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*** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v West Bromwich Albion ***

DubaiSpur said:
We need a leader at the back, and we need a mobile, intelligent player to partner with said leader. Verts provides us with the latter. We completely lack the former. Let's hope the second-choice bargain buy Fazio can be that man for us, because we're screwed otherwise.

Christ, what an insipid performance. Kaboul, team captain, led with an awful display. Chiriches was even worse, and is clearly unfit for anything but being played next to an intelligent centre-back who can cover for his various errors and shocking lapses of judgement while the lad sorts his damn head out. We lost control of the midfield and the game when Dembele went off, but we were never really comfortable even when he was playing. Eriksen tried his heart out, but his set-pieces are just shockingly inconsistent. Brilliant one minute, utterly awful the next. Ade was surprisingly ineffective in the air, and his rangy running style doesn't help him when put through with through balls, because he can't control it quickly enough to make anything of the breakaway. Capoue quietly good, Dier acceptable, Rose the best of a bad bunch (even if his crossing remains frustratingly inconsistent) and Lamela needs to look up more when taking his man on.

Lots of work to do for Poch. Lots of players in this side that are ominously looking like they don't have the heart, the intelligence or the desire to play for him. Well f*cking done though, Levy. It doesn't matter that Poch has to endure a more painful transition than necessary, as long as the net spend remains positive.
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If we are going to slide balls early into the channels then Nobby every time upfront. If we're going to play a fast and pact type of football, Nobby every time. But with three behind one and two sitting deeper, Ade is sadly the best option we have right now. Balotelli, Carroll, I don't care who played his position today they would not have had much more glory (save his glaring first-half miss from Rose's cross). The major problem is behind him, and our sheer lack of guile and ability to switch pace gears when confronted by a blocked up middle. Eriksen is a major major problem for me. Not quite good enough to be elite, yet one of our lingering creative hopes, he simply doesn't conjure quite enough. As for his set-pieces, they have regressed alarmingly. Capoue was soooo sloooooow, Dembele almost invisible…agree that once again, Rose had a good match. Younes and Vlad? :eek:
 
shaney said:
I'd play Ledley King in a wheelchair above Kaboul.................like that episode of Father Ted with the over 70's priests !
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:ross:

Classic. We looked about as oriented back there as Father Jack…TBF, I sounded like Father Jack second-half!!!!
 
One thing I will say…at least we don't have to look at 200 million quids worth of 'talent' and wonder why we still lost at Leicester!!!!!! Never trust a flat-nosed Northern European!
 
Its quite funny how "sold all their players" and "certain for relegation" Southampton seem to be gelling just fine.
 
We play fast one and two touch football against QPR and Sunderland, who both stood off us and gave us time on the ball, but when we have a WBA team pressing us all over the park , our players want to take multiple touches . We're stupid .
 
The most annoying thing about today, it's not the first time we've seen such an atrocious performance at home like and it will certainly not be the last. I reckon we put in at least 5 performances a season at home in a similar vein today, albeit not quite as bad.
 
Hahaha that was absolutely horrendous. One of the worst games I've ever seen at white hart lane in my 20 years as a season ticket holder, and I've seen us lose 5-3 to United and 7-1 to chelsea (or was it 6-1?).

KABOUL, chiriches, rose, Capoue, adebayor, Paulinho, soldado are absolutely useless.

I'm sorry but we are not even going to get top half this season and it will be a huge wake up call.
 
thfcsteff said:
If we are going to slide balls early into the channels then Nobby every time upfront. If we're going to play a fast and pact type of football, Nobby every time. But with three behind one and two sitting deeper, Ade is sadly the best option we have right now. Balotelli, Carroll, I don't care who played his position today they would not have had much more glory (save his glaring first-half miss from Rose's cross). The major problem is behind him, and our sheer lack of guile and ability to switch pace gears when confronted by a blocked up middle. Eriksen is a major major problem for me. Not quite good enough to be elite, yet one of our lingering creative hopes, he simply doesn't conjure quite enough. As for his set-pieces, they have regressed alarmingly. Capoue was soooo sloooooow, Dembele almost invisible…agree that once again, Rose had a good match. Younes and Vlad? :eek:
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The thing is, Soldado has great close control and a good first touch, but he also seems to like dropping deeper than everyone else at the start and in the middle of breakaways. At the moment he doesn't seem comfortable leading the line, preferring to be part of the build-up. Now, that in itself isn't a deal breaker for him: if we had a fluid front four, I think he could play the 'Lambert' role to perfection, dropping deep, taking defenders with him and then turning and slipping through passes into the vacated space for the onrushing Lamela/Chadli (wide forwards) to run onto. But we don't have that fluidity yet: you can see the players trying one-twos and passes into space, but at present it isn't working because of the lack of chemistry between the three.

Ade's good for now, due to the state of the team: I agree with that. But the more pressing concerns are these:

1) We don't have pace in the side beyond Lamela (who seems intent on cutting inside, thus negating his speed somewhat) and Rose. Walker's pace enough to offer us more attacking width once he returns to the RB slot, but his injury troubles concern me.
2) The centre of our defense. Christ on a bike, the insanity and terrifying demonic rituals that go on in that area.....
3) We're not yet pressing as a unit, and
4) There is no leadership on the field.

Now, number one necessitates the arrival of a genuinely pacy left-wing forward at some point. Chadli's a good option there, but his inability to beat Pocognoli in that one-on-one is symptomatic of the overall problem with playing him in end-to-end situations. Rodriguez would have been great, Depay likewise, but...well, The Game is About Positive Net Spend and all that. There'll be no movement in January for painfully obvious reasons, so we'll just have to hope Townsend improves enough to offer us that option this season. Number two, again, could have been solved this summer, but we missed out on both our first and second choices and ended up release-clausing the relatively cheap Fazio, so how he works out is anyone's guess. Three will come with time, I feel: four, I don't know how to solve.
 
I mean when Rose whipped in that cross and he didn't even get an eyebrow on it because he is so dopey and disinterested.... what can you do?
 
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