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*** OMT UCL Tottenham Hotspur vs Villarreal ***

SissokoWasGood (BoL) said:
Romero to an advanced Sarr seemed like a dedicated out ball for us. It’s risky because that’s a lot of distance, but I don’t blame Romero for not hitting it every time. It’s a hard thing to do, but the rewards of moving us forward are great if it completes.
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We are trying to play fast breaks, and when it doesn't come off, everyone looks stupid.

When it isn't clicking, I'd like to see us also use the space in midfield that opens up when the runners are tracked. Sometimes an extra pass in the middle can make the difference.
 
Far from a great performance but the table shows 3 points and a +1 GD so I’ll take that for our first CL game of the campaign. The most bizarre goal - I need to watch it back to understand how it actually went into the net!
Certainly more work for TF and the coaching team but we’ll get there.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
Far from a great performance but the table shows 3 points and a +1 GD so I’ll take that for our first CL game of the campaign. The most bizarre goal - I need to watch it back to understand how it actually went into the net!
Certainly more work for TF and the coaching team but we’ll get there.
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Looked like something Grobbelaar would’ve done!

 
SpurMeUp said:
Im lost. Thank you for paying attention :) I did. But whats your point? :)
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Bentancur is not Argentinian. You singled out Romero and Bentancur on page 21: "Today only the Argies looked comfortable in possession - Romera and Bentancur" and on page 22 Steff said Romero looked too comfortable and you doubled down and said Romero only made one bad pass in the second half and some people disagreed.

Then you said it wasn't fair to single out Romero, so I said that it was you that singled him out in the first place.
 
Bullet said:
Bentancur is not Argentinian. You singled out Romero and Bentancur on page 21: "Today only the Argies looked comfortable in possession - Romera and Bentancur" and on page 22 Steff said Romero looked too comfortable and you doubled down and said Romero only made one bad pass in the second half and some people disagreed.

Then you said it wasn't fair to single out Romero, so I said that it was you that singled him out in the first place.
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South Americans my bad. Still lost. Yes I thought they were more comfortable on the ball, at least first half. Second half the confidence dropped after the flurry of missed passes, and we never regained control. First half I thought we actually did well playing out at times. Much more to come of course: both playing through a press (something we did better today first half) and playing on the break (that we were woeful at second half). When trying to play longer passes to break fast isn't working, I'd like to see us adapt so we can gain control again with some shorter balls. ButFrank clearly has a vision, and playing on the break is a key thing. So there will be a period of adapting and improving how we break, we're not in sync yet.
 
Legohamster said:
Had it on whilst working so didn't catch it all

Seemed a meh game

Bent seemed to have a stinker, not sure we should be renewing his contract, seems to struggle when stepping up since the injury
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You obviously didn't give the game much attention. Bentancur was one of our best. Low bar today, but still. Showed composure when we needed it. Had a terrible period the first 25 minutes of the 2nd half, but so did everyone else. Once Palhinha came on, they controlled midfield much better.
 
Baleforce said:
nope, I'm fudging loving it

I'll take that every week, forcing a mistake, our keeper not making a save

tonight was wonderful, my heart rate didn't change at all
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I'm very happy with result, I didn't think we would steamroller them, every game in this competition will be tough.
We are some way off playing with the fluency we want. Frank has worked well with making us tighter but we are still making individual errors. The creativity will take sometime to fix and I expect we will see more games like this before we click.
I'll be content to see us picking up points while we work it out even if the performances are scratchy, the forwards getting some goals will help.
 
K.D.D.D.D.Soc said:
If only we'd have played well and lost I could die happy in the knowledge nothing change at this club, the fans always have something to moan about.
Only a short time ago I was reading how we wanted pragmatism and clean sheets, its results business.
Is the honeymoon over?
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Pragmatism was City away and PSG. We played pragmatic and we did it well. This match was anything but. It's still early days, though, so at least getting a result in spite of a poor performance will keep the spirits high. But we do need to improve. We have way too much talent to be playing the way we did against Villarreal.
 
That calamity of a goal set the standard for the match nicely. Ref was awful, and awful for both teams. There's absolutely no way there was 8 yellow cards in that match. He then bottled giving Xavi a second yellow (not that I think either of his fouls were yellows, but it was worse than some of the challenges the ref did give them for.)

Weird night. Brighton away will be very difficult on current form. A pragmatic win there would be nice, then look to really improve the performance against Doncaster and Wolves.
 
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