Oh my. This place. Managed to wangle my way into the south stand and still singing there. I have no voice. This stadium is absolutely epic.
Glad to hear it. My ears are still ringing from the passage of play where Moussa denied them a certain goal and we broke away to nearly score. The S Stand was soooo loud at that point. Especially impressive for the early game. Immense reception for Moussa when he went off. An easy winner of POTS. A good day.
Quite a few players come to Tottenham and take time to settle in and Sissoko is another one of those. More controversy for you but here goes, I think Vincent should stay because I think he just needs time.
A very fair question. On present form, he's superior to Pogba and would walk into just about every team in the league. If he could shoot.......but he can't.
I certainly think he should be played to put him in the shop window, at least but the only way that will happen now is if Llorente gets injured as we will need an option to hold the ball up or we're so out of sight in a game that we can afford to bring him on for a run out.
Methinks time of day/week really does not matter. It seems people really do want to be at new WHL, pre/post match as well as the game itself. That is the environment you want to foster as a club. Attendance was allegedly 58K. Was that due to away supporter attendance, and not being able to reallocate some of the seats in a safe/timely manner to home supporters ??
Yes, he is in an invidious position isn't he? But if Llorente leaves at the end of this season then I feel he should have a chance.
A strange game, Huddersfield were as poor a side as we ever played in the premier league era, but the 2 late goals give the impression that we beat more comprehensively than we did. We twice scored 2 goals in a couple of minutes, but we so nearly allowed them back into the match in the 2nd half as we struggled to kill them off by not taking the chances that we were creating. Lucas was excellent today, and I thought all the best things for us came through Eriksen (deadballs aside), good to see Wanyama get 90 mins and score, Llorente led the line well and should have scored at least one. Sissoko great again, Walker Peters looking good too and should be our 2nd RB next season. I like Foyth, though I do wonder if long term he will end up as a defensive midfielder.
I don't understand why Huddersfield didn't start with Moonie and Mooy. When they brought the Moonie on they looked a much better team and looked like they might get back in it for a short while. Wasted a chance or two and then Moura punished them badly for it. I'm happy with that overall. A weakened side and we ran out comfortable winners in the end, although it wasn't the sternest test. Good to see some fringe players getting a start and most of them did pretty well with it.
Why does it matter how many goals we score? - In your case implying that it has to be 4 or 5 to be a successful result. After the poor performances I’ve seen from us for most of this season, I’d quite happily have taken 2-0 and a decent performance like we saw today. The performance matters too. Man City aren’t gonna take any notice of us beating Huddersfield 4-0. Because someone like Pep knows that it’s irrelevant, and what will be a much tougher game against them will be totally different. He’ll have a plan to try and control us if we choose to play without a hold up player like Llorente, and another plan to mark Llorente out of the game if we do decide to play him. Today’s 4 goals have no bearing on Wednesday.
That really came across on the telly. Everyone just loves the guy. (Am I the only fecker left on here who HASN'T got to sing their heart out in the new stadium ) And for me he's been pretty much nailed on for POTS for a while.
You should be happy because in your intro you mentioned a potential banana skin, I failed to see that all along.
Huddersfield are dreadful. A rotated side breezed through that. That tackle by Sissoko when he chased back about forty yards was sublime, almost as sexy as Lucas' first goal. Stewards can get to **** though. Think two of my mates are gonna be copping a ban, they sit in the block next to me and at about 35 minutes they text me and said they were ****ing off as they'd had rows with the stewards who were forcing people to sit and were fed up of the bollocks, said they saw one steward writing down something so presumably their seat numbers. I get the club needs to follow H&S guidelines but there's practically an unspoken rule at Spurs for years in that you don't sit in Park Lane. If they're really going to persist with this sitting thing in the south then this "wall of noise" is going to evaporate quickly.
I agree that the number of goals will have little bearing in Wednesday, but they will have bearing on the goal difference which way well be the thing that separates us from the rest of the top 4 contenders come season end.
See Fulham v Everton. Relegated side with the pressure off changes things up a bit and gets an unexpected win.
The number of goals we score is an indication of form Roo, simple as. if we had found goals hard to come by against a relegated club then our form is just not good..............see that do you?
Agree with most of this 100% Foyth does some really good stuff - I mean really good - and he has time to develop, but he still hasn't really got the pace of the PL yet and his occasional casual approach gets him into trouble. He got away with it today but I still wouldn't be comfortable with him as a regular starter. The other (only minor) disappointment for me was Skippy who seemed a bit lost out there. He's not seen many (any?) gametime in last couple of months and it showed.
