Match Threads Inter Milan vs Spurs - Match Thread

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Lost all attacking shape or threat. Lost business and defensive pressure he brings both forward and back.

And we lost the game after being in total control.

Do I need elaborate further?

no. that’s exactly what happened

 

[NinjaTuna]

If we keep this form up for longer i have a feeling next summer will be like that of 2008

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Not a lot we can do. We've missed our chance to improve the squad, so we have to work with what we have. Poch needs to turn this around and get the team playing for eachother again. Top four is a must because players WILL

I don't want to be too downer but I think I'm mostly disappointed because this is the season. Not the season I thought we would necessarily do something, but the season that we needed to do something before it all started to crumble - Poch getting tired of promises being broken, key players making noises about leaving, fans losing hope etc. All of the excitement and promise that we've been sold over the past five years is fizzling out because the level of ambition on the pitch hasn't matched the efforts made off it. We should've pushed on by now, we just should have.

I really hope we can turn this around and make me look silly.

Definitely. It has the feel of things fucking up behind the scenes

 

[Phomesy]

It’s so fucking dispiriting because it looked like we had played ourselves back into some form. Lucky goal but we took over and should have scored again. Sucker punch and now all the doubts return.

 

[riggi]

Gunna win the Europa league.

 

[Deleted member 27855]

He's trying to be too clever mate imo. Trying to win games from the side lines, instead of letting the players on the pitch do it. He has been criticised in the past for being tactically naïve and slow to react, and I think he's consciously trying to address that. Problem is he is getting it very wrong. He should stick to what he's good at, improving the players, and motivating them to get the best out of them, and just let them do what they do. Constantly changing things is causing confusion, and creating doubt in the players minds, and it's costing us big.

Play to your strengths Poch, play to your fucking strengths!!!

I agree with this up to a point. Poch doesn't have the players in the midfield and he's trying everything tactically to try and cover up that fact. Dembele, Dier, Wanyama and Winks are not good enough for varying reasons for a team that's trying to win trophies. The fact that our midfield is a fucking disaster area just isn't his fault.

 

[mrlilywhite]

Poch saying this was our best performance of the season.

That's a clear admittance to how bad the others were then - Cause apart from a good spell in the second half, this was no masterpiece!

 

[Deleted member 27995]

Definitely. It has the feel of things fucking up behind the scenes

Doesn't add up, we wouldn't have won our first three games if things behind the scenes were as bad as they are meant to be now.

Poch has screwed the pooch tactically in the last three games.

 

[spursfan77]

Gunna win the Europa league.

I could easily see us finish bottom of the group

 

[GioW]

I wonder how motivated Poch is going to feel when we're out of the running for the only 2 trophies he cares about.

 

[JayB]

Lamela was doing OK and causing problems, didn't look like he was struggling IMO.

And what if the physios said before the match that he could only withstand 70 minutes? It's the kind of thing you see in basketball all the time. We all know how injury-prone Lamela is, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if his minutes were being limited at the moment.

Again, the real problem here is that the rest of the squad isn't up to the task of pressing and harrying without Lamela. The blame for that lays with our pathetic excuse for a recruitment setup.

 

[soflapaul]

Anyone else notice the performance downturn after Levy paid out a bucket load of money to himself. Players are not stupid. Levy’s the one who has taken the heart out of our club.

You may be right but normally, bonuses are set up based on some previously set standard of performance. It doesn't seem likely that Levy has the ability to pay himself. Now, i admit i don't know his pay structure AND i think the money he made was ridiculous for a team on the rise but our lads don't seem to be the type to allow that to affect them. Again, i could be wrong but any self respecting professional might be annoyed at most by that but would never let it affect their performance that much.

 

[Shadydan]

So...where do we go fro here?

 

[glacierSpurs]

The diligent players like Lamela and Moura will get their confidence shot with such results. Felt sorry for them for their inputs that gained no rewards.

 

[TheChosenOne]

The parades of double your money contracts seems so annoying now.

 

[St José Dominguez]

If he’d just left Lamela and Kane on and kept it as it is we’d have won this game. The players worked really hard, we were defending well, passing wasn’t great but we were in control and doing fine. This loss is all on Poch, no players or transfer dealings are to blame for losing today.
We call out players not being in form, Poch is not in form this season and I expect a lot more from him even if it’s shit he wasn’t backed.

 

[spursfan77]

Doesn't add up, we wouldn't have won our first three games if things behind the scenes were as bad as they are meant to be now.

Poch has screwed the pooch tactically in the last three games.

He killed the players confidence after the Man Utd game. It’s obvious to me.

 

[Stevespurs71]

Blaming Levy?

He can’t really be blamed for some of our players looking a third of what they were last season.

He knew most of our players were in the latter stages of the wc!

Personally I don't understand why anybody CAN'T blame Levy!

I think you are massively downplaying the psychological aspect of football. This season was lost before we kicked a ball.

We were all absolutely trashing Levy a month ago. Not suddenly we are losing game after game and its not his fault?? I am not having that.

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!!! #levythefuckout

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Doesn't add up, we wouldn't have won our first three games if things behind the scenes were as bad as they are meant to be now.

Poch has screwed the pooch tactically in the last three games.

It’s hard to call either way at the moment on reflection but at the very least Poch is not behaving like himself and that in itself is strange and worrying

 

[Gambler]

Hmm, well that was unexpected........quality strike from a lazy striker who couldn't be bothered to get in the box from a really really poor cross, which in all rights should have missed everyone and then bullied again for the winner.

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Couldn't believe Hoddle saying it was a great cross, he saw him on the edge of the box out of the corner of his eye......

I thought he mishit the cross. Great strike by Icardi though.