Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino, speaking to BT Sport: "All is possible. I never say it is mission impossible, in football all can happen, you need to believe. It will be tough (to win at Barcelona) but the belief is so important. Now we have another tough game against Arsenal first, and we need to be ready again. "The most important thing is to try and translate confidence to the whole squad. If you win it's a topic, people ask why you change if your performance was good? "But sometimes when you win you have to do something to spark the team, to add fresh legs, to tell them we are all important it is not about the name but the collective." On Moussa Sissoko: "His team-mates are so happy that the fans are now starting to show the love, we feel that. Yes there was a tough period for Moussa but I remember one day I hugged him when he was coming off and I told him you are going to be a success here. "Now he starts to feel free and today he was key again, a key part of the success tonight."
When Spurs are away and not on BT/ SKY, I genuinely try finding French/ Russian/ Dutch commentary streams. Can't bear the **** English commentators say. We have by far, the worst commentators in football. Best by a mile are the Arabic or South Korean, make the game so exciting, even if I have no idea what they're saying.
Maybe someone could come up with a clever version of Creams ‘I feel free’ as Moussa’s new song.... where’s Audrey when you need him?
To be fair, Robbie Savage has great qualifications and experience for being a commentator. But as long as it's limited to how to cope with split ends in the jungle on I'm A Celebrity.
Tottenham goalscorer Christian Eriksen, speaking to BT Sport: "We still have have one more game to go, our focus was to win this and now our next one is Barca... It will be tough but fun, we know what we have to play for. "Tonight Inter came to defend, they knew one point would be better than losing, and playing against Italian sides you don't have many chances. Luckily I took mine, and we kept them away." I expect us to have a few more clear cut chances against Barca. Before the Barca game against us....they play Espanyol in their derby and they are playing catch up in the league...all the stars could align perfectly...rest is down to if we want it...we are certainly good enough to give them a game.
First off, I got the line-up right. I'm normally completely **** at that... Now, back to the game. First off, I'm ****ing freezing. I went on my own, which is always a bit miserable when you've got nearly 2 hours there and the same back again. I'm ****ed off with Wembley,. a number of people on the train after the game said that there were Inter fans in` their section of the stadium and nothing got done about it. It's all very well banning bags, but why the **** ignore segregation? Seldom been that nervous in the last couple of minutes and I've seen us chuck away a lot more games than I care to think about. We played well in the first half and had nothing to show for it. I've yet to see Lucas have a convincing performance when he's made to play out on the left and Erik Lamela had a shocker. Still, Jan and Toby looked very secure and the Moussa/Winksy pairing did fine in that first half. The performance from 45-60 minutes seemed unbelievably flat for a side that I always have belief will up their game in the second half and waiting so long to make the very necessary changes was a gamble that nearly didn't pay off. However, Inter aren't physically fit enough to play in the PL, they ran out of legs over at their place and just got lucky when we failed to manage the closing minutes properly. Tonight they tired and bless him, Moussa ran straight through them. Great finish by Christian Eriksen. So, anyone got a spare for Barcelona?
Nah, that song's already been done: I'm reviewing the situation Can a fellow be a villain all his life? All the trials and tribulation Better settle down and get myself a wife It's from Oliver (though the first three lines kind of work!)
In the cold light of day now that the euphoria of last night has died down I'm trying to look at the next fixture in the CL with some foresight. What's the most likely scenario is a rhetorical question. Milan win we lose. Milan draw we draw. Milan lose we win. Can we beat Barca? I still maintain that if we beat Arsenal we will beat Barca.
No worries. The 2 goal thing would be if they scored. 2-1 to us meant head to head was the same - then we'd have had to beat Barca by more than they beat PSV (or lose by less if it goes that way). 3-2 and they have more away goals and so then we'd have need 2 goal margin to win. 1-0 was the only 1 goal margin that gave us an advantage.
Side note, how good was Harry again last night? Sissoko again outshone everyone but Harry's performances in the past two games - despite not even scoring yesterday - have been back to previous season's form. Hassling defenders, getting the ball from deep, menacing runs, bringing others into play and hitting shots from crazy angles. Looks like things are starting to finally click in place after a frustrating start to the season (despite picking up points), Harry finding form, Dele and Eriksen back to murking defences, Aurier beginning to look like the FB he was at PSG, Sissoko just destroying everything in his path, Davies back to form... Happy days, let's hope it continues.
Not for the first time. Didn't think to mention it on the Chelsea thread but there were two Chelsea in the Tottenham concourse before the game, one of them got a small hit by a fella I know (not a friend, just a typical regular I see at Spurs) but before it kicked off stewards intervened and took the two Chelsea away. Not sure if they were ejected or moved elsewhere. **** knows why you'd wanna sit with rival fans anyway, just makes no sense to me.
