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I was with you until you mentioned giving Eriksen a run of games. How much more games does he need?
Match Threads Olympiacos vs Spurs - Match Thread
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Probably because a fit Wanyama is better?
Does that exist?
homer hotspur
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Is he fit, really?
And, Skipp was excellent in pre-season. Surely he deserves to feature as much as Wanyama who we clearly want to sell
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We certainly haven't looked that fatigued.
Just out of interest have you ever played football at a fairly decent level? If so have you ever played abroad in heat and humidity that you aren't used to against a team that are apart from European matches? You'd sure notice the difference. Going from playing 23 degrees at the weekend to 30 degrees last night is a massive difference and unless you have the time to acclimatise then you're going to feel fcuked.
It doesn't account for short misplaced passes but chasing the ball and counter attacks are pretty difficult later in to the game. even Son looked fcuked after 10 minutes.
Thanks for writing this. I think many (including myself) were a bit cocky about this game and as you rightly say, perhaps a draw was a decent result. In many ways though it is the performance rather than the result that is disappointing - in particular from some key players.
From my POV I actually don’t have an issue with starting the likes of Dele and Davies as we need the ability to rotate the squad and have everyone match fit.
It was a decent result before kickoff, after being 2-0 up its a crap result.
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I dont know if he is fit or not, I was just putting out there. A fit Wanyama would probably trump a Skipp. That is the only explanation I could think why Poch chose him over Skipp.
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It's a strange one. I would probably have accepted a point before the game - so the result in isolation isn't awful.
However it was a thoroughly abject performance with little character, intensity or heart coupled with some frankly awful individual performances on a technical level.
So in context, the result - considering the above - was 'ok-ish', but people have every right to be critical of the performance over the 90 minutes.
Winksy was decent though, and Lamela showed more than most in his brief cameo.
However it was a thoroughly abject performance with little character, intensity or heart coupled with some frankly awful individual performances on a technical level.
So in context, the result - considering the above - was 'ok-ish', but people have every right to be critical of the performance over the 90 minutes.
Winksy was decent though, and Lamela showed more than most in his brief cameo.
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UbeAstard
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I expected my team to play better and there be better individual performances. Doesn't guarantee we'll win but with these current performances it does guarantee we wont win anything.
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What exactly is the alternative, especially with Lo Celso crocked? Dele, Eriksen, Son and Kane have only played a couple of full games together in the last six months, and one of those was the CL final where Kane was half-fit. There's no doubt the the four of them together are greater than the sum of their parts.
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I think we have looked fatigued. Maybe I have confused the slow turgid walking football that we have been dished up with this season with knackered-ness.
Foundations at the back need sorting though, whole team shape is a mess. For them to fire Poch needs to get the basics right again.
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I maintain it was why we suffered so badly in the CL Final. Anyone who was there will tell you the same as me, it was so hot. I cant imagine what playing football would have been like, drinking lager and eating tapas was bad enough. It impacted our players 100%. Same as the heat the weekend of the Newcastle defeat but hotter and more humid.
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Fucking West Ham, ****s!
Dannyspur
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The Newcastle players managed to run around and close us down for the whole 90 mins
McFlash
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We've gone from being the fittest team in the league, to looking exhausted from the off.
This year was supposed to be different from last because we'd had a proper break but we look even worse. That, coupled with our constant injuries, must surely point to there being something wrong with our training set up.
This year was supposed to be different from last because we'd had a proper break but we look even worse. That, coupled with our constant injuries, must surely point to there being something wrong with our training set up.
EastLondonYid
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Hardly a role model for loyalty....ask the pikeys and leeds....leeds in particular was all about the wages.
EastLondonYid
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Yes so Spursy only getting to the CL final with zero spend ....
With success comes a new breed of fan.......unfortunately.
