Jose Mourinho

[KikoSpurs]

We need someone in January that can do what Sissoko does but acc can pass the ball.

I hope he has someone lined up for that.

 

[spids]

We actually created more than enough to win today - certainly more than we did in any of the 3 games you mention - but created practically nothing the entire time we were ahead, which is concerning.

This is so true. On another day we'd have scored 3 or 4 goals. But, and it's a big BUT, by defending deep and having no ambition to score a second goal we kept them in the game and were always vulnerable to a set piece.

 

[SpursD22]

Oh! Just blame Mourinho for sitting off second half. There is no way I can see him being happy with second half, conceding so much possession, loosing balls in transition. Worst still, giving away so many needless dead ball situations.

It’s him who sets us up like this, he should be mad at himself. We’ve done this many times this season it’s not a coincidence

 

[Hercules]

It’s him who sets us up like this, he should be mad at himself. We’ve done this many times this season it’s not a coincidence

My comments are clear! Second half, I cannot accept those were his instructions

 

[Timberwolf]

This is so true. On another day we'd have scored 3 or 4 goals. But, and it's a big BUT, by defending deep and having no ambition to score a second goal we kept them in the game and were always vulnerable to a set piece.

Exactly. We were extremely solid defensively in open play but if you give away that number of set pieces eventually one of them will go in. And players like Eze and Zaha are free-kick winning machines - they must've won about 7 or 8 dangerous free kicks and a similar number of corners.

 

[wrd]

It’s him who sets us up like this, he should be mad at himself. We’ve done this many times this season it’s not a coincidence

You honestly believe that Jose wanted us to surrender possession so easily in the 2nd half compared to the first, to fail to break away and take advantage of them pressing forward and give those freekicks away?

 

[ajspurs]

Suddenly one drawn game and he has bad game management and naive tactics.

First off it's not anything against him as a manager, that's silly talk, but lets not act like you can't assess performances on a game to game basis, the management throughout this particular individual game was poor.

For me it's not even so much a tactics thing, but when you're watching wave after wave of attacks for such a long sustained period something has to change. It was too reactive and not proactive enough. Everyone knew that equaliser was coming.

 

[GutBucket]

Oh! Just blame Mourinho for sitting off second half. There is no way I can see him being happy with second half, conceding so much possession, loosing balls in transition. Worst still, giving away so many needless dead ball situations.

When you park the bus, sit deep, do long ball game, and don't play football you will get needless dead ball situations. That is his fault, we changed the style after conceding which was again his (this time good) decision.

 

[glacierSpurs]

We need someone in January that can do what Sissoko does but acc can pass the ball.

I hope he has someone lined up for that.

Sissoko is ineffective against these teams who try all means to get dead ball situations.

 

[SpursD22]

My comments are clear! Second half, I cannot accept those were his instructions

Why can’t you accept it? We did the same thing against Newcastle and Brighton. It’s clearly his tactics

 

[aussiespursguy]

Oh! Just blame Mourinho for sitting off second half. There is no way I can see him being happy with second half, conceding so much possession, loosing balls in transition. Worst still, giving away so many needless dead ball situations.

Well he is the one on the bench Herc. He needs to control the situation, and frankly he didn't. Yes their keeper had a day out, but he needs to control it from the bench. It is quite clear they were playing to his instructions and this was not the game to do it as they were always going to be dangerous.

And Eze is a baller.

 

[Hercules]

Why can’t you accept it? We did the same thing against Newcastle and Brighton. It’s clearly his tactics

I cannot accept it, because I simply disagree with your views on today’s game

 

[SpursD22]

You honestly believe that Jose wanted us to surrender possession so easily in the 2nd half compared to the first, to fail to break away and take advantage of them pressing forward and give those freekicks away?

We have no pressing game at all, when we don’t have the ball the players go back to their positions and defend. By playing like this it’s much easier for the opponent to have more possession and slowly grow into the game

 

[spids]

Oh! Just blame Mourinho for sitting off second half. There is no way I can see him being happy with second half, conceding so much possession, loosing balls in transition. Worst still, giving away so many needless dead ball situations.

If he was not happy why did he not change something?

 

[synththfc]

Don't think we deliberately sat back the second half, think we just got dominated in midfield.

Which is still on Jose for not changing things.

 

[n17er]

Early days I know but such a big opportunity missed to put some distance between us and the chasing pack. That’s my biggest takeaway from the game.

 

[Timberwolf]

If Jose is unwilling to give up the stable defensive base of the Sissoko/Hojbjerg pivot in these games I'd prefer we at least tried Lo Celso wide instead of Bergwijn to give us that bit of extra calmness and control in possession. On current form he'd also offer us more of a goalthreat too.

In that 2nd half we just needed a couple of calm heads to maintain possession, get their feet on the ball and pass through the Palace lines to Kane and Son. Ndombele and Lo Celso struggled to do it on their own, but you'd hope between the two of them they'd manage it.

 

[spurs mental]

Why can’t you accept it? We did the same thing against Newcastle and Brighton. It’s clearly his tactics

We had 17 shots or something outragoues v Newcastle.

 

[SpursD22]

We had 17 shots or something outragoues v Newcastle.

We were completely dominant until we scored and then we sat back, exactly like today

 

[theShiznit]

Whether that's his tactics or not, he is responsible for the mentality of the team and that defend at all costs mentality of recent weeks is on him, and sure we got away with it in other games but it was always going to fail at some point. You cannot just surrender the ball over and over again and not expect at some point the opposition will score.
It just gives us nothing, we win the ball it comes straight back. Our players become too close together and the only out is a dribble from deep or passes in amongst a sea of bodies
People have accepted it in games against big teams (or once big rivals) mainly due to the result but we could clearly see the flaws in the plan too. (at the time and after the final whistle)
to me it just shows he has a lack of faith in our ability to keep the ball, when a team is behind how hard is it to make them do the running and knock it around?