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Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United

Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by PleaseNotPoll, Mar 9, 2022.

  1. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Not a good look when you see pundits cooing about a rapist the same week as International Women's Day, just saying...
     
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  2. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    First goal was Dier’s fault, he stood off Ronaldo even when clear he was winding up for a shot.
     
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  3. PowerSpurs

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    We were much the better side though. Without Ronaldo they lose.
     
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  4. PowerSpurs

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    That's the right percentage play. He doesn't score from there nine times out of ten and goes past you if you rush him.
     
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  5. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    This is Ronaldo we’re talking about though, he scores/ scored many like that. You don’t allow the joint greatest player in the game that much space to let one off.
     
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  6. KingHotspur

    KingHotspur Well-Known Member

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    But they had Ronaldo and he scored a hat trick
     
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  7. remembercolinlee

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    We get what our overall performance deserved.

    We allowed a piss poor united team to score 3 goals against us for the second time this season.

    City only managed to score 2 against us in total.

    We only scored a total of two against a piss poor united defence in two games.

    We scored 4 past city in total.

    It is what it is ... no point worrying or over analysing it...we are a pretty average team most of the time and conte needs time and money to change that.
     
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  8. PowerSpurs

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    So why did Bentancur literally run away from him and leave him unmarked? Dier had two bad options as a result. Close him down and he pushes it past him or stand off and hope he misses.
     
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  9. SarrMan

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    Definitely relying on teams doing us a favour against arsenal now. Must win in the week or it’s all over although don’t think we’ll finish below 6th
     
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  10. LockStock

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    This is all well and good but I’m getting tired of not being able to say “With Kane, we win.”

    He, and Son, went missing when most needed. All that slipping over, and hoping for referees favourable decisions is just comical now.
     
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  11. PowerSpurs

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    That doesn't make us a bad team. Their superstar delivered, our two didn't. Yet you deduce that the other 9 are the problem.
     
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  12. KingHotspur

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    The other 9 don’t step up enough when the main 2 drop a stinker.

    Lost 10 league games from 27, I’d say that alone shows that Spurs are miles off where they need to be.
     
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  13. KingHotspur

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    I don’t remember him being charged with anything.
     
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  14. BajanSpur

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    <laugh>.
     
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  15. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, that tends to be how superinjunctions work
     
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  16. humanbeingincroydon

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    Sums up Son's recent iffy spell
     
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  17. Citizen Kane.

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    That's because our two are not superstars and never have been. Two of the best players we've had in the PL era, no doubt. But you can literally count on one hand the number of times Kane or Son have bailed us out when it really matters.

    How many semi finals, finals and crucial season defining games have they simply gone missing?

    I wrote a week ago before everyone lost their **** because we beat Leeds and Everton that Kane and Son have come as far as they can with us, and us with them. But they will never stand in the same pantheon of players as the likes of Ronaldo, Messi, Salah, Lewandowski etc.

    People blame the team around them but I remember Gareth Bale carrying a similarly poor team to the brink of 4th and a far higher points total than we'll hit this season. How many times has Ronaldo rescued this piss poor United side? Look at Benzema and Modric midweek. How many times did Messi carry Barca single handedly? You just do not see the same ruthlessness from Kane and Son and it is why if they stay next season, we will need to spend a fortune on players elsewhere in the side who have that edge to them. There are no two ways about it. You cannot teach a player to be ice cold. Bale had it at the age of 21 in the San Siro against the best team in the world. Ginola had it. Klinsmann had it. Kane and Son, much as I appreciate them, do not. How much more evidence needs to be gathered to confirm this?

    It is unacceptable. Today we saw the difference between world class and very good and I'm afraid to say, the difference is in the head.
     
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  18. Alfie Conn

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    It hurt to lose to Ronaldo tonight but not in the same way as Burnleyand Middlesborough, we lost to possibly the best player ever , move on
     
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  19. KingHotspur

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    So why call him a rapist then?

    just because he put Spurs to the sword, there’s no need to say things like that.
     
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  20. KingHotspur

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    Bentancur managed to make Fred look good today, that’s actually impressive <laugh>
     
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