Tottenham Vs Leicester: FA Cup Match Thread

[We'llWinThePrem]

How many chances will Kaboul, Capoue, Dembele, Paulinho, Soldado, Adebayor get?

Get them out.

 

[stevenurse]

It's a ridiculous 2nd goal to concede. Vorm looked like he'd suddenly contracted motor neurone disease.

 

[trevo]

Just saw the second Leicester goal. Reminded me of...

 

[Sweetsman]

A Spurs supporter personified.

Bet you were at the game handing out tenners to those "fans" booing Ade?

I totally agree with you about people booing Adebayor, but am mystified as to what the other poster said has to to do with your last paragraph.

 

[prawnsandwich]

Does anybody who booed Ade think that would actually contribute to us winning the game?

 

[Sweetsman]

I don't think anyone was expecting dramatic or instant improvements. Just some signs of improvement.

I don't know about you, but I saw many signs of improvement when we beat Chelsea 5-3. You know, Chelsea, the team that shipped four goals against Bradford.

 

[Sweetsman]

Does anybody who booed Ade think that would actually contribute to us winning the game?

The people you refer to are unable to think, so you're onto a non-starter there.

 

[Sweetsman]

Lamela did great, especially coming off an injury lay off. Soldado, instrumental as always while we were provided a Carl Sagan-esque insight into the prowess of Paulinho. Not all bad... some positives to take away...

I totally agree with you, but trying to convince some of the brain-donors here is akin to trying to sell the benefits of mixed marriages at a KKK cross-burning.

 

[Sweetsman]

I've said before, our main problems for me is that they all look to play to feet in this area:

View attachment 17377

We don't use width enough and work overlaps, and if you don't get men/the ball in the box then you aren't going to score goals. The balance is all wrong.

I look forward to your next lecture to neurosurgeons on how to undertake a frontal lobotomy. You seem a self-taught expert.

 

[mpickard2087]

I look forward to your next lecture to neurosurgeons on how to undertake a frontal lobotomy. You seem a self-taught expert.

Glad to hear it, and anyone is welcome to come and sit in on it. We are explaining a new technique where you enter the brain via the eyeball. Fascinating stuff...

 

[SpursManChris]

Vertonghen and walker not even on the bench? What the hell happened there? I thought we were all fit. Kane coming on at 87 minutes simply is not fucking good enough, what the hell is that going to achieve? Poor from Poch, really really poor. I can't understand his thinking.

 

[Sweetsman]

For the life of me, I can't understand how some of us, Spurs supporters for crying out loud, can be such sore losers. Is this result really that much of a travesty. I didn't see the game but I'm in no way surprised. In a way, I'm not too bothered. We have so many games, there was no way we'd be able to compete properly in four competitions. This is a blessing in disguise, is how I actually feel.

Naturally, I'd have preferred a win, but the one thing I did not want was as a replay. I also hope Hugo starts on Wednesday.

 

[Sweetsman]

Is there really much difference between AVB and Poch???

Well, both are smart foreign managers, so clearly that would rub UKIP supporters up the wrong way.

 

[Spurger King]

I don't know about you, but I saw many signs of improvement when we beat Chelsea 5-3. You know, Chelsea, the team that shipped four goals against Bradford.

Let's not downplay our win over Chelsea. That wasn't the team that got beaten by Bradford, and obviously it wasn't the same Spurs team that got beaten by Leicester.

On the subject of improvement, I personally measure it by whether or not it is sustained. A great performance once in a blue moon isn't improvement - it's an anomaly. Improvement would be identifying and replicating the strongest parts of our performance against Chelsea in subsequent games, which we haven't done at all. Instead we've slipped back into ponderous and often sloppy football. There's no apparent ethos to how we play - something that should be at least partly apparent even after big changes to the starting line-up.

I want Pochettino to be a success, but there's nothing about his time at the club so far that makes his approach stand out from AVB, or even Sherwood. Kane is to Pochettino what Adebayor was to Sherwood - a striker in great form that papers over the proverbial cracks. We've not played well in the vast majority of our games, and apart from occasional performances against Southampton, Everton, and Chelsea, our typical way of playing has shown no signs of developing.

 

[stemark44]

Does anybody who booed Ade think that would actually contribute to us winning the game?

Crazy notion.........however anyone who thinks cheering him is going to help him or us........ is also crazy.

 

[prawnsandwich]

Crazy notion.........however anyone who thinks cheering him is going to help him or us........ is also crazy.

Eh? Most people respond positively to a positive response by others.

 

[E17yid]

Eh? Most people respond positively to a positive response by others.

Soldado doesn't.

 

[stemark44]

Eh? Most people respond positively to a positive response by others.

We need shot of him asap.

 

[Spurger King]

Eh? Most people respond positively to a positive response by others.

At this point I'm almost beyond caring about how Adebayor feels, but booing him certainly isn't going to help, and is also likely to make a lot of our players wonder what sort of club they're playing for.

Cheer the whole team on. If Adebayor continues to play poorly and Pochettino continues to play him...well we'll probably have a new manager to deal with Ade sooner rather than later.

 

[prawnsandwich]

We need shot of him asap.

Absolutely disagree. Ade has proven that he is a great goal scorer by scoring a load of goals for this club. Our top goal scorer in 2 of the last 3 seasons. He has been unfit (mental illness is just as debilitating as physical.)
He has scored twice as many goals as Soldado in the EPL this season. The haters will always hate him but I have disliked Spurs players but NEVER booed them.