Tottenham Vs Sunderland: Match Thread

[yankspurs]

So CCV isn't ready after all...

What? This lineup means nothing. He is not an LCB. He is an RCB.

 

[danielneeds]

Why interupt a CB pairing that's conceded 2 in 4 PL games? Zero from open play.

 

[mark87]

Davies must have a slight knock.

 

[yankspurs]

Maybe this whole "where is wimmer" talk can stop now?

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

What fucking system is this?!

4231-
Verts LB, I suppose with Son and Sissoko LM//RM and Dele in at CAM
Or 3421 with Walker and Son playing WB, Sissoko and Ali in the 2 CAM role

 

[davidmatzdorf]

Davies has played 2 games in s week and isn't Walker.

I would have bet on Sissoko starting. But I expected him to be in midfield with Dembele.

He and Son give us pace on both flanks against Sunderland's slowish defenders.

But I thought Janssen would start.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Maybe this whole "where is wimmer" talk can stop now?

Surely this just increases the number of questions.

 

[RButch]

I'm not one to moan normally about our starting formation and how we lineup. But that XI has me worried.

 

[mark87]

Is that entire team over 6ft?

Son is the shortest at 6ft

 

[CJMurray]

When a team puts up a block then one way through is to bulldoze the fuck out of it.

All the top teams in the world have creative, intelligent players who can break down stubborn defences as it's the most effective way. Bulldozing through them is not.

 

[bubble07]

Small chance it could be a back 3 with sissoko left wing back??

 

[Francis Gibbs]

Beyond Lamela being benched, it's a surprising selection

 

[Luka Van der Bale]

What? This lineup means nothing. He is not an LCB. He is an RCB.

He almost always plays LCB for the youth teams. Not that it matters.

 

[spursram]

4231-
Verts LB, I suppose with Son and Sissoko LM//RM and Dele in at CAM
Or 3421 with Walker and Son playing WB, Sissoko and Ali in the 2 CAM role

I was thinking 3 at the back maybe.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Not starting at least one of Lamela and Eriksen is a bad idea IMO.

 

[yankspurs]

I think its a 352

 

[danielneeds]

All the top teams in the world have creative, intelligent players who can break down stubborn defences as it's the most effective way. Bulldozing through them is not.

But we've seen that in Poch's narrow system, those lock pickers find it hard against compact sitting defences. Maybe Sissoko driving past players around the box will open some things up...

 

[felmani26]

I've seen this movie before - it starts with us having 60%+ possession, opposition resolute and we desperately need divine intervention from Poch/the bench to rectify what is a poor starting line up with emphasis on physical prowess over technical nous.

 

[CosmicHotspur]

Would have liked to see Janssen as a starter. I would expect Lamela to come off the bench at some point.

 

[Veuve Clicquot]

So for all of Poch's words about rating CCV , he puts Dier into CD and leaves CCV out of the squad completely.
Wimmer should have replaced Verts imo, instead of playing him out of position at left back. Very odd.