There was no effort apart from back 4 no one else pressed may be lucas
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Anyone actually thinking Winks and Sissoko belong anywhere near a spurs cup final should have their head examined.
Final shouldn't be a place where you learn, it should be a place where you prove. Great job LEvy
I don't even think that's the biggest issue. Need the team to be managed with a system that the players are drilled and well versed in playing in. Funny take is the 2nd half was actually a goodish Mourinho performance without the ball, City wasn't cutting us open, bar one excellent shot from Marhrez and a brilliant save from Lloris from open play they were taking shots from outside the box in low % areas that we kinda dealt with, out shape wasn't a disaster.
Our problem wasn't defence it was attack, we've had 2yrs of the players being coached to do nothing with the ball, it showed as we just didn't create a thing.
Mason on the touch line but Maureen controlling his brain
I'm just going to give him some benefit of the doubt in terms of the true fitness of the players in his team selection. Winks starting over Ndombele is also a head scratcher unless there were genuine fitness reasons we don't know about. I don't want to assume Mason just picked his mate.
I don't agree with all of Mason's decisions today, but for all those bashing him, do you really believe if the managers were switched just for today we would have won?
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Yes what was that about, winks is clearly not good enough neither is sissoko...another gutless and pathetic display....this is clearly in our dna, being gutless I mean as they always choke when it matters..mourinho is a twat and thank god he is gone but this clearly shows how shit we are...I want to like mason but today makes that hard after those subs and team selections.....
They played well enough to win comfortably but I still didn't see them at anything like their best, though they were closer to it in the first half obviously. It's no disgrace losing to them as they are clearly a better team. The biggest dissapointment is that we never really went for it at any point today. Lesser sides than us have given Man City much tougher games and asked them far more questions than we did.
My point is we have got much worse since these players have left. Had we invested at that crucial point when we finished third to Leicester or second to Chelsea the season after, then we may of had some success.
And I’m sure he will tell us all that in due course.....
Half the fans seem mind-blown we didn’t win this....Sure we can be disappointed but to think this is a shock and David has just beaten Goliath or something is just fucking crazy.....
We can’t even beat average Premier league teams on a regular basis, and we got well and truly embarrassed by an average side in Europe a few weeks ago, so no manager fixes this anything soon, and certainly not an intern manager in 6 days.....
Our squad has deteriorated steadily since 2017, that’s 4 years, there has been a few sticky plasters put on, but it’s just that, papering over the cracks....
In fairness, that was 2013 so not really sure of the relevance?
If they can do it, so can we. The 'best' team doesn't win every game.
I don’t think there’s a single Mourinho apologist left on this board and I’m certainly not one, but to sack an experienced manager who got us to the final for a 29 year old revered ex-player six days before the game should be seen for what it is, Levy’s desperate attempt to shift the focus off himself after the ESL debacle.
Mourinho deserved to be sacked, but binning him off for a total unknown before a chance at silverware can only be described as desperation. Love Mason as a lad and I’m sure he’ll be a great manager one day but there’s no logical argument that Mourinho wasn’t more qualified to prepare us for this match.
If he lost, sack him afterwards instead of throwing Mason to the sharks. Poor guy, imagine being a trainee at work and then getting the call that you have to compete against the world’s best in six days. Mourinho has faced off with Guardiola countless times and isn’t going to be overawed by a final setting. If the players hate him so much that they couldn’t get up for a cup final well then they are just going against their own interests.
Levy tried to manipulate us with a great story in Ryan Mason after trying to sell out football and now poor Mason has to face the heat of failing at something that he had no right to be qualified for. Absolute cowardice from the top of the club, as per usual.
Mourinho deserved to be sacked, but binning him off for a total unknown before a chance at silverware can only be described as desperation. Love Mason as a lad and I’m sure he’ll be a great manager one day but there’s no logical argument that Mourinho wasn’t more qualified to prepare us for this match.
If he lost, sack him afterwards instead of throwing Mason to the sharks. Poor guy, imagine being a trainee at work and then getting the call that you have to compete against the world’s best in six days. Mourinho has faced off with Guardiola countless times and isn’t going to be overawed by a final setting. If the players hate him so much that they couldn’t get up for a cup final well then they are just going against their own interests.
Levy tried to manipulate us with a great story in Ryan Mason after trying to sell out football and now poor Mason has to face the heat of failing at something that he had no right to be qualified for. Absolute cowardice from the top of the club, as per usual.
...but it's not as if it's a brand new squad with brand new tactics. Mason coming in hardly has anything to do with how crap they played.
Subbing our best player was just bizarre.
Moura was the only one looking to play forward.
Kane once again was clearly not match fit - you can argue that an 80 percent Kane is still worth it but not when you don't have the players to be able to get the ball to him.
We got the luck of the draw getting there and tbh i wouldnt be confident of beating those teams