Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City

Nasri injured. That was quick.

 

We just don't want to score today, do we?

 

Another miss. This is painful!

 

That's really lazy by Paulinho. Got to be onside there. The miss was ****, too.

 

Here comes Ade...

 

Adebayor on for Chadli? Fair enough. Last throw of the dice, I guess.

 

City waste about five minutes with one substitution.

 

Pochettino furious about Kolarov pulling back Lamela in the box. Standard.

 

City just running the clock down - wasting time

 

Kane rightly booked, Silva's blatant kick-out not noticed.

 

Another lame defeat.

 

**** corner at the end sums up the game.
Didn't take our chances and ran out of ideas.

 

Nice job whoever does the scored on the BBC site, as they briefly said Lamela made it 1-1.

 

Definite penalty for the foul on Lamela but Mariner fails again to give anything to Spurs.

 

It was the same on Sky as well saying Lamela had scored so the stats must come from elsewhere and broadcast through.

I thought we played ok and a draw would have been fair. I don't mind when we play like that against the top teams.
The result doesn't really matter. The squad is showing promise. I would give Lamela one more season. He works very hard and I do believe there is a player in there somewhere

 

We played very well against a very good side, really unlucky to lose but we should've taken some of our chances better.

That consigns us to our lowest points total for a few seasons and likely 6th/7th, disappointing but if we can play like that next season we'll win a lot more than we lose. Paulinho finally looked like the player we thought we'd signed but it's probably too late, I think he'lll want to leave and I can't see us putting up a fight to keep him.

 

We got away with one in the first half but I agree, a lot of decisions went City's way today. Typical referee's performance, when in doubt side with the bigger club. Typical coverage too, we got 3 replays and analysis of the penalty appeal where Rose obviously gets the ball yet when Fazio goes down in their box it doesn't even get a mention.

 

Excellent game played by Rose and a good game, once again played by Lloris. Kane tried his best and will be useful next year.
All the others, on display today, are a bunch of also rans., who will never collectively amount to anything much.

 

Harsh. Eriksen is class and is showing fatigue from a long season of consistent starts. I still believe Chadli has potential and has chipped in with several goals this season. Mason and Bentley are young and will develop. The rest is up for debate.

 

Bentley.