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***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool Sat. 20th Dec. 5:30pm***

DeanoAustin said:
Konate’s reaction is laughable. As was MacAllister’s shenanigans after VdV tackled him. Just makes me more angry about the game.

Dunno how anyone can say that Romero wasn’t fouled for the second. It’s fudging blatant. He put two hands on him and interfered with Romero’s jump. It couldn’t be any more of a foul if his name was Lord Foulington from Foulshire and he wore a neon flashing tshirt saying “I’m gonna foul Romero.”
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Romero 's dive was theatrical which probably made the ref think it wasn't a foul. Hey ho. Romero has to take a hard look at himself today. He let the team down. Xavi I can forgive because he's new to the PL and trying to make an impression. Romero's shenanigans were borderline unforgivable though. Especially as he is the fudging captain. I don't think he is a good enough CB. Think he would be better in midfield.
 
We do seem to implode at home. Can be too pumped. And lose our zhit. Not the first time we've defeated ourselves effectively. Think all the way to that chelsea game under ange. At times, we need to be more cold, clinical, unemotional, when playign at home.
 
Robspur12 said:
Romero gave them the first goal. Why the fudge do you try to play a straight pass down the middle when you are trying to keep things tight?
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Because he's being tasked with being our playmaker and thus he makes the dangerous passes. He shouldn't be our sole ball player, that's actually the cause of the issue more so than the actual pass. If you have all of your critical passes coming from a CB these mistakes will happen. This is a deeply structural issue and one that will consistently bite us in the arse.

You can't ask him to play through the lines and expect him to get it right every time, no one can do that and certainly not Romero, his passing isn't that amazing.
 
Bishop said:
Because he's being tasked with being our playmaker and thus he makes the dangerous passes. He shouldn't be our sole ball player, that's actually the cause of the issue more so than the actual pass. If you have all of your critical passes coming from a CB these mistakes will happen. This is a deeply structural issue and one that will consistently bite us in the arse.

You can't ask him to play through the lines and expect him to get it right every time, no one can do that and certainly not Romero, his passing isn't that amazing.
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Ok I get that. But not when you are down to 10 men. Play it safe. Dont play risky passes when the odds are stacked in terms of numbers. It's more that his risk taking brain cannot adapt to different situations.
 
DubSpur said:
There were loads of times we broke and were timid. Instead of going for it we turned back and played the safe pass rather than looking forward.
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Because of the lack of quality. If they have the quality they can see and make the pass, because we don't they played the safer option, the one thats less risky.
 
Robspur12 said:
Romero 's dive was theatrical which probably made the ref think it wasn't a foul. Hey ho. Romero has to take a hard look at himself today. He let the team down. Xavi I can forgive because he's new to the PL and trying to make an impression. Romero's shenanigans were borderline unforgivable though. Especially as he is the fudging captain. I don't think he is a good enough CB. Think he would be better in midfield.
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Agree with some of the sentiment you’ve expressed around Romero but he’s jumping and been pushed in the back from behind. That’s not a dive for me, that’s just a foul.

Don’t blame the ref for either red but he was appalling today.
 
I actually thought Muani looks good. Once settled he could be potent. The way he outran the defender with the ball and (over)powered his shot towards the far corner was tantalising. Potential there.

I liked the way we move the ball. And the fight. But the individuals and team have to focus that fight on clinical football and punish the opposition with goals. Even when fans are baying. Focus focus focus.

At least Frank seems to have hit on a first 11 with promise.

Spence looked decent? Those screaming for someone to replace him at LB still against him playing when Udoggie is out?
 
Don't see how anyone can blame Frank for that, really. Team looked competitive for the first 30.

Then Xavi Simons makes one of the brainless sequences of decisions I've ever seen - loses the ball poorly, something he'd been doing consistently until then, and then loses his head and rakes his studs down Van Dijk's calf.

We still looked potent, until going 1 and then 2 down. And then the attempted rally was great, until Romero put an end to it by predictably getting sent off himself for something macaronic.

Consistently brainless decisions doomed us today, on the pitch. And it's the story of both the season, and the last five-six seasons, really - we lack players with brains, who can control their emotions and make the right decisions at the right time.

It's been this way since we lost (in turn) Eriksen and then Kane, both of whom could think through situations and make the right decisions, on and off the ball. With them gone, the team makes the wrong decisions nearly every time, playing on instinct, and reacting to the game state rather than controlling it.

Brainless decisions, playing to the crowd and the moment, panicking too easily, getting enraged too easily, and so on. Heading the ball to an opponent when you have time to bring it down and control it. Kicking it out wildly out of play instead of playing through pressure. Getting caught out of position again, and again, and again. Showing up in the news doing stupid things off the field. And so on.

Frank can't fix this by himself. No one can - it takes time, money, and patience, to ship out brainless players and bring thinking ones in. And not bring in any more in the meantime - which we sadly might have failed at, if Xavi's idiocy is any indication.
 
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