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

[Bishop]

I personally think that’s worth trying. His “shift and shoot” technique is very good (just usually he’s 25 yards out when doing it)

At least Tel will probably get some shots off and despite he wayward shooting, he might find his range. Solanke doesn't really get shots off and he's quite poor at separating from a close defender.

 

[Surfless]

If you were to do a mini review of the players to date, the stand outs in terms of output have been Gallagher and from one start Madders, albeit he did actually make us look better when he came off the bench as well.

Beyond that Bentancur was class until he lost his head, and VDV has been solid if unspectacular. After that I'm struggling to think of someone who has been good for more than one game. Indeed some have been pretty consistently poor - Fernandez and Robertson have been really average and Kinsky and Solanke have been below par also. Last night we won ugly, which is really important.

We now need the fabled 8 games to get it right and then batter everyone motif. If that trend repeats - it did at Brighton and Marseille - then we have serious quality across the team, creativity, and power, and hopefully with Porro and Udogie back, Kinsky working hard and Dom getting more minutes and confidence in him, we can sort out some of the weaker areas of the team.

 

[elyid]

At least Tel will probably get some shots off and despite he wayward shooting, he might find his range. Solanke doesn't really get shots off and he's quite poor at separating from a close defender.

Yeah I’ve been hoping he’d get 20 mins or so as a sub. If his instruction is just to make runs and shoot if possible it could be interesting.

He’s not that great at beating his man, but seems to be very good at gaining a yard to cross or shoot.

Didn’t he play up front for France u21s?

 

[harr1984]

If you were to do a mini review of the players to date, the stand outs in terms of output have been Gallagher and from one start Madders, albeit he did actually make us look better when he came off the bench as well.

Beyond that Bentancur was class until he lost his head, and VDV has been solid if unspectacular. After that I'm struggling to think of someone who has been good for more than one game. Indeed some have been pretty consistently poor - Fernandez and Robertson have been really average and Kinsky and Solanke have been below par also. Last night we won ugly, which is really important.

We now need the fabled 8 games to get it right and then batter everyone motif. If that trend repeats - it did at Brighton and Marseille - then we have serious quality across the team, creativity, and power, and hopefully with Porro and Udogie back, Kinsky working hard and Dom getting more minutes and confidence in him, we can sort out some of the weaker areas of the team.

I think Tonali has been good for the most part personally...

 

[Bishop]

I think Tonali has been good for the most part personally...

Hes certainly been better than Gallagher over the course of all the games we've played.

 

[Baleforce]

Hes certainly been better than Gallagher over the course of all the games we've played.

I’d say the opposite myself tbh.

 

[Bishop]

Agreed with most of what you've written here.

However, i'd disagree somewhat re Robertson. I thought VDV often held onto the ball too uch when Robertson was in space. The one time Robertson got in space he put in a cross that we'd only dream of being done with our other LB/LWB options (the one where Solanke scored but it was chalked offside).
I felt VDV was either unsure of his own passing ability at times

VDV doesn't have much passing range. His passing technique looks good and clean but in terms of passing through lines or even into a players running step, it's just not something he's capable of maybe like you suspect he doesn't believe himself capable to the same end result; very vanilla passing options from VDV.