Last good performance in the league?

Hoddle_Ledge · Apr 3, 2011

Looking at the past few games in the Premiership the only decent 90 minute performance I can recall was home to Newcastle on 28th December. Since then it's not been great...

H 2-0 Newcastle Won with 10 men.
H 1-0 Fulham Won hanging on at times with goal line clearances.
A 1-2 Everton Lost started poorly, shoddy defending.
H 0-0 Man U Draw lots of good play with barely a decent chance on goal.
A 1-1 Newcastle Draw Abject in final third, bailed out with late equaliser.
A 0-4 Fulham Lost ok not in the league but so pathetic it needs a mention
A 1-0 Blackburn Won Early goal but number of Gomes saves to keep us in it
H 2-1 Bolton Won Bailed out with late winner
A 2-1 Sunderland Won shocking first half
A 1-3 Blackpool Lost useless
A 3-3 Wolves Draw lost a lead twice
H 0-0 West Ham Draw 78 shots no goals
A 0-0 Wigan Draw dismal

In between these games we had the transfer window, the Milan game and the 1/4 draw so Harry he could say we don't have the money to expect a win, we've never had it so good etc etc

With City winning again today and given our current form 4th place is looking very tough. I know Harry will always try and keep it positive but at which point will this bad form (wins aside) in the league be acknowledged? If we finish 5th he will say we don't have the money to compete, but did we really need a £40m striker to beat four teams fighting relegation?

Three games at home in a row now, Stoke, Gooners and West Brom. Three points from three games? At least Harry can say we're in great form, we haven't lost in six...

ajspurs · Apr 3, 2011

I was thinking the same. We've had some good results, Arsenal (a), Blackburn (a), Sunderland (a) etc. but performance wise, the whole season I can only think of Man City (h), Aston Villa (a), Newcastle (h) and Blackpool (a) funnily enough (maybe a few more) where we've actually played well.

EDIT: And Blackburn (h)

brett.spurs · Apr 3, 2011

Villa away.

felmani26 · Apr 3, 2011

It's a valid point to ask when our last great performance was in the League and as ajspurs says, there have only been a handful of these all season.

As the old adage goes, great teams win when they are playing badly and to some extent this has been true for a large amount of this season domestically but it still doesn't detract for me that even though our glaringly obvious short comings in attack this season has fallen firmly at the feet of Messrs Defoe, Crouch and Pavlyuchenko, I can't help but feel that there may be more deeper rooted problems which for me is looking at the team shape and setup when we are both in possession and out.

The answer isn't obvious either as we all agree that collectively, this is the strongest Spurs squad in a generation and yet we have struggled to muster anything more than decent when it comes to the League.

Ultimately goals change matches and also peoples perception of how the team is viewed so of course if our strikers (primarily Defoe) were even in a semi-rich goalscoring form then things would be different but it still for me wouldn't solve the main and crucial question which is managing to slot in these individually talented players into a super tight, functional and inevitably successful team.

ItsBoris · Apr 3, 2011

We've not won a league game by more than 2 goals all season. We've only scored 3 or more goals in 4 league games this season out of 30 games. So that means 9/10 games about we score 2 goals at most, and we've conceded goals in a majority of games this season.

Man City, our closest competition for 4th, have scored 3 or more goals in 9 games this season, in 5 games they have won by at least 3 goals (again compared to 0 for us).

So they score more than 3 goals in about one every three games, and have conceded 7 less goals than us this season.

IMO, the fact that we are only 6 points behind with a game in hand is a miracle, and we have been on a shaky run all season long. There haven't been many comfortable games.

pablo73 · Apr 3, 2011

They have been too few and far between. I thought that we played really well against West Ham and Man Utd at home but just didn't have the strikers to kill the game off

Teddy Klinsmann · Apr 3, 2011

1st half vs man city on the opening day. We battered them and shud have been 3 or 4 up at halftime!

beats1 · Apr 3, 2011

Jonny_Moffett said:
1st half vs man city on the opening day. We battered them and shud have been 3 or 4 up at halftime!

Totally agree, we were brilliant until the 70min when Defoe went off for Keane

That was the game that made Hart, England's no.1

spurslenny · Apr 3, 2011

Our performances have been generally average to poor this season, but we have somehow managed to scrape wins/draws form losing positions (18 points).

Compared to last season, I can hardly think of a game where we've blown the opposition away, or at least looked comfortable for the majority of the 90mins. IMO.

The amount of games saved on my Sky+ box back this up.

jonathanhotspur · Apr 3, 2011

brett.spurs said:
Villa away.

This.

And as time goes on, I'd like to say that Gibbs was so far ahead of the curve it's ridiculous.

ajspurs · Apr 3, 2011

Yep, it's starting to really piss me off not feeling like watching Match of The Day for what feels like ages now. :bang: :cry:

felmani26 · Apr 3, 2011

Villa away was the performance of the season in terms overall in the 90 mins and the fact we were down to ten men early on.

However, Man City at home, first day of the season, first 45 mins we were fantastic and if we kept that level of performance all season long minus the heroics of Joe Hart we would be challenging for the title no doubt.

TwoSaintsComeMarching · Apr 3, 2011

I agree with you.. and people still think we play our best football with a two wingers :roll:

felmani26 · Apr 3, 2011

TwoSaintsComeMarching said:
I agree with you.. and people still think we play our best football with a two wingers :roll:

I tried to allude to this point in another thread in that I thought having both Lennon and Bale gave us a predictability on the flanks (albeit at times fantastic predictability) but more often than not, defenders would double up and either close them down near the halfway line or just get them to cross from wide knowing all too well that we have little threat in converting crosses either met aerially or through good movement.

I'm also in agreeance and in a very small minority that the future is pushing Bale back and having a Kranjcar/Pienaar ahead of him as I don't feel it will hamper his attacking instinct that much as by and large we should have the majority of the play in possession and I see him very much in a Dani Alves mould.

Another problem for me is just the lack of overall movement in the side - this is not just limited to the forwards but also the lack of midfielders gambling on making runs beyond the strikers which in turn will create space for others to operate in.

Misfit · Apr 3, 2011

ajspurs said:
Yep, it's starting to really piss me off not feeling like watching Match of The Day for what feels like ages now. :bang:

:rofl: At least I'm not alone. I can only imagine the smugness exuding from Lawro. You were right you ****!:bang:

spurs mental · Apr 3, 2011

West Ham at home was a good performance, just lacking goals and came up against a keeper in unbelievable form.

beats1 · Apr 3, 2011

chelsea at home this season we never really got going even when we scored

whereas, chelsea last season against a better chelsea team, we dominated them and where unlucky only to win 2-1

ajspurs · Apr 3, 2011

Misfit said:
:rofl: At least I'm not alone. I can only imagine the smugness exuding from Lawro. You were right you ****!:bang:

:lol:

The bastard! :bang:

nightgoat · Apr 3, 2011

Misfit said:
:rofl: At least I'm not alone. I can only imagine the smugness exuding from Lawro. You were right you ****!:bang:

Hansen's worse, he's had it pent up after Lineker taunting him last season and will at some point explode with Smug...

sunnydelight786 · Apr 8, 2011

beats1 said:
chelsea at home this season we never really got going even when we scored

whereas, chelsea last season against a better chelsea team, we dominated them and where unlucky only to win 2-1

That performance is the benchmark for me, it shows what level we are capable of playing at. Have we even come close to that in the PL this season...... I think not.

p.s. Funny how Crouch was not in the team, hence we played football on the floor, in probably our best PL performance in many a year. That is how it should be all the time for me, NO Crouch starting....!

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