Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Burnley

One issue is that Nuno wants us to be more clinical, hence we don't see so many speculative shots - but it's a bit hard to be clinical with our attacking players always being static instead of moving into position to receive the ball - or, in Kane's case, moving veeeeeeeeery slooooooooooooowly into position so that the move has broken down, been recycled by the opponents, snuffed out by our defenders, juggled around midfield three or four times and then shifted forward again

 

Yeah for me the performances have been worrying since Jan 2019. There has been one off decent games here and there but since then, it feels like the club has been a bit ‘lost’ and making mistake after mistake with regards to managers and new signings

 

As I said last night won't be confident of getting through no matter who we draw, and we probably going into the draw 7th favourites on form and even Sunderland would fancy there chances.

You may think I am mad but our best chance maybe drawing Liverpool at home, Klopp holds this competition in contempt and would likely put out the kids again, that might at least give us a chance all be it a very small one.

 

Mid December is a few weeks away (whoever is in charge then) .
Getting the PL and ECL campaigns back on track is far higher priority.

 

I wonder if last nights balance with the fullbacks might help us in the future?
Royal got forward quite a lot, while Davies was more defensive, albeit with the odd bit of flair.
Reguilon and Tanganga might strike a similar balance, although obviously on opposite sides.
Something of a throwback to Assou-Ekotto and Corluka, perhaps?

 

I think balancing FBs depends who is in front of them

Lucas & Emerson would work as Lucas does the scrappy work to protect his FB, not quite to the degree Lamela or Lennon would but he does the work
Bergwijn would work better with Tanganga, given he doesn't cover his FB as much, so having a RB who rarely progresses deep into opposition territory could work

Of course, this is what the ubermensch was trying a couple of seasons ago with Aruer and Davies as his preferred FBs, as the system was designed to morph from a back four when defending to 3ATB when we had the ball and Aurier effectively became a RW - although that mainly exposed that neither Toby nor Dier had the pace to play 3ATB when Aurier inevitably lost the ball and the opponents breezed through the Winkssoko pivot like they weren't there

Realistically that could work as Skipp/Hojbjerg are more solid so we might have a midfield, plus Romero has pace so can recover

This also underlines how the best solution would be to take Nuno and the ubermensch and shove them in a teleporter, because the former has made us more solid but toothless up front while the latter had us lethal up front but non-existent at the back, so if we Brundlefly'd the two we might get somebody who can make the squad tick...