Pochettino: We lacked aggression in Aston Villa defeat

[mawspurs]

Tottenham coach Mauricio Pochettino conceded his side did not show enough intensity or aggression as they slipped to a 1-0 Premier League home defeat to Aston Villa on Saturday.

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[StauntonSpur]

Feeling really pissed off this morning. One point form six from bottom of the table sides is just not good enoug however you look at it. FFS how much motivating do players need, not that we would make it but we were sniffing at champions league. !

 

[Dennism]

There is no point in Poch talking about this. It has happened too many times already and will again unless he takes some action and actually sorts it out. Get a grip Poch, show a bit of pride and start doing your job.

 

[Danners9]

Lacked the ability to pass to each other. Lacked the ability to create chances.

2nd game in a row, more dropped points against relegation-threatened teams.

 

[parklaneprince]

F**king embarrassing
the burnley performance was bad enough
players should be wearing flip flops
another wasted season levy

 

[greywizard2020]

This group of players, which hasn't altered that much, have been overseen by 3 x managers in 2 x seasons. It can't always be the managers fault, surely? Last season saw so many people laud Pochettino with praise for how his young Saints team played a very entertaining brand of attacking football. It should be noted that they also had the sixth best defensive record conceding just 46 goals all last season with 15 clean-sheets. The Poch will invariably make mistakes, like all managers, even the great ones. I believe in his philosophy & firmly believe that he will make us great.

Our best players this year have been Lloris, Mason & Kane; 2 of which are still green from the academy, with one experiencing his début season. This group of players, bar 7-8 members, are not good enough or fit enough to wear the shirt. I am sick & tired of players not being bothered about wanting to play with any degree of purpose or pride. The lack of dynamism from our more creative players is shocking & they need to be put under pressure next season with new additions that will provide serious competition for places.

Franco Baldini is the name of our pain this season: his recruitment policy has been nothing short of shambolic with none of his signings, barring Eriksen, seemingly anywhere close to justifying their price-tag. The chairman will need to take a sizeable portion of the blame because it seems he basically gave Carte-Blanche to Baldini to sign whoever the hell he wanted. In part I can understand why Levy trusted him because of his reputation as a well-travelled, knowledgeable man within world-football. At the very least steps have been taken to rectify this with new heads of player-recruitment & football-operations being brought in, in the shape of Paul Mitchell & Rebecca Caplehorn, respectively.

In an interview on Goals on Sunday, Brian McDermott stated that a manager needs at least a year to fully become aware & understand the machinations of the football-club, so that he can find a way to make it better. Come the end of the season the Poch will have had exactly that. Let us hope this will mean a deep culling of the dross whereby we can plan positively for next season.

 

[Locotoro]

Let's not forget the defensive shambles that was void of tactical direction we were before Poch took over. He's had a lot of work to do since he came in and he's been on the whole having to use square pegs in round holes quite a lot.

With a new season the players will know what will be required of them and there will be no period of acclimatisation to the Manager's system meaning we will be ready to go from the start of the campaign.

I would also expect players like Kaboul, Ade and Capoue, who caused division, to leave and those like Pritchard, Alli, and Yedlin to be ready to push those in the first team for starts.

A cup final and a top 6 finish was my hope/expectation for this season. We're still on course to finish top 5/6.

 

[double0]

This unfortunately is the level we're at with the players at hand. We need to spend to get better players end of

 

[bubble07]

We start the season thinking we have a BMW by the 30th game we revert to a 3 wheeler with a flat tyre.

 

[jezz]

Maybe if you picked the right players we might in with a shout of top 4.
But you didn't and top 4 has gone.

 

[garryparkerschest]

At the start of the season I was expecting a top 8 finish and was just hoping to be entertained once more, although recent performances haven't been great I still have faith in Poch that next season he will get things right.

 

[1882andallthat]

Whilst I didn't expect top 4 and after that defeat to Utd where we didn't really turn up it appeared as though any outside chance of a top 4 spot looked even more remote.
The only hope lay in one of those 3 bar Chelsea dropping like a stone and us capitalising and what happens ? We get thrown another potential lifeline in the form of City taking a nosedive and what do we do with it with successive games against Burnley and Aston Villa, in true bloody Spurs style we fail to take advantage yet again. If we had applied any real graft, pressure and aggression we could have cut that lead to 2 points knowing they still have to come to our place, that really would have made things interesting so what do we do instead in those two games aforementioned ? We take 1 point from bloody 6 and run out of ideas and intensity. I'm left probably like many on here feeling more disappointed.
I know we should not expect success and I know many on here have often said we are where we are in terms of our financial resources when compared with the teams above us but FFS Spurs, when are we going to finally take advantage when others with more financial resources around us slip up with a bad run of results, that's what really frustrates us all, we always seem to throw these lifelines away !!!

 

[1882andallthat]

This unfortunately is the level we're at with the players at hand. We need to spend to get better players end of

Whilst there is some merit in what you are saying, what is really irritating is that over the last 2 - 3 weeks we have been thrown a lifeline of a decent shot at the champions league with 5-6 games to go because a team with greater spending power i.e Man City have faltered, and once again we have conspired to balls it up.

The least one would have expected was for us to dust ourselves down after that pathetic Utd showing and go out and put in a few decent performances and play with pride and a bit of effort against Leicester Villa and Burnley and had we done that it would have boiled down to a 6 game run in and shoot out against a very out of form Man City and an out of form Liverpool and the the Saints. That 6 game shoot out would then have come down to who wants it more out of us 4 not who has the most money.

You don't need money to roll up your sleeves grow some balls and bounce back to beat Leicester Burnley and Villa, even if they are fighting off relegation. I know we beat Leicester but
it almost felt like we went out of our way to throw that game down the kitchen sink.
Lets not make the excuses for the squad and manager, they were given an opportunity that maybe some would argue we didn't deserve but we had it whether we deserved it or not and once again we failed to show up and we have paid the price and for that we only have ourselves to blame that we threw it away as quickly as we were given it. That's what hurts.

 

[double0]

Whilst there is some merit in what you are saying, what is really irritating is that over the last 2 - 3 weeks we have been thrown a lifeline of a decent shot at the champions league with 5-6 games to go because a team with greater spending power i.e Man City have faltered, and once again we have conspired to balls it up.

The least one would have expected was for us to dust ourselves down after that pathetic Utd showing and go out and put in a few decent performances and play with pride and a bit of effort against Leicester Villa and Burnley and had we done that it would have boiled down to a 6 game run in and shoot out against a very out of form Man City and an out of form Liverpool and the the Saints. That 6 game shoot out would then have come down to who wants it more out of us 4 not who has the most money.

You don't need money to roll up your sleeves grow some balls and bounce back to beat Leicester Burnley and Villa, even if they are fighting off relegation. I know we beat Leicester but
it almost felt like we went out of our way to throw that game down the kitchen sink.
Lets not make the excuses for the squad and manager, they were given an opportunity that maybe some would argue we didn't deserve but we had it whether we deserved it or not and once again we failed to show up and we have paid the price and for that we only have ourselves to blame that we threw it away as quickly as we were given it. That's what hurts.

Soldado Adebayor Capoue Paulinho Kaboul Vertonghen Dembele Chiriches Walker(some extent)..... Look at that list of international players yet all have been this season poor...non including Vertonghen have shown any leadership.

The players we've had to rely on Kane Mason Bentaleb Lamela Eriksen Dier Lloris Rose look to have partially run out of steam or more worryingly just given up. I personally think the majority are mentally fatigued from playing two games a week to now just one a week with more coaching adjusting to a different schedule the players haven't maybe grasped the concept and shown a lack of experience.

My guess only