Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Burnley

Leading goal scores in the PL

loving the bus parking football

anyway

 

Jose at his best in the post match interview

Giving Poch credit for his work with Kane/Son

 

Feel asleep, so did not see any of the game.
OTOH It appears I did not miss much.

An away win against Dyche-ball will do.

 

A betting man with money to burn will get odds on what
match week this season that record will be surpassed.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/top-scorers

After only 6 games, that pairing already has twice as many goals than other PL teams.

 

Are Fernandes goals all pens? Makes a mockery of the stats really. Mind you if they carry on getting pens at the rate they have been, he's going to be up there among the top scorers. Fernandes conversion rate 30%, which is higher than Kane. What's Fernandes conversion rate without pens?

 

We deserved a bit of luck tbh after the toon decision.
Apart from the header off the line their chances were long shots that you'd expect to be saved so the defending was a big improvement on what we've seen this season.
2 clean sheets, 2 wins on the bounce and a home win in the last 4 days is a great way to bounce back from the debacle of the last 8 minutes v west ham.

 

The issue is that it's midfield which control games, and the one thing we didn't do against both claret teams is control the game

 

We "lost" to West Ham. Says a lot about the attitude.

 

Quick, before the Nomads find it!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54700030

 

Would be terrible if they also learned that the Kane/Son
combo got to 29 with 23 fewer PL games ...

 

I think we should mention our defence last night. Our criticised defence, our weakest link, didn't do bad did they. Toby was always there intercepting blocking and for me Dier is still developing as a CB. Defenders are the opposite of attackers in many ways and one is that they get better with age. Defending is all about experience, about knowing what position to be in, about knowing how to deal with each individual attacker. You can see that often in the PL, along comes a new attacker and enjoys a season of success, but then the PL defenders sus them out and life gets much harder. That's when the top attackers develop too, as we have seen from Harry this season dropping deep and surprising defenders by being the supply not just the finisher. It's still early days for Doherty but he looks solid rather than exciting and that's not a bad thing in a team like Spurs and the opposite of Aurier who is exciting but not always solid.
The defence and Hugo got through a fair amount of work last night against a very awkward team and our defenders and our team worked together and kept a clean sheet. Well done for that.

 

Whaddaya gotta do to get a drink around here? department.

 

Like we did against WH and Toon.
2 games in which we '' implemented our strengths '' and came away with a total of 2 points.
Here we '' played into their hands '' and got 3 points in one game.

 

So we shouldn’t implement our strengths on games?

Ok.

 

Where you at, DGC?

 

Burnley are sending Lamela a bill for that bottle of water as we speak.

 

We need to pick and choose how to play each game.
Jose is a master at this.

 

Based on the last couple of games, he needs to choose better