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Spurs 1-2 Leicester - Mauricio's verdict

mawspurs

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Mauricio Pochettino pinpointed the failure to score a second goal as the main reason for our 2-1 FA Cup loss against Leicester City on Saturday.

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Gaz_Gammon

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And scoring zero goals from two home games in open play really shows just how poor we really are. Hell Palace scored three today away from home.
 

Jenko

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And scoring zero goals from two home games in open play really shows just how poor we really are. Hell Palace scored three today away from home.

Yeah, let's judge a team by they're last two games and ignore every other relevant fact that contradicts our agenda.
We obviously need to live up to our fickle reputation and riot the fuck out of London right now.
 
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Gaz_Gammon

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Yeah, let's judge a team by they're last two games and ignore every other relevant fact that contradicts our agenda.
We obviously need to live up to our fickle reputation and riot the fuck out of London right now.

Well done dipshit.


The team will be judged over a season, and you know only too well that aside from Kane the other two so called strikers have failed miserably this season. In fact Soldado has had a season and a half of failure.

In December in six PL games we managed just six goals failing to score in two home games. Aside from the Chelsea win we have netted just six times again in six games overall (get the pattern here?).

With a goal difference of just two this season, i think deep down you know that my post could have referred to the lat two months, and not the last two games. From open play in general we stink the place out when it comes to scoring goals. That's bloody obvious.

Insult me all you want but the facts are undeniable.
 

Jenko

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The team will be judged over a season, and you know only too well that aside from Kane the other two so called strikers have failed miserably this season. In fact Soldado has had a season and a half of failure.

In December in six PL games we managed just six goals failing to score in two home games. Aside from the Chelsea win we have netted just six times again in six games overall (get the pattern here?).

With a goal difference of just two this season, i think deep down you know that my post could have referred to the lat two months, and not the last two games. From open play in general we stink the place out when it comes to scoring goals. That's bloody obvious.

Insult me all you want but the facts are undeniable.

Ah no, your point is fair enough. Sorry for the insult, I was quite drunk and only did it to get a rise out of you. Doesn't seem as funny now that I'm sober.

With Townsend, soldado, and ade on the pitch its no wonder we don't score more. Squads got great potential but we've too many passengers.
 

lukadownthelane

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If we don't sign another striker then I cannot see us doing anything. As good as Kane's been all season it is unlikely he will maintain his form or fitness. Soldado and Ade just aren't good enough. Paulinho, Kaboul, Capoue, Dembele offer little, but our biggest problem is the inability to do anything at any tempo which makes us easy to defend against.
 

UbeAstard

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Too many changes for me, not a good decision Poch. How many times has the combinations of Soldado, Paulinho, Chiriches, Kaboul, Dembele and Capoue produced a positive result for us. These guys should little by little be being eased into winning formulas, not being relied on to make the winning formula at the moment. Some may argue that we have a big game in the week but I believe this was an important winnable game and 3 days in between each of them was enough rest without massive changes being needed. Next weekend against WBA is going to be the most difficult to get a result out of and I think we should have taken our minds of that one and just thought of these 2 games. There is no guarantees we'll progress beyond Wednesday never mind win the Capital cup, so with all the big clubs now out of the FA cup we could regret this one.
 

greywizard2020

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The coach is well within his rights to have rotated the squad & when you consider that the names out there have all played at international level for their respective countries, they should be embarrassed that they were undone by a Leicester team that is largely made up of last-season's championship team.

Poch should be able to rely on these players when called upon, but is instead disappointed by them time & again. We won't see the fruits of our new recruitment structure until the summer transfer-window, but I hope they are already putting together a plan of what needs to happen.

That b*stard Baldini needs to be held accountable & be sacked come the end of the season. Levy hired him, but Baldini was chosen based on the fact that he is an experienced, well travelled man of world-football, not some novice. Regardless of Levy's faults he has backed the DOF, along with the funds of Bale's sale, which is all a chairman can do.

I feel sorry for Pochettino because these players do not seem to be able to play the kind of football he wants to see, yet has to trot out before the media & grimace that he's 'happy with the squad.' I'm not so fussed about players coming, I just want to see it purged of these useless b*stards.
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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We fail to score because:
1) Soldado is a shit striker who offers no goals.
2) Adebeyor used to be good, but now, see above
3) Kane IS a good striker, but Poch decides it's a clever idea to sacrifice our only goal threat and, when he does play, plays in midfield.
4) Townsend offers as much penetration as a eunuch.
5) Dembele offers even less.
6) Paulinho is better at pulling the wool over people's eyes than David Copperfield
7) Lamela is a far worse all round football player than Lennon.
8) Lennon doesn't get a look in because of the above waste of oxygen.
9) Capoue. Just wtf?
10) Kaboul should never play for us again.
11) Chiriches is a centre back. And poor.
12) We miss Chadli
13) If Eriksen isn't in the centre, he should be rested, not played out of position
14) 4231 should only ever be used against highly attacking opposition, never against bottom of the league or lower league toss.

15) Expect all of the above for the foreseeable future.
 
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