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We saw three different 1-0 wins. All showed something different, but yet all three showed how much our defending has improved.
The biggest difference for me is our fitness, it’s like night and day.
We saw three different 1-0 wins. All showed something different, but yet all three showed how much our defending has improved.
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I think this is the part most obvious so far compared to last. While the West Ham game last year wrecked the confidence out of us and we never recovered, we are quite adamant to defend as a team this season, and very importantly, superior fitness through the 90 minutes.That's exactly my point. While not winning 3 or 4-0, I can see the difference from last season and the improvements. I can see a plan and I can see how much more confident we are when defending.
Genuinely believe inviting teams onto us after we took the lead (no matter how early we scored) put too much pressure on the defence and they just cracked more often than not.I think this is the part most obvious so far compared to last. While the West Ham game last year wrecked the confidence out of us and we never recovered, we are quite adamant to defend as a team this season, and very importantly, superior fitness through the 90 minutes.
and a nice added bonus is knocking the Spammers off top spot to boot. The Kumb website will be none too happy, but who cares ??
No mate, he had that 2 season spell where he was dragging us through games, he's always been popular with the crowd, and we didn't get the chance to give him a proper send off.Come on mate, it was abit ott surely? I gave him a little clap etc but standing up clapping and chanting his name like he was some baller for us?!
Danny Rose on the other hand...
Good result.
Standing ovation for Sissoko was embarrassing.
No mate, he had that 2 season spell where he was dragging us through games, he's always been popular with the crowd, and we didn't get the chance to give him a proper send off.
Fair fucks to Spurs fans, I say.
Plus he gave us one last ballooned shot into row Z
Essentially saying cheers to a guy for his hard work and always seeming a thoroughly decent bloke. Where’s the problem in that?Good result.
Standing ovation for Sissoko was embarrassing.
I know and don't we know about it....selective memory about the manager and the other 8 players, let alone tge rest of the squad that got us there ....Yeah but they won The World Cup.
It was nice - some of us in the North and West stands starting singing the old 'Danny, Danny Ro-o-ose' song at him.Danny Rose’s face lighting up at the Spurs applause has made my day
Spot on ! basically same players from last season, yet different attitude, far fitter far more competitive. Still loads of work to do but I am happy when players give allExcellent result today and not a bad performance. Considering we've yet to start a new signing and, other than Skipp, we're starting the same players as last year, I can't understand any grumbling. It's a new system, new manager, and loads of upheaval during the off-season. To add to that, if you're watching the Wolves / Man Utd game, it'll give some context to our performance against them, i.e. we were a lot better than this Utd team.
Not going to say we don’t deserve to be too, he hasn’t exactly been pretty but winning when are not playing well is a good habit to get into. That said lot of work to be done especially in midfield. Don’t think Kane is fully fit yet.
mine thing as I said at half time disappointed the the crowd inside the stadium, very quiet which is a shame. The crow at the massive new stadium could be such an asset,the place holds the sound and can be very intimidating to opponents, but the fans have to our part.
Don’t want to see any form of Highbury the library at our ground thank you very much.
Aside from fitness the biggest change from Jose is Skipp, he is doing that job in front of the back four and last year we had no one doing that role competently.I definitely think Mourinho wanted to drop so as to create space for the counter, but we couldn’t handle it. Here we have a better balance and we look comfortable in defence.
BUT… there will always be Games where a weird deflection, corner, dodgy penalty happen and we cannot rely on winning 1-0, so we will need to create more and score more.
I am however very pleased with the 3 wins and how the team has bonded. Once the TW shuts and the international period over the real season starts and we will see what squad we truly have!