Can we recognise that Dier is not as good as some think he is? Count the decisive errors, including losing his man at set pieces, he doesn't look like he wants it enough
Verts was brilliant and didn't deserve to be on the losing side. We were great between the boxes but that first leg performance was a stunning show of can't be bothered. Laughable we couldn't put that lot away over 180 mins.
Sounds like Danny is out for a while yet, play Davies inside and let Jan work the flank
That took a lot out of us in the second half, Stoke much harder now...
So much been made of Rose lately, what are we honestly coming too as Spurs fans if we're putting our misfortune down to a full back being injured.. We've struggled all season against poor teams because they sit in and defend. We need Son in every game and have missed Lamela as an additional clever runner. Not enough craft and composure.
Ask yourselves this: who actually played bad tonight? Anyone?
The first leg, Dele's red, shite refereeing, atrocious finishing. That's what done this one for us. No one turned in a poor performance tonight individually.
Love the four votes for Vinny! Voted Wanyama. And which total plank voted Dire???!!
Apart from the miss, I thought Son was a breath of fresh air. We need width and pace and he showed that tonight. Just a shame he didn't get more of a run out.
Love the four votes for Vinny! Voted Wanyama. And which total plank voted Dire???!!
100% as most weeks = Dembele.
What a class act he is.
100% as most weeks = Dembele.
What a class act he is.
Dis is Fooble
I’ve got not real grumbles tonight, I would rather have seen Winks play than Dembele, I’d like to have seen Trippier play RWB, and I’d like to have seen Edwards on the bench, but apart from those quibbles I thought the tactics were good and we came out with the right attitude.
I liked the 3CB system, it meant we could use the bigger Wembley pitch to good effect. Just a shame Davies umbilical chord is attached to the halfway line.
You can not criticize the collective application tonight, from the get go we set about the game with the right attitude, were on the front foot, the only thing in short supply was composure and quality when it mattered.
And no one typified that more than Walker. Whilst you can applaud the endeavor he showed which, as always, was commendable, continually bombing up into forward attacking positions, he wasted so many with poor choices, no composure or poor delivery. I would love to have seen Trippier get into those areas as often as Walker did, you just feel sure we’d have seen at least half a dozen of them bear more fruitful conclusions.
I think we were incredibly unlucky tonight, we thoroughly dominated from start to finish, got the early goal our up and at em’ approach deserved, and even with ten men, we got in to numerous good situations and made enough great chances to win this game easily, but unfortunately we were ruthlessly punished for a couple of errors. Their first goal wasn’t even a corner, but then Dier was a bit half hearted and then Kane proves more ruthless in our box than he was in theirs all night, 1-1 and they haven’t even had a shot. The second Dier gets the offside horribly wrong, but even then they fuck up the situation, only for the ball to ping off Dier straight to their guy, who even then gets a deflections through Dier’s legs to score.
As Che Poch likes to say, Dis is fooble…
What isn’t fooble though, is what happened last week, that was poor management, bad approach and a poor performance. And that is ultimately why we are out of this tie.
Individual
Lloris - meh
Walker - Plenty of effort, plenty of wastage too. Got into so many great positions but his end product was largely fucking abysmal, and we really needed it to be better.
Dier - Tough night for the kid, bit lazy on the first goal, got himself all wrong and played them onside for the second, he did well to recover and was really unlucky the ball whacked off his chest straight to their fella, but ultimately his mistakes have been costly tonight, and there’s been a few this year, he’s only young, he has good qualities and there’s lots to like about him, but he needs to sharpen up.
TA - Good game generally
Vertonghen - Very good game.
Davies - He had a couple of forward moments, but just doesn’t quite embrace the bomb forward ethos like Broadway Danny or calamity Kyle.
Wanyama - Worked hard, always tries to look forwards, took his goal well.
Dembele - Just not doing it for me. Couple of typical dribbly centre pitch highlights, but we need tempo, he doesn’t provide it.
Alli - Bumble, bumble bumble, petulance.
Eriksen - Really good game, he’s an 8/10 hybrid. Scores a goal, gets an assist, 7 key passes (next best had 4) also sees more ball than both our CM’s. (64 passes, 82%). My MOTM
Kane - I can’t fault his effort tonight, and that’s the minimum requirement, but he definitely left his shooting boots at home.
Son - Was lively, but ultimately didn't really up the intelligence/composure factor by enough and wasted a glorious chance.
Dier is fucked!