The first 60 mins of last night were an absolute disgrace. Some may blame Kane and Son not being fit, but even if they were we would have played exactly the same way. Liverpool beat Barca 4-0 without Salah and Firmino, Leipzig had a defensive injury crisis last night. How can they still play well? They have a philosophy and when injuries happen other players can step up.
I could just about stomach this all out defence if it made us solid like Atleti, but we gave away 4/5 clear cut chances.
It's absolutely no surprise when Ndombele and Lamela came on and we started playing football the match resembled a proper champions league knockout match, not the relegation battlers v Pep's Barca of the first 60 mins.
Jose needs to buck his ideas up. We have a huge opportunity on Saturday against an out of sorts Chelsea team. If we have a go we have a very good chance, if we put the white flag up it will be the same result as the first fixture.
Outdated tactics
posted on 20/2/20
comment by Ollie Crankshaw (U1734)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by (kash) I'm the Mané - 6 Times Baby (U1108)
posted 1 minute ago
Yesterday performance was no different to when Spurs played Ajax last year. Can't be all Jose fault.
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Different manager, different players, the only constant is the FANS. The Spurs fans on here need to be looking closer to home. I'm not saying they are bad fans, just quite clearly unsuccessful ones, lacking that winning mentality.
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They continue to justify Daniel levy. That is the problem.
posted on 20/2/20
comment by (kash) I'm the Mané - 6 Times Baby (U1108)
posted 16 minutes ago
Yesterday performance was no different to when Spurs played Ajax last year. Can't be all Jose fault.
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Although that said, he did set them up poorly in the first half.
posted on 20/2/20
Jose said after the game last night that Lamela hadn’t trained with the team after his injury and was a risk and that NDombele wasn’t fit to start.
I’m not sure what else people expect Jose to do with the team he has.
He’s trying to manage 90+ minutes of a game to get us a result.
Football is a results business.
Playing pretty football doesn’t get us top 4, winning matches does.
We are without Kane, Son and Sissoko - 3 of our top performers.
posted on 20/2/20
comment by José João (U3338)
posted 5 minutes ago
Jose said after the game last night that Lamela hadn’t trained with the team after his injury and was a risk and that NDombele wasn’t fit to start.
I’m not sure what else people expect Jose to do with the team he has.
He’s trying to manage 90+ minutes of a game to get us a result.
Football is a results business.
Playing pretty football doesn’t get us top 4, winning matches does.
We are without Kane, Son and Sissoko - 3 of our top performers.
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I do think the criticism of him after last night is harsh given how limited we are at the moment. And Ndombele was having issues under Poch, so that tells you it's definitely more about the player than the managers picking him.
posted on 20/2/20
To be fair, Leipzig are not a bad side at all, so I don’t really see too much shame in losing to them, their passing and movement was very good..
Sure tactics played it’s part, but even with a fully fit team this would have been a tough one to call..
posted on 20/2/20
The tactics aren’t outdated, as Atleti showed the night before. They are just incredibly shiiiiiit to watch. But that’s always been the case, it doesn’t mean they can’t work.
posted on 20/2/20
comment by José João (U3338)
posted 6 hours, 16 minutes ago
Jose said after the game last night that Lamela hadn’t trained with the team after his injury and was a risk and that NDombele wasn’t fit to start.
I’m not sure what else people expect Jose to do with the team he has.
He’s trying to manage 90+ minutes of a game to get us a result.
Football is a results business.
Playing pretty football doesn’t get us top 4, winning matches does.
We are without Kane, Son and Sissoko - 3 of our top performers.
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This is ballacks
posted on 20/2/20
comment by Christopher (U20930)
posted 2 hours ago
comment by José João (U3338)
posted 6 hours, 16 minutes ago
Jose said after the game last night that Lamela hadn’t trained with the team after his injury and was a risk and that NDombele wasn’t fit to start.
I’m not sure what else people expect Jose to do with the team he has.
He’s trying to manage 90+ minutes of a game to get us a result.
Football is a results business.
Playing pretty football doesn’t get us top 4, winning matches does.
We are without Kane, Son and Sissoko - 3 of our top performers.
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This is ballacks
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Sorry, which part is ballacks?
- José did say that about Lamela.
- He is trying to manage 90+ mins and get a result
- Football is a results business
- Winning matches does help you achieve top 4
- Kane, Son and Sissoko are 100% out of action
posted on 20/2/20
There are a number of folk on here who just hate Jose and have been waiting for a defeat (after 7 unbeaten) to get stuck in
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Yes 7 unbeaten with more luck than judgement or are you saying we outplayed city? Both Southampton and Norwich should have beaten us as well.
I am not a Jose fan and never have been but I might get that way if he actually goes out to win a game instead of packing 10 men behind the ball and lumping it forwards which is how we are playing at the moment.
Ok we have a couple of players missing but is that really an excuse to play Aurier in front of Tanganga?
After watching Tanganga deal with the likes of Mahrez and Mane I know full well who I would rather see at right back.
Sorry but if Jose has not realised that we CANNOT defend and it does not matter how many men he puts behind the ball we will still conceed maybe he should think of attacking as a way to stop teams peppering us with shots.
Believe it or not if the ball is in their half they wont be scoring against us.
posted on 20/2/20
Sissoko one of our top performers
One of luka and JJ must he that eighters poster while we dont see anymore who is a notorious shattalking helmet