Tottenham Vs Everton: Match Thread

[Gaz_Gammon]

I don"t really see any major improvement this year over last on the pitch. Yes we have a better keeper and a goal scoring center half but nothing to suggest that we have improved enough to merit a top four position. Lot's of huffing and puffing but a lack of quality in areas where it's needed at this level. Still a good season and lots to look forward to next season where AVB needs to start to move the team forward. Bale aside we could be described as above average in the current top six.

 

[Matt_Spurs]

Just back from the game. It is true we missed Bale and Lennon (which team wouldn't) but the reason we dropped points today wasn't down to their absence. Defence errors again - three straight games with goals conceded from corners. Dawson found it
really though against Anichebe today.

Adebayor had one of his best games of the season. He was willing to press from the front after his early goal which game him confidence. Can't fault the effort of the players. Sigurdsson in particular kept going all game. Everton are a stubborn team who are difficult to beat especially when you help with their two goals. Let's keep going. The players didn't quit. Seems like some of the fans on the way out of the game are losing faith in our ability to get top 4. Good job the players didn't lose faith today otherwise we would have lost.

 

[Flightrisker]

You forget to mention that they have a better team than us. (Unless Adebayor plays the rest of the season like he did today)

Yeah but don't discount the wildcard that is the Rafa factor. They've dropped points against some weird teams this year. All to play for.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Yeah but don't discount the wildcard that is the Rafa factor. They've dropped points against some weird teams this year. All to play for.

When we start talking about about the hope of other teams falling down, you know that the month is April without the need of a calendar.

 

[Flightrisker]

When we start talking about about the hope of other teams falling down, you know that the month is April without the need of a calendar.

True but it just shows how close we all are. We've all been banking on the other slipping up. I'm sure there'll be a few more weird results to come. Even if we come 5th we've had a good season imo.

 

[Gringospur]

pathetic finish,... blame who you like, but not good enough... a game that was begging to be won, but Spurs didn't..



Thursday night to be a different story, yes?

i do not think we were pathetic. We have half the 1st team out injured and there was some good work on the pitch today.
Everton are 6th and 6 points behind us.

 

[Dannyspur]

I think you better look at the table or fixture list if you think that

Just did the bbc predictor and we ended up 5th behind chelsea on goal difference even winning all of our games

 

[Flightrisker]

I think you better look at the table or fixture list if you think that

As I said in the race for 4th thread if us, city, chelsea and Arse all win all our games (except Chelse and City lose to us obviously) we come 5th by GD.

I'm afraid you're wrong, its' no longer in our hands.

 

[guiltyparty]

I don"t really see any major improvement this year over last on the pitch. Yes we have a better keeper and a goal scoring center half but nothing to suggest that we have improved enough to merit a top four position. Lot's of huffing and puffing but a lack of quality in areas where it's needed at this level. Still a good season and lots to look forward to next season where AVB needs to start to move the team forward. Bale aside we could be described as above average in the current top six.

Think an improvement was optimistic considering the enormous changes that went on. New manager, three of our best four players no longer playing for us, lots of new faces to bed in, etc. Replicating it, for me, was always going to be difficult. To be on course to equal it is pretty good going

 

[Francis Gibbs]

Proud of the side today, obviously lacking creativity in the final third but certainly not lacking in effort throughout which was especially impressive given Thursdays exertions.
Ironically given we were missing Bale,Lennon and Defoe we were undone by 2 awful goals defensively.

 

[DEFchenkOE]

6/7? Jesus. That's a fabulous run. I'm sure many of us had hoped that winning the NLD would knock the stuffing out of them.

Yep, guess they found a way out of their negative spiral.


4th March

“It’s not a big enough margin yet for us to be completely safe but what we think is that it can have a direct effect on their motivation,” Villas-Boas said.“On ours too of course – we have a difficult game against Liverpool coming up – but particularly on them. We are on an upward spiral in terms of confidence and they are on a negative spiral in terms of results. To get out of that negative spiral is extremely difficult.”

2-1 up at Anfield and lost, losing at home to Fulham, year after year arsenal pull results out the bag at this time of year. Even without Wilshere and Walcott, Rosicky crawls out from under the woodwork and drags himself of the treatment table and scores 2 goals.

Let's be honest their run in always looked easier on paper than ours but trust them to make their superiority count when it really matters.

Think our only hope is beating Chelsea to 4th and I can't say I'm confident about that.

 

[DEFchenkOE]

True but it just shows how close we all are. We've all been banking on the other slipping up. I'm sure there'll be a few more weird results to come. Even if we come 5th we've had a good season imo.

5th is a decent season but hard to take when u been in the top 4 for most of it.

I just hope that if Bale is going we sell him early so avb can spend the cash to rebuild.

 

[TottenhamLegend]

I don"t really see any major improvement this year over last on the pitch. Yes we have a better keeper and a goal scoring center half but nothing to suggest that we have improved enough to merit a top four position.

We finished 4th last year though

 

[StartingPrice]

We finished 4th last year though

We finished one point off 3rd, and that only after a thoroughly bizarre goal-keeping performance from Marton Fulop (a self-confessed Spurs fan, no less). And yet today I have already read that we are doomed because Cheslea got it together at the right time last season - they finished 6th (SIXTH ) and took our CL place through a couple of results that in no way reflected their performances (or lack of the same) in CL. Something I found remarkably suspicious seen as their owner is a multi-billionaire who doesn't like to lose, and can't have liked the prospect of finishing 6th and no CL football this season. Dodge-E

 

[Berbatonghen]

I can only take us finishing 5th IF we win the europa league .. Maybe people seeing us winning a major silverware would want to join us next season.

Either way yet again we have made cementing 4th spot slip out of our hands.

No way it is over but just so gutted to have dropped points today.

The premierleague is full of twists n turns and ups n downs.

Lets just hope we take the right turns and go up instead of the opposite.

I can feel for the angry fans i really do because i am one of them. BUT lets not give up on the team.

If we can get bale and lennon (praying kaboul too even if 90% fit) back in time for the chelsea game in my hearts of hearts i honestly think we can get those 3 precious points off them.

Come On You Spurs !!

 

[Teddy Klinsmann]

I agree, had this been at a different stage of the season I would have been truly happy considering we had no Bale, Lennon, Defoe, Kaboul or Sandro as well as starting with Dempsey on the right...

Great to see Adebayor working hard and I thought Walker had a good game and he was one of the only platers who cold add a bit of urgency to some our attacks due to his pace.

Fact of the matter is though, with no pace, in terms of creativity we're clueless. Have we really become way too reliant on pace?

Didn't need pace today. We scored twice and ha chances. The problem today was at the back-clean sheets and we'd have won.

 

[ajspurs]

Didn't need pace today. We scored twice and ha chances. The problem today was at the back-clean sheets and we'd have won.

True but did we really create that much? Most of our efforts were from long range from what I can remember. You could say we didn't need pace on the basis that we still scored 2 and were sloppy defensively, but at the end of the day the pace that Lennon and Bale would have provided would have been the difference between a draw and a win.

 

[alpha]

I don"t really see any major improvement this year over last on the pitch. Yes we have a better keeper and a goal scoring center half but nothing to suggest that we have improved enough to merit a top four position. Lot's of huffing and puffing but a lack of quality in areas where it's needed at this level. Still a good season and lots to look forward to next season where AVB needs to start to move the team forward. Bale aside we could be described as above average in the current top six.

Some perspective here.

 

[samsonlevi]

today has been a huge.....................

 

[Legend10]

Just did the bbc predictor and we ended up 5th behind chelsea on goal difference even winning all of our games

Somehow if we pick up 18 points from here on in I don't think we'll be finishing 5th!