Match Threads Spurs vs Forest
- Thread starter Bulletspur
- Start date
- Date
- Apr 7, 2024
- KO Time
- 6:00 pm
- Score
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Spurs 3
Murillo - OG - 15 mins
van de Van - 52 mins
Porro - 58 mins
Forest 1
Woods - 27 mins
Cornpattbuck
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Started really promisingly but then we seemed to completely lose the plot half way through.
fishhhandaricecake
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It feels a bit like something has changed tactically the last 4-5 games and/or we are just struggling against these low blocks but as you say Porro & also Udogie are less of a threat lately and also generally the team is trying to score this scripted cross and tap in goal over and over when there are times when we really could do with mixing it up and crossing it from a bit deeper or occasionally shooting from distance.
I know it’s a harder league etc but when I watched Ange’s Celtic they mixed up there attack a lot more but I suppose the defences were worse and also their profile of attackers with Kyogo and Jota really suited how Ange wants to play.
We could really do with a Jota type player off the left who can beat a man and create and score consistently similar to a Marhez on the right.
dontcallme
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We'll win comfortably.
cjbyid
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Completely agree
whenstevewentup
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We’ve regressed massively , so many players off form for too long . The shape is completely wrong , it requires the players to press and at the moment we look so laboured . Both full backs don’t cover forward runs and leaves us so wide open to anyone with pace out wide and we still have the problem of having only one way to score a goal . Why won’t Sonny shoot anymore .so much wrong even - if we win this there are lots of question marks .
bubble07
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Yep it's mad. But we know it's 100% because the full backs are not instructed to be level with the 2 centre backs. Not only have I missed a variation to our goals I've also on occasions missed seeing the back 4 all in 1 line
But I can be accused of being old school.
ajspurs
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- Jul 7, 2007
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You just don't really see anyone getting angry on the pitch much, and I still don't think that collectively we have high enough a demand of each other. We can be sloppy, whether it's in terms of passing, positioning or tracking back, and there's no sort of moral consequence, it looks too easily accepted.
13VanDerBale13
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Maybe EL wouldn’t be such a bad thing 
spurs mental
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DenverSpur
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Once again we go ahead but as soon as the opposition equalizes all our confidence evaporates and we’re on the back foot. Too many players don’t seem switched on. Numerous times a ball’s played into a player in or around the box and they’re caught flat footed. Except for Werner’s crosses and Bissouma’s shots from outside the area we’ve posed no threat at all. We don’t look like a team who have a good chance to go 4th. There is a distinct lack of energy and desire.
Trent Crimm
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This is it. If we'd started the season like this and gradually improved that would be one thing but we played incredibly well until the Chelsea match, it understandably all went to shit for a period after that but now we're all but at full strength again and we're getting worse, not better.
We might well come out and smash them in the second half but the fact that we have periods of play like this against dross like Forest is just not acceptable. This isn't down to the playing staff or Ange needing time to get his ideas across or whatever, we should be wiping the floor with these sorts of teams.
I naively thought we'd get Micky and Maddison back and it'd be like flicking a switch and we'd attack the run-in but it just hasn't happened.
worcestersauce
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Well that was a jekyll and hide half.
Seems pretty clear Yates is going to get a free pass from a second yellow whatever he does but I'd keep working on him anyway, Nuno might pull him as a precaution.
Our goal was good work but there wasn't a Spurs player in five yards of the defender who had he missed it it wouldn't have mattered and our centre forward was ten yards outside the box, that has to change.
No changes at half time for me but if the second half starts like the first ended that'll change.
Seems pretty clear Yates is going to get a free pass from a second yellow whatever he does but I'd keep working on him anyway, Nuno might pull him as a precaution.
Our goal was good work but there wasn't a Spurs player in five yards of the defender who had he missed it it wouldn't have mattered and our centre forward was ten yards outside the box, that has to change.
No changes at half time for me but if the second half starts like the first ended that'll change.
Dr Know
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I’m going to have to disagree there mate. I think he’s done quite well so far, yeah he’s made a few mistakes but I think he’s been better than most out there so far.
Ron Burgundy
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The lack of variation is definitely an issue.
1) Stop us going wide and we’re fucked
2) you know we’ll give away cheap goals
That needs to change, because we’ll never progress beyond a certain point unless it does
