Tottenham Vs Crystal Palace: Match Thread

SargeantMeatCurtains said:

The 'no-nothings' lol. What a thoroughly pretentious post littered with idiotic bollocks. I don't agree with you so i'm clueless.

You are the epitome of a Tim Sherwood.

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wow the timmy card.. aren't you the big fella.. Nothing to do with disagreeing with me that's fine if you actually have a point but if you are not rationally watching a game I couldn't be bothered to engage with a no-mark...neg rate all you want.. it's the epitome of an idiot.. & you know what they say no point arguing with an idiot they only drop you down to there level.. goodluck

Just to rub salt into the wound we would of played reading and had a very good chance of getting through that

Pimp_Spur said:

Just to rub salt into the wound we would of played reading and had a very good chance of getting through that

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Was obviously going to happen

Never likely to win a game where Martin Kelly scores for the first time in five years with his team's only shot in the first half and Dele Alli manages to hit both posts and a defender on the line with one shot...

Weird game and I felt oddly unfussed by it all. Moving on...

Typical Spurs said:

I agree, 2nd half we didn't look like scoring. But we have scored the 2nd most goals in the league. The 2nd most. In a perfect world we would be more clinical, but its football, you never get pure perfection that so many on here think is possible.

Last week we had 2 chances to score and scored them both. That's clinical.

We have conceded the fewewst goals in the prem. However, based on this argument if we were better defensively and kept more clean sheets we might win the league.

We are strong defensively. We are strong offensively. Not one for stats but our prem GA, GF and overall GD proves this.

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Agree the stats show something. It's odd as I don't see us as a free
Scoring team. My one worry for the league is playing that Swansea type team,completely dominating, but not scoring. When the scum are on song they create chance after chance. They just don't have the world class striker to put them away. I'd like to see us have better chances. Kane will bury them

Well that was hugely disappointing - I'm gutted- I love the FA Cup.
And for the first time in a long time I think MoPo's selection and tactics were nothing short of awfully wrong. We seem to have suddenly believed that full-on rotation is the only way to succeed and we came a cropper today with that philosophy. It's too easy to point fingers and blame individual performances - Vorm, Bentaleb, Onomah and our back four today, to name the obvious.
But the bigger point is that MoPo abandoned a winning formula and tried to make up for it with panic substitutions that had absolutely no impact at all.
For my money - There is a reason (though we had no choice today) that Vorm is a second-rate keeper - he doesn't command anything and I never feel confident with him between the sticks.
Other errors of MoPo judgement : Changing the back four and omitting Alderweireld just multiplied our insecurities at the back. For the first time in an age we had no "unit" working together to clear our lines - we were disorganised and vulnerable.
In midfield, I'm all for giving youth a chance but giving 90minutes to Onomah was a step too far. Frankly Chadli should be getting a lot more game time than Onomah when fit - he's accomplished and mature and must be chewing at the bit.
I don't get Bentaleb - I did - last season - but he offers nothing positive in the middle of the park and dumping Demebele (our player of the season) for Erisksen at half time, when we needed a leader in the middle of the park to drive us forward, again proved to be an unbalanced piece of management.
We didn't deserve to go in one down - but it seemed to fry MoPo's brain. That ridiculous Rose cross field pass proved to be our demise.
Our only shining light today was Son - who I thought was excellent - with him we had a chance of making something happen - but MoPo took him off and Mason came on?
There's a reason why Mason, Bentaleb, Onomah and Vorm are back up players, of course injuries make them required but that shouldn't be at the expense of our fluidity and the good things we have been doing this season. I thought for the last 20 minutes we didn't have a clue.
So, down to two competitions now - time to play our best starting XI in every game and just top them up with our reserves for the last 20 as and when required - these reserves should not be starting at this crucial part of the season.
Not a good day at the office for the management team or a number of our players.
I remain gutted.

whitelanefever said:

neg rate all you want.. it's the epitome of an idiot.. & you know what they say no point arguing with an idiot they only drop you down to there level.. goodluck

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LOL - I'm the idiot

no easy games this time a year. we were still good enough to win but the breaks didnt go our way. move on to the next game.

Don't they give you a different number ect if we had gone though? Doesn't mean we would have got Reading right?

fortworthspur said:

no easy games this time a year. we were still good enough to win but the breaks didnt go our way. move on to the next game.

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We could benefit from it. We learn from losses and I'm sure we will be stronger against Swansea because of it

mpickard2087 said:

Very disappointing over the 90 minutes. Don't think the mentality was quite right today.

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Agree. I can't help but think that we were complacent after all the media hype during the week.

Well that didn't go to plan. Never thought I'd say this tbh but if a loss is to come I'd prefer it in the cup. Hopefully the squad will use this to push on in the league. Got some massive and winnable fixtures coming up and if we make a strong run in the next 6 weeks we could give ourselves some wiggle room for the run in..

If we had a lose a game then I guess this was the one I would have picked. We must not throw away a possible chance to win the league. Not saying we will but it has to be the number one priority.

Pimp_Spur said:

Just to rub salt into the wound we would of played reading and had a very good chance of getting through that

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Butterfly effect mate. Could have played anyone. Wouldn't necessarily have gotten Reading.

knowlespurs said:

het up as we win so few cups and for many spurs fans under the age of 30 they havent seen us in an f a cup final
we could easily blow up in the league and win fuck all

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But by then, we may have reached our target of Champion's League. I don't think the aim was to win stuff, but to progress the team. Winning something would be ideal, but it wasn't to be. I'd rather we had gone through, but I'm happy we haven't got an extra game to play via a draw.

Good Doctor M said:

Butterfly effect mate. Could have played anyone. Wouldn't necessarily have gotten Reading.

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Correction of logic and grammar in one post!

I just don't hope we don't now bomb out of the EL midweek

Crashing out of two comps is as many games could be very detrimental to team spirit and belief, especially having such a young and inexperienced squad

Looking for a statement and instant bounce back on Thursday (my bday no less COYS)

Just hope we now finally realise that playing Thursday night will hamper our efforts on the Sunday.....
Time to ring fence a first team squad for the league, we've been waiting for this opportunity far too long. Dare I say it, we have more chance of winning the league than the bleeding Europa.

Spurs 1961 said:

If we had a lose a game then I guess this was the one I would have picked. We must not throw away a possible chance to win the league. Not saying we will but it has to be the number one priority.

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I would much rather have lost in the Europa. Its been sooooo long since we did well in the fa cup. (OK, a couple of miserable semi finals, but I'd rather not think about them). If we were to slip up in the next two games suddenly our season isn't looking quite so rosy.

Shea said:

I just don't hope we don't now bomb out of the EL midweek

Crashing out of two comps is as many games could be very detrimental to team spirit and belief, especially having such a young and inexperienced squad

Looking for a statement and instant bounce back on Thursday (my bday no less COYS)

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Or give us a massive opportunity to be focused, well prepared and fit for the 12 cup finals left in the league.