Match Ratings Spurs vs Everton: player ratings

stevenqoz · Jan 14, 2018

Lloris 6.5 Evertons best chance of a chance....overplaying from pass backs

Aurier 7 Awful delivery first half but kept making the runs eventually getting it right
Jan 8.5 Really stood up to lead the defence
Sanchez 7 In it throughout fair effort
Davies 7 Hardly noticed in defence...some decent contributions going forward

Dier 7 Kept the ball moving...not sure if he is happy doing what he does.... so deadpan!
Eriksen 7.5 Looking to create...seemed to enjoy himself. Lovely finish
Alli 7.5 Kept trying the smart stuff eventually pulling it off for magic last pass
Dembele 8 Started with intent to run and was untouchable for an hour. Took a kick and faded
Son 9 High energy and had Everton defence going backwards. Refreshing attitude

Kane 8 Took a while to find the range...gets what his hard work deserves. Ours.

Sissoko 6 Late boost of energetic running...final pass?
Wanyama 6.5 Steady...getting there
Lamela net

Bus-Conductor · Jan 14, 2018

mpickard2087 said:
I think this is a bit harsh BC. I wouldn't call it luck - Aurier and Son did what you should do in that situation and went hard and low across goal, because hopefully either a) they hit the back of the net themselves or if it's not quite accurate then b) the keeper can push it out into the path of an onrushing player or c) can be directly swept in by an onrushing player (as we saw today). I know Everton were more open than West Ham and it was probably a little easier to go about our work, but we were simply rewarded for doing our jobs properly at each stage of the move - working the openings, Aurier and Son then hard and low across goal to leave open maximum possibilities, and the last bit is that we had runners who'd had the desire to get in there and across the front of their men... Which was a little lacking in the previous game.

What a player should do if he’s trying to shoot is shoot on target, no? 98/100 those two skew their shots it doesn’t end in a goal.

Credit to Son and Kane’s anticipation and timing to turn those skewed shots into goals, huge credit to Son for the drag and turn that got him there, the ball to Aurier by Eriksen and Aurier for getting himself there I guess, but I’m struggling hard to say hurrah for fucking up a shot.

Don’t you go soft on me MP, there’s enough lovestruck puppies on here.

fatpiranha · Jan 14, 2018

Son was excellent but my MoM was Dembele who totally dominated the midfield. It's just nice to see one of our midfielders pass and run forward for a change instead of all the sideways crap we've been producing lately.

Honourable mentions for Verts and Eriksen.

adamsky · Jan 14, 2018

Mr Pink said:
Wow, just watched MOTD, very little credit praise/towards us, and the 4th goal we scored.

Just focused on Everton being disorganised and unprofessional.

Honestly, had that been United or Liverpool they would of been waxing lyrical. Could you imagine if the fab four (for Liverpool - cringe) scored that fourth...

Just find it amazing.

Also surprised that Dembele didn’t get a mention for his performance. It was a masterclass.

fortworthspur · Jan 14, 2018

Bus-Conductor said:
OK, team selection wise, I don't really understand Dier over Wanyama, and I would have preferred Trippier over Aurier in todays game, with maybe Aurier away next week.

It's a funny old game. Plenty of what we did today was good, some even very good and that fourth goal is up there with the best goals I've seen any Spurs side score, and I go back a fair way. But what's funny is, some days you huff and puff, like last game against West Ham, and the fucker just won't roll, then days like today you get two of them. The first goal started with the outstanding Eriksen, spraying a lovely ball out to Aurier who, finding himself with way to much time and space, contrived to skew a shot accidentally into the path of Son. 1-0.

I didn't actually like much of what followed that goal to half time, I thought we lost rhythm, Dier dropped anchor around our "D" and Dembele went quiet. Everton actually had a little spell of something, not sure what exactly, but something vaguely competitive. Toward the ned of the half Poch, I think sensing that Dier was soon going to end up there anyway, by default, just switched us to a back three, with Eriksen dropping back into CM, and Everton, buffudled, reverted to shitness and we saw out the half with control returned.

Then we get the second lucky roll. As with the first goal, this wasn't all about luck, it starts with a beautiful drag and turn by the effervescent Son, he moves forwards, but like Aurier before him skews a shot that turns into a pass for (the possibly offside) Kane to tap home.

Just one of those breaks last week would probably been enough to see us with more points. But "dis is fuubal" I guess.

Once this team gets two up, it can sometimes be like watching a lion fuck around with it's half dead prey. Not always clean and precise, not always going straight for the jugular, it can be a bit messy, there might even be moments of fading hope for the doomed creature, but it rarely ends well for the prey, limbs often get extracted before death.

And so it was today, we fumbled away a few glorious situations before finally killing Everton off, for the third goal, Kane turned a good ball by Dier into a superb one with brilliant movement.

Then came that goal.

I have been watching football for a very long time, over four decades, and I haven't seen too many goals that were better than this. These are my favourite type of goals, goals that involve team work, intricacy and inspirational thought and deed. It was a beautifully synchronised sequence of individual movements that made the most collectively beauteous thing.

The ball works it's way to Kane, right side just inside their half, he's strong, holds up then turns it round the corner to the charging Aurier - who stretches under duress, whilst falling but just manages to get the perfect touch into the path of Son, who then does the most sublime thing, he uses instep spin, harnessing physics and denying them all at once, to flick the ball round the oncoming defender into the path of Alli, who without even looking nonchalantly back flicks the ball to Eriksen behind him, who emphatically smashes the ball with precision into the net.

It was a goal of the very highest calibre, Brazil early 70's, Holland late 70's, Barca, Arsenal's Henry/Bergkamp era. It was that good. It was football as poetry. Football as art. Football at it's very finest.

Individual

Lloris - Nothing to do. The obligatory distribution "moment"

Aurier - He was involved today and got into several great situations but wasted just about every one of them with poor end product, his part in the final goal aside. generally good game but got caught out first half the one time Everton got behind us.

Sanchez - Decent game overall.

Vertonghen - Very good game.

Davies - Deserves a mention today, was vey good in his general build up play today and defensively also very good. The way we set up was more lop sided with Son providing more of the wide play on the left and Aurier more on the right, so Davies had a slightly different, less attacking, remit but today it worked.

Dier - Good ball for Kane goal aside, he was pretty meh, going awol for the latter part of the first half, and I really don't see how he gets the nod ahead of Wanyama. We just need som much more from a Cm in a two CM system.

Dembele - he was very good today, but lets keep perspective, this was a pretty poor Everton at home, and the first decent game he's had for 5 months.

Eriksen - I thought he was outstanding today, as well as seeing the same amount of the ball as Dembele for example, he covered about four positions, CM, AM, Wide AM, played the incisive pass for the first goal and finished off the move for that wonderful fourth, in between was the quiet conductor of most of the good things we did. Any other day he's MOTM.

Alli - Yes, there was some bumbling, some wastage of a couple of great situations, but this Alli is the one you forgive, he's working so much harder, seeing so much more of the ball, contributing so much more to games overall, and producing those "moments" of real quality too.

Son - Like Alli, Son has hit a vein of form. Not only is he still producing, something he's constantly done, but he's now bumbling much less, contributing a more substantial body of work to go with the frills, working harder, seeing more of the ball, and for the third or fourth game running had his best game in a Spurs shirt. MOTM

Kane - Truth be told the first 45 minutes weren't great. He wasted a couple of great chances to play team mates in, bumbled about a bit, got offside when he shouldn't. But Kane is and indomitable force of nature and he invariably keeps ploughing on and eventually gets his rewards.

he looked right at Son before he hit that ball. always a pass.

C0YS · Jan 14, 2018

You could literally make a legitimate case for any of the starting 11 being man of the match, apart from Lloris who didn't have anything to do.

I think Motm is between Son and Dembele, who looked back to his very best, but I gave it to Dier just because I feel he is very much under appreciated in this forum. He had a really good game, breaking down attacks with solid buildup and a wonderful ball for one of the goals.

On Dele he played very well and has been largely playing well for a few games now coming back for a poor start. What I like is rather than trying to quickly nutmeg or get past an opponent he is now learning to use his body a lot more, he has a great physicality to him and its good that he is beginning to show it more. He missed chances today, but he always has been an erratic finisher, the goals will come if he keeps getting into those positions though.

What I like about Dele's recent form its not that he is 'back to his best' but rather is showing development as a player. Dele has always said that he wishes he had pace and you can see why, he could be unplayable if he was quick. Part of the reason for his early season bad form I think has come because people have kind of worked him out. Namely Dele can beat you with a bit of trickery but as long as you stand firm and don't over commit the most that you'd give away is a freekick. Dele is learning how to adapt to this. He still has a lot of growing up to do as a player, but he really does have an incredibly high ceiling.

C0YS · Jan 14, 2018

seanwhite1961 said:
If I had the hard choice between selling Son or Dele, I would keep Son.

Son is a better player, but unless something exceptional happens he most likely has military service to get through in 3 years time-ish. Dele has age on his side and no military service hanging over him, that is why Dele would be the one to keep

ohtottenham! · Jan 14, 2018

Bus-Conductor said:
What a player should do if he’s trying to shoot is shoot on target, no? 98/100 those two skew their shots it doesn’t end in a goal.

Credit to Son and Kane’s anticipation and timing to turn those skewed shots into goals, huge credit to Son for the drag and turn that got him there, the ball to Aurier by Eriksen and Aurier for getting himself there I guess, but I’m struggling hard to say hurrah for fucking up a shot.

Don’t you go soft on me MP, there’s enough lovestruck puppies on here.

In both situations, Aurier and Son had got behind the defence on their flanks, and they quite clearly saw they had runners attacking the six yard box with a defence that was out of position. Both players fired their passes/shots into a threatening area. Think they assessed the chances of a goal outcome at higher than 2%. Good decisions as it happened.

guiltyparty · Jan 14, 2018

LexingtonSpurs said:
He had the assist on Son's goal, and was involved in the build up of the 4th goal.

He did although the first goal was a shot not a cross He gets in amazing positions constantly but his final ball is poor most of the time. If the guy could cross we’d have been 4 up by half time. He should be working on that constantly but hey, Walker never got that good at it either and he’s a 50m player so who knows!

That 4th goal, I had to stand up and applaud tho

EastLondonYid · Jan 14, 2018

Bus-Conductor said:
OK, team selection wise, I don't really understand Dier over Wanyama, and I would have preferred Trippier over Aurier in todays game, with maybe Aurier away next week.

It's a funny old game. Plenty of what we did today was good, some even very good and that fourth goal is up there with the best goals I've seen any Spurs side score, and I go back a fair way. But what's funny is, some days you huff and puff, like last game against West Ham, and the fucker just won't roll, then days like today you get two of them. The first goal started with the outstanding Eriksen, spraying a lovely ball out to Aurier who, finding himself with way to much time and space, contrived to skew a shot accidentally into the path of Son. 1-0.

I didn't actually like much of what followed that goal to half time, I thought we lost rhythm, Dier dropped anchor around our "D" and Dembele went quiet. Everton actually had a little spell of something, not sure what exactly, but something vaguely competitive. Toward the ned of the half Poch, I think sensing that Dier was soon going to end up there anyway, by default, just switched us to a back three, with Eriksen dropping back into CM, and Everton, buffudled, reverted to shitness and we saw out the half with control returned.

Then we get the second lucky roll. As with the first goal, this wasn't all about luck, it starts with a beautiful drag and turn by the effervescent Son, he moves forwards, but like Aurier before him skews a shot that turns into a pass for (the possibly offside) Kane to tap home.

Just one of those breaks last week would probably been enough to see us with more points. But "dis is fuubal" I guess.

Once this team gets two up, it can sometimes be like watching a lion fuck around with it's half dead prey. Not always clean and precise, not always going straight for the jugular, it can be a bit messy, there might even be moments of fading hope for the doomed creature, but it rarely ends well for the prey, limbs often get extracted before death.

And so it was today, we fumbled away a few glorious situations before finally killing Everton off, for the third goal, Kane turned a good ball by Dier into a superb one with brilliant movement.

Then came that goal.

I have been watching football for a very long time, over four decades, and I haven't seen too many goals that were better than this. These are my favourite type of goals, goals that involve team work, intricacy and inspirational thought and deed. It was a beautifully synchronised sequence of individual movements that made the most collectively beauteous thing.

The ball works it's way to Kane, right side just inside their half, he's strong, holds up then turns it round the corner to the charging Aurier - who stretches under duress, whilst falling but just manages to get the perfect touch into the path of Son, who then does the most sublime thing, he uses instep spin, harnessing physics and denying them all at once, to flick the ball round the oncoming defender into the path of Alli, who without even looking nonchalantly back flicks the ball to Eriksen behind him, who emphatically smashes the ball with precision into the net.

It was a goal of the very highest calibre, Brazil early 70's, Holland late 70's, Barca, Arsenal's Henry/Bergkamp era. It was that good. It was football as poetry. Football as art. Football at it's very finest.

Individual

Lloris - Nothing to do. The obligatory distribution "moment"

Aurier - He was involved today and got into several great situations but wasted just about every one of them with poor end product, his part in the final goal aside. generally good game but got caught out first half the one time Everton got behind us.

Sanchez - Decent game overall.

Vertonghen - Very good game.

Davies - Deserves a mention today, was vey good in his general build up play today and defensively also very good. The way we set up was more lop sided with Son providing more of the wide play on the left and Aurier more on the right, so Davies had a slightly different, less attacking, remit but today it worked.

Dier - Good ball for Kane goal aside, he was pretty meh, going awol for the latter part of the first half, and I really don't see how he gets the nod ahead of Wanyama. We just need som much more from a Cm in a two CM system.

Dembele - he was very good today, but lets keep perspective, this was a pretty poor Everton at home, and the first decent game he's had for 5 months.

Eriksen - I thought he was outstanding today, as well as seeing the same amount of the ball as Dembele for example, he covered about four positions, CM, AM, Wide AM, played the incisive pass for the first goal and finished off the move for that wonderful fourth, in between was the quiet conductor of most of the good things we did. Any other day he's MOTM.

Alli - Yes, there was some bumbling, some wastage of a couple of great situations, but this Alli is the one you forgive, he's working so much harder, seeing so much more of the ball, contributing so much more to games overall, and producing those "moments" of real quality too.

Son - Like Alli, Son has hit a vein of form. Not only is he still producing, something he's constantly done, but he's now bumbling much less, contributing a more substantial body of work to go with the frills, working harder, seeing more of the ball, and for the third or fourth game running had his best game in a Spurs shirt. MOTM

Kane - Truth be told the first 45 minutes weren't great. He wasted a couple of great chances to play team mates in, bumbled about a bit, got offside when he shouldn't. But Kane is and indomitable force of nature and he invariably keeps ploughing on and eventually gets his rewards.

Agree with 99%

Disagree that when we play once a week that Aurier should rotate with Trippier, His final ball must improve but he is on a different level otherwise.

parj · Jan 14, 2018

Bus-Conductor said:
Dembele - he was very good today, but lets keep perspective, this was a pretty poor Everton at home, and the first decent game he's had for 5 months.

Eriksen - I thought he was outstanding today, as well as seeing the same amount of the ball as Dembele for example, he covered about four positions, CM, AM, Wide AM, played the incisive pass for the first goal and finished off the move for that wonderful fourth, in between was the quiet conductor of most of the good things we did. Any other day he's MOTM.

.

For Dembele it's Everton are poor and for Eriksen he was outstanding. Surely Everton is poor for both?

Eriksen was superb controlling our attack, but you really under estimate what Dembele did. He was picking the ball up all the time and was always there to press. He was taking players on and moving the ball further up the pitch like he should do. He also won some very good challenges to help protect defence.

Also can't believe you say Son skews his shots 98/100 times. Son has 12 goals, he more definitely has not had 1200 shots this season. I'm sure Kane skews more shots than Son.

southlondonyiddo · Jan 14, 2018

Sonny was great and it’s the best of Mousa for a long time

However the most difficult thing is scoring goals and Harry got another two which enabled us to play some good stuff 2nd half and took the stuffing out of Everton

Without our talisman that is a very different game

spids · Jan 14, 2018

++ Son Dembele
+ Everyone Else
< > n/a
- n/a
-- n/a

I thought that was Dembele's best performance of the season. Strong, positive, good balance of urgency and composure. Son just looks so sharp, and every time he got the ball you had the feeling something would come of it. Special mention for Dele (who I nearly rated ++), who I think had a great game despite being unlucky with the odd touch here and there. He's adding assists to his game and is not just all about late arrival in the box to score (although he is great at that too!). He has his swagger back, matched by a top work rate and is bang in form again. Kane was probably the 'poorest' of the front 4 and yet he still scored two and looked like he had wasn't out of 2nd gear. We have a great team, all of whom will get better as they are still relatively young for their positions.

I know it was easy for the back 4, but I thought Vertonghen looked Rolls Royce again. Such a strong and powerful runner who glides with the ball. Would like to see him use his aggressive running at the heart of teams who park the bus more.

tiger666 · Jan 14, 2018

Bus-Conductor said:
What a player should do if he’s trying to shoot is shoot on target, no? 98/100 those two skew their shots it doesn’t end in a goal.

Credit to Son and Kane’s anticipation and timing to turn those skewed shots into goals, huge credit to Son for the drag and turn that got him there, the ball to Aurier by Eriksen and Aurier for getting himself there I guess, but I’m struggling hard to say hurrah for fucking up a shot.

Don’t you go soft on me MP, there’s enough lovestruck puppies on here.

Imagine if it was Trippier.

eddiev14 · Jan 14, 2018

Son was so, so good. Best performance in a Spurs shirt.

He’s really kicked in this season and is up there with the best forwards in the league now.

Coyboy · Jan 14, 2018

danielneeds said:
Story of Lennon’s career, really. Could never marry that acceleration with any upper body stength, and a good defender could always lean him off the ball.

Like Evra?

Japhet · Jan 14, 2018

Son for me. He was up against a kid at RB and we used that very well. Sonny really had the bit between his teeth and looked hungry. Excellent stuff.

Close behind was the Moose. Powerhouse display with some lovely skills and passing. Also put in some great covering tackles in the back line. Looked fit and strong which is a massive plus.

Big shout out for Vertonghen as well. Rolls Royce player who has stepped up in Toby's absence to marshall the back line.

spids · Jan 14, 2018

Coyboy said:
Like Evra?

Lennon had Evra in so much trouble - definitely Evra's most difficult opponent whatever he says!

danielneeds · Jan 14, 2018

Coyboy said:
Like Evra?

Evra certainly had problems with him, but are you disputing that Lennon's lack of size or strength hindered him?

felmani26 · Jan 14, 2018

@Bus-Conductor Like you, I rate Trippier perhaps more than most on this site but it's curious that Aurier's contributions are always tainted somehow. I thought he proved a tremendous outlet on the right flank and is much more direct than Trippier which contributed to the crucial opening goal.

It's the intangible element too of how the opposition combats him and definitely occupies space in more advanced positions which is afforded to him because of the play of Son & Alli down the left.

He's by no means perfect but i'd be happier with him holding down the position in the lion's share of games from hereon rather than the game by game rotation we've seen previously.

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