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***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

SpurMeUp said:
Was a compelling game. I thought we moved the ball well. What is noticable is how much better organised they are. Our shape isn't as solid. And how that showed is they closed us down far far better.

I thought our passing and build up is steadily getting better. Small steps but incremental improvements there for me. What we don't have is a forward line with any confidence and a lack of ability if we're honest. Johnson not moving for crosses. Muani showed fight at least, but far from settled and didn't manage to hold the ball up much. Kudus the only senior attacker who's settled. And there's too much pressure on him and teams can mark him and stop us.

When it takes our CBs to show proper movement and determination to score, I think you know we are missing talent up front.
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Kudus keeps the ball too long and then loses it
He plays with no urgency
When he moves it quickly he gets that cross off
 
SpurMeUp said:
Was a compelling game. I thought we moved the ball well. What is noticable is how much better organised they are. Our shape isn't as solid. And how that showed is they closed us down far far better.

I thought our passing and build up is steadily getting better. Small steps but incremental improvements there for me. What we don't have is a forward line with any confidence and a lack of ability if we're honest. Johnson not moving for crosses. Muani showed fight at least, but far from settled and didn't manage to hold the ball up much. Kudus the only senior attacker who's settled. And there's too much pressure on him and teams can mark him and stop us.

When it takes our CBs to show proper movement and determination to score, I think you know we are missing talent up front.
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The performance was decent and an improvement on recent games but to say we moved the ball well is a gross exaggeration, that's literally the problem we have. If we can get that working well then we'd be a decent team but our passing and vision is so pedestrian. We do have a few players with quite good movement but we are entirely incapable of utilising it.
 
Thought we defended well in the main, sloppy passing once we worked hard to get the ball back.
2nd half thought we gave them far too much space all over the pitch but hung in there for a good point.
 
billyiddo said:
I think people tend to get bogged down in the overarching narrative sometimes when it comes to matches (it's hard not to) - as you say if we go in to this game in a better place the performance would be viewed much more positively
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Yep
How many saves did Vicario make
That’s what I look at
Everton had better chances than what Saudi Sportswashing Machine created against us
 
One thing on their first goal. Feel like it should be an easy fix. If Bentancur is over in the corner to double up. Someone needs to fill that space. Don’t know if it’s Kudus or Berg/Sarr, but someone needs to. Hopefully we fix that stuff, it’s just obvious.
 
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