Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton

1-0 Southampton. Ings. Ball lofted over the top and he's too wide to be scoring from that angle. Very poor defending.
Dier misjudges the flight of the ball and Sanchez is miles away from him.

 

**** em ,dont give them oxygen, don't want to see their **** on our board

 

Our centrebacks are dogshit


Not a commanding bone in either of them

 

Honestly this is pathetic. What on earth Jose working on in training? Being outplayed by Southampton and the defending is atrocious.

 

I’m going to call it now that we will get a player sent off today. I can feel it coming

 

Bale won't help this. We've had none of the ball. The midfield's been anonymous and dysfunctional.
We've got no holding midfielder at all and I don't even know what sort of system we're supposed to be using.

 

The defence gets worse and worse every week

Do they work on defending in training at all?

 

true but we have had the ball in decent positions up top but our attack seems thoughtless

I think we all recognise that the central defence and midfield has no steel in it

it’s a total rebuild...could take a few windows

 

Need Sissoko to win the ball and then a playmaker to use it.

 

I haven't seen us so susceptible to balls over the top while managed by a Portuguese bloke since the 2013-14 season

 

Adams booked for pulling back Lloris to prevent the quick break. Seemed unnecessary.

 

We need a new midfield. The balance is all wrong. We also need to stop picking Dier ahead of everyone else at centre-half.

 

I thought we started the half well then just let Southampton have way too much of the ball. They’ve been excellent in midfield after the first 10 minutes as well, completely shut us down.

 

We are simply a poor team.
No idea what changed from the end of last season but we have no working defence again.
It's like watching us during the end of Pochettino's and the beginning of Jose's reigns.
The opposition simply believe they will score whereas we do not.

 

It was obvious once the kane goal was disallowed our heads would drop and they would get a lift from it. We are a terrible at trying to recover when the chips are down

 

Do we actually have a midfield?

We're playing Big Sam tactics. Badly.

Not even good Big Sam tactics.

This is the worst I have seen us play for a long time.

Is Mourinho saving our midfield for another game?

 

Ward-Prowse in the book for a rather blatant block. Bit of elbow, but nothing too dramatic.

 

Ndombele cautioned. Wins the ball twice in the same tackle...

 

The special one has turned the Spurs MF into 90s vintage.

 

Brilliant. Ndombele genius