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Aston Villa Vs Tottenham: Match Thread

Bus-Conductor

Bus-Conductor

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SteveH said:
Some on here listen to Jamie "you sacked my dad" Redknapp too much!

We won away(y)
Created 4or 5 good chances(y)
Benteke is a handful for anybody when fit.
They had one shot on target!
We had 7 (y)

Villa are battling for their life and we won - its football.
This league is wide open!
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Yeah, they definitely out-shitted us.
 
RogerTCB

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Good Doctor M said:
...We shouldn't be sitting here on a Monday talking about a lucky win. We should, ideally, be talking about how we took full advantage of not only a struggling Villa side, but also how we slaughtered them once they went down to 10 men.

Of course, we did no such thing...
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Perhaps I'd get this more if I understood the context. Do you mean
a) that Beacause We Are Spurs that generally we should be expecting this? Or, do you mean that,
b) despite the mess MP inherited, by now we should be expecting this? Or, even,
c) given our recent form, we should be expecting this?
I suspect it's
d) given where we were a few years ago, we should never have got to where we are today.

But we have.

So, I'm not inclined to agree with the sentiment (and I did spot the 'ideally' in your sentence). The reality of our last season means we are in a very bad way which needs fixing. The players must be feeling down and massively confused with three managers in just over 10 months and MP hasn't found a miracle confidence pill for the players to take. We are not on some sort of Southampton-style roll so in what way, even ideally, could we be expecting that right now?

Frankly I'd take seeing some fight from the players, which we did from some, and a win no matter how it comes, which we got. Long term? Then of course I want to see us get to a place where we are crushing them every time we play them.

Take a step back and think about just a couple of examples:
Take our best example of someone we'd all leave off the team-sheet currently. Imagin you are Paulinho. By all accounts he looked like a great signing last summer - could have been our Lampard - and he must have felt he was coming to a top 4 club, or near enough. Then he got just over 2 months of PL experience before a managerial change and a new style. Then he gets half a season of Tim. During this time we are given a few severe hidings by City, Chelsea and Liverpool before finishing a limp 6th behind Everton that felt (and was) a million miles from 'top 4'. He turns up at the WC a different, far less confident player, experineces a horrifically bad tournament where he let down his whole country on home soil and has come back to a new manager and the third set of expectations and uncertanty. Unless you are quite mentally robust you are going to look shit for some time after that little lot but I doubt he's become irretrievably shit.

Lamella, didn't get a first season to work out the PL. This is his first season and he's putting in the effort. He should improve no-end by the second half of this year if everything stays as it is (read MP). The team will too, if we can get a settled period and MP isn't feeling the hand of DL on his shoulder, pointing him at Ade...
 
maltahotspur

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Yesterday's match winning moment, rekindled my memories of three unforgettable Glorious moments of Spurs' history.

i) The goal by Kane was a carbon copy of Hoddle's equalizer in the 1980-81 FA Cup final against Man C 1-1 (original match)
ii) The memorable equalizer by Kaboul (4-4) at the end of our Premier League match, also against Aston Villa, for our 125 th Anniversary Celebrations.
iii) The now legendary and famous goal celebrations, by Jurgen Klinsmann every time he scored for us. replicated by Harry Kane during his celebrations yesterday.

Amazing and simply Superb. These are the unforgettable Glorious moments, which make every minute and penny spent on Spurs completely worth it to me.
 
Sweech

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I disagree with anyone saying we didn't deserve the win. We absolutely did, we created far better chances than they did and deserved more goals from them. Our defense was still somewhat shambolic, but that doesn't change the fact we outchanced them. They only had one shot on target ffs.

Also if you want to bottle it up to luck we deserved some of that as well. The draw against Sunderland was some of the unluckiest football I have ever witnessed in my life. They had two goals on 1 shot on net. While we thoroughly deserved more and a similar result to the one we had against QPR would have been a more deserving scoreline. So if you want to call this win "lucky" I'm calling it shit evening out.
 
riggi

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THFCSPURS19

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TottenhamLegend said:
Great little piece on the celebrations last night: http://thepremierleagueowl.com/harry-kane-tottenham-and-the-joy-of-ten-man-goal-celebrations/
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The celebration was one of the best things I've seen for ages. Loved it. It's a shame the players can't even celebrate with the crown anymore. It's ridiculous, as soon as Kane ran to the corner, the security ran over to act as a barrier between the players and the fans and it's pathetic. Naughton, Kaboul and Chadli still ran over though and shows that the players do give a shit.
 
longtimespur

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slartibartfast said:
What I can't figure out is in my eyes we've been really struggling lately and yet I look at the table and we're only 3 pts behind arsenal who are guaranteed a top 4 finish apparently.
How and when did that happen :eek:
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Seems all the others, bar Chelsea and Saints (atm) are struggling too.
It's amazing we were 3 points off the relegation places before the game and now we're 3 points off European footy.
It's a very tight league but there's a long way to go yet. Anything could happen with us as things are!:cry:
 
Bobbins

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THFCSPURS19 said:
The celebration was one of the best things I've seen for ages. Loved it. It's a shame the players can't even celebrate with the crown anymore. It's ridiculous, as soon as Kane ran to the corner, the security ran over to act as a barrier between the players and the fans and it's pathetic. Naughton, Kaboul and Chadli still ran over though and shows that the players do give a shit.
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Agreed it's proper bollocks.

I remember VDV scoring at the Lane (funnily enough against Villa again I think) and running into the crowd in the Park Lane where I'd managed to get tickets with some mates, he got consumed by the front three rows and I managed to touch his sweaty back and almost slid my pervy palms across Bale's face but couldn't quite reach.

Still haven't washed the VDV Sweat Hand.

And who can forget when he gave the little old lady a kiss?

Modern crowd policies can fuck right off. It's not like they had to suddenly stop players doing it because someone got stabbed or something is it? Just another sterilisation of the game by the authorities for absolutely no reason other than they can.
 
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