Well then don't expect to win any trophies any time soon because we need our strongest 11 in most games and the best they can hope for is a week's rest unless like many countries the premier league implements a winter break. We just don't have the luxury of resting players. I have to say with the army of sports scientists at the disposal of our manager you'd think he would be clearer about the physical condition of his players than the average fan. We just have to expect games like today from time to time oh. and being clever in the transfer market to increase our options on the bench.I'm not talking about giving some players a rest for one single midweek home match. This isn't about the Monaco game... I'm talking about a more general philosophy. I still do not understand why Kane (and others) flew out to Azerbaijan for example.
Again - to reiterate - I'm a huge fan of Pochettino and I'm hugely impressed with what's happening at our club. Doesn't mean everything is 100% perfect and there are no areas where some improvements can't be made. And right now, I believe a little bit of rotation would do us good (and again; I'm not talking about wholesale changes every week - I'm talking about resting one or two key players for a couple of games - and doing that, with different players, from time to time).
The majority of our first team picks itself these days. But playing our first eleven for every game until they start to fade and our form drops...? There are better approaches (IMO).
True. If you'd rephrased your initial comment to say that they had more goals on their bench than we did, then you'd have had a very good point. Quality wise, we're probably better: but they have threats to bring off the bench, whereas our subs just look laboured as all hell.
Cannot lie, a massive disappointment. Underscores how important Dembele is to our current set-up. Obvious to say but we needed that second goal in the first-half. You have to credit Newcash, they worked their nuts off second-half and made it very uncomfortable for us. I felt for the second match running Eriksen had a hard time getting anything going; Kane was quiet too, but still dropped in and showed great vision in trying to find the quick ball into space...again was surprised to see Lamela subbed but he did play Thursday thus Poch must know his levels, etc.
Again, cannot hide my disappointment, and it was as poor and flat a second-half as ee have played all season IMO, but this is a young young side, they will have a few more moments like this and we will bounce back, of that I am sure. Happy that everyone around is stuttering too, keeps us 2 points from 4th but in fairness this was a chance to get in there and we didn't! Onwards and upwards, COYS!
Will all those ****s on here who were saying things before this game such as 'if you cant rest players against Saudi Sportswashing Machine then when can you' now admit they were wrong?
GB is one who was spouting cr@p like that
Apparently I'm one of those ****s. And frankly today demonstrated (to me) that we should be rotating a bit more. Resting a couple of players and bringing in fresh legs with something to prove? I think we might have won today if we'd done that. But it's all just opinions, right?
True, but it's generally accepted that Poch sides outwork their opponents: this is the second time I've seen us being outpressed and outrun by an opponent in the past two weeks. If we can't beat a hard-working side despite ardently labouring ourselves, then we might have a serious problem: namely, that of being a functional, grafting but largely unthreatening side, which might now start being pressed by our opponents more effectively than we're able to press them.
I guess the worry is that we're a one-trick pony to an extent: we got away with it under Redknapp because his side was the best Spurs team we've ever seen in the Premier League era, but here we now don't have anywhere near the individual talent we had in that side, and thus, we're a bit boned if we do end up like that 2010-2012 outfit.
Perspectives.
Let's not go there
What I would say is that first-half we could've comfortably had 3.
Poor second-half for the second week in a row and that's what hurt us again. We are missing Mason as a squad member for sure, and to a lesser extent Bentaleb, who needs minutes for sure.
The good thing the new Spurs don't play like that under Pochettino... wait... what?
Frustrating. Players will be just as pis$ed and will work on correcting that. Unbeaten for the rest of the season please.
And for f*cks sake when the hell is Eriksen going to turn up this season?!
*Proceeds to draw the last 22 games of the season*
Good sides do the same in second halves, Steff. Still, you're right, perspectives and all that.
We do need the creativity of Mason back, even if its rough-hewn. And Christ, we need to drop Eriksen if that' what's necessary: corner aside, he was utterly anonymous again. Even his free-kicks were sh*te.
Now we will see what this team is made of?
Naw. We'll give away three stupidly easy points to some struggling minnow who haven't won all season and would look mediocre at Evo-Stik level. the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, gifting points to the needy and helping to rebuild the form and confidence of the critically sh*te.