Most football matches are not decided by tactics. They are won by the team which makes the fewest mistakes. That is usually the team with the better players as making few mistakes is one of the main attributes of a good player. We conceded four goals against Chelsea and Norwich and three were from individual mistakes with the fourth just being bad luck. The coach can address this by building the players' confidence and making them less stressed on the field. But what Foyth did yesterday doesn't make him a bad player. Nor does what Gazzaniga did against Chelsea. Aurier is another story. I don't understand how even made it as a professional given the number of times he ****s up.
You're the Alex Jones of Spurs 606. Which means you can come back N years from now in triumph to proclaim how you were correct all along. Assuming of course sufficient of us are still alive to hear it.
Poor tactics can lead to a team being over run in midfield, leading to more pressure on the defence leading a greater risk of mistakes due to pressure...like the keeper error just before half time last week.
Yes of course. But I don't agree about the keeper error. It was a hopeful punt forward that Alonso was getting nowhere near. Gazzaniga had no reason to panic. Not having Aurier on the pitch would help everything though.....he always needs a midfield player or centre back to cover for him which makes the whole team lopsided.
We tried our best to sell Rose. Alderweireld and Vertonghen should be in their prime years as centre backs. If they are past it it was hard to predict.
This is true but not the whole picture. Hugo would regularly give the ball away at the back. It's a mistake...but it's a mistake that arises directly from telling your goalkeeper that he's a talented ball playing defender and not to welly the thing up the pitch, because in reality, he's no such thing. We're outnumbered in midfield week in and week out with at least 4 forwards on the pitch. That leads to players being closed down and not having passing options and that creates mistakes. Every time that a player is asked to do something outside their comfort zone, they are more likely to make a mistake than if they played their 'natural game'. To suit Mourinho's preferred way of playing, we're shoehorning players into unnatural positions and persisting with Aurier as a wing back in what is a normally a flat-ish back four. That's placing an additional strain on other players and they're making mistakes...more mistakes than they might ordinarily make if the team was properly balanced.
He also had to consider that we are being asked to play 3 PL games in 7 days. In those circumstances some rotation is necessary Vertonghen is knocking 33. He’s also being played as a makeshift LB. He’s lost a yard of pace and isn’t up to it. He gets his pants taken down against anyone with pace nowadays. Alderweireld is making stupid mistakes he never made 2 years ago. First Norwich goal yesterday being a prime example. Rose, just don’t play him if he won’t go.
But the players are human so it is not as straightforward as it seems. Gazzanigga has seen us over run time and time again since he came into the team and his confidence looks shot to pieces to mean due (imo) to the cumulative effect. Remember Bale's poor performances? It is not a coincidence that when he finally returned to form in 2009 it was in a team that functioned properly with the right people doing the roght job...I know that's a little simplistic but I do still think it is valid.
Should have been told in 2017 after THAT interview to find a club or rot in the reserves. That could have again happened in summer 2018. And it absolutely should have happened this summer...he would be history if that had happened as he wants to play for England.
How many of our problems would be solved by Foyth playing at RB instead of Aurier? We won't have a full back spending more time playing where the opposition left back plays than defending We won't be exposed down the right due to Lucas cutting so far inside he;s tripping over Dele's feet We won't have Sissoko dashing out to the right to fill the gap, creating a chasm through the middle Yes, doing so will eliminate the asymmetrical fullback system that both Poch and Steptonho have implemented this season...but if it means we don't have our midfield having to fill the gaps left wide open by our fullbacks, I call that a sacrifice worth making
When he does start, I would prefer to just begin the match already 0-1 down. That way, at least we have the full 90mins to try to turn things around. You lot seem to be turning a corner of late?
Yeah we all know that the defenders aren't good enough but he's settled on a defence now which seems to brought some improvement. Home form still an issue though and we're a much better side without the ball. ****ed if Ings get injured too. I think we'll probably end up just about having enough to stay up, though if I'm honest I'd quite welcome relegation personally.
The only thing I can think is he is trying to prove how desperately Spurs need a decent DM by showing all the combinations in midfield and that none of them are adequate.
I fear that you are probably right because the team he chose for this match makes no ****ing sense otherwise. However, in picking unbalanced teams, he's making CL qualification highly unlikely and cutting into whatever transfer budget he'll get to buy replacements. It's why he was always highly likely to be a dreadful fit for the club. He wants to do things totally his way on his terms. Putting aside whether that way even works any more, we're not going to give him the budget to buy players who are in their prime. We aren't going to buy a Pogba, Matic or a Koulibaly or a Varane. We're not even going to spend the money required to get top, young English players who have significant levels of PL experience. Mourinho's going to have to work with players such as Foyth, Lo Celso, Ndombele and the like, because that's who we buy. Alternatively, it's going to be English youngsters not that much older than Sessegnon, Parrott, Skipp or Tanganga. These are all of the players that he's choosing to play least of all from the current squad. Whatever he's up to, it's hard to see that it's going to be good for the club. Players like Harry Kane and Sonny must look at the fact that the bottom of the table club gave us the complete run around and that Eric Dier and Aurier keep getting picked and wonder..."What's the ****ing point in staying here for this?"
Are people once again setting their sights too high and expecting things to happen quickly when it's just never like that. To be fair to Jose he has already made it clear at almost every press conference that due to the time he took over and the fixture list he has not had the time to work with the squad in the way he usually does. Do you expect to him to know every player in our squad when many have hardly seen the light of day in the PL? Is this the usual case of fans raising their expectations too high and then being disappointed when reality steps in. Once again managers come and go in the PL and the results are nearly always the same ....................disappointment. The nature of the game is to see up's and downs in all teams. Will Liverpool dominate the league for the next 5 or 6 years like they would have done in the 70's? Unlikely with the level of money available to teams throughout the league, the competition is that much higher. Are Man City fans fed up with their team after the way they played least season, probably, we won't know because there is only one City fan, I think, on not606. I am now looking at this season as preparation for the next and hoping that Jose is gathering his information and ideas to make a significant impact next season, but I wouldn't be surprised if I too am disappointed. All of this is why, in my opinion, we were far too hasty in getting rid of the best manager we have had for years. I hope the famous Jose proves me wrong.
Over they years I've supported Tottenham, you can pretty much see the appointments that are a really good fit straight away. As soon as Harry Redknapp and Mauricio Pochettino were appointed, you could see that they were a good fit for what the club and team needed and the way it's run. Likewise, The Bloke in the Coat, Tim Sherwood, AVB and Santini weren't right at all. From day one that was all too clear. I thought that David Pleat would work, Gerry Francis might and had no ****ing idea with Juande Ramos. I wanted Ossie and Glenn to work and gave no thought to failure until things started to look sick. I just don't see Mourinho as a fit for us. He is persisting in proving that we don't have 2 midfielders capable of forming a decent midfield pairing. He must have watched the videos of us play since Big Vic and Mousa Dembele declined? Our midfield has been consistently poor or dreadful since, but instead of playing a three, we're just shuffling the incumbents because he won't derogate from what he's done at clubs with better players. It's a midfield two, despite its consistent failure. We're a club that believes in buying young talent and developing it. Jose doesn't do that so much, mainly because he's long gone before they've matured. Eric Dier and Serge Aurier are truly rotten, week in and week out but Skippy and Foyth (at right back) aren't getting a sniff. We've put Big Vic on at Bayern, denying Parrott any game time. Players whose time is done are getting another chance to reprise old failures because that's what he does. I could wait to call him out on it but what's the point? He ain't changing for us......he really isn't. It's a matter of time before the melt downs start and players start getting thrown under the bus, that we should be parking in front of our goal...(if it didn't detract from our superb attacking football). Until he picks a proper balanced team that can defend worth a damn and attack, I've no time for the bloke.
