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Sunderland Vs Tottenham: Match Thread

gushayes11

gushayes11

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Soldado's been waiting all season for a pass like Holtby put in for Defoe. Jermain played well but finish in was shite.
 
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Armstrong_11 said:
disagree all u want....
we needed an own goal and a lucky penalty call escape to win against the team at the bottom of the league. yes we played well, but we didn't show desire. we need to do better.
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We didn't show desire?! You need to go to Specsavers, but you're probably unhappy that you don't get to have a go at AVB.
 
mill

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davidmatzdorf said:
A lot of Spurs players were very good today. Unlike others, I thought Defoe was very, very good. He's in one of the those phases where he can't buy a break (how many times did he hit the woodwork, 2 or 3?), but his movement was intelligent, he passed when he needed to pass and he easily beat Sunderland's rather sluggish offside trap. He worked well with Lennon, Holtby and Paulinho. He's just a streaky player who isn't on a streak right now.

I'm unable to find a bad individual performance, although Lloris' handling was very erratic and their goal resulted from his bad judgment and execution. As for the team and its tactical approach, that's different.

During the first half hour, we pursued the same infuriating tendency to slow the ball down unnecessarily. On two occasions, we had genuine counter-attacks underway, with 4 or 5 quick players streaming up the pitch, but the moment we got to the edge of the final third, the man in possession slowed down and waited for the Sunderland defence to get back into position before laying off the ball laterally. Why did we do this? If this is a managerial instruction, then it has either been misinterpreted or it is being practiced too rigidly. The change, especially after half time, suggests that the players are executing this tactic too religiously and that AVB wants them to be more flexible and responsive to events on the pitch, because we stopped doing it.

I can't recall a half this season when we got multiple players in the box and repeatedly got the ball into the corners and behind the defence the way we did in today's second half. Had we got more than 4 or 5 of our 20+ shots on target, the game would have been a massacre. As usual, we didn't.

Two come-from-behind away wins in four days is a good return for a strong, mentally tough squad, but both of our attacking problems are still present and correct: in the first half, lack of penetration and no change of pace; in the second half, wayward finishing.

Special mention to Dawson and Capoue, who were resolute and worked well together. As did both fullbacks, especially Walker.
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Brilliant, brilliant post
 
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MANAGER REACTION- Sunderland 1-2 Tottenham
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Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas speaking to Sky Sports: "It was a great win, we were outstanding. It could have been one of those situations where we were left to rue our missed chances but it wasn't.

"We were unlucky to go one goal behind, the win is entirely deserved and it puts us back in a good position in the league.

"We had to work hard to achieve the win but it is a great week for Tottenham and a great fightback from the City defeat. We have had two away games and two wins."
 
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TheSecretNonFootballer

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glacierSpurs said:
actually I thought otherwise... Lamela could be useful up there exploiting all the gaps left by Sunderland defenders searching for equaliser... a 3rd goal for us might have gotten him up and probably AVB saw the gamble to that decision...
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Maybe. It's impossible to know really. I can understand why he didn't come on though.
 
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Shea

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L.S.U.Yiddo said:
Man City lost at Sunderland. Chelsea and Man Utd only scored one more than Sunderland to win up there.
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It is a good win - any away win where you come from behind and take all the points is something to be happy about

But other teams struggling doesn't or shouldn't affect our own perception of what we should expect from a result and a performance

Sunderland are bottom and are bottom for a reason - its a game that we should be winning, regardless of the fact that City slipped up (as they have on many of their away matches)

We didn't play that great and we were wasteful and relied on an own goal to win while Sunderland should have had a penalty and missed a pretty good chance to equalise at the end also.

So while its a good win its important not to get carried away and to keep some level of perspective, it wasn't a great great win and it wasn't absolutely awesome (those types of comments makes it sound like we've reached our level of expectation when we clearly haven't)

Its great to have won the Fulham and Sunderland games but we still have work to do and progress to make no question
 
glacierSpurs

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I balked at the idea of Paulinho-Dembele partnership, the idea of Naughton at LB, the idea of Defoe starting.. although some sitters were missed horribly, the positive thing is the significant improvement in ball movement and understandings between the players..

an own goal was the odd one that stood for us yes, and a handball from Sandro was luckily escaped, we won fortunately, but I think this was a good win to build onto..

such little improvements are what some of us craved and I am quite satisfied to see that.. at least I can relax and save my cursing and swearing this weekend..
 
Armstrong_11

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Wellspurs said:
Keep us Spurs fans panicking till the last minute. Should have killed the game with our best football for ages early second half..... Townsend looked good.
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PRECISELY!!! for 10mins we had 90% of the ball, and we were sitting back passing it around. we should have killed the game there and then. Sunderland was always going to gamble and throw on more strikers. we should have finish them off there and them, thats what i am so piss off about! we didn't need to suffer the last 10mins.
 
Mr Pink

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Armstrong_11 said:
hmm.... guess people disagreeing with me?

strange, for 10mins we had 90% of the ball and were passing it around waiting for Sunderland to do something...

wake up peeps! we needed an own goal, to beat the team ROCK BOTTOM of the league!!! we didn't take the game to sunderland, we didn't kill them off.... if that is good enough, i am worried.
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Moronic :)
 
theShiznit

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Say what you want about Sandro's passing, but he started two of our best moves when he came on with two quick first time forward passes between the lines.

Something that the previous two occupants of CM had not managed in the entire first 70 minutes. (one lead to the own goal and the other lead to Defoe hitting the post from Townsend's cross)
 
CrazyHeart

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I rest my case. What I've been saying all along... FINISHING is the friggin issue! Great win though...
 
TheSecretNonFootballer

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theShiznit said:
Say what you want about Sandro's passing, but he started two of our best moves when he came on with two quick first time forward passes between the lines.

Something that the previous two occupants of CM had not managed in the entire first 70 minutes. (one lead to the own goal and the other lead to Defoe hitting the post from Townsend's cross)
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The disguise on his handball was quite special too.
 
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