Tottenham Vs Man City: match Thread

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Spurs 2-0 Man City
Alli Kolarov (og)

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Spurs: Lloris (C); Walker, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Rose; Wanyama, Dele (Nkoudou); Sissoko (Dier), Eriksen, Lamela; Son (Janssen)
Subs: Vorm, Trippier, Davies, Winks

Man City: Bravo, Zabaleta (C), Otamendi, Stones, Kolarov, Fernando, Fernandinho, Silva, Sterling, Navas, Aguero
Subs: Caballero (gk), Sagna, Gundogan, Sane, Clichy, Ineanacho, Garcia.

Ref: Andre Marriner

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89 mins Sub: Janssen for Son
86 mins Sub: Sane for Sterling
84 mins Sub: Nkoudou for Alli
71 mins Sub: Dier for Sissoko
65 mins Sub: Iheanacho for Navas
64 mins Lamela missed penalty
63 mins Penalty to Spurs
55 mins Yellow Card: Sterling
52 mins Sub: Gundogan for Fernandinho
Half Time: Spurs 2-0 Man City
41 mins Yellow Card: Rose
36 mins GOAL Spurs 2-0 Man City : Dele Alli
Lovely goal. Alli initially looked for clever reverse pass for Lamela, Zabaleta intercepted but the ball ran to Son who rolled in Alli between Stones and Kolorov and Alli made no mistake with a low shot home from 10 yards.
30 mins Yellow Card: Wanyama for foul on Aguero.
19 mins Yellow Card: Otamendi for foul on Alli.
8 mins GOAL Spurs 1-0 Man City : Kolarov (own goal)
Lamela played in Rose down the left, wonderful cross evaded Son at the near post but Kolorov got in a tangle and deflected past Bravo.

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[DIEHARD]

Im shitting it. I hate it when people say stuff like oh they havent beaten anyone good... every game is a tough game jeez.

We havent beaten anyone id say who are considered a good team and the only really good team we faced we struggled ie against Liverpool actually and Monaco but im talking league here.

 

[samspurs92]

I always like to watch Gillette soccer Saturday and see what they say about Tottenham.

I forgot to record it this weekend so I just missed it! Does anyone know where you can rewatch it back?

 

[thinktank]

HIGH. TEMPO.

PRESSING.

 

[wiggo24]

The game where last season really began.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

We really shouldn't fool our selves, there is a chance we can nick this.

 

[spursgirls]

Interesting article here: https://talkingtottenhamtactics.wordpress.com/

Man City Preview
In my tactical overview piece at the end of last season I explained how Pochettino, like many modern managers, organises his team to attack the opposition across the five horizontal divisions of the pitch. The wings, the channels and the centre. This spreads the opposition defence wide and opens up space to attack in the middle. Spurs achieve this in a growingly common method. We drop Eric Dier between the centre-backs, bring our wingers inside and push the full-backs into high positions.

Pep Guardiola is an adamant practitioner of juego de posicion which also encapsulates occupying these five zones but he achieves this through a different method. Instead of pushing his full-backs up the pitch he keeps them deep and moves them in centrally. His wingers stay very wide and his central midfielders push-up to so that City can have four attacking midfielders behind their striker.

This extremity has been reserved for games City have expected to dominate

This worked incredibly well for him at Bayern Munich and has already turned in very impressive results at City but the personnel remain imperfect. Despite Kolorov’s outstanding passing range City’s full-backs aren’t ideal inverted full-backs as they aren’t up to the technical and tactical level that Lahm and Alaba were at Bayern.

This leaves them somewhat vulnerable to pressing. And history has taught us the best way to play against Guardiola teams is to prevent them from developing quality build-up play from the back via pressing – especially their deepest midfielder Busquets/Alonso/Fernandinho. Celtic, Swansea and to a lesser extent Man United have caused City issues with their high-pressing.

In total contrast, Pep teams also want to be pressed. By deploying creative passers all the way back to, and including, the goalkeeper City look to invite and pass around opposition pressure to attack the space in behind, essentially counter-attacking without having lost the ball.

But we won’t be the only pressing team, Pep teams are renowned for their ability with the ball, but their ability to win it back with high-pressing is similarly impressive which means once again, because of his unmatched ability to resist opposition pressing, so much balances on whether or not Dembele is fit enough to start.

In at least our last two games we’ve used a 4141/433 shape to increase our midfield presence, to make up for the lack of Dembele and this has worked fairly well but I think we should persist with it regardless of whether or not Dembele starts.

Adding to our deep midfield again will help us against City’s attacking midfield overload which has caused several teams marking issues already. This will also make it easy to move to a back 3/5 which will allow our full-backs to mark the opposition wingers tightly and prevent them from running at us with the ball at their feet.

Christian Eriksen has come under some criticism recently and I remain one of his biggest fans. While I think a lot of what he does goes unnoticed that doesn’t also mean he is immune to having an off day. I think Eriksen should be rested on Sunday and that’s not a reflection of his overall quality or recent performances. Eriksen’s greatest ability is in helping us pick the lock of tight defences. As we’ll mostly be playing on the break, pressing with intensity and, I hope, playing a three-man midfield this game is less suited to his skill-set and the I think the fact that he has started our last three games supports the idea that Poch may be thinking similarly.

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[SpursDave88]

I think we will win this, City are defensively poor and Claudio Bravo is a very average keeper. De Bruyne is by far the most important player and everything they do goes through him, so he will be a big miss. We should be far too strong for them in the centre of midfield. As the poster above notes, they are very vulnerable to pressing and I think this will be the key to a victory. Although I haven't been impressed with Janssen from a technical perspective he is strong as an ox and a hard worker, we will need him constantly pressing Stones. City will try to pass it around the back using their keeper as an outfield player, we will need to compress the play and win the ball back in the middle of the park. I'm going for a 3-1 win with Son, Lamela and Janssen scoring for us and Aguero getting their goal.

 

[riggi]

Loads of goals.

 

[cjsimba]

Our first big test of this season. Where it all began last season. Lets do this!

 

[ostrov]

ref is Marriner afaic

 

[Bulletspur]

We are going to be pissed off with the International break because having beaten Man City, we will be so looking forward to the next game!

 

[ostrov]

We are going to be pissed off with the International break because having beaten Man City, we will be so looking forward to the next game!

Don't say "hop" before you jump...

 

[Hazardousman]

Graham Scott is the ref? He is completely incompetent, how has he got this match?

 

[Snarfalicious]

Someone hold me.

 

[dickieven]

I don't know what is wrong with me but I feel very confident for this. Despite them being unbeaten and also some of the football they have played this year has been fastastic. I think Pep may mix it up for them. He knows how we play and I can see him making adjustments to his team and formation.

Having said that I still think we have enough to beat them but we must be at the top of our game and I will be even more confident if Rose, Walker, Dier and Dembele start. Lets create a great atmosphere at the lane and we can do this.

It is also important before the international break if we can get the 3 points, sit in 2nd and only be a point of top. We can then really push on after the break. COYS.

 

[yusrisafri]

Loads of goals.

And how many will be from us?

 

[arunspurs]

Till yesterday, I was feeling confident...Now...nervous wreck.
Often in the past, we had a bad start to these big games and ended up losing.
I hope we atleast settle in well, not concede early.

City will go for it in their usual way. We have beaten them twice last year. From last season to this, Gundogan & Stones are the only real additions to their XI. In essence, they are playing with their same XI as last year. Big difference is Pep, who has got 2 or 3 % more from every single player in his XI.

Our players have to go into this game with mindset that, if they can beat City twice last season they can beat them today too.

COYS.

 

[nipponyid]

I'm so excited for today!!! Hopefully put down a marker..

C'mon U Spurs!!