Match Threads Southampton vs Spurs - Match Thread - Day 2

[rabbikeane]

Alderweireld, if anyone would be willing to take his wages. Dier 20m, Sanchez 30m.
Would love for someone to come in for these. If anything I thought CCV looked better than Sanchez when they played together in pre season.

 

[handsomecake]

he'd go into a revolving door ahead of you and come out second. He's a fucking turnstile.

 

[mdharris]

Not great. I’m afraid Winks is the odd man out in this formation. We need someone better with the ball in there. Not sure what else to say. No one has been good. Ndombele has been incisive at moments. The team just looks frustrated.

 

[spursfan1991]

We should have just bought modric back with bale in a suitcase or something

 

[WiganSpur]

Sacking Mourinho won't solve our problems in midfield. Early days of Hojbjerg and whilst he looks like he could be a useful squad player he doesn't look like the answer to our lack of bite.

We need an athletic DM in this window to replace Sissoko with. Forget the creativity for now if Ndombele is going to play like this. CB, DM and striker will do it.

 

[Hotspur_Hero]

Those two statements don't correlate - going forward we've put the ball in the net - going backwards we've not be solid or disciplined enough.

Sure we scored, but because we don’t keep the ball and play positively, we give up chances. Our defense used to be good partly because the team kept the ball and won it back immediately when they lost it. Now we “defend”, but it means we have to be perfect defensively through so many more opposition attacks. The goal today is a prime example. Perfect ball, perfect touch, perfect finish. Sure dier should have track him better, but Prem teams will score on you if you give them enough of the ball in your half.

 

[Who’s our next manager?]

Stevie on for Lucas, glc for winks to give us some more bite and creativity in midfield. We need to see that duo of tanguy and glc week in and week out!

Sell Dele and buy both Brozovic and Sangare.

 

[spursfan77]

feel sorry for Kane . he's always the one giving the type of pass that he himself would like to be on the end of.

He’ll be getting it once Gareth is in the team...if our attack ever get the ball of course

 

[yusrisafri]

Doherty must be wondering " what did i just sign for?"

 

[ackie]

GLC coming on for...?

 

[spark7586]

We should’ve gone for the Wolves manager when poch went. He would’ve worked wonders with our squad and we would’ve played some exciting football.

 

[Yiddo100]

Ndombele on a yellow and still getting match fit

 

[Young Nasty Man]

Winks is a turnstile and his communication was poor that whole half with hojbjerg.

Defensively, we look narrow when there is supposed to be coverage for Doherty because he is going forward.

The ideas aren’t bad, the execution is garbage, and I think the way he is going about it is poor with the 4-3-3. He can simplify this with 3-4-3 or a 5-2-3 just to get the center half’s a little more distributed. Regardless, I’ve never seen a team try to press and counter at the same time, and because we are doing that, we look disjointed.

 

[chrissivad]

The most disappointing thing is seeing Jose and his coaches just sat back in their seats.

Someone should be out shouting orders if they aren't happy with this.

 

[walton]

Huge halftime for us. Jose sorts this out and we come out a different team, then it’ll be a real boost. More of the same and we’ll lose easy.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

Sure we scored, but because we don’t keep the ball and play positively, we give up chances. Our defense used to be good partly because the team kept the ball and won it back immediately when they lost it. Now we “defend”, but it means we have to be perfect defensively through so many more opposition attacks. The goal today is a prime example. Perfect ball, perfect touch, perfect finish. Sure dier should have track him better, but Prem teams will score on you if you give them enough of the ball in your half.

Yeah, we scored two more, attacking isn't the problem is it - which the post I quoted was pointing out, was ...

 

[Meercat]

Strange half. If that first goal had stood I think we’d have been rampant, but yet again a few cm rob us that great start. The feeling sets in of ‘oh god not our day again...’ and Southampton rise in confidence... going behind I thought we were done, didn’t offer much, show much, move the ball, win the ball, and then we have a passage of play with four key parts, Hjobjoerg wins the ball, Ndombele does something mental, Kane produces a wonderful one touch pass and Son buries a brilliant goal and everything is on its head again. Southampton are good, but fragile. This should hurt them and lift us. (I’ve got my optimists hat on despite VAR robbing my fantasy football team of so many points this weekend haha).

Key half coming up in the shape of the season I reckon... lose puts a lot of pressure on us with the schedule, draw doesn’t relieve enough pressure given Southampton had such a poor start last week... we need to find the winning goal, and more moments of flair.

Jose has got to be pulling his hair out wondering why he can’t get a tune out of this team right now.

 

[austinfh]

GLC for Ndombele what the fuck is he thinking

 

[dk-yid]

GLC.... But for Ndombele. ?

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Gio on for winks should hopefully force Hojberg to sit in the middle and by doing so, clear up his role a little biy. Winks is basically playing where he (Hojberg) should be playing and doing exactly the same thing as him, which means they're getting in each other's way. There's no coordination or structure between the two at the moment

But, aren’t Winks and Hojbjerg playing deep to give Ndombele the space in front. Bring Gio on, the risk is he and Ndombele get in each other’s way. Unless they have spent time in training to get their tactics sorted, and what are the chances of that?