Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United

Pulsating game, could have gone either way but an important win before the break for the WC.

 

Finally a decent game of football to watch. Probably only the third time we’ve said that this season, even if it did have some calamitous moments.

Played much better when Emerson and Richarlison went off too, the former just isn’t good enough, the latter doesn’t really fit in.

Bentancur… “he’s the reason”. £16m has to be one of the bargains of the decade.

Kane very good as well. Bissouma great when he came on, was unlucky to be benched but showed why he shouldn’t be.

 

Well done lads! Something to smile about at last even though it was tenterhooks all the way through!

 

today did though

 

Great game but we shouldn’t be struggling to beat Leeds at home.

We have missed Kule so much and it’s great to see him. Bentancur take a bow. Biss did well when he came on.

But what’s going on with our defence? I blame Dier for the first two goals. Shame as I want him to succeed.

 

Wow ,that was a switchback ride, I'm claiming an RCL on this as I chucked my pad and it's very dodgy south African stream when we went 2-3 down to make a cuppa and picked it up again at 4-3

 

Yeah this should be a routine win but just look at City losing to Brentford, no easy games

 

Agreed, we needed the win and got it. I’ll take that because spurs put the effort in today and played well at times.

 

I wonder how the Juve board actually feel right now.

They actually sanctioned the departure of Bentancur for £15.8m. That’s a third of a Lo Celso or less than a third of an Ndombele. Then they only went and sanctioned a loan with a £35m buy option for Kulusevski. That’s less than half a Sancho.

Funny ol’ game.

 

My dodgy stream had the commentary about five seconds behind the video, so had the horrendous gap of seeing Leeds had scored before the commentators mentioned it.

 

Perhaps they don't suit the current Juventus game.
They suit the PL game more than well enough
(and any money saved by Levying etc is a bonus) ,

Also, to Bentancur on the goal front.
Although I found him to be quite sloppy at times
with his passing during this season, 3 goals is a
good return to date.

 

5 goals in fact, 4 in the Prem, 1 in the CL. All of them at pivotal times too, big game player for us .

 

1. even better

2. < nobody expects the Spanish inquisition >

 

Wake me up before you jet ski,
Who needs Bale when you've got Kulusevski

 

Mine got me very interested in a restaurant chain that specialises in Braai chicken , man I could smash that right now

 

First, the bad:

• Starting Emerson. Clearly not suited for the system and his confidence is shot now, too.
• The crowd's reaction to Emerson's substitution. Awful. He's one of our players and doesn't deserve that.
• Dier at RCB. Doesn't suit him at all and it adds to the weakness on that side.
• The officials. Didn't appear to want to be there. Missed loads for both sides. VAR must've been off.
• The negative tactics and standard slow start.

Now the good:

• Kulusevski and Richarlison back in the team. Clearly not 100%, but we needed bodies.
• The resilience to keep coming back from behind, which eventually led to a win.
• 3 points. Our form's been awful and results have been worse.
• Juventus. Thanks for selling us two fantastic players on the cheap.
• Beating dirty ****ing Leeds. Scumbags.

 

Lloris weak on all three goals, for me.

 

Today proved two things

i.) How important Deki is to our system
ii.) How badly Conte has been setting us up when Deki is not available