**** OMT Tottenham Hotspur Vs Coventry City ****

[mudshark]

Three points was all that really mattered tonight. Not the greatest of performances still, and laughably poor defending for their equaliser, but two moments of real quality contributed to the win.

 

[Clarky]

Easy, never in doubt. Made the last train back to the Shire. Happiness.

 

[Kandi1977]

Van Hecke good player but goes to ground and over commits a little too often for my liking.

He makes my blood boil every game! Reckless tackles that completely puts him out of the game when he misses it, which he does more often than not. He's slow as a turtle. That's pretty much been a constant. But today, in addition to those, was him completely ignoring and refusing to pass out to Kudus! It was Mind-blowing! It's the weirdest thing I've seen! Even when he was well out of his depth, and could easily get out of the situation by just poking it out to Kudus, he refused to and they scored. Absolutely shocking.

He's shockingly bad as a defender. If he was more mobile, he'd be better as a DM, but he's too slow for that too.

 

[SteveAWOL]

I watched with the volume down as soon as I heard who was commentating, can only imagine how tense the crowd was until Davies scored.

Very important result. Hopefully no lingering injuries going into next week

Fecking unbelievable how Smith continues to get to commentate on all out games

At least we finally had a forme player who actually loves the club in the studio for a change, Sandro’s enthusiasm was such a refreshing change from Bitter Jamie and Darren Bent the other weekend!

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[Robspur12]

He makes my blood boil every game! Reckless tackles that completely puts him out of the game when he misses it, which he does more often than not. He's slow as a turtle. That's pretty much been a constant. But today, in addition to those, was him completely ignoring and refusing to pass out to Kudus! It was Mind-blowing! It's the weirdest thing I've seen! Even when he was well out of his depth, and could easily get out of the situation by just poking it out to Kudus, he refused to and they scored. Absolutely shocking.

He's shockingly bad as a defender. If he was more mobile, he'd be better as a DM, but he's too slow for that too.

Yeah not convinced by his defending. Needs a blocker next to him imho. Hopefully won’t get exposed against Chelsea at the weekend.

 

[thfcsteff]

thats a lot of goals off an xG of 0.9

slowed the xGA in the second half slightly

we still have a lot of problems defensively, they were successful on half of their verticals and won 25% of crosses, thats appalling from our point of view

The single biggest problem we have defensively is that we cannot put out a consistent back four. Every week something new. Coventry are a big long-ball side. I thought we did fine.

 

[totalspurs]

Now that we play a high possession game, I'd seriously consider playing Tel upfront instead of Solanke. The way we are playing we don't create chances with crosses, we played probing balls to feet which requires movement and first touch...

Actually scrap that, Tel's first touch under pressure is poor (his first touch when he's got time is actually superb), so don't think that's a good idea at all...

I think we probably just stick with Solanke for now and buy a half decent Striker in January...

 

[Bishop]

2 games in a row that I haven't been super happy with the starting lineup but the result or performance has won out. Not the prettiest performance but the one that got us that vital first win. Hopefully it breeds some confidence in us because what we are lacking is a bit of decisiveness, Maddison had that today with his shot and even Marmoush for his as well. More of that please because the performances have largely been there or thereabouts.

 

[indospurs]

Madders was the difference - we huffed and puffed as usual with no end product, but his strike was the difference... we end up getting three! It was vital we scored first too

I do wonder about our defence, i think we will be fine overall but we'll get punished against more clinical teams

 

[demotw]

Now that we play a high possession game, I'd seriously consider playing Tel upfront instead of Solanke. The way we are playing we don't create chances with crosses, we played probing balls to feet which requires movement and first touch...

Actually scrap that, Tel's first touch under pressure is poor (his first touch when he's got time is actually superb), so don't think that's a good idea at all...

I think we probably just stick with Solanke for now and buy a half decent Striker in January...

I thought that was Solanke’s best game in awhile, he didn’t score but actually made useful runs, got the ball and got some shots off.

The performance, especially at home, was always going to be tough we needed to get a win. The crowd wasn’t great either so quiet with 10mins left until the third went in, they needed the win as much as the players I think.

Overall a lot of good play, a lot of stupid play (van hecke unfortunately running into trouble) but I liked the tactics playing 3 CB, showed pre-planning against their tactics. A win is a win, we have played better and lost so the footballing gods owed us one here.

** side note, while I called out Van Hecke he was so brave putting his head in the way of that rocket shot from their Japanese player, so credit where it is due **

 

[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

I thought that was Solanke’s best game in awhile, he didn’t score but actually made useful runs, got the ball and got some shots off.

The performance, especially at home, was always going to be tough we needed to get a win. The crowd wasn’t great either so quiet with 10mins left until the third went in, they needed the win as much as the players I think.

Overall a lot of good play, a lot of stupid play (van hecke unfortunately running into trouble) but I liked the tactics playing 3 CB, showed pre-planning against their tactics. A win is a win, we have played better and lost so the footballing gods owed us one here.

** side note, while I called out Van Hecke he was so brave putting his head in the way of that rocket shot from their Japanese player, so credit where it is due **

Agreed. I thought Solanke physically looked a bit better too. He looked quicker, more confident in his running maybe. He’s getting there. And he’ll keep getting there.

Our worst performance since Brentford but reading RDZ’s quotes it makes sense. A win was required, and he worked a lot to nullify Coventry rather than be dogmatic about our own approach. And with the injuries he had to contend with, you see why he did it.

 

[JerusalemMan]

2 games in a row that I haven't been super happy with the starting lineup but the result or performance has won out. Not the prettiest performance but the one that got us that vital first win. Hopefully it breeds some confidence in us because what we are lacking is a bit of decisiveness, Maddison had that today with his shot and even Marmoush for his as well. More of that please because the performances have largely been there or thereabouts.

It was good to hear De Zerbi's rationale post-match for the lineup and formation