Match Day Thread Tottenham Hotspur vs Southampton 26/12/17 - 12:30 Boxing Day Beat Down

Just checked the stats, only player who has more touches was Lemina. He also won the corner for the goal btw.

 

That doesn’t mean he was good/had a good game. He was okay.

 

yeah thats my view and what i posted earlier. Just contradicting the part about him being anonymous. he was our best outlet at the weekend and so got heavily involved even if half of what he did as that outlet isn't worth talking about.

 

I had Yoshy having 3 with Romeu and Boufal with one each

 

That's even worse!

 

I totally get what Croatia is saying though - a good moment doesn’t make a good game.

 

All talk is about Kane today but I can see Erickson causing the damage.


Let's do this for shearer.

 

I despair of our fans, frankly. Redmond has been elected scapegoat, and the mere sight of his name causes a meltdown.

 

We are going to get absolutley pumped today. A striker that can’t score goals alongside wingers that can’t beat a man. Happy new year

 

He wasn't anonymous, what game were you watching?

Frustrating, perhaps. Anonymous? Hardly.

 

Ok, frustrating.

 

I understand the inclusion of Long, simply because he will run his socks off and put their defenders under a bit of pressure.
I just wish we had a striker who could hold onto the ball for longer than 2 or 3 seconds, before shinning the ball into touch or having a heavy touch that allows a defender to nick the ball and pass it through our midfielders and full backs who will be trying to get forward to support him, and now find themselves out of position for the counter attack.
Hopefully Shane will step up today and get more right than wrong.

 

If we're 3-0 down after 20 minutes I won't be as optimistic as I am now.

COME ON YOU REDS!!!!!

 

I wasn't arguing that part, i was arguing against the part he said Redmond was anonymous which is just plain untrue. he had a few good moments though. and having a good game is about how many good moments you have. he won several corners, including the one for the goal. Got one on one with the keeper and set up a golden opportunity for Austin. had more people got into the box some of the positions he got into may have lead to more. He was key to the way we played though and was our threat on the counter.

Boufal gets MotM on occasion from 1 good moment though

 

Yeah, Long will run and harry, but the problem is he'll be the only one doing that and pressing the back line, ultimately chasing shadows. We've seen that already this season on a good sample of matches against top teams, where the rest of the team sits back deep and the striker is cut off and he runs his socks off chasing shadow and all his effort is for nothing

 

Forgot the game today....why did you lot remind me?

 

I'm a bit scared to be honest

I'd love a leftfield result, but can't see it happening!

 

Shane Long to start? I hope he's been saving up his goals for today. At least 4 please.

 

Happy meltdown everyone