Tottenham Vs Dinamo Tbilisi

[Spurs1960]

Fucking hell the disparity between the views on Holtby and Siggy on here are crazy. Theyve both been OK nothing more. And if Soldado scored Defoe's first (which he hasn't looked like doing at all by the way) there'd be cream everywhere.

You have to remember half our supporters are conned by a 'show' displays rather than end product displays.

Personally Holtby had a great workout and showed good movement and touches on the ball topped off with his goal. Siggy showed some good stuff, could have scored but at the end of the day everyone put ina similar level of performance, Sandro for instance in his way was just as good.

 

[SlunkSoma]

Some poor kid stood up in block 32 and started signing "we love you tottenham" but got the name of the club wrong. Fair play for trying to start a song but it was so funny.

 

[Partizan]

Braga out aswell

 

[Spursbabe63]

Did AVB give an update on Bale?

 

[JerryGarcia]

Mainly the bit that impressed ( ) me was talking about Man Utd's CL group. Said how he had been to watch both Sociedad and Leverkusen train in the past year, brief description and praise of the teams and said they would be tricky opponents. Made a difference from the 'easy group, should qualify' standard answer you normally get and for a pundit to actually have some knowledge of teams other than those in the PL.

I agree though, I cannot picture him back in football management that easily, certainly at the top level and maybe not even in the Championship. Punditry may be what he has to accept from now on.

I remember Stoke fans getting the hump with him because he kept saying he'd been to watch all these teams train etc.. They felt he was trying to make out that he was going to change his management style but they just kept playing long ball. As long as we don't have to get hacked by one of his teams though, I don't have a problem with him

 

[JerryGarcia]

Did AVB give an update on Bale?

Yeah he laughed at the guy doing the interview

 

[Dunc2610]

Who played the pass to set up the pass to defoe for the second? Nifty bit of ball work just before the pass. Only seen it on YouTube so couldn't see who it was.

 

[$hoguN]

Who played the pass to set up the pass to defoe for the second? Nifty bit of ball work just before the pass. Only seen it on YouTube so couldn't see who it was.

walker

 

[Dunc2610]

walker

Cheers bud. Was a well worked goal! The boys are looking sharp,

 

[Don_Felipe]

Andre reminds me of these chaps in that interview:

Didn't that get posted for Comolli, Arnesen & Santini?

 

[thinktank]

I do think Paulinho is going to be the one charged with getting forward the most though, well I suspect that will come naturally.

Will get a lot of goals this season - 15 imo.

 

[joelstinton14]

Just catching up with the match now, about 75 mins in. Impressed with out attitude massively. 5-0 up and we still come out and work really hard. The crowd are responding to it as well, really appreciating the performance the lads put in, despite being at the moment 8 to the good.

Siggi and holtby having really good games.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Just came back from our match. Here are some thoughts:
We had some good passing movements and we always looked in the control.
Holtby and Carroll were wonderful in my opinion
Sigurdsson was woeful
Decisionr making needs to be improved as we could have scored more with better choice of pass.
All in all, a great performance and just annoyed there was no presentation of players...

 

[davidmatzdorf]

It's hard to say anything about the defence, because they were playing in midfield and had so little to do. Kaboul was good. Walker was excellent. Fryers showed good positioning.

Even without Paulinho and Capoue, our central midfield played exactly the same game as we have seen so far: win the ball, almost every time the opposition advance with it. Then win the ball again. Over and over and over, for 90 minutes. For Capoue, see Sandro. For Paulinho, see Holtby.

After a slow start, Carroll gradually imposed himself on the game, a bit 'Modric-lite' in style, always making himself available and keeping things moving. After half time, he relaxed and the creativity started to come out. He looks like a superior Premiership-standard player now and I hope he hangs around this season to learn and play.

Holtby so often charges about thoughtlessly, but tonight, after getting over an early tendency to indulge in pointless back-heels, he used his first touch, which is one of the best features of his game, instead of relying upon bustling all over the pitch and thus wearing himself out - although it's notable that, yet again, he didn't play 90 minutes. Good to see him get an assist and a goal.

Sandro was the Sandro of last season and it was reassuring to see that it took him exactly 15 minutes to get his first yellow card.

Sigurdsson had a frustrating time and it wasn't really his fault. Throughout the first half, he made one intelligent run after another, first drawing defenders away from Defoe's run, then several times drifting into the hole - the area from which van der Vaart used to cause so much havoc - but no one ever passed to him. The only time he made anything happen was when he ran with the ball himself and he's not really quick enough to do that effectively. And, as ever since he arrived at Spurs, he had several near-misses that would have been memorable goals, had they been on target.

Defoe looked sharp and had a good time punishing a bad team. He does that and it's useful to have someone who can.

For the first time, I saw the potential in Harry Kane. He's visibly faster than last season, when he seemed far too slow to be a Premiership striker, and he's a very intelligent player with a real sense of how to find space in the box and a capable line in link-up play. He just needs a goal to get him started and then we'll see if he is good enough for a top 5 club (I doubt it) or will end up at a good, mid-table side.

Dinamo Tbilisi have managed to assemble a really bad football team. I mean, we talk about weak opposition in the early stages of the Europa League, but this is not a small club from the back of nowhere, it's a well-supported major club with a history of success. And they're dreadful, from front to back. Sluggish, lacking in competitiveness, sloppy in possession, disorganised in defence and apparently incapable of stringing a creative move together. 0-8 didn't look inappropriate. They were that bad.

 

[Willsy]

I went to the match and it was amazing, Holtby played some vital passes, and Defoe scoring key goals in our Europa League progression. The atmosphere was electrifying despite an abundance of empty seats. Townsend bolted down the wings and played in crucial crosses, I believe he could be the new Aaron Lennon. Lamela and Townsend have similar playing styles, therefore it will be interesting to see how they link up on the wings.

 

[kazzah9]

Sandro's ginger beard. That is all.

 

[Joely410]

Just came back from our match. Here are some thoughts:
We had some good passing movements and we always looked in the control.
Holtby and Carroll were wonderful in my opinion
Sigurdsson was woeful
Decisionr making needs to be improved as we could have scored more with better choice of pass.
All in all, a great performance and just annoyed there was no presentation of players...

Woeful? Really? He hit the bar, went close a couple of other times. Furthermore, he had an assist and was involved in build up for another goal.

He may have been a bit hesitant at points and needs to work on his touch under pressure but to call him 'woeful' tonight is a bit bizarre.

 

[L.A. Yiddo]

Highlights.

 

[sebcole]

My Sky box ruptured, literally turned off at the 25 minute stage and lost the recording (was 20 minutes behind the game).

Got back to it live at half time which meant me and my Dad missed 2 goals and a penalty shout denied - all to do with Defoe.

Not a good time to have a ghost in the machine.

Solid win, good experience for the young'uns, surprised he played Vertonghen though, and even Walker - which made me spend the whole match worrying about injury. No complaints at all, but I think we can gain from that game the perspective that Holtby>Siggy.

Oh and Holtby's interview at the end was funay.

 

[TheGreenLily]

It's hard to say anything about the defence, because they were playing in midfield and had so little to do. Kaboul was good. Walker was excellent. Fryers showed good positioning.

Even without Paulinho and Capoue, our central midfield played exactly the same game as we have seen so far: win the ball, almost every time the opposition advance with it. Then win the ball again. Over and over and over, for 90 minutes. For Capoue, see Sandro. For Paulinho, see Holtby.

After a slow start, Carroll gradually imposed himself on the game, a bit 'Modric-lite' in style, always making himself available and keeping things moving. After half time, he relaxed and the creativity started to come out. He looks like a superior Premiership-standard player now and I hope he hangs around this season to learn and play.

Holtby so often charges about thoughtlessly, but tonight, after getting over an early tendency to indulge in pointless back-heels, he used his first touch, which is one of the best features of his game, instead of relying upon bustling all over the pitch and thus wearing himself out - although it's notable that, yet again, he didn't play 90 minutes. Good to see him get an assist and a goal.

Sandro was the Sandro of last season and it was reassuring to see that it took him exactly 15 minutes to get his first yellow card.

Sigurdsson had a frustrating time and it wasn't really his fault. Throughout the first half, he made one intelligent run after another, first drawing defenders away from Defoe's run, then several times drifting into the hole - the area from which van der Vaart used to cause so much havoc - but no one ever passed to him. The only time he made anything happen was when he ran with the ball himself and he's not really quick enough to do that effectively. And, as ever since he arrived at Spurs, he had several near-misses that would have been memorable goals, had they been on target.

Defoe looked sharp and had a good time punishing a bad team. He does that and it's useful to have someone who can.

For the first time, I saw the potential in Harry Kane. He's visibly faster than last season, when he seemed far too slow to be a Premiership striker, and he's a very intelligent player with a real sense of how to find space in the box and a capable line in link-up play. He just needs a goal to get him started and then we'll see if he is good enough for a top 5 club (I doubt it) or will end up at a good, mid-table side.

Dinamo Tbilisi have managed to assemble a really bad football team. I mean, we talk about weak opposition in the early stages of the Europa League, but this is not a small club from the back of nowhere, it's a well-supported major club with a history of success. And they're dreadful, from front to back. Sluggish, lacking in competitiveness, sloppy in possession, disorganised in defence and apparently incapable of stringing a creative move together. 0-8 didn't look inappropriate. They were that bad.

I thought Kane played exceptionally well and I agree, I would love him to start knocking the goals in too