Well i've just seen the penalty decisions and i'm amazed how they went. Again Fazio showing how calamitous he can be in the penalty area.
I wonder if part of Harry's frustration and anger is that he knew from training with Fazio that he could beat him easily one on one. He did so in the match, committing Fazio to the tackle, and got scythed down, exactly as he expected. And then the ref, either useless or something worse, refused to give the clear penalty.
In truth, we've seen some awful CB play in this tournament, some of it from Spurs players. But if we'd paid Euros 35 million (plus 10 milllion add ons) for Lindelof, and then seen the penalty he gave away with a tackle so late it made Fazio look like Usain Bolt, I'd be worried.
What a joke of a ref. Ol' Dickhead Blue Eyes must have been paid by the mafia to ensure the Italians won in noo yawk or summat. Even for pre-season, that is horrific officiating on both penalty calls
Wimmer. And agreed on all pointsJust seen the highlights, no way was it a penalty against us. How the fuck were we not given a penalty? And how was that not a foul on verts(?) in the lead up to their 3rd goal?
Great job officials.
Just seen the highlights, no way was it a penalty against us. How the fuck were we not given a penalty? And how was that not a foul on verts(?) in the lead up to their 3rd goal?
Great job officials.
Odd sky are reporting this as a 2-2 draw
http://www.skysports.com/watch/vide...am-hotspur/10962201/spurs-2-2-roma-highlights
It was Wimmer not Jan
Out of interest, how are man utd top of the table in this cup with 5 points after a win and a draw?
Meh when we beat them in pre-season we tend to narrowly avoid relegation so I'm not too pissed.
Just about functioning after 3 and a half hours sleep...
Some quick thoughts. Again as I said at full time, I think that was a fairly rusty display from us and, even with the refs input, a loss wasn't that surprising in the end. We pressed hard for about the opening 10 mins, realised Roma were a slick outfit and could play their way out, and so we got caught 'inbetween' with some pressing and some not and achieving nothing on this front. With the ball we were very sloppy, it was treated like a hot potato and along with obvious errors we were too often trying to force play with low percentage passes.
Individually a mixed bag:
Both keepers had little to do and couldn't be blamed.
Jan and Toby were not at their best.
CCV had a better game than the other night. Harsh penalty against him, and his yellow card was having to recover and bail out a team mate.
Trippier was pretty meh.
KWP was ok. Defensively no real errors, with the ball what I expected considering he's playing a bhit safe and isn't going to go on the outside when played on the left.
Dier and Dembele were individually poor, and as a duo that has to be possibly their worst outing - even if it was pre-season.
Onomah worked hard and had a few nice touches, but wasn't as involved as you'd hope as we couldn't string much play together first half.
Alli has been the worst player so far in pre-season across the two games. I'm not saying that should be made into a big deal, just calling what I have seen.
Kane got riled up second half and started putting himself about a bit, but he too is still warming up.
Wimmer didn't inspire confidence in really anything he did. Clearance for goal 2 was weak, whether he was fouled for goal 3 or not he seemed to go down very easily.
Davies was solid enough.
Winks was busy, as per, and found some nice forward touches and managed to scramble the ball home for a goal.
TOB wasn't awful, but not hugely involved and was caught ball watching for the 2nd goal when the ball broke loose. Not quite ready yet you'd say.
Eriksen was a bit subdued, cant really recall much from him.
Nkoudou came on and every touch was basically disastrous, then with his last act out of nowhere swung in a decent cross for Janssen
Georgiou... I'll be consistent and say about him as I often say about Nkoudou, he was direct without a lot of end product - and I think a lot of fans just see directness as amazing no matter what output is achieved - however he went out there looking like he knew he had nothing to lose, he worked hard and put himself about, and a couple of times he forced something by his hard work. Not a bad 45 mins at all on the whole.
Janssen didn't get too many touches, but hit the post in the build up to goal 1 and steered in goal 2 so job done.
Not great, sure we'll be better for the start of the season though....
I agree in the main but I thought that Kane and others got distracted from winning the game in order to start a fight. It was other players coming on who got back to trying to play football.The players did; and I loved that about how we played in the second half. They wanted to win.
Never seen us so hungry in pre-season before. Absolutely loved that second half savage attitude.