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OMT - Spurs v Palace

Man of the Match

  • Total voters
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Daisuk said:
Sissoko has been a very decent footballer for us over these past 4-5 matches. Credit where credit is due. If he keeps this up, he's going to be worth keeping for us (never thought I'd say that)!
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Whatever rating you gave his ability from when he came to whatever you give it over the last couple of games it’s a massive testament to Poch as a coach and Sissoko as a student that he has gone from looking terrified of having less than 3 touches to control the ball to someone who can open his body up to go past two attackers closing in on him from a short pass from Lloris at the edge of his own box and floating cross field balls onto someone’s big toe! Thought Aurier looked better too, only criticism on him was a couple of scuffed crosses.

Oddly thought we were in complete control until we scored, whether that’s palace giving us too much respect or a lack of composure / energy I’m not sure but it’s another 3 points on the road with a depleted squad.
 
Haven’t seen the game, just the goal
That results was exactly as I predicted though
One team slightly tired and changed from previous games (us)
One poor team well organised trying to create whatever they can however they can
The result mirrors pretty much every game vs them for the last few years
We’re getting over the line with our results and have kept a decent number of clean sheets so it’s all commendable in the circumstances and a testament to the actual quality that even some of our own fans choose to ignore
 
harr1984 said:
I don’t think it’s harsh, we was rubbish tbf and players we had missing is irrelevant to whether we were poor or not. And let’s not forget Palace we’re missing their only player who really does anything in the attacking third.

You say we were digging out heels in, but had they had anyone on the pitch who could finish we wouldn’t of won.

That being said, we won so who cares:D
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I thought we controlled the game in the first half (although I missed the first 15). We also only gave up one great chance so it’s not like they had a load of opportunities.

We were missing Jan, Sanchez, Rose & Dembele. Dier, Winks and Eriksen weren’t fully fit. Trippier and Lamela went off. We’ve had half a dozen games in 3 weeks. Any win away in those circumstances is great.

Plus Poch had his ability to change things tactically or break the game up with substitutions taken away with Trippier and Lamela going off.
 
MKSpur said:
....,.Sissoko as a student that he has gone from looking terrified of having less than 3 touches to control the ball to someone who can open his body up to go past two attackers closing in on him from a short pass from Lloris at the edge of his own box
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That piece of skill was fudging immense! Just slalomed past two fast closing down attackers, whilst as the last man back, and sold them both feints to simply stroll out easily with the ball.

Hoddle against Oxford anyone?.... :cool:
 
Foyth rather than Sissoko. And both of them were flattered a bit by Palace’s lack of ambition. Great seeing a proper first teamer emerge, though.
 
DeanoAustin said:
I thought we controlled the game in the first half (although I missed the first 15). We also only gave up one great chance so it’s not like they had a load of opportunities.

We were missing Jan, Sanchez, Rose & Dembele. Dier, Winks and Eriksen weren’t fully fit. Trippier and Lamela went off. We’ve had half a dozen games in 3 weeks. Any win away in those circumstances is great.

Plus Poch had his ability to change things tactically or break the game up with substitutions taken away with Trippier and Lamela going off.
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All you’ve done is list reasons for us not playing well. Like you say any win is great, the poster just said we didn’t play well which we didn’t. But we got the result and that’s all that matters....
 
That between the posts graphic is interesting- I didn’t see the game but there seems to be a clear strategy to get the ball to Davies to play into Alli or Moura, whereas Aurier just got to knock it back into Foyth...
 
Yep, fair play to Sissoko - he usually turns in a 4 out of 10 performance.... that crept up to 5... then last week 6.... then tonight he crept up to 7, brilliant improvement. Sometimes today he passed to team mates quickly, he even did a good long cross-field pass, and a first time pass.
 
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