The growth needs to be bedded in this season ready for a proper campaign next season one that doesn’t fizzle out as soon as there is one injury. Giving all the apologist exscuse “look we have injuries, they are tired, it’s raining, blah blah blah”.
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Indeed! Could also be like just inverting one FB or if not all if they are injured like yday. I really don’t see how our performance could have been any worse yday by just playing the FBs in a normal back 4!
The 2nd goal we have 5 players running back to their 3. Only Neto is ahead of our players. We have royal VDV and Sarr all go to Neto like play ground football. Gomez is miles back, biss is well in front but instead of going over towards Gomez he kind runs straight but towards Neto. He slows down at the edge of the box for some reason and Gomez is now in front ready for clear pass from Neto. Don’t understand why 3 players get drawn to Neto , no one stays in the centre and why boss stops virtually instead of keep running. Would have easily intercepted the pull back.
I'm pretty much well aware what the cliche plan B means to some people.
Mostly it means a "hail Mary" move that transforms failure or mediocrity
into a stunning win.
Sadly life isnt that simple, and the magic "plan B" is a mythical construct in the imagination of the desperate or deluded.
The military truism that's "any plan survives up until the first contact with the enemy" is a much more realistic approach to any orchestrated movement or predetermined plan or approach to the expected reaction of the opposition.
Its football - Xg is a fairytale for the hard of thinking and spontaneous constructs of plan B's ignore the multiplicity of options that humans can conjure up that lay to waste the majority of planning.
Bissouma was awful for the second goal and you could see why Conte spoke about his defensive naivety.
I went to the same school as Danny Thomas, who was an astonishingly gifted footballer, and ended up being our right back.
We had another footballer in my year who was n'Dombele (1970's) - Noel Nelson his name was. He got taken on by Sheffield Utd, but didn't make it, because he didn't care enough. His skills were astonishing for his size and he was too laid back to try.
Lovely guy too , just didn't like all that running around and trying too hard stuff.. If someone had gotten into his head he would have been a brilliant player.
Send him some subtle signs the first thing you do when you sit down at the table!!
My suggestion:
A line of what Mr Matthews is snorting please waiter!
I reckon Ange is being let down by his 4 or 5 assistant coaches.
Ryan Mason is the "attacking coach
they have a defensive coach? who? Djedinak? can he influence the high line or FBs acting as wingers?
As Glen Hoddle said over the w/e :
(committing too many players forward -- hmmmm & neglecting defensive duties -or should I say relegating the task to VDV to mop up )
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Spurs have often been punished for committing too many players forward and former Tottenham manager Glenn Hoddle believes they have become easy to exploit on the break.
“I love the way they play going forward. I think Ange has been brilliant in the way he’s set them up with fullbacks going in, which they missed today, Udogie and Porro didn’t play,” Hoddle said on Matchday Live Extra on Optus Sport.
“So going forward, love it, but defensively I’ve always been worried this season.
“Every time I look at them, the goalkeeper Vicario is having to make worldies, four or five, every game. At this level, it’ll be harsh, you’ll get beat in the end.
“It was something I felt if only they could put a little bit more defence in there, a bit of work deeper, then I think they’ll solve the problem because they have got pace at the back. “But my word, it was for me watching Spurs week in and week out, it’s something that’s easy to play against. You can get in behind them so easy and consequently they got punished today.”
Pretty much plucked that out of your arse, fella.
.........They're Ange's tactics; not the asst. coaches. The coaches drill whatever the manager directs them to.
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?Hey, imbecile.
You suggested he was available for PREVIOUS game.
Jizzing over the fact that he trained. Imagine! Footballer... and he trained. What a worldbeater.
And this is exactly the scenario that Skipp is good at sensing the danger and snuffing it out. Aside from Bentancur to an extent, Skipp is the only one that can play DM and sniff those situations out.
But now the role of a DM is to also be press resistant and that's where Skipp lacks. So now you're looking for a player that can combine both aspects.
Tbh its just defensive laziness from Bissouma.
The old adage 'space never scored a goal'. He should be picking up the man.
I also don't know why VDV went into the line. He should have stepped up. All our players have this obsession of being in a defensive line but a simple cutback will break that as we saw
Its worse when you're midfielders are defensively dozy.
Maybe Bissouma made a momentary mistake that ultimately led to a goal.
But over 90 minutes we had 71% of the ball. Somehow we had more shots than them (somehow because I hardly remember any) and yet realistically, Wolves should have scored 3 or 4 goals.
We didn't lose because Bissouma made a mistake, we lost because for 90 minutes we did nothing useful with the ball despite almost entirely owning it.
Fuck this result again!
Proving once and for all that footballers are essentially stupid human beings!
The upcoming weekends' home fixtures for our direct rivals above and below us are VERY favourable... (Villa/Forest, Man Utd/Fulham I think)
The fact everyone also seemed to win away at the weekend made us picking up 3 points at HOME even MORE key, so to LOSE now potentially has an even bigger loss after the next round of fixtures!
A win against Wolves wouldn't have fucking killed us...
It was there for the taking... ...and, whilst I realise it's easier said than done, pretty much everyone else showed us how its' done: score a couple of quickfire goals to demoralise the opposition, then see the game out regardless...
Or in the Arse's case; score a couple early, and then just keep scoring until the opposition get bored of picking the ball out of the net!
Fucking Wolves.
Fucking Spurs!
Proving once and for all that footballers are essentially stupid human beings!
The upcoming weekends' home fixtures for our direct rivals above and below us are VERY favourable... (Villa/Forest, Man Utd/Fulham I think)
The fact everyone also seemed to win away at the weekend made us picking up 3 points at HOME even MORE key, so to LOSE now potentially has an even bigger loss after the next round of fixtures!
A win against Wolves wouldn't have fucking killed us...
It was there for the taking... ...and, whilst I realise it's easier said than done, pretty much everyone else showed us how its' done: score a couple of quickfire goals to demoralise the opposition, then see the game out regardless...
Or in the Arse's case; score a couple early, and then just keep scoring until the opposition get bored of picking the ball out of the net!
Fucking Wolves.
Fucking Spurs!
