• Dear Guest, Please note that adult content is not permitted on this forum. We have had our Google ads disabled at times due to some posts that were found from some time ago. Please do not post adult content and if you see any already on the forum, please report the post so that we can deal with it. Adult content is allowed in the glory hole - you will have to request permission to access it. Thanks, scara

Eric Dier

braineclipse said:
Thought he did alright.

Confused by a couple of situations including their fist chance where he was very aggressive challenging for headers way ahead of his line with no midfielders dropping back to cover.

Might be that the midfielders didn't do their jobs. Might be that Pochettino wants to see that aggression even if it leaves us exposed when he loses the header. Seemed to be though that this was just about their only way of creating chances when we were organized and we played into their hands.

Definitely still a player in Dier, but he has huge steps he needs to make.
Click to expand...

Actually I would suspect that is exactly what it is .. Watching games on tv are ok but make true evaluation of players in team more difficult.

I saw one of KWP's last games and Aurier's first game back both in person and the one thing that completely stood out was the ball in air
- When KWP was playing he struggling with either the keeper kick out or aerial pass out wide, didn't seem to know if to attack or back off
- Aurier attacked those balls aggressively (probably too much so) every time

Not saying it's the only reason KWP has been binned, but being able to cut out those balls early in the air takes a lot of pressure off the defense.
 
K.D.D.D.D.Soc said:
Interested to read him say he has been struggling with illness since his appendicitis problem and his immune system couldn't cope with the post op medication. Hopefully he can regain his full fitness and form as a fully functioning Dier makes a big difference to our team.
Click to expand...

Oh yes indeed. I wonder if it is still a stage of testing the water with him, maybe two consecutive starts on 4 days will be deemed too much of an exertion. With that in mind I'm not going to through my toys out of the pram if he isn't in the line up today from the off but my impatient side does want him to start stringing some performances together.
 
I've seen some poor performances from Dier before but today he excelled himself.... Did he bump his head and think we were playing in red and white stripes?... I'm not sure I have ever watched a game and seen a player give it to the opposition so often.

We cannot carry a player with such little football ability in our team. Paired with Sanchez (who is just as bad but at least knows his limits) it is a disaster.
 
Not sure what Dier did that wrong
Toby and Jan been worse all season
The goal didn’t come because of him
It looked like yet again Davies didn’t stay wide like he doesn’t anymore
 
Still not a CB. Too slow (both in his movement and reacting to danger) and prone to mistakes.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Not sure what Dier did that wrong
Toby and Jan been worse all season
The goal didn’t come because of him
It looked like yet again Davies didn’t stay wide like he doesn’t anymore
Click to expand...
Seriously? Did you not see him pass it straight to the opposition on at least 8 occasions?.... He is fudging useless!
 
Bedfordspurs said:
No
I saw him pass it to them a few times
I also saw him trying to lead the defence
And i also saw him spray the ball around a bit
Their goal had nothing to do with him, and was all about the way we defended prior
Click to expand...
Ignore the goal. We cannot afford to have a centre half that continuously gives it straight to the opposition.
 
Finney Is Back said:
Seriously? Did you not see him pass it straight to the opposition on at least 8 occasions?.... He is fudging useless!
Click to expand...


He hit a couple if really good ones, then a terrible one and couldn't seem to pick out a white shirt after that.
But they were all doing it today, some really easy passes.
It's like they mentally pick a pass, go to hit it, change their mind and make an arse of it.
Lo celso must have had our best pass g stats by a mile.
 
glasgowspur said:
He hit a couple if really good ones, then a terrible one and couldn't seem to pick out a white shirt after that.
But they were all doing it today, some really easy passes.
It's like they mentally pick a pass, go to hit it, change their mind and make an arse of it.
Lo celso must have had our best pass g stats by a mile.
Click to expand...
Le Celso looked brilliant IMo
Constantly probing and also being aggressive too
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Not sure what Dier did that wrong
Toby and Jan been worse all season
The goal didn’t come because of him
It looked like yet again Davies didn’t stay wide like he doesn’t anymore
Click to expand...

I think Dier gave the ball away too many times today and constantly put is under pressure
 
NaijaSpurs said:
I think Dier gave the ball away too many times today and constantly put is under pressure
Click to expand...

as I say I didn’t see that
I saw the midfield panicking a bit other than Le Celso
And I did see a LOT of players misplacing passes early doors but I’ll check later
 
StephenH said:
Sheffield bossed our midfield for great sways of the game!
So ”brilliant” is way OTT IMHO
Click to expand...

they didn’t get near him
Every time he was creating something
They bossed the midfield... they were great but I think bossed is a term I woudknt used
Contained maybe
 
Between him and Davies they never got a handle on Mousset or Mcgoldrick. He was forever finding the ball in dangerous space feel from the attention of any defenders. Mousset has good movement he virtually had the run of our box for 90+ minutes. It was quite fortunate neither he nor Mcgoldrick capitalised more from the opportunities they crafted.

Sent from my ONEPLUS A6003 using Fapatalk
 
GLC struggled today with a hardworking midfield unit and Ndombele looked knackered after 30 minutes!
Not good at all
 
Last edited:
Bishop said:
Between him and Davies they never got a handle on Mousset or Mcgoldrick. He was forever finding the ball in dangerous space feel from the attention of any defenders. Mousset has good movement he virtually had the run of our box for 90+ minutes. It was quite fortunate neither he nor Mcgoldrick capitalised more from the opportunities they crafted.

Sent from my ONEPLUS A6003 using Fapatalk
Click to expand...
Did either of those two have a shot ?
Everything for me they did well cans against our full backs
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back