Poor team selection and foolish inplay team management. Thats is the result. That is what you get in this league Mr 'Nice' Stillini. Well duff and distressing. I need some Rum... Bye-Bye.
Today shows the sheer arrogance and monumental stupidity of putting out that team against Sheffield United as we were prioritising the league Not doubt the loss will be explained away by bad luck stories of us hitting the woodwork and not scoring while the hit the woodwork and scored but in truth this defeat is not a surprise to most of us. Wolves were not in the game until they made their second half subs and from then on there was only one team going to win it. Our substitutions were and are generally poor. Our team selections range from weird to bloody awful. Moura, Sessegnon and Sanchez should never play for us. Son needs to be benched. Richarlison should NEVER have been bought. Forster ... really??? WTF was the point in getting Danjuma if you ain't gonna play him? WTF is the point of playing Royal all season when he is so out of form and then, when he plays his best football for us, start dropping him...for a player who looks as bad as Royal did before the last 5 weeks??? Predictable, pretty boring and uninspiring sum us up.
Sorry but we could still be playing and not scoring...our problems are our players, our management set up, our recruitment and our tactics
I am going on Wednesday and sadly that's my thoughts. We ain't going through and there's little chance of an exciting game and if they score first I can see a ****e atmosphere
Perisic has added the square root of feck all pretty much all season and has looked off the pace and short of ideas. Yet he plays two full games back to back in 3 days... Lenglet has looked weak at LCB and playing him in the middle was ridiculous. Kane was totally ineffective, as was Son and Kulu. Hojbjerg spent more time whingeing than playing. Forster was at fault for their goal. Porro improved as he settled. Skippy and Davies didn't do anything wrong - but won't change games when the other 8 outfield players are that bad! The attitude in the first half wasn't bad, but the failure of Conte to make changes early - and then bring on Lucas and Emerson - was a major factor in what could prove to be a season-ending defeat. Bloody pants!
Said on RD's thread that we'll be taking more steps back before moving forward. It's painful at the moment, to the point where I (and I think others) are getting a bit numb too it but it doesn't mean we don't want that feeling to change. I just feel very little connection to the club, manager and about 80% of the playing squad. So many need to go but the worrying thing is that one of the people we don't want to go is possibly one of the likeliest to do so - and that'll just destroy us. It's grim, very grim.
Tottenham 2-0 West Ham: No Perisic. Tottenham 2-0 Chelsea: No Perisic. Sheffield Utd 1-0 Tottenham: Perisic. Wolves 1-0 Tottenham: Perisic. It's now 73% wins when he doesn't start to 42% wins when he does. He's not a ****ing wingback!
That ignores all the chances we had to score today. You can only create chances and then take them. We didn't do that and then fell off in the second half and our management (whoever was making the changes) failed to act as the game drifted away from us before our eyes. That's not down to Perisic, if it was that simple we would be laughing. Today was simply bad management IMO because we should have reacted to the rejuvinated Wolves quickly and firmly, instead we let them gain confidence and start to take pot shots without lifting a finger to change things.
Has anybody in our management taken account of what 5 changes in a game can do to a team? It looks like we just introduce random players according to some preference list decided before the game. We should be working on on a plan B so that introducing a set of subs changes the game in a predetermined way. If we don't do that we are simply leaving it to chance. 5 subs is literally a game changer and we need to plan for it.
Lots of shots, but don't remember too many clear chances tbh. Half chances at best. And nothing at all coming from the LWB, whose crosses singularly failed to find a Spurs head. We were bad from front to back, but some worse than others... However I totally agree that our 'plan' whatever it was, was a disaster - and Conte must take the blame for that.
Surely most chances in the PL are half chances that's why top strikers are so expensive. We hit the bar 3 times and that is a winning position unless you miss of course, or the goalkeeper has a blinder. That's football and you can't legislate for that you can only employ footballers who take half chances like Kane does, but not today. Their manager reacted to the game in front of him our 'manager' had a plan.
