Match Threads Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester City - Match Thread

[Sweetsman]

Booked more City players than ours and could (should) have sent Davies off. Let's not do the victim thing.

Well, I'm speaking from my feelings during the match: he gave a lot for them and crucial decisions went against us; the players were riled in the first half. Plus, my comments on his fitness and BMI are correct. His BMI is 27-28, I reckon.

 

[TheChosenOne]

The end result for me was upsetting but but not unexpected.

The shite that Martin Tyler spouts is infinitely more annoying - putting his slant on things during the game.

E.G. ... saying Kyle Walker telling Pochettino he "wanted to move to win trophies" and that he had won a Carabao Cup medal with a League winners medal on the way as well

I can accept that, I may not like it but fair enough.

What he didn't say and I don't like is the timing of his having been tapped up - prior to the Chelsea FA cup semi final, that's traitorous in the extreme.

No mention of that. Fuck him (Tyler)

 

[Sweetsman]

We bottled it again plain and simple ,liverpool took the game to city , we hid and were frightened to play and it showed, Kane was anonymous, verts was our best player yet again and Lucas showed, he must get a run on Tuesday.

We didn't bottle anything. We weren't frightened to play. Liverpool did take the game to them, but they were also lucky with the decisions they got in the CL.

 

[Deleted member 27855]

Very poor from Spurs, played into their hands from the start, Tuesday night against Brighton won't be easy either.

Poch will rotate the sqaud Tuesday night and we'll basically be looking at completely different team.

Lloris
Aurier Sanchez Vertongen Rose
Wanyama Dembele
Lucas Eriksen Son
Kane

That's the exact squad that should have started today against City too. The squad he put out today should have started against Brighton. It's fucking aggravating.

 

[DiamondLites]

Kompany gets away with everything, he gets the sympathy vote from refs because of his injury woes and because he looks like Ken Griffey Jr in that episode of The Simpsons. Gets away with it from the pundits because he’s read a book so they all think he’s Confuscious, really grinds my gears

 

[tiger666]

Kompany gets away with everything,

He was booked.

 

[squirrel]

No, it's that if you attack Guardiola teams enough then you can get through them. We actually played well for the middle part of the game, causing them to waste time and make the substitutions that they did. Alli was kicked a lot.
I haven't seen the game on TV as I was at the ground, but did we have legitimate claims for penalties?

3 possible penalty’s although quite a lot of bottles of Budweiser taken on board

 

[1882andallthat]

Still making my way home from the game and I have to say we weren't half as bad as some have been claiming on here tonight, and the BBC write up on the game is a disgrace and plainly wrong
and inaccurate.

City didn't completely dominate that first half, they were in charge and put us under the cosh for the first half an hour. We came back into it after starting sluggishly and desevedly pegged them back to 2-1, if Lamela had cut it back to Eriksen we could have gone in at 2-2 at HT.

The BBC also claim we are 6 points in front of Chelsea despite also showing the table in the same article, we are on 67, they are on 60, and we have a plus 9 better GD so the gap is more like 8 points.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43678368

Yes it's true that City had a few chances but they are Champions elect FFS, and they haven't become a bad side overnight. We were coming back at them in the 2nd half and a lucky ricochet fell into Sterling's path and even he couldn't miss and that killed the game, up to that point the game was in the balance.

So lets have some perspective, we lost to a very good side, we were not at our best but it was not the worst performance I've seen by any stretch. We still have a hell of a lot to play for, a good shot a silverware and a realistic chance of qualifying for a CL spot, all at a time when the so called media bollocks talking experts were saying we'd miss out by finishing 5th or 6th, and it's a great Premier League run we've been on that was only halted by the Champions elect, we even went unbeaten away to Liverpool, Chelsea and at home to Man Utd and Arsenal in that time !!!

COYS let's pick ourselves up and dust ourselves down and give it a real good go in finishing top 4 and claiming some long overdue silverware.

 

[Mate]

Souness confessed that Spurs were his first love and that he supports us.

See, the world is not all bad.

 

[dagraham]

Sometimes you just have to hold your hands up and say you were outplayed by the better team.... a financially doped better team, but a better team all the same.

We had a decent spell at the start of the second half, but still didn’t really test their defence or keeper.

In contrast, within two or three passes and the space of 10 seconds they cut us open many times.

Hope Kane can get some match sharpness back very soon.

 

[dagraham]

Souness confessed that Spurs were his first love and that he supports us.

See, the world is not all bad.

Interesting. He’s always been very fair imo, even when talking about Liverpool.

 

[SugarRay]

Very disappointing opening twenty tonight

 

[Sweetsman]

3 possible penalty’s although quite a lot of bottles of Budweiser taken on board

As in, the fact they weren't given drove you to drink? Or, if you'd drunk Carlsberg you would have been able to see better?

 

[SugarRay]

Full backs and midfield were shown up tonight I thiught. Didn’t play well at all

 

[lukespurs7]

Poch will rotate the sqaud Tuesday night and we'll basically be looking at completely different team.

Lloris
Aurier Sanchez Vertongen Rose
Wanyama Dembele
Lucas Eriksen Son
Kane

That's the exact squad that should have started today against City too. The squad he put out today should have started against Brighton. It's fucking aggravating.

100% this. Poch has pulled off some great tactics and selections this year but today he got it 100% wrong.

 

[lukespurs7]

Souness confessed that Spurs were his first love and that he supports us.

See, the world is not all bad.

Did he really lol?

 

[lukespurs7]

Still making my way home from the game and I have to say we weren't half as bad as some have been claiming on here tonight, and the BBC write up on the game is a disgrace and plainly wrong
and inaccurate.

City didn't completely dominate that first half, they were in charge and put us under the cosh for the first half an hour. We came back into it after starting sluggishly and desevedly pegged them back to 2-1, if Lamela had cut it back to Eriksen we could have gone in at 2-2 at HT.

The BBC also claim we are 6 points in front of Chelsea despite also showing the table in the same article, we are on 67, they are on 60, and we have a plus 9 better GD so the gap is more like 8 points.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43678368

Yes it's true that City had a few chances but they are Champions elect FFS, and they haven't become a bad side overnight. We were coming back at them in the 2nd half and a lucky ricochet fell into Sterling's path and even he couldn't miss and that killed the game, up to that point the game was in the balance.

So lets have some perspective, we lost to a very good side, we were not at our best but it was not the worst performance I've seen by any stretch. We still have a hell of a lot to play for, a good shot a silverware and a realistic chance of qualifying for a CL spot, all at a time when the so called media bollocks talking experts were saying we'd miss out by finishing 5th or 6th, and it's a great Premier League run we've been on that was only halted by the Champions elect, we even went unbeaten away to Liverpool, Chelsea and at home to Man Utd and Arsenal in that time !!!

COYS let's pick ourselves up and dust ourselves down and give it a real good go in finishing top 4 and claiming some long overdue silverware.

We got dominated and didn’t get near them for 70 mins of the match and we were at home.

 

[ljinko888]

What worked so well for Liverpool is they had players who can turn and run with the ball. Man City will control possesion but they are suspect without it, and the likes of Salah, Mane, Firmino, Robertson and even Oxlade pinned them back because they are direct with the ball.

That is an area we lacked. Son was on the bench. Lucas has barely come off it but instantly looked class when he finally got a sizeable cameo. Davies got into promising positions but his use of the ball was off. Trippier didn't have his best game.

City are trained to press and force errors off the ball. To beat them you need to disorganise them. To do that, its not about pass, pass, pass and wait for a gap. You need someone to run at them, put doubt in their mind and get you high up the pitch.

 

[Wellspurs]

We should have played a back three(with Toby) and wing backs bombing on!

 

[Jimmypearce7]

We bottled it again plain and simple ,liverpool took the game to city , we hid and were frightened to play and it showed, Kane was anonymous, verts was our best player yet again and Lucas showed, he must get a run on Tuesday.

Lose our first game in the league this year in the middle of April and we “bottled it again”!