD brains trust to fawn over Newcastle’s ‘magnificent defending’ and splice the highlights to make it look like we robbed them of a victory

Defending is a hell of a lot easier when there are 8 or 9 of you in or around the box, our lack of clinical finishing is what prevented a 3 or 4 goal victory
 

davidmatzdorf

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Eriksen was tremendous in the second half I thought


It's rather aggravating to see the knee-jerk, blind-bat bullshit "disagrees" and "funnies" attached to the first post. It's an absolute cast-iron example of people who got all wound up at (probably in part via reading way too much crap on the match thread) about Eriksen's lack of creativity in the first half then seeing only what they were pre-set to see in the second half.

Every single one of our best second-half chances, except for Son's jammy goal, resulted directly from Eriksen's creativity. Llorente's header, Eriksen's two precise touches in the box that were cleared off the line ...and I've missed one that I can't recall, but noted at the time. He also won the ball several times in midfield and pressed/closed down well.

Even in the first half, he was doing all of the basics of his midfield position well - it was just his set-piece delivery and his lack of chance-creation that was badly sub-par.

Too many people get locked into assumptions and then their brains see what isn't there, or don't see what is there.

Eriksen has been playing a bit deeper recently, since we have had the rash of injuries in attack and midfield and particularly when we have Sissoko and and Winks trying to hold the centre. His assistance is needed there more often, because we aren't playing with a dominating, controlling player like Dembélé or a proper holding midfielder like Dier or Wanyama. It puts Eriksen further from the box most of the time and it reduces his opportunities for creative, killer balls.

His set piece delivery has just been bad. He's no excuse there.
 

ajspurs

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I think if they had been more positive against us today they wouldn’t of lost.

It's a hard one that. It's easy to assume as much because they had chances to score despite playing somewhat reservedly and defensively but they got those chances because they were on the back foot and able to spring forward, to catch us cold when we hadn't had more much defending to do. They did have short moments of pressure where you would think that if they kept it up they may get something though admittedly, like at the start of the second half. But if they did generally play more positively, I think there's an argument that doing so may have maybe favoured us too.

Not trying to flat out dispute what you say as you may be right, but I know I'd much rather have teams going for it a bit more against us than to sit back with everyone behind the ball and look to catch us on a one off counter, which is when I think we sometimes struggle. For instance I don't think it's any surprise that we carved open Chelsea and United a lot more than we did say, Newcastle today and Burnley previously.
 

davidmatzdorf

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Yes, of course. Newcastle kept the score down because of the way they played. If they'd attacked twice as often, it could have ended about 3-0 or 3-1.

The main reason they couldn't sustain pressure, except for about 5 minutes in the first half, was not because they were playing too deep, it was because they couldn't keep the ball when they advanced out of defence. At least 15-20 times, we would lose the ball and Eriksen or Winks or Sissoko would win it right back, in seconds. It's what you expect from Lamela, but he wasn't in his aggressive mode today, for some reason.
 

Sandros Shiny Head

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It's rather aggravating to see the knee-jerk, blind-bat bullshit "disagrees" and "funnies" attached to the first post. It's an absolute cast-iron example of people who got all wound up at (probably in part via reading way too much crap on the match thread) about Eriksen's lack of creativity in the first half then seeing only what they were pre-set to see in the second half.

Every single one of our best second-half chances, except for Son's jammy goal, resulted directly from Eriksen's creativity. Llorente's header, Eriksen's two precise touches in the box that were cleared off the line ...and I've missed one that I can't recall, but noted at the time. He also won the ball several times in midfield and pressed/closed down well.

Even in the first half, he was doing all of the basics of his midfield position well - it was just his set-piece delivery and his lack of chance-creation that was badly sub-par.

Too many people get locked into assumptions and then their brains see what isn't there, or don't see what is there.

Eriksen has been playing a bit deeper recently, since we have had the rash of injuries in attack and midfield and particularly when we have Sissoko and and Winks trying to hold the centre. His assistance is needed there more often, because we aren't playing with a dominating, controlling player like Dembélé or a proper holding midfielder like Dier or Wanyama. It puts Eriksen further from the box most of the time and it reduces his opportunities for creative, killer balls.

His set piece delivery has just been bad. He's no excuse there.
Eriksen might have improved after half time but he's been 4/10 for 90% of this season, I don't know how anyone can argue with it
 

mpickard2087

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It's rather aggravating to see the knee-jerk, blind-bat bullshit "disagrees" and "funnies" attached to the first post. It's an absolute cast-iron example of people who got all wound up at (probably in part via reading way too much crap on the match thread) about Eriksen's lack of creativity in the first half then seeing only what they were pre-set to see in the second half.

Every single one of our best second-half chances, except for Son's jammy goal, resulted directly from Eriksen's creativity. Llorente's header, Eriksen's two precise touches in the box that were cleared off the line ...and I've missed one that I can't recall, but noted at the time. He also won the ball several times in midfield and pressed/closed down well.

Even in the first half, he was doing all of the basics of his midfield position well - it was just his set-piece delivery and his lack of chance-creation that was badly sub-par.

Too many people get locked into assumptions and then their brains see what isn't there, or don't see what is there.

Eriksen has been playing a bit deeper recently, since we have had the rash of injuries in attack and midfield and particularly when we have Sissoko and and Winks trying to hold the centre. His assistance is needed there more often, because we aren't playing with a dominating, controlling player like Dembélé or a proper holding midfielder like Dier or Wanyama. It puts Eriksen further from the box most of the time and it reduces his opportunities for creative, killer balls.

His set piece delivery has just been bad. He's no excuse there.

That's a good defence of him. He is struggling in some areas though I'd say, for instance I've just commented in the match ratings that I've noticed his first touch recently has deserted him a bit. A lot of times in recent weeks the ball most uncharacteristically gets away from him and he has to quickly readjust, or because of this he's all of a sudden rushed and either is dispossessed or has to try a more desperate pass. Not the oasis of calm and control on the ball that we are accustomed to, for me he's a bit off the boil. Why I don't know, but he's not firing completely.

And the set pieces, where he's just generally delivering the ball with the kicking power/technique of a toddler, well......
 
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