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Any news on Gomes?
groin injury.
prob a couple of weeks? will be VERY nervous if cudicini gets any knocks because we dont have much else after carlo
Any news on Gomes?
Anyone see them joke we are nailed on to win the Premier league on Match of the Day...
We're playing like a side who think they can beat anyone. There's a real sense of "we're the business" oozing out of us at present.
The last minute of the match was the most arrogant (in a good way), assertive, fuck-you bit of football I can recall from Tottenham since we beat Southampton 6-2 (Ronnie's hat trick) after being 0-2 behind. It was blatantly obvious that Lennon, Palacios, Modric, the whole lot of them were saying "let's set one up for Jermain's hat trick". And they did it. Thank you very much.
I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, but these two performances have been a different kind of football from what we've seen over the past 5 years, since Arnesen arrived and we started to reform the club and we started to be a serious football club again. In both cases, we went ahead, then conceded, then didn't panic. In both cases, we looked like a team of thoroughbreds for most of the 90 minutes.
Basically, we are playing in the style of a top 4 team. I'm not saying we're going to finish there - I don't make predictions. I'm saying that there is a steely quality to our play, a determination, a sense of teamwork. When someone makes a mistake, someone covers for him. Last year, we would have had heads dropping and people slowing to a trot whilst the opposition breaks. This year, we look like a team that expects to win.
We outclassed Liverpool at home and we thrashed Hull away. On a weeknight. In the North. They're pretty bad. But they were pretty bad last season and they beat us at WHL. That's the difference.
I'll post more on the individual and team performances in a little while. But I've been banging on about mental strength for two years now. At last, this lot look like they're finding some.
That could upset the RSPCA.
Another point: all Summer, we've had the press yammering on about "Harry's clear-out", "all but three players for sale, "major overhaul of the squad".
Quite a few people here have been going on about us needing the perennial, mythical "two more star players to take us to the next level".
And I've been muttering "just keep the players we have and work on the teamwork and the mental strength". We didn't need anyone. There was exactly one player whom we signed this Summer in the starting line-up tonight - and he wouldn't have been there except for injuries.
Make a list of players whom posters here have slagged off, month after month. It would include: Huddlestone, Defoe, Keane, Assou-Ekotto and Lennon. There has never been anything wrong with these players. They're all superbly talented footballers. There was just something wrong with the team.
Watched it delayed yesterday and it was a good performance. Started off totally awsome and we lost the pace after the game was disrupted with early subs. Nice to see that we could take charge again with a psychological goal in the end of first half.
Biggest problem must have been that it could be seen that our CB's never had played a game together.
The pundit most have been the worst i've ever heard. Was it Dave Basset or did i hear wrong.
The Hutton diving.....what was that about :duh:Yes it was Bassett, and you're right....I have never heard such nonsense come from a "commentator".
I think the vast majority of the forum suggested at the end of last season that all we needed were 1 or two additions to give us a different option. Crouch was one of those.
The team really did gel last year and they're all young. Keep them together and they will get stronger.
The average age of our starting lineup last night was 24.5.
The Hutton diving.....what was that about :duh:
and it was handball when a spursplayer did it but not when a player from Hull used his hands etc...
Oh well, good to hear that i wasn't the only one :up:
Wenger wouldn't have seen itits big of Phil Brown to say that tbh, wenger would have said they were unlucky not to have won