I feel young Danny boy has come in for a hell of a lot of stick over the last year, and the majority has been completely unnecessary.
To start with according to most he had a rubbish season, please tell me which defender had a good season, even Vertongen who is easily are best defender looked pretty shit last season. I think our problem defensively last season was that to start with under AVB we played in a very strict style so our attacking was woeful, luckily due to some penalties and our high level of possession we won games, but after a while teams realised that we were pretty impotent going forward so started applying pressure and as our possession went down, we had to defend more and more, plus with injuries we weren't playing with the same back four regularly and that's when the goals against us started to go up and up, this left our whole defense as a laughing stock, and a lot targeted Danny as the problem.
When we changed to Sherwood the attacking got better( not exactly a hard achievement) this was due to him just letting players of such a tight leash, and allowing them to go and do what they wanted, but this left our defense disorganised and subject to counters, and often they came down our left, so yet again Danny got more of the blame, so why has our left side been such an Achilles ankle to us?
Also why did he have such a good season at Sunderland, well to start with they have quite a few left footed midfielders, who would naturally work with Danny, so when he bombed forward they would cover, plus when defending he had the support of a left midfielder, so they could double team the attacker.
Now back to Spurs, last season we played the majority of the time with right footed players in the LM position plus we often played Eriksson in that position then gave him a free role, which meant they went wondering and left no cover for Danny, plus I'm sure Sherwood told him to get forward to provide some width and attacking options on the left, THIS is what left us dreadfully exposed on the left, and lead to people saying Danny was way out of position, leaving Danny in a no win situation.
Now I'm not saying I think he's the best LB in the world but he's certainly not as bad as people make out, and I think this season with some better organisation and fewer injuries our defense should look loads better, I for one wouldn't mind seeing Rose and Davies playing LM and LB respectively for some games as they could solve the Left sided problem together.
COYS
To start with according to most he had a rubbish season, please tell me which defender had a good season, even Vertongen who is easily are best defender looked pretty shit last season. I think our problem defensively last season was that to start with under AVB we played in a very strict style so our attacking was woeful, luckily due to some penalties and our high level of possession we won games, but after a while teams realised that we were pretty impotent going forward so started applying pressure and as our possession went down, we had to defend more and more, plus with injuries we weren't playing with the same back four regularly and that's when the goals against us started to go up and up, this left our whole defense as a laughing stock, and a lot targeted Danny as the problem.
When we changed to Sherwood the attacking got better( not exactly a hard achievement) this was due to him just letting players of such a tight leash, and allowing them to go and do what they wanted, but this left our defense disorganised and subject to counters, and often they came down our left, so yet again Danny got more of the blame, so why has our left side been such an Achilles ankle to us?
Also why did he have such a good season at Sunderland, well to start with they have quite a few left footed midfielders, who would naturally work with Danny, so when he bombed forward they would cover, plus when defending he had the support of a left midfielder, so they could double team the attacker.
Now back to Spurs, last season we played the majority of the time with right footed players in the LM position plus we often played Eriksson in that position then gave him a free role, which meant they went wondering and left no cover for Danny, plus I'm sure Sherwood told him to get forward to provide some width and attacking options on the left, THIS is what left us dreadfully exposed on the left, and lead to people saying Danny was way out of position, leaving Danny in a no win situation.
Now I'm not saying I think he's the best LB in the world but he's certainly not as bad as people make out, and I think this season with some better organisation and fewer injuries our defense should look loads better, I for one wouldn't mind seeing Rose and Davies playing LM and LB respectively for some games as they could solve the Left sided problem together.
COYS
