Grays_1890
Colin Calderwood
Yeh nailed on, no respect for the oppo though who are on fire, he would have known that.
Now we probably need to play a stronger side now to go through, ohhh the irony
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OMT Spurs vs Antwerp
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Yeh nailed on, no respect for the oppo though who are on fire, he would have known that.
Now we probably need to play a stronger side now to go through, ohhh the irony
StephenH
David Ginola
Yes, and that’s why the fecking manager getS £10m + pa. To run the team and get them up for games!
Which he totally fecked up tonight!
a spur from swansea
Ronnie Rosenthal
The commentator on the goons game just said when Spurs played Dundalk in the Europa cup a few years back,we only drew away with them with a full strength side and only beat them 1-0 at home.....some things never change lol...
Winks shouldn't have played the second half, nevermind the weekend. Then again, could say that about most of the team that started tonight.
thfcsteff
Terry Dyson
It was a strange one.
I wonder if even he believed he has two first teams? I must admit I thought we had enough starting tonight to win the match, but the mentality cost us. I was hoping at one down that Dele would step up and lead, especially as sort of a "senior" (sounds weird doesn't it?) but alas he shrunk after their goal. So sad to see.
Making all those changes doesn't excuse the lack of effort from most of our players tonight.
DeanoAustin
Christian Ziege
Davies was poor too and was undoubtedly at fault for the goal. Wouldn't defend him for tonight but he's primarily a full back slotting in at centre back. He is still a good option at left back.
Sanchez, just tonight, defended the goal terribly and made it easy for the striker to find the pass, got rolled very easily for the one that they blazed over from 8 yards and was caught in no man's land with a simple ball over the top when they should have scored but their man blazed over. That's 3 bad mistakes and one exceptional tackle. That's par for the course with Sanchez over the last few seasons. He's a liability.
Not good on the ball, not good under a high ball, gets turned very easily...
When he's good he's a beast, when he's bad he looks like a pub player. Sadly, he's bad far more often than he's good. We don't have a partner to carry him so he needs binning.
SpurMeUp
Jimmy Cantrell
Not sure we can have a pop at him for the goal - despite what they said on TV. If he cuts off the pass and the player scores you’d be saying he should have challenged the forward.
Sanchez isn’t the best CB. But at least he can tackle and is 80% of the player we need. Davies is 50%. So why dig out Sanchez?
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DeanoAustin
Christian Ziege
The goal is Davies' fault. No doubt. I don't blame Winks, I don't blame Sanchez. Davies has to own it.
But Sanchez made it easy. Play the percentages. If he keeps the guy on the outside and cuts off the pass, the fella with the ball has to do something brilliant to score. If he does, you have to take your hat off to him. If you make it easy for him to find his partner, like Sanchez did, their chances of scoring go up massively. Which is what happened. It's bad defending but I fully accept he's put in that position by an unforgivable Davies mistake.
He's not 80% of the player we need for me. He's barely 20% because if he has one good game in 5, it's a lot. Davies is a good back up left back so, he'll never be first choice over Reguilon for me, but he's a good option if Reguilon is injured or we need to park the bus.
Gazza Dazzla
Chris Perry
glasgowspur
Dimitar Berbatov
It's ingrained, it's not going to change quickly.
DeanoAustin
Christian Ziege
Agreed although a few people mentioned Aurier who was our least brick outfield player. The bar was ridiculously low though.
Robspur12
John Lacy
I have to agree with @Grays_1890 . Jose made some big calls tonight that in hindsight didn’t work out. His hand was partly forced by us playing on Monday night in a tough away game so he wanted to protect some of the players. But the outcome of other calls and the final result were predictable.
Dele is getting pelters, but he is a victim of now being a squad player, when did he last play? Tough to ask him to come on and perform and probably a mistake to the not give him a full game. Sanchez, low on confidence and not played a run of games from which confidence can be derived, played alongside a makeshift CB in Davies. Sanchez is not a leader neither is Davies. Wrong partnership for me and bound to fail especially without the first choice screeners of Holbjerg and Sissoko. Winks is not really a screener and neither is Lo Celso. No wonder we were open.
Bale not yet match fit. Play Lamela from the start after a decent performance on Sunday, he seems to perform really well in the EL and would have helped Dele get into his rhythm. Our new. striker probably needs bedding in.
In a sense there were similarities between a Poch and a Jose tonight, in that it is likely they both would have made very similar calls brought on by circumstances. I think the result was also likely to be the same whether it was Poch or Jose, both are top managers but they cannot magic away tiredness or bed in squad players more quickly. Nonetheless the manager is not blameless as it is their decisions that gave both the performance and results tonight.
a spur from swansea
Ronnie Rosenthal
Something had tinkled him off (or he was tinkled)before hand or is it Jose being Jose,why Lloris not Hart,why not Toby for 45 mins for Davies or Sanchez,why not 3 at the back than 4,why 9 changes,why get rid of 4 players at half time on a side he picked.I can see next week making some changes as we playing a poorer side but today,these lot could be Champions League next year...he read this game totally wrong but Jose being Jose will deflect his decisions onto something else.
All that team spirit evaporated by a crazy team selection
All that team spirit evaporated by a crazy team selection
Gazza Dazzla
Chris Perry
He didn’t particularly make any mistakes, I agree, but he was 2nd best in his individual battle, like every other spurs player.
we should have lost by 3 or 4 really.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
I won't argue it was working, but there was enough for me in the first half to suggest that Bale/Alli/GLC might have sparked something with more time on the pitch.
We made the changes, and despite having more of the ball in their half, I don't think we looked like scoring.
Jose's gamble didn't pay off imo, we'd be better off had we given the starters most of the 90 and kept the others back for Sunday.
We made the changes, and despite having more of the ball in their half, I don't think we looked like scoring.
Jose's gamble didn't pay off imo, we'd be better off had we given the starters most of the 90 and kept the others back for Sunday.
StephenH
David Ginola
Sorry @glasgowspur but that’s gonad*s! One minute we are beating ManU 1-6! Jose needs to stop playing silly buggers with ‘curtain players’ and stop trying to play the amateur psychologist!
Get them fit and above all play them! Stop playing mind games!
thfcsteff
Terry Dyson
Oh agreed. This is a collective, and most of the blame falls on the players.
I personally think he thought his second 11 was strong enough to win these games. As long as he has learnt...in fairness, I was also surprised!