Bottlejob Hotspur as per usual. Mason’s inexperience exploited massively with his tactics, selection and subs.
1-0 FT. A poor showing overall, despite a bright start to the second half. The double substitution killed the game for us and the wrong players went off. City were much the better side, but Tierney should be shot. Repeatedly.
What a load of ****. What a waste of time. I knew I shouldn’t have bothered watching. We don’t even lose in style. And on kane it would have made no difference if he hadn’t started, we would have played the same
Taking Lucas off was a ****ing disastrous decision. Don’t like criticising Mason so early on but he was so out of his depth today. Literally got everything wrong. Selection, tactics, subs... everything.
I thought Mason would be bold after the debacle of Mourinho but it appears that he's simply copying Jose's tactics and team selection. Awful game. The subs did sod all.
Thought we were ok until the subs. Fuming that Laporte got the goal when he shouldn’t have been on the pitch. Subs were disastrous.
Well at least it wasn't a severe ass kicking. I'm here looking a nice lamb stew which, I must say, is a better sight then watching this level of incompetence.
As each season passes, the worse this is going to get if we make it to the semi’s or final of a cup competition. The pressure and mentality of not having won anything in years is only going to multiply. Teams must love getting drawn against us in the latter stages, as we have lost before we’ve even played in most cases.
Problems are deeper than that. Starts at the top. Levy has done a fantastic job with new stadium etc. and I can't say he hasn't tried to get success on the pitch, but trying to beat the teams with £££, you are not going to do it unless you invest in the same manner.
He has bottled it, but I think 99% of us would being in his shoes, if we wanted a managerial career in football (rather than lose by six or seven!)
We don’t even know if Kane was fit or not as that would have meant actually getting the ball to him. How son stayed on baffled me but I thought Hugo and Toby can come away with a lot of pride today.
Two things obviously affected us i.) For some reason, Hojbjerg was the progressive CM when he should have been the one picking up from defenders and Lo Celso was the progressive CM ii.) The first pair of subs only made us weaker: Lucas was having a good game while Son was having a mare yet Bale replaced Lucas, while Sissoko replacing Lo Celso effectively eliminated any possibility of our midfield taking the ball forward - and led to a lot of mewling on Twitter and Reddit about how much we paid for Ndombele as if that's transfer fees are the most important attribute of all players Would the result have been different if we did those two things differently? Hard to say, as we did our customary wilt when the ref was giving them every 0/100 decision (let alone 50/50 ones) and even at half time I was starting to fear that we were playing for penalties as if they don't have so much more practise at them than we ever have, but ultimately with a knackered Kane and a worn out Son we needed somebody else to unlock them and we effectively gave up trying
And you probably still won't beat them if you do. City have won virtually everything since Guardiola came in. You have to get lucky and catch them on an off day, which we didn't do.
