Tottenham Hotspur v. Wolverhampton Wanderers: 3pm, Saturday 29th December

[Gmspurs]

If you don't laugh, you'll cry.

First chance all season to narrow a gap to 3 points to the top. Opportunity to go an extra 3 points clear of City, Woolwich, Chelsea and United before they've even played. Go a goal up against Wolves and in an instant we throw it all away. At the first hurdle.

It's so typically Tottenham. We built ourselves up for it. We were all so happy when City dropped 6 points and we ended up overtaking them. Only to now realise Liverpool will go 10 points clear of them tonight and their nearest challengers in the league just lost at home to Wolves 3-1.

Just can't quite seem to reach the summit.....cant say that we haven't had our chances to apply pressure at the top over the last few seasons..... Just can't quite reach it.

Players are probably knackered.... We don't have the huge squad to be able to handle this many games in such a short space of time..... Add the injuries together and you're going to get days like today.

Hope no one forgets how awesome we've been to even be in this situation.

 

[Donato]

That was seriously a horrible performance, absolutely horrible.

Players walking around the whole second half and once they scored you could see that another was coming, the whole walking about into position with their heads down.

We’re not a title contender and today proved that. First time we’ve lost to a newly promoted team in 6 years and once again we lose a game from a winning position, it’s becoming a bit of a habit. We seem to seriously crumble when a team equalises, it’s happened against
- Inter, 2 goals in the last 5 mins
- Watford, 2 goals in quick succession
- Woolwich, 3 goals in 15-20 mins
- Wolves, 3 goals in 10 mins

Really concerning to be honest, we seem to score late goals to win but when we’re on the recieving end we crumble. Defending set pieces have been our problem this season.

Also Lloris should’ve definitely done better on the first goal and perhaps even the second.

 

[sammyspurs]

It’s funny because no one picked up on it for 70 minutes.
Now everyone is going to pretend they battered us from the first whistle.

Wolves were shit, and we decided to bring Spursy back.

 

[Thin Lilywhite Duke]

Soooo bigging up Sanchez is the same as taking delight in us losing?

Ok

No, you're taking his point-scoring and painting it as delight (which I highly doubt is the case).

I'm saying that you were trying to point-score throughout this entire match thread.

 

[Hrytn]

Need a thumping scouse win now I guess.
Back to looking over our shoulders, guys.

Draw will suffice

 

[King_Donut]

Wolves well organised. But tactically we were nowhere to be seen 2nd half.

 

[ILSpur]

I know everyone is super pissed off about this, but try to have a little perspective on this.

There are 18 games and 54 points left for the taking. Simce the beginning of November we have taken wins from 8 out of our last 10 PL games, and qualified for the CL round of 16.

The team have played their hearts out, and they ran out of gas today. Every team has their bad day, this was ours. We will respond, it isn't over yet.

 

[COYSinnit]

Am I the only one who’s noticed when Eriksen plays shit the team often struggles. Today was a sham.

 

[Jakob]

We now MUST put our attention towards an FA Cup/League Cup win.

To not win anything this season would be a fucking crime.

Ah, like it goes every year only for us to bottle it at the semi-final.

This is not how it should go every fucking year.

 

[walter]

Yay! We've got our Spurs back!
ochsulk:

 

[Totti]

Of course it is. And as I said, that's on Levy & C0

Poch deserves just as much blame.

He can't just pull out Skipps name, say how he plays mature and is ready to step in when players need a rest and then simply not start him (or even bring him on today when it was clear we needed fresh numbers in midfield).

That Lucas sub for Dele is one of the worst I've seen him make. Oddly, most in here wanted it.

 

[Gmspurs]

A draw, please.

I suppose..... 18 games to go.......

There will be happy days and dark days ahead.......
:lennon:

 

[docomospur]

Switched off after 1-0 what happened

Switched off is exactly what happened to the Spurs players.

 

[bus-conductor]

Winks has just missed Sissoko from 7 yards. He has been utter dogshit today and not much better in the games previously. Not living up to the promise when given his chance. Perhaps bringing on Skipp to assist him instead of Moura was the call. We weren't having any of the ball anyway to get it forward.

Not sure how anyone watches that performance and singles Winks out for criticism over Sissoko, who offered absolutely nothing for 95 minutes.

What was his role today? Who fucking knows? Does he?

Winks role was just to mind the middle and keep us ticking (which he did seeing a shitload of the ball - more than anyone else), both Eriksen and Sissoko where supposed to be the 8’s linking the attack, both were worse than Winks at their remits, but at least Eriksen saw a shitload more of the ball and tried. Sissoko did fuck all.

 

[CroSpurs]

I love Winks, but he's not running forward, not passing forward. Always to side or back. Defensively not good enough, with DM he's okay, but like this, it's not working.

 

[kuntardi]

It seemed like Poch didnt expect Wolves to stay compact with 8 or 9 players around their halves.
Our players looked confused how to deal with it and end up making a lot of miss passes.
I didnt saw a 3-1 tbh, but i sense trouble with the way we are passing.

And wtf do we not have Llorente when Kane clearly dont fancy staying inside the box.

 

[Thin Lilywhite Duke]

Absolutely. Anyone who thinks we're good enough to win the league after this game is deluded. Wolves are decent which is why it is so unforgivable that we let them back in. At 1-0 up we should kill the game. Instead we were lazy and that told Wolves they could get back into it. Stupid as fuck, the worst performance under Poch in my opinion, maybe not footballing wise but in terms of mentality for sure.

It was almost eerily similar to that Watford away game, really.

Alas, we seem to have 'that' mid-game capitulation up our sleeves. Less so than we used to, and fortunately a rarity, but it's there.

 

[ILSpur]

just how average did they look?

open your eyes, that is not some collection of agricultural pub team players

They are an average squad, and the results show it. City were shit that game in the same way that we were in the second half, not that Leicester or Wolves were are real quality squad.

 

[Radical Rei]

He’s had a elite side for four seasons John - he just hasn’t the required ability at this level. If you can’t win silverware with the likes of Kane, Ali, Eriksen to name a few you are not going to win it with anyone else. As I have said time and time again it’s the Redknapp era all over again and deep down you all know I’m right on this.

It goes all the way to the top though Levy is perfectly happy for a 4th/3rd place finish as long as we keep qualfying for the champions league and keep the money coming in all is fine.

We could go the next 10 years without winning anything and the next and all would be fine if we keep the money coming in.

 

[Ossie Wembley]

Am I the only one who’s noticed when Eriksen plays shit the team often struggles. Today was a sham.

Well we are screwed next season then.

 

[Notabadsquad]

Trippier and winks were the poorest for me today.

Does it matter?

Team game and so we win and lose as one.

Painful because it should be.

We have been brilliant of late and Wolves caught us and took advantage of a poor day.

It's just always likely to happen to us that is the worst thing. Or at least you always feel it will happen.