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Match Prediction

  • Spurs to Win

    Votes: 94 67.1%
  • Manchester Utd to Win

    Votes: 13 9.3%
  • Score Draw

    Votes: 32 22.9%
  • Goal less Draw

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Total voters
    140
  • Poll closed .

poc

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Aug 6, 2004
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If that is Kanes ankle again, that is the season over IMO
We have no-one who can step in with Son going too.
fearful for these next few weeks
Levy really is going to cost us this year with thinking this bare bone squad can last a season
With son going we would be in big trouble. Hope Kane recovers quickly.
 

Mr Pink

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Aug 25, 2010
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That’s just a cop out in my opinion. This isn’t the first time, we have fundamental issues in terms of being clinical in the vast majority of these huge pressurised games. I don’t know what the answer is but it was pretty obvious we weren’t going to score as we’ve seen it all before. Yes we played well to create all these efforts but it just is symbolic and one of the big reasons we are that notch below as a football team.

It's not a cop out. You just need to get a grip of your disappointment.

I'm fucking gutted but we played really well after a hectic schedule and Had Harry found the corner a couple of times we'd all be waxing lyrical about this performance.

Unfortunately it's fine lines sometimes.
 

kaz Hirai

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Nov 5, 2008
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United are really not any better based on that. Their attack was still so so and their defence is still shite.

Lol this May sound a little RAWKish but that would be 4-1 on another night
 

SE Spurs

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Aug 12, 2018
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Absolutely battered em' second half, but deserved what we got. Poor mistake from Tripps for their goal, and just woeful f**king finishing second half. De Gea can take the credit, but when every f**king shot is hit right at him, it makes him look pretty good.
Gutted for Sissoko, been superb the last couple of months, and no rotation for him the last month, has probably caused the injury. Hopefully ain't too bad.
 

spursbhoy67

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Dec 20, 2006
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Danny Mills spouting nonsense on the BBC that the game will show Poch he has taken Spurs as far as he can take them.

Words fail me with the standard of punditry in the game in the UK.
 

StevePil

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Dec 30, 2006
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We will win nothing until we start winning games like this.
As for injuries - it is a terrible season for us, how the idiot Klopp could say what he did in midweek is a joke. We are going to run out of steam here I fear, and worried about top 4, Utd are really in form and this result is not going to help any of us
we must strengthen this month or we are bang in trouble IMO
 

Everlasting Seconds

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Jan 9, 2014
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Please stop with the De Gea worldie nonsense they were all bog standard saves apart from the Alderweireld one.
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He had an outstanding day, there is nothing standard about pulling off 11 saves like that in one match. Maybe each individual save was so-so, but to do the whole bunch of them in the same match, on an aggregated level, that is a worldie.
 

theShiznit

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Jul 26, 2004
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I think once we'd missed a few bad ones it got in the players minds and they were trying to be too deliberate with their finishing. And just ended up putting tame shots straight at De Gea.

If you gave Kane those chances every match I'd bet on him scoring at least two.

These are the games you have to win and the chances you have to take to win things. And as long as we have these 'blips' people will continue to question our mentality (like it or not)
 

Bobbins

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May 5, 2005
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Hardly. They won't keep winning every game. And today they had a) a lot of luck, and b) we let them carry out their (predictable) plan for half the match with no response.

We have no squad, we’re ravaged by injuries, we’ve lost to all of our top six rivals already with the exception of Chelsea, and we’ve still got to play Liverpool, City and Chelsea away from home.

We only have more and bigger games to come and we don’t have the squad to keep competing. We’ve lost six games already this season which is a hell of a lot at just past the halfway stage, and we already know we won’t be spending any money in January - we’re just losing Dembele and Son. It looks like Kane was in trouble at the end of the game, Sissoko one of our form players could be injured for some time. Our replacement CM option today was an actual child.

We have lots of home games to come and Wembley is a massive liability - one of the reasons we’ve done so well so far is the amount of away games we’ve played.

It will be a massive battle for top 4 now. Massive.
 

nedley

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Jul 28, 2006
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Great credit to the team that kept on going.

But we were really poor in front of goal. Nervous in fact.

I do think there is a little way to go in terms of mentality if we are to really push on.

But hopefully that will come with a couple of elite signings.
 

poc

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Aug 6, 2004
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Just that trippier was under no pressure had time to pick a pass, his teammates had pushed up believing he would not give it away given he was under no pressure. Just said it was a bad pass. Also mentioned we played well and de gea is a great keeper using his feet and footwork.
 

werty

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Aug 8, 2005
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I don't know about that. The first half was very even, and we were actually on top at the point they scored. We let the goal in because of a poor decision. Partly actually down to Sissoko going off and our failure to re adjust. Its important to note, we didn't concede on the counter attack, we conceded on a phase of transition.

In any case with better finishing it wouldn't of been a issue, Man Utd couldn't contain us, they hang on. We should have done better, but overall we largly played pretty well, which makes it very frustrating.
I mean, you have to lose to ball to be countered on. Phase of transition is just the hipsters way of saying counter attack.
 

rossdapep

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Aug 25, 2011
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This leaves me more frustrated than the Wolves game. Why the fuck couldn't they start the game like they started the second half?

Poch keeps talking about it and some of the players seem to have picked up on in, but some of them just mentally lapse and it keeps fucking costing us.

Like most sports football is/can be a game of fine margins and yet again we come up short at both ends of the pitch.

Now add in what looks like one, maybe two injuries to key members of the first eleven and the second half of the season will mean the squad could be stretched, for a period, to breaking point. Hopefully they aren't long term injuries, but short to medium term, it could fuck us.

Fingers crossed and on to the next game, but fuck it, I feel like a balloon with a slow puncture this evening.
It's because players like Trippier have a lapse of concentration in them far too often. I realise it's harsh but this team wont win anything until we have a squad who can concentrate throughout. Trippier had an easy pass to make (Toby) but took a risk in a position we couldn't afford to.

Having said that we were a bit too open in that first half and should have been more wary of the counter attack. I think we'd have won that game had we have not gone in behind. Our finishing may have been a bit cooler.
 
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