Baleforce
Ron Henry
inexplicable playing this way and leaving Richi on the bench for 80 mins
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**** OMT Tottenham Hotspur v West Ham United ****
- Thread starter markysimmo
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inexplicable playing this way and leaving Richi on the bench for 80 mins
Kandi1977
Terry Dyson
The whole team needs to work on corners. Both defensively and offensively! We're not good at any of them!
Bedfordspurs
Arthur Rowe
Ange got the subs right on saturday
Keeping son on today was a bad bad call
Keeping son on today was a bad bad call
glasgowspur
Nayim
We really should have won that, do we actually do any training ground work on set pieces?
Awful at both ends.
Awful at both ends.
jrh
Niko Kranjcar
Son could barely run after 75-80 mins.. Bizarre to leave him out there, especially after such a generally poor game.
Kandi1977
Terry Dyson
We work to get the ball out wide for crosses into the box, and even though we spend 5 minutes passing it around to get it out there, when the cross comes, we have 5 or 6 players 16 yards out, and maybe ONE somewhere in the box! Baffling!
Bedfordspurs
Arthur Rowe
IulianSteaua
Steed Malbranque
Its a bad call if he doesnt score, most of the time he does. You can't know before hand.
Robbo
Les Ferdinand
Same with that in swinging corner from Porro in the second half, where we had 3,5 players in the box trying to outmuscle the 900.000 West Ham defenders.
jrh
Niko Kranjcar
Fair.. But in a game that's only two days after the last, you opt for picking fresh legs surely.
Kandi1977
Terry Dyson
Who was the guy we hired for set pieces under Conte? We should get him back, because he knew his stuff! Was never worried defensively then, and we looked like scoring every time we had a set piece.
jrh
Niko Kranjcar
Zouma was unchallenged once again and just lumped it away, the most galling part is it was a good delivery.. Just no one in white contesting, bizarre.
IulianSteaua
Steed Malbranque
jrh
Niko Kranjcar
Vio, think he's working for the USA national team now
Bedfordspurs
Arthur Rowe
You can
He never does well against defences where he has to play with his back to them
That’s just how it is
Bullet
Luka Modric
I really don't get some of our play. Seems like the idea is to get it to Johnson out wide, but we make that look soooo difficult.
So many times a defender or midfielder will check back and lay it off and jog 5 yards whilst Johnson is just standing there waiting, wide open with his mate Porro also available. Why the hell don't we just give them the ball?
So many times a defender or midfielder will check back and lay it off and jog 5 yards whilst Johnson is just standing there waiting, wide open with his mate Porro also available. Why the hell don't we just give them the ball?
Bedfordspurs
Arthur Rowe
What I initially liked about Angeball was the intention, directness and movement. Angeball 2.0 seems based on high risk - low reward play. Lots of tiki-taka-ish passing not looking to create opportunities and open up space, but more to create opportunities for opportunities. A bit like Liverpool in the 90's. Can look good if you like passing in small areas, but not very effective. When we have the ball, the players don't look like they know what to do with it. And I absolutely loathe unmarked headed passes, why not just hand the ball over to the opposition or kick it out in the stands.
90% of the pig-in-the-middle resulted in a pass out to Porro, who did not have a good game, although there was a serious lack of movement in the box so he resorted to just pinging it in and hoping for the best. Not very good tactics that. Overall the game wasn't too shabby, especially the 1st half, but a good team would have made mincemeat out of us tonight. Micky clear MoM for me, with Vicario 2nd and Udogie 3rd. It seems like a long time since an attacker was our best player, think that says something. We are not very creative, despite the at times "sexy" play. Regarding creative, I thought Bissouma was a creator and ball carrier, now I don't know what he is supposed to do and is less mini Dembele and more like a Bissoko. Personally I'd rather start Højbjerg or Lo Celso until he comes alive. Son weak game. Werner good at going to the line, but has a Super Pav-esque ability to be in the wrong place at the right time, but to be fair to him he was underused tonight, almost everything went to Porro.
Not a bad result overall, but we didn't look like winning despite having 130% ball possession.
90% of the pig-in-the-middle resulted in a pass out to Porro, who did not have a good game, although there was a serious lack of movement in the box so he resorted to just pinging it in and hoping for the best. Not very good tactics that. Overall the game wasn't too shabby, especially the 1st half, but a good team would have made mincemeat out of us tonight. Micky clear MoM for me, with Vicario 2nd and Udogie 3rd. It seems like a long time since an attacker was our best player, think that says something. We are not very creative, despite the at times "sexy" play. Regarding creative, I thought Bissouma was a creator and ball carrier, now I don't know what he is supposed to do and is less mini Dembele and more like a Bissoko. Personally I'd rather start Højbjerg or Lo Celso until he comes alive. Son weak game. Werner good at going to the line, but has a Super Pav-esque ability to be in the wrong place at the right time, but to be fair to him he was underused tonight, almost everything went to Porro.
Not a bad result overall, but we didn't look like winning despite having 130% ball possession.
