Tottenham vs QPR (away) - THE RYAN NELSEN DERBY

[escher]

Not great, if Everton win they're within 1 point of us again, we just can't pull away from the chasing pack, season after season.

One of our problems seems to be no one who can go past people, so the opposing team just needs to stand in front of us and that's enough to prevent 90% of our attacks coming to anything.

It doesn't help that we are far too static and cumbersome in our build up, and teams seem to have figured Bale out.

I don't think Adebayor will be much of a miss, we don't need a holding player when the majority of the game is played in the other team's half.

I wonder if the players had to cancel a short holiday break due to the game being rearranged from Monday to Saturday at the last moment - they look like they could do with a few days off.

 

[Norwegian Jim]

The stats look decent, but I think we only had one clear cut chance (Ade). Lockpicker sorely needed!

 

[1882]

Very frustrating!!!!!!

How Ade can expect to fuck off to the ACN and NOT have a replacement by the time he comes back is beyond me....

If I was more suspicious I'd have suggested they arranged the result beforehand.. Everyone was a little TOO chatty and best friends at the final whistle for my liking... THEN AGAIN, that would be giving them the benefit of having the intelligence to orchestrate something like that!

More than likely, they simply underestimated QPRsoles desire to see out a drab draw and claim it as some moral footballing victory!

And what was with ALL THE BOOING of our players by their fans? We weren't THAT BAD were we?... Small-time cunts

 

[Anderton21]

It sounds cliched, but this is exactly the kind of game the likes of Utd somehow find a way to win.

 

[JDK]

Dembele is playing hurt, I think it's pretty obvious. Doesn't have anywhere near his normal burst.

 

[linnet_spur]

We were better when Ade and Defoe were up top. That last half hour was turgid. Never mind, point on the board, clean sheet.

Oh and 40 pts, fuck you relegation :kaboullol:

 

[Andrew L]

Ade is like the 35 year old version of Randy Moss. Plays 20 percent of the time...looks so sluggish out there..

 

[Lister]

Nor has the movement and as another poster said the decision making

We don't nearly look like a team chasing the 3 points. Players like Dembélé, Naughton, Bale and Defoe look more than happy just standing over the ball.

Not pretty.

Nice and convenient example to prompt some movement in this window...

 

[linnet_spur]

Not great, if Everton win they're within 1 point of us again, we just can't pull away from the chasing pack, season after season.

One of our problems seems to be no one who can go past people, so the opposing team just needs to stand in front of us and that's enough to prevent 90% of our attacks coming to anything.

It doesn't help that we are far too static and cumbersome in our build up, and teams seem to have figured Bale out.

I don't think Adebayor will be much of a miss, we don't need a holding player when the majority of the game is played in the other team's half.

I wonder if the players had to cancel a short holiday break due to the game being rearranged from Monday to Saturday at the last moment - they look like they could do with a few days off.

That would be because we are all around the same level.

I also like how teams have figured Bale out when his last 2 league games he was destroying teams :avblol:

 

[EssexYid]

I really hope Dempsey steps up and makes that spot his own now with Adebayor gone, because I'm sick of Adebayor now.

 

[Mikey McMoose]

yep, one poor game and he's suddenly been found out and all our players are rubbish. jesus, these games happen, it's frustrating, moving on.

 

[Yid7]

Bollocks. But what can you do when a team decides to put 11 men behind the ball at home?

At last, someone who was watching the same game as me. If Dembele had not of deliberately fouled Mackie in the first half, that game would have been a 1-0 loss. They would have scored and Harry would have put everyone behind the ball. As it happened, QPR need every point, they played for it, and got it. Fair play. If we had got dicked at the end, you would be hearing calls for AVB' s head. He did what he had too, given QPR's tactics. I count this as a point gained, rather than 3 points dropped, away from home aswell. COYS.

 

[Pie and Mash]

That felt like a defeat last time we didn't score away was there, not a good place for us

 

[pompower]

Everyone was shit. Looked half asleep out there. I can't think of one player who had a good match. Terrible performance all round.

 

[1882]

It sounds cliched, but this is exactly the kind of game the likes of Utd somehow find a way to win.

It's only a cliche cos it keeps happening!

It's also a cliche to suggest we're the only team to help Ryan Nelson get man of the match against!

 

[truetomyself]

It sounds cliched, but this is exactly the kind of game the likes of Utd somehow find a way to win.

Yeah, strange that. It's not like they have 5 strikers, two of which are Van Persie and Rooney, right?

 

[Mikey McMoose]

Looked like harry was explaining himself to AVB at the end there? Could hear him saying something on the mic.

 

[Éperons]

And that's what happens when I don't make the match thread.

 

[Yid7]

Rose tinted glasses people, try to keep up, we played a team with 2 things to prove today.
1: keeping their Gaffer happy.
2: relegation battle.
These are the type of away games that we need to be getting points from, and we did. Onwards and upwards.

 

[truetomyself]

Everyone was shit. Looked half asleep out there. I can't think of one player who had a good match. Terrible performance all round.

Our defence was good today.