Also I wonder if he’s embarrassed by the dive for his red card against Luton, which would be chastening
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Unless he’s a psychopath and it doesn’t phase him
Ok, whilst I agree with you, how long should it affect him (assuming it is)?
He is after all a pro, and these sorts of minor setbacks come with the job.
Questioned why went in for him. Could have saved the money and got eze who so much better. Johnson looks weak as well. Early days for him but if his a starting player I do worry. He never looked to get involved. May be he needs a FB on the outside supporting him rather than having FB inside. Plus he has to come deep for the ball from CBs as FB is gone inside. Not a fan of this inverted FB just makes our play too congested in the middle. Look at their winner royal is in the centre circle. We had 4 players in the CC.
These are all attributes that Johnson doesn't really possess in any great measure.
He's a pace merchant who can carry the ball and be frighteningly quick in transition (and a decent finisher too).
I think, for him to work in our system, there needs to be more support from midfield to allow him to make those combinations/forward runs.
In isolation, he isn't your guy to take-on a player 1 v 1.
Have you seen deki cross? Explains why we don’t do it.
It probably depends on the person but hopefully not for very long because, as you say, he has to get on with it
He was afraid of getting a booking and ban. Clean sheet after the Villa game.
I think Ange got it right.
- We needed an extra man in midfield (Hojbjerg) to protect the makeshift back 4.
- We dialed down the intensity to minimise risks of further injury
- The early goal allowed us to slow down and play keep ball
1st Wolves goal was absolute class. Excellent ball in, and well taken by the goalscorer. Vicario maybe shouldn't have been beaten at his near post.
2nd goal again was an excellent ball and a good run. A poor ball by Hojbjerg and Gil napping lost us the ball, then we forgot football basics and allowed them to take the free kick quickly, before Royal was able to get back into a good position.
Wolves deserved the point, but taking all 3 was down to our mistake - Which Ange will not tollerate.
- We needed an extra man in midfield (Hojbjerg) to protect the makeshift back 4.
- We dialed down the intensity to minimise risks of further injury
- The early goal allowed us to slow down and play keep ball
1st Wolves goal was absolute class. Excellent ball in, and well taken by the goalscorer. Vicario maybe shouldn't have been beaten at his near post.
2nd goal again was an excellent ball and a good run. A poor ball by Hojbjerg and Gil napping lost us the ball, then we forgot football basics and allowed them to take the free kick quickly, before Royal was able to get back into a good position.
Wolves deserved the point, but taking all 3 was down to our mistake - Which Ange will not tollerate.
Fair assessment and good insight.
I wonder if Sarr could have been sacrificed in favour of a more creative outlet. If we needed an engine in that midfield 3, then we could have moved Kulu into Madders position and have Johnson out right and Gil on the left.
Then when Gil tires from lack of match fitness, rotate with Johnson, move Kulu to the right and Gio/Bentancur into the 10.
Lots of fine margins.
Absolutely untrue in my case.
This is evidenced by the fact on around 80 minutes I stated "not kidding, I can see Wolves winning this"
We were backing off, dropping deep, clinging on and tiring. It was an awful performance for most of the match. A win would have convinced the basic fan we were fine, but a win (or even a draw tbh) would have been robbery. We were comprehensively outplayed IMO and the whole game concerned me deeply.
It's going to widen if we keep playing like that.
I think Ange will take the brunt of the criticism because both goals we conceded we tried to play out and play quick which is what he wants the players to do but the problem is lack of quality on the pitch.
No, sorry, Wolves deserved the win simply because they scored 2 goals and not controversial goals and we only scored 1.
Regarding the conspiracy theory and we get nothing because there’s an agenda,are you seriously believing that??
Why would any official or anyone in power have anything against Tottenham??
Why would any official or anyone in power have anything against Tottenham??
It's not like we were punished from turnovers in open play, they scored from two restarts. A throw in and a quick free kick. We just went to sleep, especially on the second goal someone simply has to interfere with the free kick and take the booking. Can't allow them to play before we are ready to defend.
So what you're saying, is with the defense that the last few managers have ben saddled with, we had to drop a bit deeper, concede some attack and protect what we had.
So it's OK when Ange does that, but it's bad when others do it? (not saying you said that, but many others have)
There seems to be a lot of post match revisionism going on in her at the moment.
We were shit. Let's not kid ourselves that a time even slightly better up front than Wolves would have caused a lot, lot more problems.
We were far too passive, there was little desire by a lot of our players to win the ball back and we seemed content to just let Wolves pass it about. It was strikingly different to what we have seen in all games bare the league cup match. And, strangely, that too was a much changed side.
Despite all the whining about the ref, they conceded more free kicks than us and got more yellow cards than us.
We were shit. Let's not kid ourselves that a time even slightly better up front than Wolves would have caused a lot, lot more problems.
We were far too passive, there was little desire by a lot of our players to win the ball back and we seemed content to just let Wolves pass it about. It was strikingly different to what we have seen in all games bare the league cup match. And, strangely, that too was a much changed side.
Despite all the whining about the ref, they conceded more free kicks than us and got more yellow cards than us.