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*** OMT UCL Tottenham Hotspur vs Villarreal ***
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SpurMeUp
Tommy Harmer
SpurMeUp
Tommy Harmer
We are trying to play fast breaks, and when it doesn't come off, everyone looks stupid.
When it isn't clicking, I'd like to see us also use the space in midfield that opens up when the runners are tracked. Sometimes an extra pass in the middle can make the difference.
Glenda's Legs
Jack Jull
Far from a great performance but the table shows 3 points and a +1 GD so I’ll take that for our first CL game of the campaign. The most bizarre goal - I need to watch it back to understand how it actually went into the net!
Certainly more work for TF and the coaching team but we’ll get there.
Certainly more work for TF and the coaching team but we’ll get there.
SteveAWOL
Gary Stevens
Glenda's Legs
Jack Jull
Yes I was saying the same at half time. Except I don’t think you could even plan for that to happen.
Bullet
Barry Daines
Bentancur is not Argentinian. You singled out Romero and Bentancur on page 21: "Today only the Argies looked comfortable in possession - Romera and Bentancur" and on page 22 Steff said Romero looked too comfortable and you doubled down and said Romero only made one bad pass in the second half and some people disagreed.Im lost. Thank you for paying attentionI did. But whats your point?
Then you said it wasn't fair to single out Romero, so I said that it was you that singled him out in the first place.
SpurMeUp
Tommy Harmer
South Americans my bad. Still lost. Yes I thought they were more comfortable on the ball, at least first half. Second half the confidence dropped after the flurry of missed passes, and we never regained control. First half I thought we actually did well playing out at times. Much more to come of course: both playing through a press (something we did better today first half) and playing on the break (that we were woeful at second half). When trying to play longer passes to break fast isn't working, I'd like to see us adapt so we can gain control again with some shorter balls. ButFrank clearly has a vision, and playing on the break is a key thing. So there will be a period of adapting and improving how we break, we're not in sync yet.
Kandi1977
Vivian Woodward
You obviously didn't give the game much attention. Bentancur was one of our best. Low bar today, but still. Showed composure when we needed it. Had a terrible period the first 25 minutes of the 2nd half, but so did everyone else. Once Palhinha came on, they controlled midfield much better.
Bishop
Paul Robinson
Goals, Baleforce hates any game with any result other than a 1 nil.
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Les Medley
I'm very happy with result, I didn't think we would steamroller them, every game in this competition will be tough.
We are some way off playing with the fluency we want. Frank has worked well with making us tighter but we are still making individual errors. The creativity will take sometime to fix and I expect we will see more games like this before we click.
I'll be content to see us picking up points while we work it out even if the performances are scratchy, the forwards getting some goals will help.
SteveAWOL
Gary Stevens
one of the greatest ever
And still more of a goal threat at the age of 42 than the ARSEnal version!
alekaras
The ITK of IDK
Pragmatism was City away and PSG. We played pragmatic and we did it well. This match was anything but. It's still early days, though, so at least getting a result in spite of a poor performance will keep the spirits high. But we do need to improve. We have way too much talent to be playing the way we did against Villarreal.
tommysvr
Terry Venables
That calamity of a goal set the standard for the match nicely. Ref was awful, and awful for both teams. There's absolutely no way there was 8 yellow cards in that match. He then bottled giving Xavi a second yellow (not that I think either of his fouls were yellows, but it was worse than some of the challenges the ref did give them for.)
Weird night. Brighton away will be very difficult on current form. A pragmatic win there would be nice, then look to really improve the performance against Doncaster and Wolves.
Weird night. Brighton away will be very difficult on current form. A pragmatic win there would be nice, then look to really improve the performance against Doncaster and Wolves.
braineclipse
Garth Crooks
This. The attempted clearance/pass that ended with the shot for Pepe (tried a looping pass, but underhit it) was imo the only bad one from him. Uncharacteristically rushed and lacking in compusure.
The others I remember were him trying an ambitious line breaking forward pass. He's trying something difficult, higher risk higher reward. That's what I want him to do, particularly as we're short on players capable of doing that. To me he's taking responsibility, as he should.
braineclipse
Garth Crooks
With this level of performance results won't be sustainable at the level we want/need.
Being able to win on a bad day is a strength, but the bad days need to be the exception.
braineclipse
Garth Crooks
Hoping for an improvement in performance levels against Brighton. I think this team and Frank are very much capable of that.
Early days, inconsistency isn't a surprise.
tommysvr
Terry Venables
I'd obviously love to go there and win comfortably, but I don't see it -- especially as a number of our key players have played close to 180 minutes this week. I thought we needed earlier subs last night. I'd expect a bit more rotation vs Brighton, which could lead to another disjointed performance.
Kandi1977
Vivian Woodward
4 changes should do it. Palhinha in for Bergvall or Sarr. Udogie for Spence, Johnson for Kudus, Kulo Muani for Richy.