I wouldn't be too sure we all know that semi finals too spurs are like kryptonite.
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Yep, it makes sense. But I was just replying to the idea that it was weird for Ajax to have to have played qualifying rounds, when in reality it'd be insane for them to just get an automatic group stage place given how far down the Eredivisie is right now.
11th or 12th currently, but no, I don't think they should get 2 places automatically in the group stage. Except the top 4 leaques shouldn't get 4 either.
Not just dominance in midfield but movement up front would be nice the last couple of games hasn't seen any.
Right,I'm back. What did I miss?
As mentioned before a clean sheet is huge.
But I think we need to use home advantage. The crowd can push players beyond a bit of fatigue. I'm fully expecting more effort compared to yesterday. It's just the tactics that we need to get right.
Lloris
Tripps Alde Jan Rose
Dier Wanyama
Lucas Dele Eriksen
Llorente
I'd like to see Llorente isolate against Blind. Dele and Lucas running beyond.
But I think we need to use home advantage. The crowd can push players beyond a bit of fatigue. I'm fully expecting more effort compared to yesterday. It's just the tactics that we need to get right.
Lloris
Tripps Alde Jan Rose
Dier Wanyama
Lucas Dele Eriksen
Llorente
I'd like to see Llorente isolate against Blind. Dele and Lucas running beyond.
Lets not pretend after losing 1-0 to a pretend football club like west ham that we are on an equal footing with Ajax ( given the circumstance). No kane or Son & a tired squad riddled with injury. Crowd need to put the prawn sandwiches down & get behind the team in this historic champions league semi-final.
That has always been Ajax policy. It is honorable to sell in order to survive, however, I do not like the interference of the Dutch league.
The very exclusive TFC post match meet up at The Dispensary for one thing!
Doesn't count if I'm not there though.
And not leave 10 mins before HT and return 5 mins after. Just forgo the HT pint and get behind the team ffs. The place was half empty at the start of the second half yesterday.
But for the relevent year it was ranked lower, behind leagues from Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
As for the top 4 thing. Last season, the 4th best ranked team from Italy (the lowest of those leagues) still ranked the same as the best team from Greece, only marginally below the best teams from Austria and Turkey, better than the best teams from Holland, Belgium and the Czech Republic. And that's despite the fact that they qualify less regularly since it's much, much harder to finish 4th in Italy than win one of those leagues, and they had one year when they didn't get to play in Europe at all. For me, the solution is to try and reduce the financial imbalance between the European leagues, not to dilute the quality of the Champions League so we can see more low-quality clubs lose 5-0 or worse and go out of the group stage with a whimper.
Our focus yesterday was not West Ham, it was Ajax. The managers substitutions & tweaks showed that the club had one eye on a major night in our history.
All in all the weekend has been relatively kind to us. We lost which was a bit of a killer but we go from winning one more win to needing only two more draws whilst resting Vertonghen, Trippier, giving Lucas half hours recovery time as well as Rose.
We tried to get away with one yesterday. It didn't come off but today has been kind to our risk taken. We've cut our target down by a point despite losing a game. Not a bad return after how deflated I felt yesterday. Now it's all about Tuesday.
The good thing about today is that the players should feel under a lot less pressure as a Top 4 place feels very close - one win guaranteeing it and given others clubs dropping points we might already be there now !
Very different to the atmosphere which might have been created if Woolwich had won today and been on our tails .
All of which means that there should be little to distract the players away from the task on Tuesday,
The boys can breathe a little easier now. We have a free hit with our two league games in theory and could actually draw our remaining games (based on away goals favouring us) and secure not only top 4 but a place in the final. Resolute defending is the most important thing with our limited options up top.
No need to be reckless, we can focus on tact and professionalism a little more now than knowing a wobble screws us. That should give us a good boost to focus on Ajax on Tuesday.
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It’ll be loaded on your card.
Ooh look, an omen, last time we played Ajax in Europe it was in a season that construction work was going on and we thrashed them 3-0:
And if you add 1981 together it comes to 19. Oooh, spooky. And this is following on from a repeat of 2012 when a Guardiola team went out at home to an English club after scoring first in a match referred by Cüneyt Çakır.
Incidentally, the last time Tuesday's referee, Mateu Lahoz, refereed a Tottenham game was against Dortmund in the R16, with the score also being 3-0.
So many signs pointing to a Spurs win it's barely worth Ajax turning up.
And if you add 1981 together it comes to 19. Oooh, spooky. And this is following on from a repeat of 2012 when a Guardiola team went out at home to an English club after scoring first in a match referred by Cüneyt Çakır.
Incidentally, the last time Tuesday's referee, Mateu Lahoz, refereed a Tottenham game was against Dortmund in the R16, with the score also being 3-0.
So many signs pointing to a Spurs win it's barely worth Ajax turning up.
Thanks mate