Spurs 1-3 A Post Match Thread

[Paninistickers]

Is it me though, or do spurs always seem to get us when we are at our most vulnerable. 

 

That 0-6 fiasco we had fuchs at centre half amongst other end if season cumulative injuries that night. Last season at home we were exhausted, injury ridden allowing Bale to run riot. The 2 goal fiasco we had 13 out injured. Today we had to rest 10 players. 

 

Not a complaint or conspiracy. Just one of those things - the same sort of anti-serendipity you get when bumping into an old.flame in Tescos ,  looking a right state carrying a 4 pack of beer, meal for 1  and some cheap deodorant 

[coolhandfox]

No surprise, West Ham are having the same issue with focusing on European football, if the results stays the same today, it's 1 win in 6.

 

[sdb]

43 minutes ago, KingsX said:

 

FT IN A PERFECTLY FORMED NUTSHELL

Eh? I'm a season ticket holder and don't feel excited about finding a stream to watch my team play a weakened side, make no effort to win and then stutter to a predictable loss. What part of the football handbook have I ignored?

[TonyN11]

pretty comfortable with that

[Nick]

29 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

No surprise, West Ham are having the same issue with focusing on European football, if the results stays the same today, it's 1 win in 6.

 

And this is the modern story. Wanna fight on all fronts? You need two teams. And two quality teams. Man City, Liverpool and maybe Chelsea can do it right now. Watch Man U next season look like the next coming with some manager bounce a load of investment and not playing in the Champions League. They will do great. 
 

Now look at the likes of us and the teams around us. Hammers could have gone big this year and maybe stayed top four but did the European thing and will be left with Mediocrity at best. 

[CrispinLA in Texas]

When Spurs played Brighton Cucurella had Kulusevski in his pocket.....I was hoping Brendan would show them the full minutes of that game to show the players how deal with the threat if Kulusevski and Son

[Clever Fox]

44 minutes ago, StanSP said:

If we play with a front two he'll see a lot of game time. 

 

The worry of this is that we don't have the right players to fit the formation of a back 4 and a front 2 that requires it. 

This is it in a nutshell.

 

Leaving today's game to one side.

 

The balance of the squad is wrong and Brendan has to take responsibility for that. Too many lightweights who lack the required talent to consistantly compete at this level.

[Pliskin]

My mates a spurs fan, he went today and said the general consensus amongst their fans was that they were poor today. Speaks volumes for us then haha.

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, Clever Fox said:

This is it in a nutshell.

 

Leaving today's game to one side.

 

The balance of the squad is wrong and Brendan has to take responsibility for that. Too many lightweights who lack the required talent to consistantly compete at this level.

The solution, on paper, is easy. Sign a player that has RW as his natural position. I love Albrighton and all he's done for the club but he's not got the dynamism or pace we desire to fulfil a RW position. If we get that balance for the side by signing a quality RW, it'll benefit us and allow us the option to play a back 4 and also a balanced midfield with a natural LW (Barnes or Lookman if he signs permanently) and a RW. 

[Pliskin]

3 minutes ago, Clever Fox said:

This is it in a nutshell.

 

Leaving today's game to one side.

 

The balance of the squad is wrong and Brendan has to take responsibility for that. Too many lightweights who lack the required talent to consistantly compete at this level.

When you look at top, top teams. Like Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea and even Roma to some extent, they have a presence about them. Quite a few big players and that’s something we desperately lack, we’re such a weak team that when we’re off it like we were today, we may as well not even be playing because the opponents have it so easy. 

[CrispinLA in Texas]

5 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

When you look at top, top teams. Like Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea and even Roma to some extent, they have a presence about them. Quite a few big players and that’s something we desperately lack, we’re such a weak team that when we’re off it like we were today, we may as well not even be playing because the opponents have it so easy. 

In the Roma game I was astonished how big and strong their back for was and how Smalling was marshalling VVD style. We just looked tiny compared to them 

[Jaspa]

1 minute ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

In the Roma game I was astonished how big and strong their back for was and how Smalling was marshalling VVD style. We just looked tiny compared to them 

 

Fairly standard for a Mourinho team, he likes them big and robust.

[John rayner]

3 hours ago, lifted*fox said:

 no stress

 

expected a 0-2 loss with spurs needing a win for top 4 and us with a 2nd string out

 

not am embarrassing performance at all - thought we looked quite composed at times.

 

lets go win a European trophy now pls

Agreed ,well said 

[Unabomber]

Fans who went today have more money than sense unless they live down there. I optimistically went for a 3-1 loss and got to say I’m surprised we managed that. 

[Adrian]

If our  A team played our B team who would die of boredom first?

 

I liked our pink socks today..went well with the grey kit I thought

[Lad1966]

26 minutes ago, John rayner said:

Agreed ,well said 

Agreed - we had our 2nd string defence, midfield and attack, basically a whole 2nd team, against a team going full tilt for a champions league spot. I hate it when we lose, but sometimes you have to lose a battle to win a war🏆🏆🏆

COYB against Roma

[coolhandfox]

1 hour ago, Nick said:

And this is the modern story. Wanna fight on all fronts? You need two teams. And two quality teams. Man City, Liverpool and maybe Chelsea can do it right now. Watch Man U next season look like the next coming with some manager bounce a load of investment and not playing in the Champions League. They will do great. 
 

Now look at the likes of us and the teams around us. Hammers could have gone big this year and maybe stayed top four but did the European thing and will be left with Mediocrity at best. 

We have played 105 games since the start of last season, and people wonder why we have injuries etc. 

 

For context West Ham has played 96 in that time

[oxtonfox]

We could end up 15th by the season end. We’re absolute dog at the moment and if we get knocked out on Thursday I can’t see any improvement or decent results. Maybe a win against Nobbitch and a draw v Southampton but we’ll lose the rest. 

[Pliskin]

I can’t find any stats to suggest there’s another player who’s scored more goals against one team than Kane has V us with 19. 

[Harpenden Fox]

57 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

Fans who went today have more money than sense unless they live down there. I optimistically went for a 3-1 loss and got to say I’m surprised we managed that. 

I do indeed live in Hertfordshire, wasn’t really expecting to come away with anything than a defeat, but had a great day out with my son. 
 

Through good times and bad, we’ll always support the lads, as the song goes 

[Blueman1967]

Didn't look that bad at times, first half, should have been in front, thought we might play that formation on Thursday, with two up top

[squidsworth]

Well, look on the bright side when we get knocked out of Europe on Thursday, and the season is over, and we finish somewhere between 11th and 15th place, maybe the axe will finally fall on Rogers and some of our half baked players. Time to sack the man in charge and half our team, and start to rebuild a real future. As I have absolutely no idea how we progress with what we have at the moment.

 

 

[Shamomoa]

5 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said:

Even at 2-1 up with 95 minutes gone 

Eurgh! Dnt remind me about that game still have nightmares! 🤦🙃

[Raj]

Crap atmosphere  from us and the tw@ts singing about Son eating dogs and being a ch!nky, is the reason I loathe some of our dumb retarded fans.

 

[BenTheFox]

I was expecting to lose, especially with the team we put out. I still find myself a little frustrated because Tottenham were so unimpressive. We played Arsenal away a few weeks ago and they were much better.