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By the @KingHotspur count they have 8 defensive players.

 

You can pick 11 defensive players and play an attacking style or 10 attacking players and set them out to defend.
We picked a lot of defensive players and played a negative game, which was entirely predictable from the team selection.

 

Well there go our hopes of preventing The Sheikh Mansour Team winning a quadruple...

 

Yeah 3 attacking players but their full backs are effective and contribute to attacks

 

Very much wingbacks, compared to our fullbacks. They're also used to that system and know how to play it well. We don't.

 

Cheerio, Sheff Utd.

The 3-1 defeat last season will forever be remembered for producing one of the worst Spurs performances and refereeing decisions of all time.

 

Who by?

 

Shame. I wanted City and Chelsea to lose.City more so! The other game should be a cracker.

 

The ref? Chris Kavanagh. It was more about the VAR though, which was our mate Michael Oliverpool.

 

Spurs fans and people who would pefer to see officials who aren't crap.

As a United fan, I understand you might not fit under either of those categories.

 

The creative use of the three centre backs fell apart when they lost O’Connell to injury. Egan and Basham at times too.They had injuries in other areas of the team too. For a team that relied so heavily on the same players playing to a formula rehearsed and perfected over three to four years stretching back to their League One days, centred on a solid defence, these disruptions were always going to have a massive impact.

Wilder did exceptionally well, but then the wheels came off when the results dipped, there were changes in the ownership/boardroom management of the club and there was no plan B, this outcome became inevitable. Not sure they will come back quickly.

 

They had an interesting and inventive Plan A (overlapping centre-halves?), but little in the way of a Plan B.
Vastly overspent on **** strikers and seemed to lose all belief when they struggled after the lockdown last season.

 

Yeah, that’s a good point. Wilder must have thought he needed to replace Sharp - an ageing striker who has spent all his career in the lower leagues. But he just bought a load of very average players, none of whom were regular goalscorers. Sharp was still their most likely scorer! When you think how many games they lost by the odd goal, a 12-15 goal a season striker might have actually made a huge difference.

 

I don't think we'll be seeing them return for the foreseeable future. Wilder achieved near miracles on a shoe string budget and in record time. They have very few obviously saleable assets as they have always been a team rather than a collection of individual talents. And after a year without PL-level matchday revenue (a fear most teams down there must have), the financial forecast can't be good.

 

They had 5 shots all game.

 

I doubt Chilwell has ever played wingback before this season. Doherty has. I think Aurier and Reguilon are much better in attack than defence. If we can’t play this formation then that is entirely down to Mourinho.
If I wanted our most skilful eleven players on the field at once we,should probably pick
Loris
Alderweireld, Rodon, Davies
Aurier, Ndombele, Lo Celso, Reguilon
Bale, Son
Kane

with the following as cover
Hart
Tanganga, Dier, Sanchez
Doherty, Hojbjerg, Winks, Lamela
Dele, Bergwijn
Lucas/Vinicius

 

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Nobody show this to convicted criminal Darren Grimes, he might think this would be an example of what the country would look like if Jeremy Corbyn was in charge...

 

The only good thing to arise is that the pressure is now off
Spurs to deny Citeh step 1 of a quadruple.

 

Step 1's already gone...