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Match Prediction

  • Mourinho off to a winning start

    Votes: 250 80.6%
  • Mourinho off to a losing start

    Votes: 13 4.2%
  • Score Draw

    Votes: 39 12.6%
  • Goalless Draw

    Votes: 8 2.6%

  • Total voters
    310
  • Poll closed .

slartibartfast

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Oct 21, 2012
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Good to see Eriksen touched the ball today. What a touch that was lol.

Why he came on I don't know.
Hope he never plays for us again.
 

fishhhandaricecake

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Nov 15, 2018
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I really liked what I saw. Solid for 65 minutes, no overplaying, not afraid to go long. Centre midfield felt a lot more assured. The final flurry of attacks was expected, but with 2 days on the training pitch, we will see a vast improvement in the coming months.

It's the little things that will help us as well, being nasty, clever fouls, time wasting and refs running scared of Mourinho.

Oh and who said he played boring football? Some lovely goals scored today. Judging by that performance, we've got a bright future again.

COYS!
Spot on.
anyone who says Jose’s teams only play boring football don’t watch Jose’s teams regularly.
 

Sandros Shiny Head

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Aug 20, 2013
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Think the mental factor of getting over the line was tangible there. January was a long time ago, everyone must have been thinking here we go again
 

WiganSpur

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Aug 31, 2012
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I thought our overall defending wasn't too bad, but when you look back I think Mourinho was right about the fatigue. The set pieces were the real worry for me and they will need some work.

I did see that we began employ the dark arts of niggling injuries and speaking to the officials after WH got one back which I liked though.
 

wrd

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Aug 22, 2014
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I really feel like that was the perfect result for where we are. I think a lot of our fans needed their feet reattached to the ground and the end reminded us of just how much work there is to do and some of it might not be possible without a transfer window especially that defence and DM position. I'm excited for the future under Jose but there's still going to be bumps in the road that we need to not get mad about.

I'd rather it happen in a 3-0 game which could have potentially papered over the cracks rather than down the line where we suddenly have the wind knocked out of our sails as we thought we were unstoppable.
 

SE Spurs

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Aug 12, 2018
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Great 3pts, and an away win in the PL at last....get in!

WH consolation goals may be a blessing. Jose can't fail to see where many of the problems lie.

As good as I thought we were for 70 minutes, WH were shocking. Pellegrini must be favourite to go next. Their keeper needs to be dropped, for his own career. His own fans are gonna ruin him. And not starting Antonio against us, is a criminal offence. No matter his form, he always does well against us, always.

Great 3pts, and a good start under Jose............COYS!!
 

John48

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Aug 31, 2015
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Good to see Eriksen touched the ball today. What a touch that was lol.

Why he came on I don't know.
Hope he never plays for us again.

Yep I think Lo Celso would have been a better option.

Pretty much as we have been this season, good for 60min, really good, but last 20 or so we looked as if we could give it away again. We couldn't deal with Antonio yet again & Snodgrass' crosses from dead balls put us under a lot of pressure we couldn't deal with.
 

Larryfromthelane

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Aug 18, 2019
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Thats the face of a man who is all about winning. Welcome to the Lane, Sir.
 

Mighty Spurs

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A great away win, a boost to the squad, we played extremely well in the first half, last fifty minutes we seemed to show signs of fatigue, could be fatigue from international duties for some players. At least we are now up to sixth in the League. COYS!!!!
 

spursville

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May 7, 2019
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As Joe Cole says, credit to Aurier as he has been bad before today, but today was excellent.
Good going forward but I think he still made quite a few mistakes including being beaten too easily, poor positioning, not cutting out crosses, giving it away etc.
 

jondy1

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Jan 20, 2011
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Great 3 points , we fell off at the end but done enough in the first hour to get the win , did I say it was a great 3points????
 
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slartibartfast

Grunge baby forever
Oct 21, 2012
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I thought we were looking tired and that was the problem. Mourinho just came out and said so actually.
To be fair he's not gonna say my subs were shite lol.
We had our backs to the wall and Eriksen coming on basically meant we were playing with 10 men.
Still early days and a great win. Sure JM will sort it out.
Yep I think Lo Celso would have been a better option.

Pretty much as we have been this season, good for 60min, really good, but last 20 or so we looked as if we could give it away again. We couldn't deal with Antonio yet again & Snodgrass' crosses from dead balls put us under a lot of pressure we couldn't deal with.
Agree. Antonio changed the game. If he doesn't start their next game then.... bye bye.
 

Dougal

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Jun 4, 2004
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The only difference today from a lot of the season so was getting the third goal. Glad we didn’t win 3-0 as these players would start thinking they were in for an easy ride. You can’t just switch it on again. I want them to suffer if they want to learn how to win. They made us suffer when they lost.
 
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