Ratings vs Chelsea

Pauleta01 said:

Unbelievable progress over the past month!

Chadli edged MOM for me as he was productive with everything he did but he and Kane were 10/10!

I am surprised people disappointed with Eriksen he started something positive nearly every time he had the ball!

Bentaleb was good also, loved the passion! Did you see him give it to Fabregas when he was trying to influence the ref!

Give me a team with that passion and starting with 4 players from the academy any day!

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Syn_13 said:

I must have missed this. Anyone got a pic/gif?

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Cornpattbuck said:

It's Poch front of shot, with Mourinho clearly mouthing off in the background. Poch just raises his eyebrows nonplussed. Cracked me up. Sure someone will dig up...

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littlemandefoe said:

Just to clarify, I didn't say he was shit. He played fine but he's had better games in my opinion. Thats all but if you disagree thats fine. Im glad we all think differently otherwise life would be shit.

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keithtighe93 said:

lloris - 7 - great save from azpilicueta. was composed and safe as usual. couldn't have done much for any of the goals

walker - 5 - poor i thought. lost possession easily and regularly, couple of brainfarts too with balls across the back to chelsea players

fazio - 6 - did well apart from the hazard goal. great in the air and calm on the deck for the most part

vertonghen - 7 - good game. showed passion and guts! good on the ball and made some good interceptions and blocks

rose - 6 - much the same as walker but slightly better. did well to get up for the goal but his positioning and effort leave a lot to be desired at times! terrible on the 1st goal

dembele - 8 - fantastic. such composure, a great outlet for keeping possesion in midfield, has tremendous strength and used this in possession and in harrying chelsea players today. fantastic game

bentaleb - 7 - good game. a bit more incisive than usual, decent defensively too. best game for awhile

chadli - 9 - best game for spurs! noticeably more direct, went at the full back and seemed sharper. intelligent and efficient, used his body well and contributed throughout the game

eriksen - 7 - quiet but effective. slick passing at the start of many of our moves helping to set up good situations without perhaps getting the final pass so perhaps that blinds people to how effective he was. good work rate too

townsend - 5.5 - not great. poor first touch and wasn't involved too much! got a penalty but was in no way involved in earing it although he took it well to be fair. good work rate to help out walker

kane - 9 - unreal. star in the making. has such a good all round game and made two good centre halfs look like fools today. don't think he is the type of players who will go through a bad patch tbh, even if hes not scoring he will still contribute

paulinho - 7 - did well. showed energy and was sharper on the ball than usual. done himself no harm today

davies - 6 - more secure than rose i thought, not as prominent in attack though. retains the ball better too

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littlemandefoe said:

How is anyone here saying Chadli had a great game?? He was alright and did some OK things but a majority of the time he slowed play down and lost the ball on numerous occasions when an easy pass was on. Not slating him, I am very happy about todays win but he's played better.

Kane was unbelievable and Vertonghen did very well. Eriksen with some fantastic little touches, guy really is a genius.

EDIT: CHADLI WAS AMAZING OMG BEST GAME EVER MOM

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TEESSIDE1 said:

Kane 10 - outstanding.

Chadli 9 - excellent game and pipped to MoM by Kane's superb performance.

Bentaleb 8 - shaky start with some dodgy passing but grew into the game and held his own against Matic and Fabregas.

Eriksen 8 - involved in most of our attacks, plenty of closing down and looked very dangerous in his free role. Only negative was his poor corners.

Lloris 8 - produced an excellent save from Azpilicueta, let's call him Dave, easier to spell. Looked solid and couldn't do anything about the Chelsea goals.

Dembele 7 - good in possession, and I actually saw him running around, even late in the game. Needs to work on his tackling though.

Vertonghen 7 - the best of our defenders by a long shot. Kept going all the way to the end and made some key interceptions.

Davies 7 - a breath of fresh air, a lot more solid than Rose and other than fitness, I'm still bemused as to why he didn't start.

Paulinho 6 - showed lots of energy and looked interested, a decent performance.

Townsend 5 - took his penalty well but my only other recollection of Andros was him show boating at 4-2, setting up a Chelsea counter attack. My prayers were soon answered as he was subbed seconds later.

Walker, Fazio, Rose 4 - for as good as our attackers were, this lot were horrendous at the back. Sloppy in possession, switching off and not playing to the whistle, being out of position and in Rose's case, getting arse raped by Hazard. Thank God we scored 5 as the high line produced a comedy of errors.

Mason n/a - hope he's ok.

Poch 8 - Positives: counter attacking tactics, allowing Eriksen to have a free role, actively encouraging the team through out the game, very good subs. Negatives: Starting out of sorts Rose instead of in form Davies, playing out of form Townsend whom once again offered very little other than a well taken penalty. Persisting with the high line despite Hazard and co tormenting our defence all game, and allowing the full backs to keep attacking, leaving Fazio and Verts exposed to a Chelsea counter attack.

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TEESSIDE1 said:

Kane 10 - outstanding.

Chadli 9 - excellent game and pipped to MoM by Kane's superb performance.

Bentaleb 8 - shaky start with some dodgy passing but grew into the game and held his own against Matic and Fabregas.

Eriksen 8 - involved in most of our attacks, plenty of closing down and looked very dangerous in his free role. Only negative was his poor corners.

Lloris 8 - produced an excellent save from Azpilicueta, let's call him Dave, easier to spell. Looked solid and couldn't do anything about the Chelsea goals.

Dembele 7 - good in possession, and I actually saw him running around, even late in the game. Needs to work on his tackling though.

Vertonghen 7 - the best of our defenders by a long shot. Kept going all the way to the end and made some key interceptions.

Davies 7 - a breath of fresh air, a lot more solid than Rose and other than fitness, I'm still bemused as to why he didn't start.

Paulinho 6 - showed lots of energy and looked interested, a decent performance.

Townsend 5 - took his penalty well but my only other recollection of Andros was him show boating at 4-2, setting up a Chelsea counter attack. My prayers were soon answered as he was subbed seconds later.

Walker, Fazio, Rose 4 - for as good as our attackers were, this lot were horrendous at the back. Sloppy in possession, switching off and not playing to the whistle, being out of position and in Rose's case, getting arse raped by Hazard. Thank God we scored 5 as the high line produced a comedy of errors.

Mason n/a - hope he's ok.

Poch 8 - Positives: counter attacking tactics, allowing Eriksen to have a free role, actively encouraging the team through out the game, very good subs. Negatives: Starting out of sorts Rose instead of in form Davies, playing out of form Townsend whom once again offered very little other than a well taken penalty. Persisting with the high line despite Hazard and co tormenting our defence all game, and allowing the full backs to keep attacking, leaving Fazio and Verts exposed to a Chelsea counter attack.

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THFCSPURS19 said:

Every player gets arse raped by Hazard. He destroys almost every defender he plays against. In this instance, I certainly believe it was a case of Hazard being exceptional, rather than Rose or Walker being very poor. Saying that, I still think we gave him too much space but when he's directly against one player, Hazard usually wins.

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Bus-Conductor said:

Oh no you di'ant..

How the fuck do you tactically weigh that lot up. Should one even try. Did anyone see that coming. I fucking didn't. One of the reasons I gave my seat to a mate today. First time I've really regretted doing that for a couple of years.

I think I'd need to watch the whole thing again before attempting to rationalise most of what I saw.

When I saw the team selection I thought, uh oh jungle (big rep for anyone remembers this program). This could get nasty. Rose and Walker, Walker and Townsend…

And slightly against the run of things the Rose selection kicked in early as he got himself all wrong to allow Hazard in and we found ourselves 0-1 down. To our immense credit we battled back into the game, we weren't exactly looking "hazard/Fabgregas/Costa" threatening, but we were having moments and causing them some some problems. Those problems, most notably Harry Kane, turned into goals. First he gathered up a pass from Rose, then showing good balance, strength, determination and skill he dropped a couple of shoulders, swerved two ways past Oscar and then hit the sweetest of exocets past one of the best keepers in this league.

Eriksen and Chadli had already threatened to unlock Chelsea's defence once, Chadli having moved too soon narrowly being flagged offside. An amelioration saw us go 2-1. The run was perfectly timed, the ball from Eriksen equally perfect and though Chadli's finish cannoned off the post, the footballing gods smiled and the rebound fell serendipitously for the on rushing Rose who kept his cool and calmly slotted in under pressure from Cahill, redeeming his earlier fuck up.

The third was all about pressing and Kane. Once again the high press proved its worth, and the desire Kane showed to be first to the ball and take a whack for the cause, as he steamed in to nick a ball, pulling the usually reliable Cahill's pants down.

Townsend had had a typical Townsend half up to that point, he'd tried to be involved, showed some enterprise, but zero of substance and a couple of annoying give aways. I wasn't confident. But to be fair the lad stepped up and buried the penalty with aplomb. No luck, great keeper went the right way but the pen was drilled with zip right in the corner. It was a great pen under pressure.

So from 0-1 down we, somewhat surreally found ourselves trundling off at half time 3-1 to the good. And it wasn't really a fluke either. We'd played pretty well, not entirely kept them quiet, but had competed well in a game played at a fair old pace.

Bask in the 15 minute half time glory I was thinking, because the second half is going to be like Custer's last fucking stand, and with our defenders and their attackers, I was bracing myself for the worst possible outcomes.

Fuck me if we didn't come out and bang in another one. This another beautiful piece of Kane forward play, letting the ball glide across him, spinning round, hesitating for a split second - and I can't emphasise this enough because in that split second of hesitation came the gathering of the poise and composure - then placed the ball sweetly past Coutois. It was a piece of "forwards" play of the highest order. My valve went back to amber.

Still Rourke's Drift didn't arrive. In it's stead Fazio had one of those dopey moments and gifted them a goal, dribbling the ball into Fabregas on our half way line, bing, bang a couple of slick passes later it's 4-2 and the valve is now firmly back in the red zone.

I think at this point Lloris made a wonderful save from Azpilecueta, but I may have the chronology of this wrong.

Also at 4-2, like Rose earlier, Fazio found some redemption with a brilliant tackle on Hazard when it appeared he was clean through.

Kane then battles and holds a ball out left, feeds Chadli, having by far his best half of football in a Spurs shirt, who shimmies inside, and hits a sweet shot that, for salt in wound of a tosser good measure, takes a nick off Terry into the far corner. 5 fuck a doodle doo 2.

Valve back to amber but this being spurs it was definitely amber tinged with a hint of rouge. And sure enough the final hurrah of Chelsea arrived. 87 minutes on Terry gets one back 5-3. Valve back to red, there's only a few minutes left, but this is Spurs.

In amongst all this we still have the odd sniff of more goals, and there is some decent play by the likes of Dembele, Bentaleb, Eriksen, Chadli, Kane, with the ball.

I really need to watch this again to try and make some tactical sense of what happened, it just became so involving it it was hard to think about structure, tactics and method. I think the line up was not the most logical, to me it would have made more sense to play Chriches and Davies today and Walker and Rose against ManU's 352. I would have liked Dembele starting ALM instead of Townsend.

There were some messy passages of this game, it got open and end to end at times. Hey, it's finished 5-3, it's never going to be reviewed as a tactical master class I guess. But amidst some sloppy defending, there was some great incisive and exciting attacking football too.

Individual eulogising:

Lloris - Can't fault him for any of the goals, made a fantastic save as well. Great game generally.

Walker - The boy does some very odd things and at times it's painful to watch. But he tries and did do some good stuff too.

Fazio - I really don't think he's the long term solution, fucked up badly for their second goal, can look a bit one paced at times, but he does do some good shit too, and made an excellent tackle at 4-2 on Hazard in particular.

Vertonghen - I thought he was very good today.

Rose - started very badly, defended very badly for their first goal and not just because it was Hazard, it was just bad defending. He also gave the ball away carelessly a couple of times which caught us up the pitch. But did brilliantly to get up the pitch to score the second, that's exactly what I want an attacking full back to do, if he's doing shit like that you'll forgive the occasional defensive frailty. Not foot perfect but decent enough.

Mason - N/A

Dembele - I think he had a very decent game.

Bentaleb - Exceedingly good game. Showed a real tenacity in the tackle, kept the ball moving.

Townsend - The boy tries, shows endeavour, took his penalty very cooly. But the same deficiencies are there. He makes poor decisions at crucial times and produces very little end product of real quality.

Eriksen - Very decent game over all, lovely ball for Chadli, some nice touches and worked pretty hard for the team.

Chadli - Overall his best game in a Spurs shirt, certainly that second half was his best 45 minutes by a mile. Like a different player, he was lively, sure footed, tricky and a real handful.

Kane - This was an outstanding performance. His goals showed strength, skill, brains and composure. He worked for the team leading the press and dropping deep and wide for his team mates to have out balls. MOTM.

Poch - I really don't know how much credit he can take for this win, it might be plenty, it might be less, I need to watch it again and cogitate. I would have preferred Stambouli on than Paulinho.


Isn't football beautiful.

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TEESSIDE1 said:

Hazard's an excellent player but it was school boy stuff from Rose for the 1st goal.

Offensively we were outstanding but the amount of individual mistakes at the back was ridiculous.

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Firsttouch said:

Davies 7 - a breath of fresh air, a lot more solid than Rose and other than fitness, I'm still bemused as to why he didn't start.


I can't believe you rated fazio walker and rose in particular a 4 then give Ben Davies a 7....

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Bus-Conductor said:

Oh no you di'ant..

How the fuck do you tactically weigh that lot up. Should one even try. Did anyone see that coming. I fucking didn't. One of the reasons I gave my seat to a mate today. First time I've really regretted doing that for a couple of years.

I think I'd need to watch the whole thing again before attempting to rationalise most of what I saw.

When I saw the team selection I thought, uh oh jungle (big rep for anyone remembers this program). This could get nasty. Rose and Walker, Walker and Townsend…

And slightly against the run of things the Rose selection kicked in early as he got himself all wrong to allow Hazard in and we found ourselves 0-1 down. To our immense credit we battled back into the game, we weren't exactly looking "hazard/Fabgregas/Costa" threatening, but we were having moments and causing them some some problems. Those problems, most notably Harry Kane, turned into goals. First he gathered up a pass from Rose, then showing good balance, strength, determination and skill he dropped a couple of shoulders, swerved two ways past Oscar and then hit the sweetest of exocets past one of the best keepers in this league.

Eriksen and Chadli had already threatened to unlock Chelsea's defence once, Chadli having moved too soon narrowly being flagged offside. An amelioration saw us go 2-1. The run was perfectly timed, the ball from Eriksen equally perfect and though Chadli's finish cannoned off the post, the footballing gods smiled and the rebound fell serendipitously for the on rushing Rose who kept his cool and calmly slotted in under pressure from Cahill, redeeming his earlier fuck up.

The third was all about pressing and Kane. Once again the high press proved its worth, and the desire Kane showed to be first to the ball and take a whack for the cause, as he steamed in to nick a ball, pulling the usually reliable Cahill's pants down.

Townsend had had a typical Townsend half up to that point, he'd tried to be involved, showed some enterprise, but zero of substance and a couple of annoying give aways. I wasn't confident. But to be fair the lad stepped up and buried the penalty with aplomb. No luck, great keeper went the right way but the pen was drilled with zip right in the corner. It was a great pen under pressure.

So from 0-1 down we, somewhat surreally found ourselves trundling off at half time 3-1 to the good. And it wasn't really a fluke either. We'd played pretty well, not entirely kept them quiet, but had competed well in a game played at a fair old pace.

Bask in the 15 minute half time glory I was thinking, because the second half is going to be like Custer's last fucking stand, and with our defenders and their attackers, I was bracing myself for the worst possible outcomes.

Fuck me if we didn't come out and bang in another one. This another beautiful piece of Kane forward play, letting the ball glide across him, spinning round, hesitating for a split second - and I can't emphasise this enough because in that split second of hesitation came the gathering of the poise and composure - then placed the ball sweetly past Coutois. It was a piece of "forwards" play of the highest order. My valve went back to amber.

Still Rourke's Drift didn't arrive. In it's stead Fazio had one of those dopey moments and gifted them a goal, dribbling the ball into Fabregas on our half way line, bing, bang a couple of slick passes later it's 4-2 and the valve is now firmly back in the red zone.

I think at this point Lloris made a wonderful save from Azpilecueta, but I may have the chronology of this wrong.

Also at 4-2, like Rose earlier, Fazio found some redemption with a brilliant tackle on Hazard when it appeared he was clean through.

Kane then battles and holds a ball out left, feeds Chadli, having by far his best half of football in a Spurs shirt, who shimmies inside, and hits a sweet shot that, for salt in wound of a tosser good measure, takes a nick off Terry into the far corner. 5 fuck a doodle doo 2.

Valve back to amber but this being spurs it was definitely amber tinged with a hint of rouge. And sure enough the final hurrah of Chelsea arrived. 87 minutes on Terry gets one back 5-3. Valve back to red, there's only a few minutes left, but this is Spurs.

In amongst all this we still have the odd sniff of more goals, and there is some decent play by the likes of Dembele, Bentaleb, Eriksen, Chadli, Kane, with the ball.

I really need to watch this again to try and make some tactical sense of what happened, it just became so involving it it was hard to think about structure, tactics and method. I think the line up was not the most logical, to me it would have made more sense to play Chriches and Davies today and Walker and Rose against ManU's 352. I would have liked Dembele starting ALM instead of Townsend.

There were some messy passages of this game, it got open and end to end at times. Hey, it's finished 5-3, it's never going to be reviewed as a tactical master class I guess. But amidst some sloppy defending, there was some great incisive and exciting attacking football too.

Individual eulogising:

Lloris - Can't fault him for any of the goals, made a fantastic save as well. Great game generally.

Walker - The boy does some very odd things and at times it's painful to watch. But he tries and did do some good stuff too.

Fazio - I really don't think he's the long term solution, fucked up badly for their second goal, can look a bit one paced at times, but he does do some good shit too, and made an excellent tackle at 4-2 on Hazard in particular.

Vertonghen - I thought he was very good today.

Rose - started very badly, defended very badly for their first goal and not just because it was Hazard, it was just bad defending. He also gave the ball away carelessly a couple of times which caught us up the pitch. But did brilliantly to get up the pitch to score the second, that's exactly what I want an attacking full back to do, if he's doing shit like that you'll forgive the occasional defensive frailty. Not foot perfect but decent enough.

Mason - N/A

Dembele - I think he had a very decent game.

Bentaleb - Exceedingly good game. Showed a real tenacity in the tackle, kept the ball moving.

Townsend - The boy tries, shows endeavour, took his penalty very cooly. But the same deficiencies are there. He makes poor decisions at crucial times and produces very little end product of real quality.

Eriksen - Very decent game over all, lovely ball for Chadli, some nice touches and worked pretty hard for the team.

Chadli - Overall his best game in a Spurs shirt, certainly that second half was his best 45 minutes by a mile. Like a different player, he was lively, sure footed, tricky and a real handful.

Kane - This was an outstanding performance. His goals showed strength, skill, brains and composure. He worked for the team leading the press and dropping deep and wide for his team mates to have out balls. MOTM.

Poch - I really don't know how much credit he can take for this win, it might be plenty, it might be less, I need to watch it again and cogitate. I would have preferred Stambouli on than Paulinho.


Football eh, go fucking figure.

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Firsttouch said:

Kane= Thomas muller

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Matrix said:

I have to say there are a lot of similarities, hope he does become just like Muller. He needs to carry on like this the whole season, then we def have a "Muller" on our hands.

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