It's not just that DH. How are you by the way? Long time no banter. Thought I'd pop by so y'all can gaze at Poch's beautiful face again. Anyway it isn't just that (although I do fully agree with your point). Our style of football is EXHAUSTING. Anyone with Sunday league experience or up knows that when you're in possession, the ball does the running. When you're not, you do the running. Simples. Add to that the absurd levels of concentration and focus our style requires every one of our players to have. From the defenders praying they don't suffer a lapse to the attackers praying they convert one of the pittance of chances they get per game, the pressure is is immense. It is mentally very, very taxing and the regulars are clearly looking drained as a result. Add to that the growing probability that many of our players just don't buy into the system like they did a few months ago. That exhaustion is forgivable when at least the results are going your way, but when they're not - especially due to so many late, late goals, the feeling of deflation and disillusionment can be overwhelming. It was telling that there were multiple moments in this game where some of our more vocal players (usually Dier and Davies) were screaming at others (usually Son and Hojbjerg) to close down space but the latter were just like 'what's the fecking point? It's just coming straight back at us anyway.'
And they were more than happy to do that too as none of the resulting free kicks were within a mile of their goal. We are so, so easy to play against.
that is exactly what happened that season. We were playing lovely attacking football and tonking teams. Then you guys spanked us and mourinho went full defensive and we started grinding out 1-0 wins. Fortunately we managed to grind it through to the end but it was defensive football from then.
From what i heard in his post match interview Jose is getting ready to throw some players under the bus and demand new from Levi.
You get the odd result like that. The Poool got spanked by Villa. Have they abandoned their play of the previous two seasons ?? Of course not.
A little bird has told me that Tanguy can infact play 90mins. This has been the case for a few weeks now. Players with immense natural talent seem to get the Mourinho treatment.
Here he is, knew you couldn't stay away forever, lol. I'm good mate, indulging in some snowballs and remaining festive. How you been? I thought the style of football for spells was really good, probably up until Palace where it was becoming obvious we were running key players into the ground and by doing that you're asking for trouble. The style of football also changed from effective and efficient countering to just simply parking the bus and then our results started taking a turn for the worse to go along with it. With Kane, Son and Hojbjerg operating at about 60% too it's also meaning we can't rely on our best players to bail us out or protect us. It's become a real mess which for me is a shame as I was someone fully behind Jose's appointment (even if I did want Allegri) and I've enjoyed a lot of his press antics/ social media stuff too but right now he's serving up some absolute **** and the reality is, whether you were neutral, anti or pro Jose coming in, this sort of football coupled by poor results will only end one way. I am still behind him for what it's worth but more of this **** and it'll be hard to continue doing so. As I said earlier and many times since towards the end of Poch's reign - I'm happy to sacrifice style for substance but I won't stand by and watch sacrificing style for nonsense with no substance - and the latter is what we're seeing.
In the grand scheme of things, a point away at Wolves is a decent result, it is one of the hardest away games. But the football has been dire, and trying to defend a slender lead for 90 minutes with the error prone defenders we have, will end in failure more often than not, so why not play to our strengths, which is attacking. Kane, Son, Hojberg and Dier are being flogged into the ground, and their performances will suffer. Why did we bring in another CF to give Kane a rest from time to time, and then never use him, and why do we go a goal up in games and then immediately stop playing. Mourinho is mis managing his squad, scape goating good players, playing dull negative football and not playing to his squads strengths, so he needs to sort this out and soon.
fortunately for you guys, you have Son and Kane tied up on long term contracts so even if they did want out, Levy wouldn't just let them walk out like that.
Mourinho's post-match press conference...what can I tell you... ...a load more bullshit. "Defending deep, that's not the intention. They know what I asked them at half-time, if they couldn't do better it's because they couldn't do better." "We are frustrated with the result. We had control of the game, but we had 89 minutes to score more goals and we didn't. "It was not just about not scoring goals, it was also about not being dangerous and not being ambitious. For me, that's the problem." FFS...Are you Jose Mourinho or his great aunt?
Several of them deserve to be thrown under a bus, some of them are not good enough, but we already knew that.
That’s how I feel, I’ll tolerate **** football if it ends in a trophy but Spurs won’t be winning any trophies if they don’t stop this bad habit of conceding late goals
Oh come on, you are 1 game away from the "season killer" cup final. Surely you can hang on for 80 mins against Brentford then the final can go anyway
What a load of rubbish, the end of his reign won’t be far off if he genuinely believes that crap he has said. Ngl that has pissed me off.
Yeah this in particular is utter bollocks. We played a formation with five defenders, a defensive midfielder, a midfielder who has a panic attack when trying to pass forward and then a creative mid, a wing forward and a striker. Three attacking players, eight defensive. The creative mid was also subbed off for a combative/ industrious mid and we didn’t have our second striker on the bench to call upon because he felt best to have three CBs there when we already had five defenders starting. He’s done himself no favours spouting **** like that after the selection and formation he put out.
