Match Threads Wolves vs Spurs

[Chimbo!]

Hold that thought. I reckon there might be the makings of a song in there….

The answer my friend is Bryan in the wind.

 

[Dennism]

I would imagine Ange will learn a lot from these defeats. Maybe teams have worked out how to play us and he will need to tweak a few things. The Premier League is obviously way different from Scotland.
The absence of vital players has obviously had a huge impact. I just hope we find a way to cope and get through this period without too much damage. Today we looked off the pace. Not pressing as much and losing most of the 50/50 balls.

 

[Trent Crimm]

The answer my friend is Bryan in the wind.

Seems to me, he lives his life like a Bryan in the wind

never knowing who to pass to, when the wolves press him.

 

[rossdapep]

There are times to slow it right down, make it stop start, and see out the game for at least a point. Not playing high risk passes straight after winning a free kick. Same with goal kicks. Just slow it down boys, we won’t think any less of you.

Son and Hojbjerg both stuffed up 2 short passes.

Son when we had a promising break and Hojbjerg when he tried to take a free-kick quickly.

Both were absolutely shocking and were harder to not find the target.

They immediately put us back under pressure.

And under pressure is not where Dier, Hojbjerg, Davies and Emerson want to be.

They lack agility and skillset to beat players in 1v1s.

We have basically lost all ability to do it now when under pressure.

 

[Japhet]

85 minutes between Johnson's goal and our next shot on target from LoCelso says it all for me. Poor decisions repeatedly up front, especially Deki.

 

[dirtyh]

Where was Phillips? Thought it would have been ideal tbh, free hit to see what he can do. No pressure with half the squad out.

 

[homer hotspur]

do you guys reckon bents could do a shift at cb
decent mobility.. calm on the ball.. pretty big lad too

Not really

 

[SaiboT]

Oh, so wolves would have attacked the same way with 10 men? Think not. It would have been another outcome.

Absolutely. They had literally no choise but attack. If they would score maybe not but complsining about the ref in this game is just embarrassing.

 

[rossdapep]

I would imagine Ange will learn a lot from these defeats. Maybe teams have worked out how to play us and he will need to tweak a few things. The Premier League is obviously way different from Scotland.
The absence of vital players has obviously had a huge impact. I just hope we find a way to cope and get through this period without too much damage. Today we looked off the pace. Not pressing as much and losing most of the 50/50 balls.

All teams get found out.

O' Neil said you know where City players will pop up. But they are so good its hard to stop them.

Everyone knows we will try to play through the press and are happy to pass it around the back.

Romero, VDV, Udogie, Bissouma can all do that well and they have dynamism in their game so you cant always guess where they will go.

Dier, Davies Hojbjerg etc are all so limited that it is easy to force them where you want them to go.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

Not gonna lie - this was has left me a bit depressed.

What’s hard to take is that it could quite easily end up 4 loses on the trot.

One shouldn’t read too much into his post match comments but he seemed pretty positive about the players that came in. If he starts the same midfield and defence as today against Villa I’m going to be disappointed.

 

[DarwinSpur]

Not gonna lie - this was has left me a bit depressed.

Me too - not just because of the result but because we see on here the usual depressing unhelpful vitriol against players who are second string; know they're second string. yet try and do a job in the manager's style and need all the support they can get.

Instead they get called ****s and all sorts which is really fucking helpful when they are literally all we have left thanks to injury and Romero being rash.

 

[worcestersauce]

Dier and Davies have been in panic all game long. The look to fall of in every situation. They are always 5-10 meters behind everyone else in the back line. Sell them as soon as possible

The game Postecoglu plays requires fast centre backs playing the high line so it doesn't matter how good or bad Dier and Davies are that's not their game so it's unreasonable to condemn them, not least because Davies is a left back anyway.
Yes we need to replace them but that's not something we didn't know is it?

 

[worcestersauce]

I would imagine Ange will learn a lot from these defeats. Maybe teams have worked out how to play us and he will need to tweak a few things. The Premier League is obviously way different from Scotland.
The absence of vital players has obviously had a huge impact. I just hope we find a way to cope and get through this period without too much damage. Today we looked off the pace. Not pressing as much and losing most of the 50/50 balls.

He won't tweak fuck all, teams haven't worked out how to play us in the last weak they knew before but we are too good for them and we will be too good for them when we get the squad to match our best eleven.

 

[Locotoro]

I see a 3-0 win coming and everyone wondering why we were so worried

Well, I guessed the right number of goals

 

[13VanDerBale13]

What 5 first teamers out and the others fucked from Monday night ..fuck me tough crowd…bump in the road that’s all

Problem is we have horrendous fixtures to come, this could easily be 4 defeats on the spin, with our defence as it is.

 

[JimmyG2]

Experienced players don't need a Manager with a plan
to tell them what to do when 1-0 up in extra time.
Should have seen that out.

 

[Locotoro]

The game Postecoglu plays requires fast centre backs playing the high line so it doesn't matter how good or bad Dier and Davies are that's not their game so it's unreasonable to condemn them, not least because Davies is a left back anyway.
Yes we need to replace them but that's not something we didn't know is it?

To be honest I didn't see Dier or Davies as the problem in this game. We were not really exploited very much by the ball in behind. The problems arose out of the uncoordinated press from the midfield and forward line.

 

[only1waddle]

do you guys reckon bents could do a shift at cb
decent mobility.. calm on the ball.. pretty big lad too

Nope, not at this level, no more square pegs please I'd rather play an actual CB there.

 

[überghost]

Absolutely. They had literally no choise but attack. If they would score maybe not but complsining about the ref in this game is just embarrassing.

They would have been more lenient in approach with 10 men. Most sides (us apart) do that.

The ref let to much go, and favourable wolves. If striking down on this, they would have sat back a bit more, leaving more space in transition for us and leaving the game more open.

 

[worcestersauce]

To be honest I didn't see Dier or Davies as the problem in this game. We were not really exploited very much by the ball in behind. The problems arose out of the uncoordinated press from the midfield and forward line.

It wouldn't surprise me, I haven't seen anything of the game so I really can't make a judgement I just felt that haranguing Dier and Davies seems pointless.