Liverpool have had 7 penalties this season, to Spurs' 4. You've had more penalties this season than any other team and more in Premier League history than any other team.
"And it's taken him ten years to figure that out?" Taken that long for a commentator to actually say it.
Are we talking about Lennon's run near the 90th minute? Give him a break. He was doing that all game. He was one of our better players today.
I'm almost certain it's KPR's return, the guy makes himself look silly without even needing our help.
Agree. He was possibly our best player from a defensive point of view. Not the ideal plaudit to give your right winger but it's not like no-one else was sloppy with their final ball. At least Lennon gives us some spark, even if it just ends up being a run that gees the crowd and team up and results in a corner. We are so short on creativity we need his contribution in an attacking sense and in a defensive sense he's one of our most useful players too. He's limited but it's no fluke that, in the face of many other players who have come and gone, he has proven useful and the preferred option to a string of Spurs managers. Latest candidate for "definitely better than Lennon" is Townsend. Well - is he? There are better players out there but, nine years into his Spurs career, Spurs don't seem to have found any.
Just want to make clear, though, that I'm damning Lennon with faint praise defending him amongst the other performances. We really look quite clueless in midfield. What the hell is this with getting into a position out wide in the final third and then just stopping and playing a few short passes between winger, full back and CM as the opposing team just gradually crowds them all out? Our midfield seriously lacks guile and Paulinho continues to have off days despite looking real quality a couple of times this season. Where's the magic in our midfield? You might say Eriksen and I would really want to think that he could, at some point, be strong enough to be part of a midfield 2 like Modric and we still have either two strikers or one CF and one off him (though our best candidate for that looks to be Eriksen though I thought Paulinho had one of his best games there). Though Eriksen as one of two CMs now would be suicide against most teams.
Picking on Lennons failings after that ****e does seem to miss the point. (For what it's worth, he did make several poor decisions in promising positions, but his work rate was exceptional and his defensive nous saved us in the first half when the right side of the defense went missing and he popped up just outside the 6 yard box to clear.) For me, the problem has much more to do with an ineffectual midfield duo of Paulinho and Dembele. Particularly the latter who consistently fails to deliver either as a DM or CM. Slow and predictable, too many wrong decisions and for the 2nd game running he has given away a stupid free kick in a dangerous position. I really expected him to develop from the promising and exciting player at Fulham into a real MF power house: 18 months later, still waiting..... and beginning to lose patience with him. Townsend started brightly but hardly looks like a world-beater either running with ball or providing decent service from the flanks. The good news was Soldado actually scoring and a performance from Naughton that at least had a couple of limited credits.... A cross and a corner that actually found their targets. Maybe there is some hope for him
Boring game today, don't think either keeper was truly tested. Couple of half chances and that was about it, glad to see the Spaniard finally score a goal, I want to get my hopes up that this will be his turning point and he'll start banging them in from now on but I won't hold my breath just yet, especially as I can't see Tim opting for 4-4-2 against Chelsea so chances are he'll start from the bench at Stamford Bridge. Thought Dawson was superb today for the record, his best performance of the season by a country mile. Marshalled the back line well and I think he won every single header that came his way. Lennon played well too, worked really hard defensively.
It IS debating with a child, there's no way the poster is older than 12-13, if they are then **** me Scousers are more intellectually challenged than first feared.
"It IS debating with a child, there's no way the poster is older than 12-13, if they are then f**k me Scousers are more intellectually challenged than first feared." Spurs 606 might have to become like Alton Towers, and place height restrictions on particular articles.
I think that 12-13, mentally, is being generous. I would expect the average 13yr old to be more lucid.
