To be or not to be clinical

“They always create many chances and score so much but, in the end, they miss always something to arrive at the end…Tottenham had their chances and are a fine team but they’re on the verge of being able to win this type of game. Sometimes, you need that spark, maybe a trophy win.” – Giorgio Chiellini

Yes, it’s Machiavellian, it’s the Italian football coldness, it’s the winner’s word but maybe there is some truth here. Some times the enemy say to us the whole truth and I have the sense that is what exactly happened with the clinical lesson that Juve brought to us in our final Champions League game.

I agree with Pochettino’s post analysis about the whole picture of our fight with Juve… but I disagree with his effort, something he used to do cause of his emotional momentum after any critical defeat, to underestimate the reason that is hidden behind the clinical capacity of Italian club to win, to seize the opportunity to “kill” you and keep you paralysed till the last moment of the game.

So there is a false debate about quality football on one hand and opportunistic and clinical on the other, and Spurs need to overcome this Shakespearean way of thinking about the choice or not to be coldblooded.

If I am not wrong I remember Pochettino to describe almost with the same words our defeat last year in the FA Cup semi-final from Chelsea (4-2 final score).

To dominate and play better than any oppponent is not contradictory with the tactical need and preparation to secure and protect your supremacy till the last moment, giving to your boys the spirit of winner and to fans the feeling of justice. Yes we know we play the best game and that’s why we want to take the prize of the best.

We are a great team, an emerging international football power and we need to build the spirit of Spurs glory again… this is the momentum for that. We can win big, like a lucky winner at a UK Casino, our chance is coming.

Inexperience is a real fact about our comparison with the Juve’s European presence. But inexperience is an abstract word when we speak about the vision and ethos that a club has been built.

What Pochettino should take as a lesson from Juve’s Clinical show in London is that Spurs in the new era need to be clinical too, cause we deserve to leave behind us the worst!