"Guy´s did you watch Woolwich-Brighton?"
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"Guy´s did you watch Woolwich-Brighton?"
I thought Davidson was quite good, actually. Blocked that Wood chance early, very good at “simple” defending, which is what Jose wants from him. He’s looked quite good the last 5 matches.Not sure if the following have been bigged up already (I've seen the praise for Dier, Moura and Jan, well deserved, Kane and Sonny's goes without saying) but I thought Sissoko and Toby were also outstanding today.
Even those who weren't "stellar" today - Dele, Serge, Davinson, Gazza (who had precious little to do) - all deserve our love too.
In short, YIDS
I think that's what the writer meant by stupid. If you read the whole article, stupid seems to mean more bold and aggressive than anything regarding a lack of football IQ.gotta disagree with the son stuff..complete horseshit...he doesn't do stupid...he does audacious
Watching it back on motd, there was a chance when Son failed to pass to Dele and took the sharp angle shot. But Lucas got in with the toe poke in the end.If you look at it again you will see Dele had about 2 full seconds to pass to Son before he got poked. 2 seconds almost forever in those type of moments. It would been 3:0 right there and then game over already. Burnley could have put 1 or even 2 after being 2:0 and gotten right back to the game. I am sure everythings ok when things go well right?
We win, score five, concede none and this thread is only 52 pages, why? Because once you get pass the pre match 'brains-trust' telling us Son and Lucas don't press, Kane should be dropped, Dier and Moussa can't play football and you get into the match itself our resident super fans (we all know who you are) had absolutely nothing to whine and whinge about ... page after page of pure joy and celebration ... what a pleasant change.
We won a game 5-0 with less than 50% possession, it's the same players but a massive tactical change from the Poch era ... Poch was very good but he wasn't Jose good, you don't win >20 trophies by being a bad manager let's hope he once again proves that.
Perry Groves commentating kept droning on and on about how awful Burnley were without giving us any credit at all
Had to listen to the salty cunt as I was driving up North
Perhaps you could tell us how, if all these things are so "right", and all these players are way beyond reproach, never do anything wrong, all press brilliantly and are brilliant at football and whatnot, and Poch was "very good" how is it our performances and results were so fucking bad, that the last calendar year saw us have near relegation form, unable to win away since January, finding ourselves after more than a third of the season in the bottom half of the table etc etc?
Also how with Mou being "Jose good" how is it we have still been conceding two goals a game to the likes of West Ham, Bournemouth, Olympiakos and got outplayed by a very meh ManU?
Why don't you stop being a fucking dick, slinging petty insults with every post and accept that much of the criticisms are justified, and are the reasons we have been so fucking shit for such a long time, and the evidence for them is in some of the things that are now being done better, and that none of us stop supporting spurs even when we are shit, but being shit really isn't a barrel of fucking laughs.
Perhaps you could tell us how, if all these things are so "right", and all these players are way beyond reproach, never do anything wrong, all press brilliantly and are brilliant at football and whatnot, and Poch was "very good" how is it our performances and results were so fucking bad, that the last calendar year saw us have near relegation form, unable to win away since January, finding ourselves after more than a third of the season in the bottom half of the table etc etc?
Also how with Mou being "Jose good" how is it we have still been conceding two goals a game to the likes of West Ham, Bournemouth, Olympiakos and got outplayed by a very meh ManU?
Lighten up BC. You’re coming over as bitter. You’re another who hates watching us play.
Fuck off whinging you sad depressing loser your constant negativity WTF - we've just won 5-0 and here you are complaining .... If our "performances and results were so fucking bad" that how come we've just played in the CL final for the first time ever, we've qualified for the CL four years in a row for the first time since 1960/4 .....
I put it to you that you are a clueless troll - you hate Sissoko / Dier / and whichever other player fits your mood, you have zero idea about tactics - Dier and Sissoko worst midfield pair in history - winning headers aren't important - our players don't press - in fact all you do is feckin' moan
I make no apologies at all for supporting our owners, our managers, our players and all are true fans 100%
You have no idea what "near relegation form is" not as a Spurs fan anyway, we've not been within 10 points of relegation at the end of any season this century - I put it to you that you sir are a feckin' idiot, and a very depressing one at that.
WE JUST WON 5-0 WON'T ANYTHING STOP YOUR WHINGING ??????
Hahahahaha I see we've reached your level ... bottom of the heap for intelligence and humourWanker
Today was a more blatant hand ball to me. Not saying I wouldn’t be howling for a penalty if the situation was flipped but it hit his armpit. If his arm did not exist then it still would have hit his body. The handball today would have travelled completely untouched if the arm was not there.Of course it does.
If it had been the other way round, every single Spurs fan on Earth would have been howling for a penalty. You know it
Haven’t read anything and just finished the game. My impressions.
Dominated the air and the second ball. Fast flying and scoring more goals than we used to.
Jose has installed a game that utilizes the runners we have had in our squad. Kane is officially a target man and when on can get the first head and send Son, Alli, or Lucas on to win the second ball.
The game plan worked today, which was nice to see.
I am not of a fan of the way we play. I think it is a tactic that should be in your kit, but we solely relied on winning the second ball, which we saw last week, doesn’t work when the opposition is fighting. We were on today and it worked. But when we are not we need to be able to play some coherent Tiki Taka ball,w which is relatively non existent in our new game. Again, this is great when we win every ball, but we can’t deploy this agains the Liverpool’s and hope to win.
Dier was selected because of this style of play. He is a great body to put in there when playing Burnley. They also like the long ball which plays to Diers strengths. Battling and heading. The game was simple for him and for the most part he handled it well. When under pressure though he folded. Which is again not something we can hope to work when playing better opposition.
To end it, we played very well at what we know we are good at. Breaking at pace. It should have been 10-0.
But I do want to see us control a game more. Slow it down. Play some fancy pants football. I think we will need to see that if we want to challenge in the future, because we will not always win that second ball.
I concede I did. Apologies, but as a fellow supporter I’d love it if you enjoyed watching us play once in a while. I also concede that those opportunities have been rare birds this season and going back even further, but it pains me to see such a passionate fan reduced to fatalism. Let’s hope this new regime can put a smile on your face.Even during our blue periods it's Love/hate Joe.
Maybe you missed my subsequent happy clap one post down
None of this makes sense to me.He had an OK game (certainly not fantastic).
I expect any competent footballer playing for a PL club to win headers, make tackles and pass the ball. It's the first line in the job description.
He's over six feet tall and weighs far too much, so I'd expect strength as well.
Remember this was against Burnley's journeymen who were awful today.
Dier was OK - no more.
No other complaints. A very good team performance with the goal of the season so far.