Thanks for the stream Indy - perfick! 2-0. So.......... if all goes to plan we will concede a goal right on half time again shortly after the restart. we will all be questioning our sanity and The Great Dane will score again in the 89th minute. The life of a Spurs fan is so predictable.
Sloppy crap and we give them two chances, which Lloris does well to deal with. That's poor. We shouldn't be letting them back into this after we started so well. Kane looks hurt. Balls. Hope he's ok.
We've let them right back into this and if we carry on this way then its only a matter of time until they score and then we really are in trouble. Its all well and good slowing the game down for a few minutes to kill momentum but we then need to speed up our play again to keep the pressure up. A Pulis team will fight and will be organised in defence, we need to keep going or we're going to get done.
Dembele has looked ok, better than usual, but Paulinho has been fairly anonymous and Lamela is constantly ignoring options outside him and coming inside. Neither Lamela, Dembele or Paulinho ever seem to want to do anything a bit different today, or try anything other than the safe, normal option. We need more.
Started really well, got the two goals and were totally on top, then started endlessly passing it about and letting the pressure go off them. They looked shellshocked at first and we allowed them to regain their composure. We didn't create anything after the goals and they had a few chances and probably feel that they should've scored. I'd take off Paulinho at the break and introduce Stambouli. The Brazilian looks really, really slow today and they're wandering past him in the midfield all the time. Edit: Actually, I think I'd put Chadli on, move Eriksen up behind Kane and move Dembele alongside Mason. One or the other, anyway.
Eriksen scores in the first five minutes, we don't blow a comfortable lead by half time, Dembele seems to be contributing rather than passing backwards - I want my Tottenham back!!!
Albion have to come onto us in the second half and we need to be able to break quickly. I've been banging on about this in other threads but we must be able to inject pace instead of breaking away and slowing it up with sideways and backwards passes. I would take Paulinho off and get Townsend on. I would put Lennon on but once again he isn't involved. Obviously MP doesn't fancy him and he could be on his way shortly.
I would bring Chadli on for Dembele, move Eriksen inside, and then swap Stambouli in for Paulinho at half time too. But I'm not a manager and its not going to happen.
I'm happy with the scoreline, but I'm concerned about how we did towards the end of the half. Pochettino was clearly angry about it, too. We started brilliantly and played some decent stuff on the ball, but rarely troubled the keeper, apart from the goals.
According to the half time stat show you get on American TV, we had plenty more possession but only 23% down our left. We have very unbalanced width. Chadli might help to balance that out a bit maybe.
