OMT: Tottenham Hotspur v Sunderland Match History 1898-2013

There was a point about midway through that first half that sums up, for me, what's going wrong with AVB's Spurs attacking-wise. We broke at them with one player on the ball and two players with acres of space to his left. But every single one of them was just jogging. And then when they all got to about 30 yards from the goal they all just stopped!

For anyone who's ever watched or played in more than ten football matches this just looks and feels so weird. It just looks so unnatural it's hard to believe that the players are doing it for any other reason than that they've been told to.

I watched the Brighton game before this and the passing and movement were a different world at times, compared to Spurs.

Also can't believe the ref never gave that penalty against Brown on Dawson. How does a referee miss that just two seconds after Dawson's half pushed over by him?

 

He then went on to give a foul against Dawson for something unidentifiable against Brown shortly after. There's no consistency with these things at the moment.

 

"There was a point about midway through that first half that sums up, for me, what's going wrong with AVB's Spurs attacking-wise.
We broke at them with one player on the ball and two players with acres of space to his left.
But every single one of them was just jogging. And then when they all got to about 30 yards from the goal they all just stopped!"

Yep.

 

Ithink weve done ok...looked to play with speed and created chances...3rd match in a row where I see improvement and a cause fkr optimism. ...coys

 

Capoue and Paulinho look really pissed off before the kick-off for the second half. That bodes well...

 

O'Shea OG? That'll do.

 

Get in, rubbish goal but i'll take anything at the moment, even OGs.

5 goals from inside the box prior to today, 2 more today

 

Lets have another to make sure!

 

They have to chase the game now. But we are soooo slow on the counter.

 

Be good to have Defoe on the scoresheet. He needs one.

 

Defoe looks like he's struggling a bit. Might be an idea to take him off.

 

Finally, we know how to counter attack!

 

Good counter that

 

Massive tackle from Johnson, there. 3-1 would've been it, I think.

 

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Some good balls coming in from wide areas today, a refreshing change.

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Lots of blocks coming in from Sunderland now. Last ditch stuff.

 

Much improved 2nd half, so far.

 

Capoue looks decent at CB

 

Am I the ONLY ONE HERE effing screaming at the screen !!??