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After that performance I can see lily being up for some arse to mouth action tonight, he will be more than chirpy later on........
Anyway I thought Gary Neville got the man of the match right, Wanyama was immense in the middle today. Credit to everyone of them though, no one put a foot wrong( penalty aside) and the work rate was something else.
For me Alderweireld has been our most important signing but eriksen was really on it today, he worked his proverbials off
Wanyama was huge. He made a number of defensive plays that started the attack. This allowed us to ruin their rhythm IMO.
Not one Spurs player failed to pull his weight today.
Brilliant team effort.
Brilliant team effort.
and still yet to concede from open play in 7 games.
Toby is approaching Ledley levels of respect from me.
Our most important signing of the last 20 years.
Missed the game but reading all the comments that was my first thought, last season without Kane or Dembele we where fucked, and with the likes of Cameron Carter-Vickers coming through we may even have decent cover for Toby.
We can lose a few players and still do well, maybe we don't have the talent of Bale or Modric anymore but this must be the most rounded Spurs squad I can remember.
Few things of note.
- Our defence is incredible. Jan, for me, was MOTM.
- Rose can come back from injury and put in an incredible shift.
- Sissoko needs to do far more for me. His passing, shooting and crossing is awful. Physically he's great, but technically he leaves a lot to be desired. I understand playing him today to beef up the midfield though, so fair enough.
- Son needs a talking to. If your team mate picks up the ball and is walking to the spot you should just walk away and leave them to it. Standing in their way and shouting at them helps no one. That was atrocious for me.
- Lamela should not be the penalty taker, even though Son was in the wrong. He hits his shots far too softly. Eriksen, Son and Wanyama would have all been better shouts imo.
- I noted in pre-season Wanyama was technically impressive and had great range of passing. Strange that many people were calling him poor only a short while ago. Wanyama is an incredible player to have in your squad.
- Dier was anonymous when he came on. Wasn't over the moon with his showing and he's currently 2nd choice by some distance.
- This formation is actually really good, although I feel sorry for Janseen.
- The squad depth will make many teams jealous.
- We're going to compete for the title, if not outright win it. A lot of people were picking United and Chelsea as Citys main rivals, but I think it will be us. Most of our attacking players aren't even on form yet, christ we don't even have a proper striker playing. When we hit our stride I think it's going to be very tough to stop us.
- GK is very good.
Pep: "They were better. Congratulations to them on their performance today."
Nothing about referees, no excuses. Good man.
Nothing about referees, no excuses. Good man.
Based upon what exactly? Eriksen is not exactly known as an excellent penalty taker. The last one he took he missed for instance.
Whatever the result today... this weekend was ALWAYS gonna be about Wenger 20th Anniversary... (I'm surprised it wasn't declared a National Holiday!)
Had Man City beaten us... the coverage would've been unbearable...
As it is, we just have to cope with Man Skity having to bear the fact their little darlings ARE beatable after all!!
Had Man City beaten us... the coverage would've been unbearable...
As it is, we just have to cope with Man Skity having to bear the fact their little darlings ARE beatable after all!!
You'd think he would have thanked the ref for keeping the score respectable. They could have been down to nine men with 35 minutes to play.