Pochettino brands Palace draw 'fair result' but questions Spurs schedule

[mawspurs]

Pochettino said Tottenham's 0-0 draw with Crystal Palace was a 'fair result' but felt the visitors benefited from an extra day's preparation.

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[tiger666]

Tiger brands Palace draw 'Bag of shite' and questions Tottenham selection, tactics and subs.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Bringing Paulinho on sums up his ambition to win this game, and starting Lamela for absolutely no good reason is just being jingoistic.

 

[Edgarsglasses]

Here we go with the excuses again,the pitch,the fans,the schedule yada yada.A fair result would've been a Palace win in my book.Very poor today and up their with one of worst performances from us I have seen at home and lucky to get a draw.

 

[Jenko]

Well its a logical symptom of playing the same team over and over and I'm torn because I like that he's dropped a few people and has settled on a team we can support for they're work ethic alone.

Today was just no good though and we will need to have a better all round squad to compete. I want Holtby back, Walker too. I want the players he dropped sold off in Jan and I want them replaced with guys who will leave me in no doubt that they are giving 100%. When that happens I'll judge how good this squad can be and not before.

This particular 11 need a rest on Thursday by the looks of it.

 

[thinktank]

Love you poch but you got it wrong today as lennon should have started, and bobby should have started against chelsea as I knew it would play on his bonce as he's in a very fragile place with his confidence at the mo and it wasn't worth the risk to not start him.

We needed to absolutely try and get some momentum going with him and yet again he was stopped dead in his tracks after scoring.

How frustrating must that be.

Regroup, rest 'em up and send out a bit of a mix for besiktas and let's try and recreate the everton game - properly this time - for swansea, as that'll be a toughie.

 

[guate]

Sad to say but Lamela today was a complete waste of space and brought nothing to the overall scheme of things. Like many others I felt this game was crying out for Lennon's speed down the wings, opening up the game more and who does Mauricio send on, Paulinho.
Don't like to criticize the coach but his selection today was strange to say the least.

 

[parklaneprince]

theres gonna be more days like this.
poch keeps starting lamela cos of orders from above, he cost £30m so play him…
levy has stitched him up and just about everyone else
club well run from the business side, from the footballing side
levy aint got a fuckin clue
could be a lot worse, but the squad needs ripping up and starting all over again, levy and co are just winging it….

 

[Moon glow]

Why didn't Lennon get a start?

 

[Redfap]

Like the Poch and just my 2cents, but we should never have changed the team that played well against Everton, of Chelsea or Crystal Palace, we haven't really created a starting XI yet,

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Why didn't Lennon get a start?

Because he preferred to play his fellow Argie.

 

[rupsmith]

Overlooking this horrendous performance and result, while I am pleased with Poch bringing the kids into the first team (a lot of their development down to Tim Sherwood btw - cue abuse and ridicule), it does reflect a couple of things:

- he simply does not set his team up to play with a winger. In an ideal set up, I think his team will be a 4-3-3, pressing the opposition every second they have the ball and will give us a result and performance like the Everton game - a very strong start with intensive running but with the team tiring out towards the end (remember our win over his Saints team last year). Hence his preference for Lamela and Eriksen cutting in from the flanks.

- the writing is on the wall for Paulinho, Dembele, Capoue, maybe even Kaboul. Our team that obviously lacked 'freshness' was a result of putting in kids in their early 20s into 3 games in 6 days against battle hardened premier league opposition. Good experience for them, and by and large they did ok individually, but it showed in our team performance. Poch chose to ignore all these experienced international players who would have been raring to go. Not suitable enough? Either way, pretty clear that they are on their way out. Also why not Stambouli - looks a good player but I guess they giving him time to settle.

- While Lamela can improve (CRonaldo took some time as well although he did have two feet), Soldado looks like his will not fit into such a system. The narrowness of the approach means that his space to attack will be more limited than if we played with wingers getting the ball in from the flanks while also pulling a couple of players out of defensive areas in their own box. This does not help his confidence and quite frankly for a striker who is 29,30, is pretty useless in the air and lacks pace and physical presence, the premier league is not the place to be - we will need to cut our losses and get in a decent striker - we cant afford an Aguero but a decent premier league striker who can find the net 7/10 times if given decent service and does not lack intelligence.

I guess however this season is one of 'transition'. Pardew got time, so did big Sam, so did Harry and it is benefiting their clubs. A bit fed up of philosophy talk and the like - we are not that big a club anymore, we should be targeting 5/6th consistently, 4th is punching above our weight with a stadium of 36 K. City and Chelsea are too much, Arsenal and United have 60-80 K seater stadiums, Liverpool are on their way to 60. We are way behind so lets not be unrealistically over ambitious. 5th or 6th will do nicely.

 

[marion52]

Why didn't Lennon get a start?

Because he was 'feeling his hamstring' whatever that means?
If he's not fit don't waste a space on the bench

 

[14/04/91]

Because he was 'feeling his hamstring' whatever that means?
If he's not fit don't waste a space on the bench

He brought Lennon on, how is that wasting a space on the bench?

And if he'd started him with a tight hamstring it could've gone after 60 mins & ruled him out for 2 months. Lennon has got previous for this type of 'fatigue' injury.
Also bear in mind he's not really been used this season up until 10 days ago, so he's not conditioned like someone who's regularly been playing all season.

 

[WhiteHeartLowe]

Not starting Soldado was madness, the guy was just getting a scrap of confidence back, then gets the rug pulled from under him again, crazy!

 

[Sweetsman]

Because he preferred to play his fellow Argie.

Is that why he keeps picking Fazio? Or is that Fazio has actually been playing well? Is jingoism at play when he promotes players from the youth set-up? I'm wondering about your interesting and clearly carefully considered hypothesis as one would expect the same factors to be at play.

 

[millsey]

Not starting Soldado was madness, the guy was just getting a scrap of confidence back, then gets the rug pulled from under him again, crazy!

If the guy can't handle not playing the next game after scoring a goal he can do one. We want the weak mentality out of this club

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Is that why he keeps picking Fazio? Or is that Fazio has actually been playing well? Is jingoism at play when he promotes players from the youth set-up? I'm wondering about your interesting and clearly carefully considered hypothesis as one would expect the same factors to be at play.

I'd pick our leading PL goalscorer over Lamela. I'd also pick Fazio over Kaboul.

I could i guess, have prayed to the Lord that with Lamela in the side we would somehow beat Palace. I would also have given two hail Mary's that Lamela would be a match against a right footed left back, but my prayers remained unanswered.

Still there is always next week. I was quite wrong to state jingoism as being the reason that Lamela get's picked ahead of players in a rich vein of scoring and for that i apologise. We all know why he is on the team sheet most games and it's nothing to do with his Nationality.

 

[Sweetsman]

I'd pick our leading PL goalscorer over Lamela. I'd also pick Fazio over Kaboul.

I could i guess, have prayed to the Lord that with Lamela in the side we would somehow beat Palace. I would also have given two hail Mary's that Lamela would be a match against a right footed left back, but my prayers remained unanswered.

Still there is always next week. I was quite wrong to state jingoism as being the reason that Lamela get's picked ahead of players in a rich vein of scoring and for that i apologise. We all know why he is on the team sheet most games and it's nothing to do with his Nationality.

Why is he on the team sheet, then? You say that you know, so it'd be useful if you'd care to enlighten us.

 

[Sweetsman]

We played crap and didn't lose, which is a relief. The thing about the way we play against these teams, and have done so even under Redknapp, is that we never try to bloody shoot from long distance. Quite a number of teams try to walk the ball in. In Bale's last season, quite a few games were won by his long shots. The ball can come out and be knocked in. I think it's because there's a lack of risk taking. Harry Kane has been taking long shots, Soldado should. The person who can shoot but doesn't is Dembélé and I have no idea why.