Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Middlesbrough

Need to take one of these chances

 

Good try from Negrado...might make us concentrate more

 

Its as if all these players are frightened to shoot at goal today.

 

How was Hugo that calm???
I nearly...well you don't need that sentence finishing!!!!

 

Dele was good today...did well to ignore their twatty keeper

 

This has got wba at home ending 2016 written on this

 

Naturally the BBC had to Narrative it up...

Harry Winks on for a cheesed-off-looking Dele Alli.

 

And then he flaps at a cross that would be easier to catch

 

This is horrible

 

Just going to get a change of underwear

 

Stupid from eriksen and it nearly cost us...you can not give the ball away like that...we just got very very lucky

 

How the **** is Eriksen still on..... and we nearly throw it all away!!

 

Great win

Harry and Eriksen both slightly off the pace but great team performance

 

We won the game and at the end of the day that's all that matters!!

 

Lack of a like-for-like replacement, as the only options we have are expecting far more from Onomah than he can give, or throwing Shashoua in at the deep end.

 

Will take it... and we played well at times, particularly in the first half. But very unconvincing and a couple of players were well off the pace.

 

Eriksen has been looking out of sorts for quite a while now. Has he lost it.

 

Could have brought Janssen on earlier and pushed Dele back.

 

we won etc but it grates on me how wasteful Son is. Can't be that wasteful we need to be a bit more clinical upfront and we could have turned a few of our 9 league draws into wins.

 

Totally dominant first half that desperately needed a goal to settle the nerves and open Boro up. In the second half, especially after our long-deserved goal, Boro began getting forward more and using their strength in the air to really test our back line. The last 10 minutes were excruciating.

Given results elsewhere and the fact that our next game is away to Liverpool, it was a case of 'points over performance' today so I'm delighted we've taken all 3 and (somehow) kept another clean sheet (best defensive record in the league now).

Lingering concerns over the team though. I thought Davies came in and did very well. Dembele and Wanyama both bossed the midfield but faded badly towards the end - allowing Boro to simply bypass our midfield and get straight into the box. Negredo and De Roon had excellent chances to equalise as a result.

I was extremely impressed with Son. Just as against Sunderland, he was full of running and constantly looking to make things happen. The less said about the other 3 up top the better as far as I'm concerned. Eriksen and Alli again disappointed with their end product/decision making (Alli and Kane spent most of the second half getting in eachother's way) and as others have mentioned, Kane looked a little off the pace today. Hopefully a decent week's recovery between now and Pool will help sharpen these guys up because Klopp will use that game as a 'cup final' to rejuvenate their season. Given the absentees we have, we'll need every single player to bring their A-game if we are to take all 3 points next week.