Pochettino has talked about missed chances in his post-match interview. What chances? Kane had one that hit Foster in the mush, but that was about it. There wasn't a horde of glaring misses.
Other than Wanyama's shot I can't remember Foster being tested at all. That was it....Apart from Lamela awful miss....
Fixed for you, PS! Other than a couple of games, we haven't been 'doing well' for the best part of 2 months...... There needs to be some acceptance of that - hopefully in the club as well - otherwise we will never achieved anything.
you are so calm and level headed...how have you survived being a Spur without becoming a basket case like the rest of us
It's amazing how level-headed someone can be if they remember the Sugar Error Era. I'm amazed the club isn't a basket case after that...
I’m just being realistic. Poch isn’t perfect. Neither are any of the players, even Kane. But we’ve got the best team we’ve had for years. We go through a slight bad patch and it’s Pochettino’s fault and half the squad needs changing. It’s absolute bollocks. Show some faith in the manager and players who have taken us from being also rans to coming top of a CL group containing Real Madrid and Dortmund. We win a lot of matches these days and that is because of the way the manager has us set up and the way the team is better than the sum of its parts. Don’t let’s panic and throw that away
I'm not for wholesale change either, although we do need to improve the cover in a couple of positions - but there are some obvious issues that need to be addressed. It's been obvious for weeks and we could end up throwing away what was for 3/4 a brilliant season. I still believe this team and coach can produce real success - but we cannot look at it through rose-tinted glasses
The anxiety is simple. The margins of error for Spurs are immensely small. Things are now shades of 2012, and the financial stakes for the club is orders of magnitude greater. The job was effectively done with Chelsky last month, just as it was with Arry and the 13 pt gap to the Goons in 2012. There seems to be a "yeah, whatever" attitude in the players in these types of game when it should be do or die. And a manager who seems to tactically fail in these games too often.
We started the season giving away points and a cup game....we seem to be finishing the season the same way. As Billy Cotton used to say....."WAKEY,WAAAAKEEEEY!
I agree with your first two comments but almost none of the rest. We play pretty much the same style in every match and I think that's one of the main reasons we win more often than we used to. This assumption you have that somehow different tactics or style of play would make it more likely for us to win matches like yesterdays just seems wrong to me. And the assumption that the players are not trying their best also seems wrong. With our current squad we will probably get 76 points a season. A few more if all goes well and a few less if we have bad luck. You can't pick and choose the matches in which we stop points and say we should have done something differently just in those.
Too late. Already seen it now. Players look like the job is already done and are thinking about the summer. Piss poor display. Praying for a draw today between Liverpool and Chelsea
It’s our defense that looks all over the place, especially when placed under pressure from crosses and corners. Something WBA were always going to do. Dawson came in completely unmarked and unchallenged with the header that lead to the goal.
That was terrible - as I said yesterday 'amateur hour'. Complete switch off.... Got noticeably worse when Vertonghen went off - and that exposed Roses' defensive failings more on the left. Actually thought Alderweirald and Trippier had good games.....
Could well be the combo of the loss of Walker. The effective loss of Rose, and the ongoing injury and subsequent contract dispute with Alderweireld, but our defense has looked suspect far more often this season. Vertonghen and Sanchez are both very good players individually. But at the moment there’s not that ‘connection’, almost telepathy, between them that was there between Vertonghen and Alderweireld. They just don’t seem to read each other atm.
