Sending Walker Back On When He Couldn't Walk

[Mustard]

To be honest, I don't really care, we was crap with him and without him.

It just brightened, what was, anti-football at it's best.

*were*

 

[Mustard]

Hate this anti Walker crap.

It really sickens me.

 

[Ionman34]

Hate this anti Walker crap.

It really sickens me.

Well, in defence of H&W, I think he was just looking to inject a little humour into the thread.

Chill a little brother, no harm done.

 

[jesh]

I think Poch wanted to experiment if Walker could defend better whilst playing injured.

 

[eViL]

How many times have you seen Walker limping one minute and then bounding down the touchline at 35mph the next?

Our Kyle's becoming a bit of a bottler as he matures. Sad but true.

 

[cozzo]

To be fair I never noticed much difference

 

[whitesocks]

I'm afraid MP's decision here was almost as bad as some of AVB's calls.
If the half time consensus really was 'see if you can run it off',
then Walker wouldn't have had to force the issue.
He could have just raised his arm, and hobbled off.

MP had a really bad day - even Michael Cox dedicated an article to how tactically poor we were.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/apr/05/match-tactics-burnley-tottenham

But these things happen, and it does not matter too much - our season was over along time ago

 

[dannythomas]

Capoue has been total pants when playing in central defence ( not much better at MF either ) . I don't see any reason to play Stambouli there either. Davies was excellent and how do we know that Poch had not had him play there in training just in case ?

Were Stambouli and Capoue both injured as well? Two players who can play at CB if needed. If there's no fit CB available, wouldn't one of those have been an intelligent backup option on the bench?

Seems to me that Pochettino was reluctant to play Davies at CB, so tried to keep Walker on. As it turned out, Davies didn't do a bad job.