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I don’t like people say palace were well set up. Well we can also be well setup to counter that. How many ganes you think palace have won playing like that. Didn’t goons put 5 past them recently. It’s not a given that the way they setup against top teams is always going to work. They also had 3 key players out. Some on here moan about missing one player. Every team loses players but some here think we should never have injuries.
Some on here posted it and on the content boys channels.
It’s not mutually exclusive though!
Inverted fb or attack fb. I’d like destiny to stay wide and attack as his one of the few players who can run and beat people. When inverted he runs into traffic. For me over the years what do everyone say when you play v 10 men? Stretch the pitch and keep width. Well that is the sane as playing v 11 in a low block. Keep the wide players wide including FBs who can provide overlap. Defenders never go with the runner. Destiny and timo did some good pull backs into the box and that is what we need more. Cross the ball either from wide areas or a bit earlier like MADDs did putting the ball in the box. No idea why we didn’t at at least try some balls in to the box in the first half. However we’d get ball wide and kulu mainly would turn back.
We were. We won 3-1.
A football match lasts 90 mins mate.
We were set up to keep possession and be consistently putting pressure on them whilst nullifying their counters.
Liverpool needed last min winner vs forest yesterday, City needed to wait till the 71st min to beat Bournmouth 1-0 a couple of weeks ago.
All good teams have to probe, put pressure on opponents setting up trying to nullify them.
Just goes to show it's about opinions, and most are biased one way or another. I've seen the ratings for Royal, with one particular poster giving him a 1!
Emerson had a solid game yesterday and didn't put a foot wrong. The ratings on here shouldn't ever be taken as a barometer of how well a player played, far too many picking favourites.
FWIW, I felt that Romero was MOTM. He was solid, progressive, and weighed in with the winning goal. He was the standout player for me, but others will see it differently.
What seemed evident to me was that it looked as though we have a few players coming back into form. Maddison looked closer to his best, Bissouma looks to be getting there too, whilst Bentancur wasn't nearly as bad as some are making out.
The team, as a whole, was excellent yesterday.
It gets worse - I was the only one who was present at the 1972 final at WHL. I was moaning that I had to pay 50p for a standing ticket in the Paxton, double usual price.Mrs P it’s not often I disagree with you but come on , the 1984 final? You wasn’t even Born then! Stop telling porkie pies!
Oh by the way, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed your time; but it's generic bollocks(*)........ You can't convince me it wouldn't be more fun singing actual Spurs songs.
(*and euro-dross shit; but hey I'm a music snob so that's on me I guess)
Every game should be won in the first 10 minutes, innit...... Then you woke up... Eventually.... Hopefully.... Some day... Please.
We getting a bishop in mate?
Watched the full match now. Might be controversial opinion but we weren’t actually ‘bad’ even in the first half. Palace just sat back with 10 behind the ball most of the time. We could have passed better / quicker but it’s hard to break that approach down.
I don’t get the comparisons to Conte. We weren’t being negative / defensive so it’s nothing alike.
The thing that didn’t make sense for me is why Palace didn’t stick to their approach. They were very open from 70 mins onwards and that’s when we scored 3.
Edit - thought the Werner pen was definitely a pen. SpursPlay amusing caught one of our fans shouting, “Do your fucking job referee!”.
I don’t get the comparisons to Conte. We weren’t being negative / defensive so it’s nothing alike.
The thing that didn’t make sense for me is why Palace didn’t stick to their approach. They were very open from 70 mins onwards and that’s when we scored 3.
Edit - thought the Werner pen was definitely a pen. SpursPlay amusing caught one of our fans shouting, “Do your fucking job referee!”.
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No, but 4.5 does.
That's because since the officials committed the cardinal sin of mucking up ONE solitary decision against them, it's not going to happen again!
Yes - and now Klopp announcing he's leaving also seems to be having further impact on how they are treated by the refs.
What