Assessing Pochettino's pre-season: Tactics & Player Management vs Chicago

[Black]

Mason was impressive. I wonder if he'll be able to keep out Pauli or Dembele.

Do you really think that is difficult

 

[SpurSince57]

Interesting that Pochettino seems to have resurrected Martin Jol's idea of playing Lennon as an attacking midfielder rather than a winger. Perhaps there is more to Azza than meets the eye.

He's also a very effective finisher despite not having a powerful shot, the problem being that he very rarely gets into scoring positions when played wide.

 

[LukeBB]

@LukeBB - Great analysis as always. I'm surprised you didn't pick up on a problem in the second half. I remember at one point Soldado had the ball on the right side of midfield (nowhere near the goal I might add) and I was just staggered by the huge amount of space in front of the Chicago defenders with no Spurs players in sight. I still think we have a problem with creating enough chances and things like that won't help.

There's been a few instances where there has been a lack of presence in the box when we attack, no one available for the cross. I decided to not comment on it until I understand why or just give our attacking play time to develop under the new system, that's why I haven't commented much on our attacking play, and focused on defensive and build-up play. For the write-ups on Celtic and Schalke, how we attack will be my main focus, I have a theory as to how we attack but I need to see more before I put it into an article.