Player Watch - Japhet Tanganga

[dtxspurs]

Great performance yesterday. Totally set the tone for how Nuno obviously wanted us to approach the game - with controlled aggression.

I know alot are calling for him to be our long term solution at right back. I don't see it personally. He's great against teams where we're unlikely to have much of the ball but against the majority of the league we'll dominate possession and need our full backs to provide width and provide attacking thrust. I just don't think Tanganga has the confidence and technical ability to provide much in an attacking sense.

Seems to be that Nuno wants a back 3 in possesion though and let Reguilon go play high & wide and have the RB sit back and be ready for counters. In that scenario we would need a more progressive midfield though than what we ran out yesterday.

 

[bigfrooj]

Think one of the big bonuses of Tanganga is his leaping ability. Will not only help in defending corners but also attacking them. If we are looking at a primary CB duo of Sanchez and Romero, that could be really, really important.

He had a reputation in the youth ranks for being dangerous at corners for this reason. Not just for his leap but for his aggression, knocking people out of the way to get to the ball first. I’d love to see the lad score, he’s one of our own!

 

[Revo19]

Really happy for him and Skipp on their performances yesterday - must’ve been a lot of pressure and expectation - first game of the season, against champions City, first game under a new manager and with the fans back - massive performance and result! Hope he uses this as a catalyst to push on, he has all the characteristics to succeed.

 

[C-oops]

This is one of those videos you watch when there are rumours of a £30m new signing and want him brought in on the spot.
No chance he leaves on loan or whatever was being talked about.

 

[DJS]

I still wouldn’t mind him actually tried at centre back a bit more as well.

He‘s always been a hungry little bugger wherever he’s played snapping and snarling at oppositions attackers.

 

[nailsy]

Absolutely brilliant yesterday.

 

[EJWTartanSpur]

Completely off topic but I suddenly realised why Japhet Tanganga’s name has always struck a chord with me.

Yaphet Kotto played Dr. Kananga in Live And Let Die.

 

[aliyid]

First 5 minutes of the match he put Sterling and Grealish on the ground. Set the tone.

Was immense in that first 20mins. I have no idea how he didn’t get a yellow card

 

[philll]

A somewhat questionable source but hopefully true.

Tottenham pull plug on Tanganga deal after Nuno U-turn - Sources

Football Insider understands that Tottenham have pulled the plug on Japhet Tanganga transfer this window after Nuno U-turn

www.footballinsider247.com

 

[Twizzle]

love his agression

 

[GutBucket]

Most progressive passer in our team vs City, finding Son all the time. Pocketed 2 players and then had great contribution on other side of the pitch as well. Teams won't try to expose our right flank again, can't really attack Reguilon's side either with Bergwijn and Dele helping out, and good luck going centrally with PEH and Skipp destroying all attacks. Just needs to stay healthy.

 

[SpursTillIDie1882]

Tanganga v City

(you'll have to click on the 'watch on youtube') -

 

[Aphex]

Great performance yesterday. Totally set the tone for how Nuno obviously wanted us to approach the game - with controlled aggression.

I know alot are calling for him to be our long term solution at right back. I don't see it personally. He's great against teams where we're unlikely to have much of the ball but against the majority of the league we'll dominate possession and need our full backs to provide width and provide attacking thrust. I just don't think Tanganga has the confidence and technical ability to provide much in an attacking sense.

Yeah he's not got the attacking game at all. He's even more defensive than Wan Bissaka.

Fine on Sunday but won't work when we are dictating the game and need someone to go forward and create/attack.

 

[yido_number1]

Yeah he's not got the attacking game at all. He's even more defensive than Wan Bissaka.

Fine on Sunday but won't work when we are dictating the game and need someone to go forward and create/attack.

I disagree with that hes quite an aggressive runner going forwards. On Sunday he offered more than reguillion. I watched the game twice and barely noticed reguillion.

 

[Aphex]

I disagree with that hes quite an aggressive runner going forwards. On Sunday he offered more than reguillion. I watched the game twice and barely noticed reguillion.

He's a strong runner but he has no attacking threat, I've seen very little of that on display. He is a defensive RB, he might improve that part of his game but I haven't seen it.

Then again Kyle Walker has no attacking threat, so let's see! Sometimes pace and strength is enough

 

[ProfCalculus]

He had a reputation in the youth ranks for being dangerous at corners for this reason. Not just for his leap but for his aggression, knocking people out of the way to get to the ball first. I’d love to see the lad score, he’s one of our own!

Im sure I remember the other youth players calling him ‘the general’ ?

 

[JerryGarcia]

Can't help but love the kid, hopefully he gets plenty of minutes and takes it to the next level. Seems to have that Sissoko skill where even if he can't make a clean tackle he still manages to get in the way and the ball just bounces off him to safety.

 

[alfiemacdaddy]

Really hope he can continue this form. It's been sad watching winks/dier/Alli regress and lose their England spots. Hopefully Japhet and Skippy can get call ups this season.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Tanganga is exactly what Spurs need right now: home-grown, totally committed and has chemistry with the crowd

Tanganga's outstanding display against Manchester City showed he can cement a Tottenham squad place and reduce their need for signings

theathletic.co.uk

Was this a breakthrough moment for Japhet Tanganga? And if it was, has he just saved Tottenham about £20 million in the transfer market?
There are few things more exciting as a fan than an academy graduate thriving in your club’s first team, and so on Sunday the buzz around Tanganga’s performance against Manchester City at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was palpable.

Soon after the half-hour mark, the crowd burst into the first refrain of “Japhet Tanganga, he’s one of our own” after the defender had fouled Raheem Sterling and been given a talking to by Anthony Taylor. The referee was making the point that Tanganga, playing at right-back, was on his final warning after putting in a number of fouls already.

Which was fair — though Tanganga had also committed several tackles that while extremely firm were not fouls. Often described as “old-school”, Tanganga relishes these kind of challenges.

In the first few minutes of the match, he went in strongly on Sterling twice, and as the half wore on he did the same to Jack Grealish. One of these fouls has subsequently gone viral on social media as Tanganga bundled Grealish to the floor and then carried on running towards him as he fell.

“Japhet was huge today,” Spurs’ new head coach Nuno Espirito Santo said after the game when asked by The Athletic about Tanganga’s performance. “He faced too many one-v-ones today against fantastic players and he dealt fantastically with the situation.”

Nuno, it should be said, is someone who generally does not like to talk too much about individual players, so this was significant. Especially as the original question had been about both Tanganga and fellow academy graduate Oliver Skipp, and Nuno returned to the former having moved away from the duo to the more general sanctuary of: “All the team did very well.”

On the BBC’s Match of the Day 2 show later that evening, former Spurs midfielder Danny Murphy added: “He (Tanganga) epitomised everything that was good about Tottenham. He didn’t care that it was Sterling and Grealish — he was right after them.”

Tanganga was also named man of the match by Sky Sports, who showed the game live in the UK, in recognition of the way he had blunted not one but two England players in Sterling and Grealish.

As their touchmaps from Sunday show, both men played primarily from the left... but were completely shackled by Tanganga, which was all the more impressive given how isolated he often was because of the way Spurs’ right winger Lucas Moura was tucking in.

The question now is: Where does Sunday leave the 22-year-old?

The short answer to which is: In a much stronger position than at the start of August.

Especially with Spurs still hoping to sell Serge Aurier and, although they would like to make a signing for their back line before the August 31 deadline, no deal for defensive targets such as Bologna’s Takehiro Tomiyasu is understood to be imminent.

This means Tanganga has a crack at nailing down the first-choice right-back spot over the next couple of weeks.

 

[Snarfalicious]

Love it. Skipp’s coming out party is next.