Crystal Palace defeat highlights the dangers of Nuno Espirito Santo’s safety-first policy

[mawspurs]

The sense of crashing back down to earth should be a familiar one for Tottenham. Last season under Jose Mourinho was punctuated by short spells of often-underwhelming victories, which only masked the side’s limitations, before their progress was abruptly ended by a bad performance.

It was the same story on Saturday, as Spurs’ perfect start under Nuno Espirito Santo came to a shuddering halt with a wretched 3-0 defeat by Crystal Palace.

Source: Evening Standard

 

[TheHoddleWaddle]

As Shirley Bassey once said, 'it's All just a little bit of history repeating....'

Easy to get despondent after that result and second half performance. But it's still early days without key first teamers.

However the one constant, even with the previous wins. Was the lack of creativity and chances created. Hence my quote....

 

[ero1x]

Putting aside the injuries and other absentees, the most confusing (and disappointing) thing for me was Nuno playing 3 holding midfielders against the mighty Crystal Palace.

 

[whitesocks]

Putting aside the injuries and other absentees, the most confusing (and disappointing) thing for me was Nuno playing 3 holding midfielders against the mighty Crystal Palace.

I can understand the thinking. Son was out, kane internationally tired, bergwijn out, no 2nd striker, no eriksen, new RB, and RB as CB.
He came for the 0-0 - midtable teams do that all the time. We lack quality so pack the defence.

Point the finger at nuno, and ask why the fk he's here anyway, but major deficiencies in the side were not addressed in the summer. It is going to be a long season.