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Everton Vs Tottenham: Match Thread

SugarRay

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In a way this result is positive to a degree. It's the hope that kills. It's going to be yet another season where we look back and say 'if only' when we miss out on our goal by a point or two.

Doubly annoying because Everton won't do eff all either.
 

Misfit

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Yes but you know what I mean, he's ignoring the call.

The other players heard him and backed off.
His talent is there for all to see. His inexperience is also there, unfortunately. You'd hope it would only take one cock up to learn but sometimes it takes more. I really hope they're working on that daily. It cannot happen again. Such a basic thing. It needs learnin'.
 

matt5768

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Come on...dominating the game? Stop it please. There's positivety and there's blind faith.

ok domainating might be a bit strong, but seriosuly at 1-0 did anyone expect us to lose (except the retardly negative who comes on here after we lost) we never looked like losing, and we shouldnt have done, its a kick in the teeth thats for sure
 

Teddy Klinsmann

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Injuries and squad depth killing us. Our bench really weak today. The sooner we get Parker, Kaboul and Ekotto back the better. 2 decent signings needed.
 

jonathanhotspur

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Jun 28, 2009
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I think the problem goes far deeper in who goes off and on late in the game. Weve lost late goals in 6 or 7 games this season, each with different subs late in the game. Dembele on doesnt make up for awful defending

If we could have held the ball up a bit better, we mightn't have buckled like that. I thought it was a very lethargic display from Ade today. Time for him to start earning his wages.
 

dimiSpur

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Aug 9, 2008
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I wouldn't mind but I thought the two of them had had a great day at the office until the last 5 minutes.
Well matches last 90 minutes. It's like saying that pilot was great on the flight, until hte landing when he landed on the motorway and killed us all.
 

playboypaul

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Jun 22, 2012
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HAHA... what game were u watching???? seriously.. no way did we deserve anything from that . everton hoofed the ball all day but they worked hard as a team.. our players are a fucking joke and would not know hard work if ut came up and kicked them in the balls. avb out

:rolleyes:
 

PhilosoSPUR

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Thought the substitutions didn't really work out. Of course, if we could have brought on Parker, it would have been different.
Thought Huddlestone looked off his game, Siggy not exactly the right person for a fight, and Falque? I don't know, given our options, but in hindsight I might have even gone for Livermore. Can't believe I'm saying that.
 

tiger666

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Good grief. I've got a West Ham fan giving me grief via text now. Times must be bad..
 

Misfit

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A draw would of been ok, hard to take still having had the lead and hit the bar but acceptable. To let 2 goals in in less than 2mins really is not acceptable and it wasn't due to great Everton play it was via sloppy sloppy defending for both goals

This is an area we need to work on, but also its an area I think will rectify itself somewhat with time and indeed the return of key players (not least BAE so Verts can return to the centre)
Yep. Kabs in the middle and BAE out on wide and we'll look a bit more structured at least. Hurry back guys.
 

EnfieldYiddo

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Aug 6, 2012
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'Spurs have now conceded 10 goals in the final 15 minutes of Premier League matches this season, more than any other team. That is a bad habit to be in.'

Once, twice... Even thrice is bad luck. But 10?

It's something that can't be ignored and has to be tackled. You can visibly see the change as SOON as we score; it's crazy.

If we don't change it we will continually throw points after points away.

The worrying thing is I don't think anyone can definitively pinpoint the reasoning behind it
 

grahamg88

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Thing is I've found that I don't even get wound up anymore because I half expected it to happen, that's scary!!
 

spurs mental

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What is our problem with not being able to close out a game of football?

We've all heard the stat about being top of the league after 80mins, it's disgraceful the amount of points dropped at the end of games. Disgraceful.

So what the hell is wrong with our team?

Partly, i believe, it is because we lack the player who can hold the ball and pass it in the middle?

Is it the mentality of the players? Because something is not right in the team at the end of games, no matter who we are playing.

Today as soon as Lennon went off we lacked any out ball, Huddlestone sat deeper, and deeper, and deeper as time went on. No one held the ball up, no one ran for Ade when he go the ball up top.

4 minutes was all we needed to keep the ball, and we couldn't do that.

It was a poor mistake from Caulker, he's young, he'll learn, obviously not first choice but he' s what we've got with injuries at the moment, and he's done pretty well to be fair to him. Just needs to trust the calls from Lloris more.

But my worry is, when we get Benny, Kaboul and Parker back, will we be able to hold on to a lead, or will the nerves course through the team as they did today. And although I think it will be a massive boost to have those players back, we will still be seeing the same thing, sitting deep inviting the pressure on.

To concede the two goals like we did today was embarrassing, but what can you do. We can only blame ourselves for the defeat, sitting back and letting them come at us.

I think some of it is down to mentality, but some of it has to go down to not having a player like Modric in the middle to keep it for us anymore.

I'm a big fan of AVB, and a big fan of Levy, but we need a CM ala Modric enable us to keep the ball late on, because otherwise we' re just going to keep conceding late goals, game after game after game.

Huddlestone, great passer of the ball that he is, is not the player to do this, he's too slow, and gave away the ball at least 5 times in his little spell late on, because he's too slow.
 

Blackcanary

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Thought the substitutions didn't really work out. Of course, if we could have brought on Parker, it would have been different.
Thought Huddlestone looked off his game, Siggy not exactly the right person for a fight, and Falque? I don't know, given our options, but in hindsight I might have even gone for Livermore. Can't believe I'm saying that.

The funny thing is that they were largely positive and attacking subs, whereas we've all moaned at him before for being too defensive. The one time we could have done with shutting up shop and boarding all the windows...ah well, he'll get there.
 

Dr Know

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Aug 21, 2008
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Don't see why all the fuss.................we should all be use to this by now. We thought we would whoop Wigan and we lost, a draw at Fulham would have been great but we whooped them................. let's just move on to the next game. There's FA we can do now to change the score
 
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