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

[monkeybarry]

Mark Clattenberg sounds like the kind of person that paints flags on mini roundabouts

 

[Kandi1977]

I thought his hand was high

It's was exactly where you'd expect it to be, and it was deflected up from 30 cm. No way to avoid getting hit.

 

[Hotshot-Tottenham]

ref is spoiling this. all over the place.

 

[monkeybarry]

Our shape and structure is so impressive considering how little time TF has been here.

Or maybe our defenders actually can defend! (And Porro....most of the time)

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Feeling we're a little less solid tonight at the back. Less of a unit.

We're doing ok though.

Tbh the ref is fudging the game up.
We'll end up with a handful of yellows that will bite us in the arse later in this league phase no doubt.

 

[braineclipse]

Bit sloppy, bit meh from us the first 25-30 minutes, but also some good moments. After that quite a bit better and looking fairly consistently threatening.

 

[paxtonwolf]

Well said Michael Carrick, nice and positive

 

[fernadez]

Think when we get someone creative in the midfield we'll look much better in the final third as well.

Guess Frank thinks Simons on the left is a better option than Johnson there.

 

[GlennGoddle]

all I ever want is to be bored watching us

I want it easy

no stress

You have made bad life choices.

 

[paxtonwolf]

Flippin eck Rooney gets bigger everytime I see him

 

[braineclipse]

Feeling we're a little less solid tonight at the back. Less of a unit.

We're doing ok though.

Tbh the ref is fudging the game up.
We'll end up with a handful of yellows that will bite us in the arse later in this league phase no doubt.

Is it just Palhinha not playing? Or something else?

We can definitely get at them, bit more accuracy and we should keep creating

 

[Bullet]

Hmm, rather stuttering.
Villareal have been charging around to close us down, will they run out of puff.

Keep going, and we'll get our rewards.

Xavi has such elite control and body movement, so perfect the way he receives and moves and lays it off.


PS It might be harsh but we aren't quite at the top level yet, you can see the gulf in class between what we are doing and what a team like PSG would do i.e. PSG have several superb players that interconnect and pass their way around and through a defence, whereas we have a couple of good touches but then it breaks down again.

 

[braineclipse]

Think when we get someone creative in the midfield we'll look much better in the final third as well.

Guess Frank thinks Simons on the left is a better option than Johnson there.

Perhaps easing Simons in by playing him there.

To be fair him, Kudus and Bergvall offers a good amount of creativity and we're seeing some of that in this half.

 

[Bullet]

Flippin eck Rooney gets bigger everytime I see him

That's just year-on-year inflation

 

[Kandi1977]

Book the team in white
Fouls when the yellow kits fall over.
Kicking the white kits is ok.

Think he's nailed it

He'll get murdered if he does that if he rocks up in Madrid...

 

[Mikey10]

That's just year-on-year inflation

Apparently his head is now visible from the International Space Station.

 

[Baleforce]

You have made bad life choices.

doesn't feel that way

try it, build a comfort zone, never leave it

 

[Baleforce]

Flippin eck Rooney gets bigger everytime I see him

said this before, will say it again

what a fudging pro he was to keep in the shape he did during his playing career

 

[monkeybarry]

That's just year-on-year inflation

Literally

 

[Kandi1977]

Another early goal would do nicely.