Fulham Vs Tottenham: Match Thread

kitchen · Dec 4, 2013

davidmatzdorf said:
Another. Two. Goals. From. Outside. The. Box.

OK, we won and three points were what mattered this evening, but every one of the problems in attack are still present and correct. We cannot play our way through or behind organised defences because our build-up is too slow and our movement off the ball is too pedestrian. Another 348 attempted through balls bounced off defenders. Another 463 crosses were delayed until everyone was marked. Unless we can hammer one in from 20m, which fortunately we often can, we cannot score.

Surprisingly, Fulham's midfield confronted and often dominated Sandro and Capoue - what's that about? We seemed to have more of the ball with a makeshift midfield consisting of Lennon, Chadli, Holtby,Townsend and Paulinho than we had when we had a hard-tackling double pivot.

Nothing has been proven. We still haven't worked out how to solve the problems. At least we won. Chiriches' reputation takes another step forward. Lennon demonstrates again that he has to play on the right. Lamela demonstrates again that he needs to get stronger. And we have the best goalkeeper in the league.

Disagree with the sentiment of the first paragraph. We made some great chances inside the box today, but our finishing was simply appalling. Just because we scored from shots outside doesn't mean we didn't have chances inside today.

The most pleasing thing for me is that our high line seems to have dropped back somewhat. It's such a risky strategy in a really pacy league, and it seems that AVB is learning...

Darragh · Dec 4, 2013

my god that spurs team are a joke.

ten yard passes going way off mark.. , not able to clear any type of ball, constantly giving it away and not creating a single thing and when we do defoe does his usual... it took two unreal shots from 25 + yeards out to rescue game...

what do spurs players do during the week.. everytime they go on pitch they look punch drunk and like a bunch of lads who just bumped into each other and fancy a kick around. lack of intelligence out on that field with possession is nothing short of comical at times.

clueless, no imagination, lazy arse limited movement and villas boas gets away with it again with comical subs..

that game tonight should have bebeen over at half time. no one works hard enough and fulham are a woeful side yet we made them look half decent. unreal and haunted to get three points.

Mr Pink · Dec 4, 2013

davidmatzdorf said:
Another. Two. Goals. From. Outside. The. Box.

OK, we won and three points were what mattered this evening, but every one of the problems in attack are still present and correct. We cannot play our way through or behind organised defences because our build-up is too slow and our movement off the ball is too pedestrian. Another 348 attempted through balls bounced off defenders. Another 463 crosses were delayed until everyone was marked. Unless we can hammer one in from 20m, which fortunately we often can, we cannot score.

Surprisingly, Fulham's midfield confronted and often dominated Sandro and Capoue - what's that about? We seemed to have more of the ball with a makeshift midfield consisting of Lennon, Chadli, Holtby,Townsend and Paulinho than we had when we had a hard-tackling double pivot.

Nothing has been proven. We still haven't worked out how to solve the problems. At least we won. Chiriches' reputation takes another step forward. Lennon demonstrates again that he has to play on the right. Lamela demonstrates again that he needs to get stronger. And we have the best goalkeeper in the league.

Spot on again mate.

gorky · Dec 4, 2013

Show_me_the_Marney said:
We may have won but it was another awful performance under AVB. Do you really want to keep watching Spurs play this way. I for one do not.

Not the point though is it. My point was that any "spurs fan" who wants to lose, for whatever reason, is a **** and not a spurs fan. Simple as that.

Gedson100 · Dec 4, 2013

Two weeks ago everyone moans we can't score.

Now people moan we're lucky to score from outside the box.

People like moaning. :LOL:

ibbz · Dec 4, 2013

robin09 said:
No penetration??!?!?!?!?

You weren't watching when Paulinho was 6 yards from goal and skied over?

You weren't watching when Lamela side footed it round the post when it was easier to hit the target?

You weren't watching when Defoe back heeled it, ricocheted to Sandro where a deflection stopped it going in?

You weren't watching when Defoe was 1 on 1 and put the ball over?

The ONLY thing I agree with you on, is Dawson needs to be dropped. But that's not going to happen til we have someone fit enough to step into CB.

yes, against FULHAM - shit team who were stuffed by West Ham not long back, and still NO GOALS from those half chances.
And then when we went a goal down? What happened then?
premature ejaculation, that's what.
We have the players, but unfortunately, we don't have the right man in charge

benski · Dec 4, 2013

[quote="trevo, post: 3724122, member: 14104"
Er no. I'm not even convinced we train together. I thnk they just turn up on the day.[/quote]

Haha I was just saying the same thing. I think they just spend days at the bookies or playing football manager coz they sure as shit aren't learning much!

CowInAComa · Dec 4, 2013

Mr Pink said:
Great result, absolutely great. You can still give credit for that even if the performance was still concerning in patches.

Nevertheless it was great character to come back and win.

absolutely. we have great players capable of doing great things to win us games, we saw wonder goals and wonder saves.

they dont get much help with the tactics though.

CrazyHeart · Dec 4, 2013

davidmatzdorf said:
Another. Two. Goals. From. Outside. The. Box.

OK, we won and three points were what mattered this evening, but every one of the problems in attack are still present and correct. We cannot play our way through or behind organised defences because our build-up is too slow and our movement off the ball is too pedestrian. Another 348 attempted through balls bounced off defenders. Another 463 crosses were delayed until everyone was marked. Unless we can hammer one in from 20m, which fortunately we often can, we cannot score.

Surprisingly, Fulham's midfield confronted and often dominated Sandro and Capoue - what's that about? We seemed to have more of the ball with a makeshift midfield consisting of Lennon, Chadli, Holtby,Townsend and Paulinho than we had when we had a hard-tackling double pivot.

Nothing has been proven. We still haven't worked out how to solve the problems. At least we won. Chiriches' reputation takes another step forward. Lennon demonstrates again that he has to play on the right. Lamela demonstrates again that he needs to get stronger. And we have the best goalkeeper in the league.

I disagree. Finishing has been the problem in the last gazillion games for us. If our guys actually found the back of the net instead of fluffing around we'd be winning games by 2 goal margins at the very least. That's down to the players. Plain and simple.

thinktank · Dec 4, 2013

spurs-r-us said:
I thought Lamela played very well.

No doubt and he's my boy, but there is a bigger cause than lamela at the moment and that's getting some familiarity between some of the core players.

You can see that they don't know what anyone is going to do at any given point in time, it's all played by ear.

They need to get to know each other's games and have automatic movement and combinations that they pull-off naturally in games because they've been practised so much.

Lamela is going to be a star for us, I have no doubt about that. He's miles ahead of most of the players in terms of vision and movement.

Gaz_Gammon · Dec 4, 2013

Joely410 said:
The unhappy tears of all the AVB haters in this thread will provide a good level of sustenance for a few days for me.

I love you Tottenham.

To quote EllenAlex;

It's not about haters.

It's about our team making things look difficult.

We were playing Fulham by the way. Fulham.

paulcumpstone · Dec 4, 2013

decent win against what was a well up for it Fulham, happy to escape with 3 points but still think we are a shambles, too many changes from game to game, isn't helping cohesion and the negative amount of defensive players on the pitch coupled with playing lennon on the left from the off just mean't we started another game on the backfoot.

Conando · Dec 4, 2013

To be fair, we missed some absolute sitters tonight.

haxman · Dec 4, 2013

Lol, BT sport presenter "There have been some big shocks tonight, Man Utd lose at home, Tottenham win". Cheeky ****!

UncleBuck · Dec 4, 2013

Thank bloody god!
Hate to say it but it's going to come down to goal difference and Everton are already +11 on us.....

EllenAlex · Dec 4, 2013

Nocando said:
You're fortunate. You wouldn't get relegated to my proposed make-believe league system.

Why? Are you sold on AVB yet? Do you not feel he can do more, considering his achievements at Porto.

Granted, it is a weaker league; but we have one of the best squads, on an individual basis, in the PL.

FinnYid · Dec 4, 2013

Mr Pink said:
Great result, absolutely great. You can still give credit for that even if the performance was still concerning in patches.

Nevertheless it was great character to come back and win.

It is great result, however there was little character to be seen before Vlad goal out of the blue. Hadn't that materialized there would probably been close to zero effort, at least that's what it seemed between their goal and our first.

CrazyHeart · Dec 4, 2013

FinnYid said:
because of Lloris, post and linesman?

No. Fulham were lucky we didn't put four past them today - it was down to poor finishing again. We really gotta work on that!

jurgen · Dec 4, 2013

ibbz said:
yes, against FULHAM - shit team who were stuffed by West Ham not long back, and still NO GOALS from those half chances.
And then when we went a goal down? What happened then?
premature ejaculation, that's what.
We have the players, but unfortunately, we don't have the right man in charge

Didn't you hate Redknapp with a passion too? So what is your suggestion?

heirov · Dec 4, 2013

How shocking was bloody Curbishley on commentary.. Especially on Vlad's goal..

Kirito · Dec 4, 2013

No Dawson and Defoe next game please.

Why do I get the feeling that this was a missed opportunity for Soldado to get some goals.

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