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Cristian Romero

braineclipse said:
Think he's been excellent. Including the Arsenal game. Those "mistakes" just happen sometimes.

Looks absolutely unflappable. Those two goals would dent the confidence of most players at least somewhat. Romero just keeps on doing his thing.

Happy to see him get fewer cards and give away fewer fouls. Perhaps he's adjusted his game a touch, but mostly I think it's playing in a team that functions as a unit.
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also he is in my humble estimation calmer with VdV and Vicario around him, Udogie and Porro also doing well - I just think he doesn't need to over commit because he has confidence in the others around him
 
indospurs said:
also he is in my humble estimation calmer with VdV and Vicario around him, Udogie and Porro also doing well - I just think he doesn't need to over commit because he has confidence in the others around him
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This 100% imagine what it must have been like last season expecting every attack to get through and trying to cover all the gaps*

* (this post may have exaggerated for effect)
 
indospurs said:
also he is in my humble estimation calmer with VdV and Vicario around him, Udogie and Porro also doing well - I just think he doesn't need to over commit because he has confidence in the others around him
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It’s ange call
Mistakes will happen
But trust in me (Ange) and do what I ask
It builds their confidence to play the right way
 
indospurs said:
also he is in my humble estimation calmer with VdV and Vicario around him, Udogie and Porro also doing well - I just think he doesn't need to over commit because he has confidence in the others around him
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Confidence in them and they actually do their job in a functional unit.

Different role to as one of two centre backs instead of one of three.

He's still one of the centre backs in the league with the most tackles per game though, still being aggressive. That's very good.
 
Vdv affirming the good partnership with cuti, something he wasn't able to strike up with last season's cbs.

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I think Cuti needs to be a tad less involved in attack with teams like Liverpool where just one slip or unfortunate deflection can send Diaz or Salah on their way. Just a slight adjustment. He was just commanding in defence.
 
metalgear said:
I think Cuti needs to be a tad less involved in attack with teams like Liverpool where just one slip or unfortunate deflection can send Diaz or Salah on their way. Just a slight adjustment. He was just commanding in defence.
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He slowed down attacks in the second half, how many times did he stand in the middle of pitch with ball actually stopped at his feet. Against 9 men that's criminal.
 
glasgowspur said:
He slowed down attacks in the second half, how many times did he stand in the middle of pitch with ball actually stopped at his feet. Against 9 men that's criminal.
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That's intentional. Stopping with the ball under your feet is to draw out a presser who thinks they can take the ball because you're static.

As the deepest player in our passing setup, it's his role to draw out the first presser. The others are then required to take up positions that will draw further pressers out.
 
scaramanga said:
That's intentional. Stopping with the ball under your feet is to draw out a presser who thinks they can take the ball because you're static.

As the deepest player in our passing setup, it's his role to draw out the first presser. The others are then required to take up positions that will draw further pressers out.
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He wasn't the deepest player and they weren't coming out.
A draw was a moral victory for them, the crowd were getting anxious and the clock was running down.
You move the ball, you move the player, you tire them out, you create gaps.
 
afsoc4life said:
Anytime I watch Romero I am reminded that the brother has skills. Yesterday he was very comfortable with making passes as part of our buildup that misdirected Pool's players.
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Very decent again yesterday, could move the ball quicker at times but also when in and around the box he was fizzing passes about, it's made seeing defenders in attack....
 
glasgowspur said:
He wasn't the deepest player and they weren't coming out.
A draw was a moral victory for them, the crowd were getting anxious and the clock was running down.
You move the ball, you move the player, you tire them out, you create gaps.
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He's the deepest player in that setup.

Look at the cup shape we're in around their defenders - he's the lowest point in it. There are other players but they're not part of the passing - they're an emergency get out of he can't pass forwards.

You're right that they were very disciplined in their press and didn't come out, but footballers as a whole aren't particularly bright. You give them enough chances to steal the ball and eventually they'll try.
 
Ange's words...context is how Spurs could have done better:

....“Until we scored I thought we were really good and then we lost our way a little bit. We rushed things, overdid things and were a bit too individual in that back end of the first half and it allowed them to get an equaliser.

“The thing about Liverpool is even with 10-men they are still the same threat because they prey on mistakes, have world-class players in transition and we were a bit naïve I thought, but second half we were better."...

Inevitably, turnovers happen ...so it's vdv to get to salah and romero to get to Diaz when they break. Until Liverpool went 2 men down I thought they looked mire dangerous than they should have.
 
scaramanga said:
That's intentional. Stopping with the ball under your feet is to draw out a presser who thinks they can take the ball because you're static.

As the deepest player in our passing setup, it's his role to draw out the first presser. The others are then required to take up positions that will draw further pressers out.
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I agree it's intentional. And most of the time it works well.

Against 9 men and them sitting that deep and compact was probably the right situation to change that approach a bit, at times at least.

But to me that's the next step and far from "criminal" to not get that right yet.

Learn the fundamentals of the style really well first, then learn when and how to deviate from that plan. We're not quite there yet, that's fine. We're much further along than I thought we would be.
 
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