Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle United

The stats make Paulinho excited

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The Pochettino Narrative (TM) on KWP :

1. Did not mean the boy is not ready to play at Spurs
senior level, but is not ready to be a regular first choice
RB as Walker and Trippier are/were.

2. Wants to avoid pressure being heaped on the boy
at this stage.

 

Now we need to track the development of Danny-Rose Phillips...

 

what is the last stat?

 

Expected goals:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/what-expected-goals-mean-welcome-10978290

 

The gateway stat to full-on moneyball lunacy.

 

Another measure that demonstrates what an utter
goalscoring fiend Kane is.

 

Thank youSpurs. I thank you,my late mum thanks you and the Good Lord thanks you.
Another win next week and we will all walk on water for you.

 

Looks like Jenas and Shearer are the pundits tonight on MOTD2.
Should be... interesting.

 

Not a great performance but 3 points away from home and a great debut by KWP. Son and Wanyama back with Trippier likely to be back next week, we'll improve quickly, I'm sure.

Well done to Alli for keeping his cool too, that was nasty.

 

Has Kane been to The Marcos Rojo School of Tackling?

 

The rules need to be changed so that any striker who
makes a go to the ground tackle gets an instant red.

You could not dream of meeting a more dangerous group of players
in the tackle.

 

No. Inasmuch as he actually won the ball, something I'm yet to see from the Argentine.

 

What about attacking midfielders? Especially ginger ones who played for Man Utd for over a decade?

 

The curse of the Spurs full-back:

Kyle Walker runs away to chase the moolah

Kyle Walker-Peters gets MOM on debut

Danny Rose whinges about not getting enough moolah

Ben Davies scores in his place

 

Shearer complaining that Shelvey didn't stamp hard enough, then claiming Kane should've gone.
Absolute pillock.
Goes on to say that Ritchie's intentional, studs up foul from behind wasn't as bad and was a yellow.
No wonder he was such a failure of a manager.

 

Yeah quite right, scissoring somebody's leg and trying to snap their leg is nothing compared to standing (not stamping) on somebody's foot.
I think managers have to be able to identify players that will suit the team and get the best out of them not make decisions on foul play. if I am wrong then Collina would have made the best manager ever

 

It would be nice if you were ever right about any of these things. Just the once, maybe? Probably not though, eh?

 

I'll bite. There was absolutely no contextual need for Shelvey to have stood on Alli's foot, it was malicious, premeditated, foul play and in order to eradicate this kind of behaviour from the game it warrents the maximum penalty. From a Newcastle perspective, I'd dock the player two weeks wages for sticking them royally in the **** with two big relation showdowns on the horrison.

Kane, went for the ball, got it, but got the man too. No complaints with the yellow card. He was in possession of the ball right up to te point the tackle was made, and in a desperate attempt to retain it made a rash tackle. Was it a season ender? Probably not.
The other yellow card was laughable though. The kind of tackle a poor player makes on FIFA because he's 8-0 down and can't get near is opponent. Yellow card again fair, but in a different circumstance, could have been much worse.