Tottenham Hotspur vs Juventus - Match Thread

ebzrascal · Mar 7, 2018

rupsmith said:
For financial reward and to attract players to the club. We are not at the level of Barca, Madrid, City, Bayern. The fact that we can give each of those teams a good fight (we are better than Juve, they are more clinical and have experience but will get ripped apart from other teams) is good enough for me considering that we are a club punching well above our weight.

We are not better than Juve because we are out

Streetspur77 · Mar 7, 2018

Look at the first few pages of this thread, the optimism and the pride about being spurs and now look at people calling poch a "school boy", calling our players "legends", "shameful" and a "disgrace"

It's actually staggering how little control grown adults have over their emotions

13VanDerBale13 · Mar 7, 2018

waresy said:
I'm not sure bottled it is fair but Poch has been tactically beaten there. Tough tough lesson to be learnt and he has to show how to bring this team back up for the remaining prem games and certainly the fa cup.

its how we bounce back now which will prove the doubters wrong, winning the fa cup is a must, im just worried about what this defeat will do to us in the long term vs say a team like Chelsea who already beaten us at Wembley & could deploy the same tactics as Juve

Colston · Mar 7, 2018

Well, Hugo Lloris did say pre-match we would see the real Tottenham today and I can't say there was anything I didn't recognize.

rossdapep · Mar 7, 2018

WiganSpur said:
The only thing Poch should have done was got another midfielder on after Asamoah crossed that initial ball. But it was a very difficult call to make to be fair to him.

Difficult call but one that winning managers make. I'd rather we have regrouped than look to respond with another goal. There was gaps everywhere and someone should have got that message across. Drop deep for 5 or 10, stop their momentum.

We didn't and we paid for it. Poch will get wiser, I'm sure, he's learnt before. But when you come up against wily teams and coaches you gotta be a step ahead.

smalltownhero · Mar 7, 2018

So slow to respond to their changes both on and off the pitch. Needed dier just to sit in for a bit while we worked it out.

gp13tot · Mar 7, 2018

A very creditable performance over the 2 games of course, but wasteful in attack and sleepy at the back is a horrible combination, can get away with it against the shite but in big games every season this costs us. Almost did against the arse the other week as well. Juve are a very good team but that game shouldnt have got away from us like it did.

Rose has got to be first choice, davies aint good enough and this rotation at fb needs to stop. Worried about lloris as well, too many times hes far from commanding in the big games. And poch's in game management troubles me, what was the point of 23m on moura to get splinters?

Can still have a decent season but we know in the big league and cup games to come this will happen again. Its desperately disappointing but sadly not all that surprising

kcmei · Mar 7, 2018

Sometimes you need to make fouls in dangerous situations, we should have done that for their second goal

John48 · Mar 7, 2018

Felt we should have gone to 3 at the back when they went 4-4-2 & brought Wanyama on for Alli who really struggled to get into the game in any meaningful way!

spids · Mar 7, 2018

Ferguson didn’t win the CL at his first or second attempt. This game was another building block in our learning curve. When Juve went 4-2-4 Pochettino did nothing. And in the next 5 mins the tie got turned on it’s head. With hindsight he should have taken Son or Dele off and put on Rose and shifted Davies to a 3rd CB and defended tighter for 10 mins. Instead our FBs got pulled wide and our CBs were exposed. The hope the players and staff watch this again lots of times between now and next season and analyse how a great and experienced European team turned a game that was beyond them into their favour. And as soon as they went one up they shut up shop. Why didn’t we?

Kirito · Mar 7, 2018

It wasn't the experience on the pitch that mattered. It was the experience on the sidelines.

Grapo2001 · Mar 7, 2018

We are quick to forget the Higuaín chance and the penalty miss in the first leg. I honestly believe we were the better side over the two ties but silly errors cost us in both matches and you can’t begrudge Juve for capitalising on it.

haxman · Mar 7, 2018

Ossie85 said:
So unfair.

Fcuking hate Juventus

They did what they needed to do, and are experts at it. It stings, but we need to learn from this. This is probably the harshest lesson that Poch will have learned as our manager.

parj · Mar 7, 2018

JayB said:
I would say that Poch was schooled tonight but I don't actually think he's capable of learning lessons. That Lucas was never subbed on absolutely beggars belief.

Allegri was proactive and absolutely seized the tie. Poch, stubborn to a fault as always, sat on his hands and did the square root of fuck all while we pissed it away. He's a fantastic manager but it is a huge failing.

What was to change? We were on top.

After that we were shell shocked and then we got back on top

isaac94 · Mar 7, 2018

Brilliant for 85 minutes

shelfmonkey · Mar 7, 2018

One thing that has been highlighted tonight, as good as Davies and Trips have been, we seriously need pacey fullbacks, we'll not progress with what we have currently.

nedley · Mar 7, 2018

Grapo2001 said:
You have to have some admiration for the Italian way of grinding out results. They rarely outplay opponents but find a way

They cheat. And the referees are shit scared of them.

Proud of us tonight. Played really well over the two legs but I hope we learn our lesson. We need to be more clinical upfront of the net.

Oh. And carry on diving Deli.

If you can' beat them. Join them.

simsy886 · Mar 7, 2018

Well that’s a tad dissapointing. Ha.

felmani26 · Mar 7, 2018

I'm certainly not one to trot out the 'same ol' Spurs' mantra but in the very big games, when it counts, in the crunch moments in Cups or the League how often do we get the job done - instead we conspire to throw it away.

Metalhead · Mar 7, 2018

Matrix said:
Take your bottler shit out of here and go support the goons.

Really really winds me up when people use that word.

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