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Odegaard had to come off against Austria with an ankle injury. It didn't look good. At all. So that's Merino, Rice and Odegaard all missing for the NLD... Honestly, I don't know why we let him go considering he was injured against Brighton as well. Stupid decision. And why have most of our key players been playing the full 90 minutes in both international fixtures? They're basically friendlies. No need for it at all. Ridiculous management. Having an international break 3 weeks into the season off the back of the Euros and Copa America is just ****ing stupid too. Ergh, just in a really bad mood heading into Sunday's game now.
The early estimations from the Norwegian national team is that Odegaard's expected to be out for - at bare minimum - 3 weeks. Whilst this is not good news by any means, I really did fear it would be months when he limped off. So it could have been a lot worse. Frustrating that he's going to be missing a significant chunk of (potentially season-defining) games, though.
Calafiori didn't arrive either? Ffs. I thought his injury was precautionary. Didn't think he'd be missing the game too. That's frustrating.
Not entirely convinced by that team and that bench...yikes. We're really, really gonna need to dig deep to get a positive result today. I hope we can do it.
Just realised Zinchenko is out too with a calf injury . Honestly if Spurs can't beat us today, then that really doesn't reflect well on them. We have quality in attack and defence yes, but we have no athleticism or power in the midfield at all. The balance is all wonky. They should be viewing this as a huge opportunity to get 3 points.
8 mins gone and Spurs have forced Raya into making two big saves. We've also needed to make a huge last ditch challenge. They've got in behind too easily. Partey's been dispossessed a bit too easily. They're clearly targeting him as the pressing trigger. We need to be more alert and get control back.
Saliba booked for delaying the restart. I'm sorry, but that is so poor. After what happened with Rice two weeks ago, we should have learned from this. Such an unnecessary yellow to take.
What a save from Vicario. Martinelli skins the fullback and dinks in a great cross to Havertz who heads it onto Vicario and touches it onto Romero, who gets it off the line.
Aghhh Martinelli nooo! You should have squared it to Saka who would have had an open goal. That's so poor man. He's actually had a good start to the game, but that's such amateur decision-making/awareness. I really hope it doesn't cost us.
We're being wasteful in possession. Ben White's had a torrid start to the match. We need to show more security and press resistance when we're progressing through the middle.
I know we've had a few good chances but we're also fortunate Spurs haven't punished us for our sloppiness and carelessness.
Timber gets a yellow for...nothing? I'm not entirely sure what he's done wrong there. Was it for the shirt grabbing?
Martinelli's been direct and a big threat getting in behind, but his decision-making is continuing to let us down. He had a great opportunity to take a shot and delayed it, then the opportunity was gone.
Partey AGAIN taking too much touches, doesn't release the ball, gets his pocket picked and Spurs have a good goalscoring chance that Johnson should really put away. He's such a liability in games like this.
HT. 0-0. Quite an intense, cagey game, but the game has gone as I expected. We're looking to exploit them out wide and to get in behind the high line, looking to counter fast. While they're looking to press us high, force turnovers and dominate the ball. My main issue is we've not been technically secure and have struggled to maintain control both in and out of possession. We've had some big opportunities, but they have as well. To be level at half-time, in my opinion, is probably fair.
3 minutes into the second half and Partey getting caught in possession again. Unfortunately, our only options to replace him are 17 year olds.
