Jobs Worth
Other football commitments tonight mean Ive just finished watching the game. So much to the delight of some of you, I will keep it brief.
I thought for 75 minutes we pretty much controlled things but, somewhat understandably, without Eriksen and Winks I think some of the zip and creative verve we showed in the week was absent. Noticeably absent was the speed at which the ball was moved against PSV, and some of the interchanges between the likes of Winks, Eriksen, Alli and the FB's. And for all our domination during that 75 minutes, we didn't really create enough of quality, too much carelessness by the likes of Lamela and Kane saw moves frequently frittered away in the final third.
We have to caveat the game by saying Palace are a pretty shit team with Zaha, without Zaha they are utterly devoid of attacking threat. That said they probably ended up having the best chance of the game at the death, when Sissoko blotted an otherwise decent copy book by letting their donkey of a CF walk off him and get on the end of a ricochet, which if he wasn't a donkey and he puts anywhere other than straight at Lloris would have been an equaliser.
Hodgson came out with some bullshit post match, bemoaning the fact that they've ended up giving it a go in the last 10 minutes and wasting a couple of great chances for a deserved equaliser that we wouldn't have begrudged them, fucking twat, if you tried to play for the first 75 min then maybe we wouldn't begrudge you a point, as it is, you only tried to play football once all was fucking lost and it was so late you had fuck all to lose.
I was glad to see Lamela get the start, only for him to really disappoint. He wasted several situations by over playing or poor control, and should have controlled that lovely through ball from Alli.
Alli did his best to fill that 8/10 hybrid void left by Eriksen, and didn't do a bad job at all, and looked to be the only one of our players likely to create something tangible, although not enough. Moura was lively as ever, bit surprised he got hooked again, this time before Lamela.
Great to see Wanyama have a solid 90, nothing orgasmic, just a good solid performance, and Sissoko probably had is best 90 in a Spurs shirt, worked hard, kept things simple as you'd expect, but played a couple of decent passes too in build ups, also dropped in between the CB's on occasion.
Got to give the boy Foyth the MOTM tonight though, after last weeks mare the kid has bounced back to show character, help us to a rare clean sheet, show some cool on the ball when playing out and pops up with the winner.
All in all, this was a better performance than some of our other scrappy league wins this seasons, it was a job done, but with less sloppy drama and loss of complete control we've seen for much of our previous games.
Individual
Lloris - He made decent saves but they were pretty routine and straight at him, and he played one crazy pass to Sissoko at one point.
Aurier - Solid defensively, offered knish offensively.
Foyth - MOTM for me. Started cautiously but grew into the game, defended well, helped us play out from the back and popped up with the game winner.
TA - Very solid game.
Davies - Another pretty decent game where he was more involved, and put in a couple of very decent balls, one of which Alli should have done better with.
Sissoko - His most assured game in a Spurs shirt. Went to sleep a the end at allowed them in, but before that was a very decent knock, played a couple of decent passes in forward areas and generally kept things simple and worked hard.
Wanyama - Good to see him put in a solid 90.
Alli - A pretty decent game all in all, saw plenty of the ball, played a couple of incisive passes. He's really bad at aerial duals though (anywhere on the pitch) and second game running he's lost his man at a corner.
Moura - Lively moments and worked reasonably hard off the ball.
Lamela - I thought he was clumsy today, lost the ball too cheaply too often and wasted a great ball from Alli to seal the game by letting it skip away from him. Should have been hooked before Moura IMO.
Kane - Decent effort, showing for the ball etc, but some of his hold up play was poor today, coughing up the ball too cheaply at times.
Other football commitments tonight mean Ive just finished watching the game. So much to the delight of some of you, I will keep it brief.
I thought for 75 minutes we pretty much controlled things but, somewhat understandably, without Eriksen and Winks I think some of the zip and creative verve we showed in the week was absent. Noticeably absent was the speed at which the ball was moved against PSV, and some of the interchanges between the likes of Winks, Eriksen, Alli and the FB's. And for all our domination during that 75 minutes, we didn't really create enough of quality, too much carelessness by the likes of Lamela and Kane saw moves frequently frittered away in the final third.
We have to caveat the game by saying Palace are a pretty shit team with Zaha, without Zaha they are utterly devoid of attacking threat. That said they probably ended up having the best chance of the game at the death, when Sissoko blotted an otherwise decent copy book by letting their donkey of a CF walk off him and get on the end of a ricochet, which if he wasn't a donkey and he puts anywhere other than straight at Lloris would have been an equaliser.
Hodgson came out with some bullshit post match, bemoaning the fact that they've ended up giving it a go in the last 10 minutes and wasting a couple of great chances for a deserved equaliser that we wouldn't have begrudged them, fucking twat, if you tried to play for the first 75 min then maybe we wouldn't begrudge you a point, as it is, you only tried to play football once all was fucking lost and it was so late you had fuck all to lose.
I was glad to see Lamela get the start, only for him to really disappoint. He wasted several situations by over playing or poor control, and should have controlled that lovely through ball from Alli.
Alli did his best to fill that 8/10 hybrid void left by Eriksen, and didn't do a bad job at all, and looked to be the only one of our players likely to create something tangible, although not enough. Moura was lively as ever, bit surprised he got hooked again, this time before Lamela.
Great to see Wanyama have a solid 90, nothing orgasmic, just a good solid performance, and Sissoko probably had is best 90 in a Spurs shirt, worked hard, kept things simple as you'd expect, but played a couple of decent passes too in build ups, also dropped in between the CB's on occasion.
Got to give the boy Foyth the MOTM tonight though, after last weeks mare the kid has bounced back to show character, help us to a rare clean sheet, show some cool on the ball when playing out and pops up with the winner.
All in all, this was a better performance than some of our other scrappy league wins this seasons, it was a job done, but with less sloppy drama and loss of complete control we've seen for much of our previous games.
Individual
Lloris - He made decent saves but they were pretty routine and straight at him, and he played one crazy pass to Sissoko at one point.
Aurier - Solid defensively, offered knish offensively.
Foyth - MOTM for me. Started cautiously but grew into the game, defended well, helped us play out from the back and popped up with the game winner.
TA - Very solid game.
Davies - Another pretty decent game where he was more involved, and put in a couple of very decent balls, one of which Alli should have done better with.
Sissoko - His most assured game in a Spurs shirt. Went to sleep a the end at allowed them in, but before that was a very decent knock, played a couple of decent passes in forward areas and generally kept things simple and worked hard.
Wanyama - Good to see him put in a solid 90.
Alli - A pretty decent game all in all, saw plenty of the ball, played a couple of incisive passes. He's really bad at aerial duals though (anywhere on the pitch) and second game running he's lost his man at a corner.
Moura - Lively moments and worked reasonably hard off the ball.
Lamela - I thought he was clumsy today, lost the ball too cheaply too often and wasted a great ball from Alli to seal the game by letting it skip away from him. Should have been hooked before Moura IMO.
Kane - Decent effort, showing for the ball etc, but some of his hold up play was poor today, coughing up the ball too cheaply at times.
