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MentalityFor the longest time watching Spurs I'd see us play well but lose. We now have the opposite - better players? Better manager? Luck?
Dunno but going to enjoy it while I can.
MentalityFor the longest time watching Spurs I'd see us play well but lose. We now have the opposite - better players? Better manager? Luck?
Dunno but going to enjoy it while I can.
Well that's why he and tanganga were brought on. We needed willing runners into the box.Davies played a major part in the (vital) opening goal. He burst into the box, allowing Perisic to pick his cross.
I do really like the look of Lenglet and think he will be the better option generally but credit to Ben for making things happen - not many of his team-mates made runs like that all night.
He also nearly cost us a goal within a few mins of coming onDavies played a major part in the (vital) opening goal. He burst into the box, allowing Perisic to pick his cross.
I do really like the look of Lenglet and think he will be the better option generally but credit to Ben for making things happen - not many of his team-mates made runs like that all night.
It's not even that it's in just the teams interest, as much as...who would you want in the box other than himself to put away a glancing header or a loose ball from a deflection or a save?! He'd probably have 5-10 more goals if he'd decided when the rest of us did that he's awful at them.Even if it's in his contract or something ridiculous like that you'd figure at some point he'd realise it's in the team's interest (and therefore his interest too) to let someone else take.
I believe he's currently on the longest run of direct free kicks without a goal in PL history.
He's, quite literally, historically shit at them.
You're right.
I think we planned to let them come out a bit and play through it as we often do.
The issue was we simply weren't sharp enough and Marseille were quick to shut down avenues and prevented players from turning.
It then looks like we are a little directionless.
I think we need to find ways to stretch the pitch as most of our play goes inside or to the 2 wide players as they drop inside.
Which probably shows why Kuksevski came on at RWB, allowed us to stretch their defence and meant the balls were now going all across the frontline.
Need to work on it.
I love him seems a great character and been very consistent for us since the second half of last season. Gets a lot of unfair flack imo.Hats off to Emerson tonight. Not his biggest fan but kudos, he was brilliant. Showed passion, urgency and was solid
But it's working, let's be honest. I'm not a great admirer of Conte as a coach, but we keep winning games, and it would be nice to win something this season. If that happens, I'll put my hands up. If it doesn't, then I don't think I'll want another season of this.Fuck we're hard to watch live right now.
The only thing potentially saving Son's starting place this weekend is his record against City. Otherwise there's no way he should be starting.
Oh and the ref was shocking.
Constantly giving fouls for nothing more than innocent collisions, falling for Marseille’s gamesmanship/time wasting and brandishing some baffling yellows.
Sometimes European football can be a frustrating watch.
But we have been really poor attacking all season and have not found a solution yet. I think Conti couldn’t care less how we play as long as we don’t lose. I would rather have a manager who wants to win!Positives and negatives. Marseille are a good team. We defended well but largely attacked poorly. As I've mentioned previously the same ball playing defense couldn't ball play as well as they did against fulham because Marseille have a lot more steel than fulham.
We were never really troubled, but the attack isn't yet connecting. At the moment we are getting results, we also know that this team can attack better than they have, we saw that last season. But it still has to click.
My words mean shite, thankfully!This game is ending in frustration, mark my words.
The subs worked very well… Have to give the manager 10 out of 10 for making such insightful changes. Most of us SC experts thought he’d lost the plot!Davies for Lenglet actually worked perfectly. Ben does make quite a few runs into the box from his LCB role and that helped lead to the opener. Lenglet doesn’t (yet) do that.
I think Tanganga was brought on as hybrid RCB/RB as we didn’t have a RWB on the pitch. Romero wasn’t having a particularly great night (he wasn’t alone) so it sort of made sense.
Yeah sooner or later we'll definitely come unstuck if we keep playing this below-par. We very nearly lost at West Ham and Chelsea, while Wolves could've easily taken the lead against us. We've ridden our luck a bit this season.We played way too deep even after they got a man sent off.
We always look better when I seePEH beyond the half way line and the wing backs pushed up and youre right, we stretch the pitch... thats how we should be playing but its safety first and that hinders our performance and our players look just dont look like footballers.
Also it was so pedestrian until we sped it up at around 70 mins. Anyways we won but my concern is that at some point the results are going to match the performances.
Yeah but Im sure Conte wants us to attack better than this. Conte ball isn't always exciting stuff but this is far from what he would like us to be playing for sure.But we have been really poor attacking all season and have not found a solution yet. I think Conti couldn’t care less how we play as long as we don’t lose. I would rather have a manager who wants to win!
He's probably very good at them in training. But the psychological aspect of taking them during a game is an entirely different thing. I also think it's a vanity thing.It's not even that it's in just the teams interest, as much as...who would you want in the box other than himself to put away a glancing header or a loose ball from a deflection or a save?! He'd probably have 5-10 more goals if he'd decided when the rest of us did that he's awful at them.
Another unknowable mystery is, why does one of the PLs greatest ever strikers not get better at this thing, given how he's improved in every other way immeasurably over his career? And why, when you know having watched as many as three Tottenham games that Harry Kane can't take a free kick, does a commentator never mention that he's shit at them? Shame him off of them!
The whole situation is just...I'm at a loss with it. He's watched too much Ronaldo growing up I think.