I think his biggest mistake today was paying them too much respect. They’re a shit mid table team. We should of approached the game like we did against palace.
Our performance today was no worse than when we played Fulham. Only difference is Fulham weren't good enough to punish us. Palace game probably would have went the same if they didn't equalise before HTThe problem is he wasn't and reverted back to type.
This is so obvious it really shouldn't need saying. Worrying.
Oh Kingkay is going to be childish.Since we beat arsenal in December we have played 8 matches against teams in top half of table and lost all 8.
People have been calling for him to go including me since Brighton.
Saying its kneejerk is weak. Its not kneejerk.
If you were to put a poll out I suspect over 50% of Spurs fans would want him gone. So calling for him to go isn't kneejerk. And if you want reasoning look back through my posts.
But it's not a WTF.
This is my problem, yes we go out and fly forward against teams that don’t push high and are significantly weaker then us but it seems we have no idea how to play against anyone half decent. We just revert to this negative anti football low block nonsense. Arsenal are not a good team, yet we seceded space and let them play. We made them look like Bayern for most of that match. It was clearly a tactic and not because our attackers felt nervous about our defence as had been mentioned before. We will not get top 4 this season or next season and will not be winning any cups if we continue to play like this when we come up against anyone decent. We need to play football rather then just bend over with our cheeks spread and wait for the inevitable.Mourinho hasn't learnt lessons and that's so surprising. Whenever we take this approach to games we more often lose. Against this Arsenal team we needed to impose our greater experience and ask more questions of them instead we allowed Arsenal to ask us all the questions and guess what we are what we are.
Fair play to you, you've gone out to bat a lot for Mourinho and the tendency nowadays is to just double down and become more defiant, so fair fucks.I’ll say it again, if we actually did employ a low block I would agree with you but we didn’t. We basically looked like we weren’t trying any Specific tactic at all. No pressing, no dropping deep. The players are mentally shattered, but on a winning streak? It just doesn’t make any sense.
I agree with the sentiment though and if we don’t win both the CC and EL (not happening, I know) then I hope we can get someone younger in to try sort this team out. I’m ready for a rebuild.
levy fired before and he will with this one ...but we got two months left, so we just got to get on with it ...enjoy the ride, next season maybe differentSeen fuck all to suggest Jose deserves another season but Levy has such a major hard-on for him will be no surprise to see him here in August. Truly believe the game is passing Jose by in front of our eyes. Today’s low block defensive bullshit was inexcusable against a very average Arsenal team.
This whole performance stinks of Jose asking the players to play defensively in a low block, the players not wanting to play that way which resulted in a half arsed effort and Jose moaning about lack of intensity.
Complete full circle from the turn around in form
Yep .....no European games.... it'll be a lot easier for whomever the manager is then.levy fired before and he will with this one ...but we got two months left, so we just got to get on with it ...enjoy the ride, next season maybe different
So what's he saying ,the players don't listen to him now....then he's lost them.lose lose.Not sure on this occasion as he came out and said it was a horrible first half
Arteta has clearly moved 'that' club forward with younger & more energetic team and in a shorter timespan. It's his first managerial appointment. We've got one of the most successful managers of the modern era and have gone backwards in performance. This can't continue!Contrast that with Arteta who started with a far worse bloated squad. You can see how he's impressing his style on them whilst also getting rid of the crud they'd accumulated.