Spurs need to increase our tactical discipline. We need Parker to carry the ball less his runs are pointless because at full speed he cannot pass the ball. Modric needs to play, He needs to look to distribute the ball to Lennon and Bale or a Through ball. Bale needs to stay on the left and lennon on the right. We need Parker to slot into the left or right back spot when they storm forward and only one of them should storm forward at any time. Walker and BAE need to be smarter because their positional awareness has disappeared over the season. Spurs' positional awareness needs to go back to what it was back in November.
changes needed for next 5 games ..
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4-4-3 is impossible you have one too many players.
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It's something that hadn't ever crossed my mind until recently either. I would have counted myself amongst Modric's biggest fans and I think he can genuinely be a majestic player but he just isn't doing it right now.
The Watcher
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I've noticed this too, watched him closely yesterday (well before the game was over) and some of his lacklustre, slow-jogging tracking back to cover was shameful - it totally exposed the increasingly slow King several times. He's not an advanced playmaker/attacking midfielder, he's a deep-lying playmaker so he needs to do his share defensively of we totally lose our shape and it leaves holes for the opposition to exploit.
So that begs the question - is his mind on the summer transfer window already, or are we paying the price of Redknapp playing him virtually every game to keep him relatively happy? Either way, whether unsettled, not bothered or tired, he's not putting it in and he should be dropped IMO. I know it'll be controversial to some as he is one of our leading talents, but on closer inspection of his recent performances, he's not doing it.
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Can we recall Caulker?
ShelfSide18
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It's odd that whilst SC has gone into hysterics about our current state I think we will finish top 4, a few weeks back we put in 4 consecutive performances which, to me, were highly encouraging and whilst the Norwich game in particular was a bit of a tactical horror show, and yesterday after VDV went off we descended into a shapeless farce I don't share completely in this collective SC gloom that our season is over.
If Harry just looks at what got us playing well those 4 games recently - Chelsea away, Bolton, Swansea and Sunderland to a lesser extent then we will finish in the top 4, and the 4-4-1-1 is more than capable on home turf, if applied correctly. It's a huge disappointment how things have gone, the things that I and a few others were at pains to point out earlier in the season that we were getting away with have inevitably started to not fall our way. The most demoralising thing of all is that Harry has had some excellent games this season but he is to keen to revert to his comfort zone - but, even with a squad that I think has business being firmly in the title race, Champions League qualification was the seasons target and we are well in the hunt still.
Everyone needs to improve for the final push, from fans to manager. CL next season is so important to our future that we cannot afford to blunder this away, we are in pole position and each game left is eminently winnable. If we get 4th then whilst the hurt of throwing away what we have, and a few seriously horrible defeats this season will still put a huge dampener on the season, it's still job done and we can look forward to the likes of AC Milan and Real Madrid again next season.
It's odd that in the midst of our best run of wins for donkeys years I was counted as one of Harry's fiercest critics, and now I'm here sort of defending him - I just think he is what he is, a good manager who's taken us a long way but ultimately where we want to be, where this squad should be, is the job for someone who can crack the code at the top level. It's no shame on Harry this statement.
If Harry just looks at what got us playing well those 4 games recently - Chelsea away, Bolton, Swansea and Sunderland to a lesser extent then we will finish in the top 4, and the 4-4-1-1 is more than capable on home turf, if applied correctly. It's a huge disappointment how things have gone, the things that I and a few others were at pains to point out earlier in the season that we were getting away with have inevitably started to not fall our way. The most demoralising thing of all is that Harry has had some excellent games this season but he is to keen to revert to his comfort zone - but, even with a squad that I think has business being firmly in the title race, Champions League qualification was the seasons target and we are well in the hunt still.
Everyone needs to improve for the final push, from fans to manager. CL next season is so important to our future that we cannot afford to blunder this away, we are in pole position and each game left is eminently winnable. If we get 4th then whilst the hurt of throwing away what we have, and a few seriously horrible defeats this season will still put a huge dampener on the season, it's still job done and we can look forward to the likes of AC Milan and Real Madrid again next season.
It's odd that in the midst of our best run of wins for donkeys years I was counted as one of Harry's fiercest critics, and now I'm here sort of defending him - I just think he is what he is, a good manager who's taken us a long way but ultimately where we want to be, where this squad should be, is the job for someone who can crack the code at the top level. It's no shame on Harry this statement.
HappySpur
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The hysterics probably come from the mere 5 wins since mid January (all at WHL), two of which were home ties in the FA Cup, which have seen us shamefully ousted from the FA Cup and having blown a double digit lead over rivals for 3rd place. But that's just a guess on my part.
ShelfSide18
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It's been a disastrous run of course, although on some occasions in this run I think we haven't quite got the rub we deserved (Chelseas away/Utd home for example) that levelled out a few incredibly lucky wins earlier on in the season. Ultimately I think it's just a regression to the mean, Redknapp's capability is 4th/5th and that is where we will end up - just with 2 completely contrasting runs that ramped up the hysteria when winning every week, and the same when we were losing.
