We are playing with an injured goalie, no forwards who can score regularly, an average midfield and we are still 8th. Thought the first two Spurs goals were soft. Frazier could have come for first goal and someone left Kane with a free header. Even before the sending off we were awful, constantly losing the ball by aimless punts forward. When Victor is able to surge into the area and shoot you know something is not right. Should have been 6 or7 for Spurs. We can't be that bad against WBA, can we?
Now I have calmed down. Spurs deserved the win, we should have kept up our high press, for more than 20mins! We where unfortunate with the deflections that put them in on goal, but we are so piss poor upfront, we desperately need a strong target man!
It's a shame how the game turned out because we were absolutely brilliant until they equalised. They grew in confidence and we seemed to lose it. It's also a shame that Alli comes across as a bit of a prick because he's such a talented player.
Not sure that is the case, we scored, try to score again, and then conceded a goal from nowhere and lost a bit of confidence
Absolutely.... but this in my eyes is the difference between top 6 and the rest. They can either afford that premium ability up front or can afford to wait and cherry pick from the rest. This is why I believe/hope Kat wants some added investment.
Not sure, I think we lack effective consistent build up play, I thought Jay was excellent in the first 30 mins with his running and closing, but generally through the game we struggled to create ( again)
Bloke sat next to me in the pub said that he thought Frazers distribution was awful. Tried to explain that he seemed to be carrying an injury. No back up is going to cost us.
Important game for me coming up is the FA Cup against Norwich. Hope Claude puts out a full strength team to win that one as the Liverpool game a few days later will take care of itself. No point in putting out a second 11 against Norwich as there is no guarantee that the "rested" first choice will dispose of Liverpool in the next match.
Those first 17 minutes were the best football I have seen under Puel. A lucky deflection leading to an equaliser (but fair play, they took the goal well whilst we were caught flat footed) and then a decent goal to give them a deserved 2-1 lead. I would have been prepared to accept that as a result because Spurs controlled the game for long periods and were marginally the better team. Our problem (for which Spurs must take credit) is they cut the supply off to JRod so he was effectively isolated and thus neutralised. But that penalty (I'll watch it again later) was never a penalty in my view. The tackle was outside the box and as Redmond fell he instinctively put his arm out. Booking might have been fair but a red? AND a penalty. Give me a break. Despite that, for am moment we looked like we might even steal a draw but when you push that hard you inevitably leave big gaps at the back so the final score was very flattering. Good finishes though. Overall a good game for the neutral I suspect. Two good sides who will both finish in the top half this season. Let's get back on track Saturday
Well I would have if you'd asked! The media build him up without ever seeing him play a full game, as they do, but we could see it. Some said we should have asked for more money for him, I would have personally driven him down to Southampton free of charge!
It was out of the box so it wasn't a penalty. But at the end of the day he did deny a clear goal scoring opportunity by pulling him back. So he had to go.
We just didn't have a midfield player, who had the drive to get into their box. One player who needs a fresh start, in my opinion, Gylfi Sigurdsson at Swansea. Could be the exact player we need.
