Bluto Blutarsky
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And yet we have 12 wins, and won our CL group.
Any manager with that record, and no decent performances, must be doing something right...
Match Threads Leicester City v Spurs
- Thread starter chrissivad
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- Feb 11, 2023
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Leicester City 4-1 Spurs
Bentancur (14)
Mendy (23) Madison (25) Iheanacho (45) Barnes (81)
And yet we have 12 wins, and won our CL group.
Any manager with that record, and no decent performances, must be doing something right...
Yes we have and I remember saying the same thing when we had 23 points from 10 games.
Actually thought hopefully we’re turning into one of those sides that gets wins even when not playing well.
If you’re honestly happy with our performances overall this season fair enough but I’m not, I think we’ve been bang average and a lot of those wins have been massively papering over cracks.
Bluto Blutarsky
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Your statement was you would take Klopp's failings over Poch's successes.
We won as many trophies under Poch as Klopp did when he was "failing" at Liverpool..
mpickard2087
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Too generous. Kulusevski couldn't have complained if he'd been hauled off after 15 mins tbh, way off the intensity and the opposition just kept running him out of it or off the ball. He successfully controlled the ball once all first half, and the one time he did he then gave it away with one of the crappest passes you'll see all season. Son was in "why pass the ball when I can take 20 touches to go nowhere" mode and inexplicably missed the chance to put Kane in on goal for 3-2 (and who knows what happens then...), in favour of just running the ball down some blind alley and fucking the chance away. Kane's workrate and use of the ball was rubbish numerous times and that 2nd goal was partly down to the defender nicking in front of him, for the umpteenth time already in that game, as he waited lazily for the ball to come him.
None of them did anything to help the team, such as hold it up and give us respite, or put in any effort defensively either - press, take up a position and block passing lanes, get back and help their wingback or midfield out, etc. The defenders performances will be what everyone jumps on but our attackers were equally horrendous. As a team you help each other out, but our unit was non-existent.
parj
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If I got a tiny bit of pace and I can kick a ball, i'll fancy my chances against anyone on the pitch cos of how we play.
Spurzinho
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If Poch had had Klopp's backing its entirely plausible that we'd have won the league at least once and possibly a champions league, given he very nearly managed that on a shoestring. Klopp's done fine but in the same time frame as Poch Klopp got Allison, VDV, Mane, Matip, Robertson, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Wijnaldum, Salah, Keita, Fabinho and Shaqiri to mention but a few.
Just for the comparison, here's Poch's signings in that same period.
Pau Lopez, Nkoudou, Sissoko, N'Jie, Fazio, Davinson, Gazzaniga, Foyth, Llorente, Aurier, Moura, Clarke, Ndombele, Lo Celso, Sessegnon, Vorm,
Tezza1978
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But with Romero playing. Which shows you what a difference having a class center back has. The lower standard defenders play better when he is having one of his all action performances and Dier (who should be a squad player at best) only plays well when he has good performers around him. The back 3 we fielded today was criminal and not good enough. Sanchez needs to go and one of Davies or Lenglet, probably the latter as he is a loan. Then get a top class LCB and CCB (with the latter being able to cover for Romero too ideally. With Udogie already to come in and Porro that looks 1000x better.
parj
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Mate, you are wasting your time. When people can't see what Poch delivered, they will never understand. Once upon a time, we had a hugely successful manager who everyone wanted out....I can't remember his name, I think it was George Graham, legend at Arsenal and won us a league cup. But I'm fairly certain most fans will never choose to go back to those days. Nor would they choose to go back to Juande Ramos's time. But let's only remember Pochs last season when the team was dead and had no investment. But when it's Jose and Conte, it's Levy's fault. When it's Poch, it's Pochs fault.
Wow look at the list of mostly pure garbage. It quite amazing how bad our signings were.
jolsnogross
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We seem to play 3 centre halves as a defensive 'insurance' policy and all it does is fuck us. We are down a player in midfield, we're static at the back, we invite teams to run on to our static backline, and our goals against numbers are no better.
It was a tactical innovation a decade ago, and it's time may come again. But if this is the club's blueprint, let alone Conte's, then we could be drifting along for quite some time yet.
It was a tactical innovation a decade ago, and it's time may come again. But if this is the club's blueprint, let alone Conte's, then we could be drifting along for quite some time yet.
Tezza1978
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It was his first game for the Club. You think people would have learned after the Kulusevski pile on after his debut, but clearly not..
Joe Bjorn Hotspur
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Porro will come good, the knee jerk culture which is exacerbated these days by twitter etc. Cannot be judged on a debut: once he gels with Deki we will see a lot of teams backing off. Put todays game to bed and long term just like with Bents and Deki he will shine through.
Sarsipius
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Laughable that we're supposedly a team with top four aspirations on the back of that shockingly poor performance.
I'm not sure Conte really wants to be here and if that's even slightly true the players will sense it and lose heart in the project.
I'm not sure Conte really wants to be here and if that's even slightly true the players will sense it and lose heart in the project.
We needed at least 3 top centre backs before Romero joined. Where the fuck are the other 2? Assuming that both Jose and Conte asked for some centre backs it's inexcusable that we've had to watch Dier, Davies and Sanchez bumble around the pitch for the last 3-4 seasons.
Ndombers
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Kinell, Fazio! I'd repressed that memory
Bluto Blutarsky
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And he missed Stamboli from that list too....
mano-obe
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That was abject and dreadful. Very poor.
Results went out way last week, and considering we lost today results still weren't bad for us around us.
It's so typical we put in a monster performance against City and bollocks up this game. That always happens.
Results went out way last week, and considering we lost today results still weren't bad for us around us.
It's so typical we put in a monster performance against City and bollocks up this game. That always happens.
Spurzinho
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Stambouli was here before Poch I think. He was one of the ones frozen out in Poch's early months.
rossdapep
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Fuck, that's depressing.
Not one of those improved us or became an adequate replacement for those departing/injured.
I suppose Aurier and Sissoko did alright but still nowhere close to Walker and Dembele.
rossdapep
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Arrived in his first window with Fazio.
