The fact that he got caught out with this numerous times is what did my head in. You can make that mistake once, but it kept happening over and over again in the second half.
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Son seemed the far more obvious sub honestly.
lack of initiative and taking control of a situation...thats the captain too!
this is nothing new with lloris, its always been his major flaw
We really have to start to play better. But in another hand we’ve been lacklustre but still getting points. Don’t see us playing worse than we’ve been doing so things should get better. I really think the key to our team is to have a wing back on the right that’s dangerous in attack like Perisic is. Emerson will never be good for this system.
It's sad that grown men being paid obscene money have such fragile egos about getting benched or subbed once in awhile. FFS get in form or don't whine about it.
A CB with genuinely great distribution and a top class, marauding RWB would have a pretty remarkable impact I think. Got to wonder when Conte gives Lenglet a shot, Fulham?
Romero & Doherty back should brighten things up a fair bit.
That said; I'd have liked to have seen Spence given a whirl for the last 10/15 mins tonight if Doh wasn't fit enough.
All I can figure is that he's happy to play for the draw here- and that hes not as confident in our depth as we'd like to hope :/
Will be so happy when Emerson stops being our starting right back. The lad gives his all but he kills us going forward down the right, the contrast with Perisic says it all.
Romero will help with playing out for sure, do think Lenglet deserves a shot at showing what he can do as well.
Davies is fine defensively but rarely cuts up anyone with his passing. Against top level opposition his forward forays look fairly ineffective. Lenglet to get a start vs Fulham is a great shout.
I’d love to see both him & Spence start but the latter definitely isn’t happening. We need some real thrust down that right hand side though, at the moment it’s where our attacks go to die.
Would be happy enough to see him get a run, but I think Ben is (typically) just quietly going about his business (tidy, but unspectacular) and if there's a bit more oppo concern created by our right side then things should open up a bit for him on the left and he'll get to be a bit more aggressive like he was at his best last season.
Emerson: Poor bugger's settled down and doing pretty well; just not in terms of what's being demanded of him.
The combo of Emerson & Sanchez is more damaging than they are individually; IMO.
I love Conte and trust him, but I'm with you that we desperately need more attacking thrust from the RWB. Conte needs to be brave and give Spence a start. Fulham are doing well imo so far this year but its definitely no game out of reach for him as he played oppo their level all last season. We could be in for a frustrating string of 1-1 and 0-0 games otherwise.
Lenglet’s distribution is meant to be on another level though. And shit, I get Davies hasn’t done much wrong, but surely we didn’t sign Lenglet purely for the bench? At home to Fulham seems as good an opportunity as any to see what he can do.
And yeah, it’s a shame. I’ll be fair & say he’s better than I thought he was. But he’s just just still so clumsy, not a wing back by any stretch of the imagination.
Here's the formula to play us: sit deep, man mark Kane around the pitch, and invite Spurs to beat you with any of the following players: Emerson, Sanchez, Davis, Dier.
I think Lenglet's loan (w/ no option) status renders him somewhat of a curiosity.......
I’ll be seriously disappointed if he really is just a stop-gap bench filler for the season. Hoping it’s just him adjusting to the Conte setup & because Davies has earned some credit.
Hopefully Bissouma pushes on too.. really subdued tonight.
exactly. easy fucking game! let the back 3 have all the ball, apply no pressure and keep all the forward players marked as nothing will happen.
also the players in front of that back 3 are subconsciously not going to be moving as much for the ball as its simply a waste of energy as the quality of pass is not coming.
its like cruyff said, the aim is to let your opponents weak players see as much of the ball as possible!
I dunno...... The main disappointment for me would come from him being a hit and he or Barca blocking us from making him perm next summer.
Still got work to do......... Dumb early card won't have helped tonight tho'.
I'd start him against Fulham too. Need him up and running asap with the CL only a week away.
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