***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Everton***

[thfcsteff]

All styles of football are executed ‘better’ with more talented players but I don’t think any style ‘needs’ supreme talent.

I hope you're right and I will remain positive and trusting that this will all drop into place when the big C word kicks into overdrive, because we are really lacking it...well, both C words...confidence and conviction in that final third. No-one wants to take that extra chance to do something special, whether a shot or a turn and drive. And I do think we need to take more shots...way more. Of all the chances I felt we could've had, Fernandes in the first-half was really the one that got away as if he shoots first time that's in. I need to look at it again (maybe the ball was slightly too tight to him) but I felt he could've just hit it on arrival, instead it got caught up and he tried to go inside, etc, etc...

 

[yiddo37]

Late night thoughts.
First 20 thought we were good and would get a goal or 2.
2nd half we were pretty bad, sat back and encouraged Everton onto us. Why we didn't just keep the pressure on I do not know and we seemed to always give them an out-ball.
So many times again we chose the wrong option in the final 3rd. Best players for me were VdV and Van Hoeke...against Everton at home!
Ps. Didn't like seeing De Zerbi laying into Tel at full time, what was that all about??!

 

[yiddo37]

Oh and for a combined £185m, what an absolute waste of money...early doors and all that.
Tonali and Fernandes that is.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Oh and for a combined £185m, what an absolute waste of money...early doors and all that.
Tonali and Fernandes that is.

Both are playing out of position to cover for our lack of a 10

 

[thfcsteff]

One thing...did anyone else think Marmoush carried that knock early in the game for the rest of it? Ditto Archie, who started on fire!

 

[SubZero]

Hmm I agree but then again, short intricate passing, waiting for the space to open up ala 09-2015 Barcelona really only works with the level of player they have. There were teams who tried it without that level of player but it never really worked to that extent.

To be fair to them, they did create the space themselves - like we did at a time. Given, it didn't always work out, but you could clearly see what we were trying to do. Brains beat pace 8 out of 10 times, and the 2 times you lose you don't look like a complete amateur. We also had players who were great at both carrying and releasing the ball - and knew when to do which. But it's no point in moving the ball if the players ahead of you don't do anything, you have just moved and most of the time it ends in a turnover or backwards pass anyway. And if we get to the byline, our favourite party trick, no one trying to fight for room in the box. Very little is worked for, mostly everything is luck. No "you do this while I do that", just £1bn worth of players trying to be better player-for-player. It looked a little bit better today, so all hope is not lost, but it's still poor and naive football.

 

[El Dante]

Given that it’s possible to watch the whole match back on SpursPlay. Im going to watch the match back and create a list of my observations. That’s my aim anyway. I start a new job on Monday, so have stuff to sort out tomorrow but will look to review the match between now and our league cup match against Liverpool.

The opening minute and I can see intensity in our play. Archie Gray winning a good tackle, and then making a run behind Everton defence so as to remove a player away from defending Savio. Unfortunately, Mykolenko won the tackle against Savio and ball out did a throw in.

It seemed from memory that our full backs pushed on but were often wide. Especially Robertson. This meant that the wingers were often cutting inside so will be interesting to see how this continued. We needed overlaps but it’s not always great if the wingers are always cutting inside as it can make them easier to defend against as the opposition full back learns patterns of play and expects the winger to cut inside. There needs to be a mixing up of whether the winger cuts inside or not and where the full back makes his run. This unpredictability would lead to us being more dangerous in attack.