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Mauricio Pochettino - Sacked

I read somewhere (might have been here) that Poch brings on "rested" players as late subs as this means they do less work in the warmdown after the game. Might be b0ll0cks, but it does explain these type of subs.
 
SteveAWOL said:
Not too shabby considering the World Cup hangover plus lack of new signings combined with perma-crocked Wanyama and Dembele, not forgetting the delayed opening of new WHL... he’s magic you know...

Points compared to corresponding fixtures:

+10 Liverpool
+9 Tottenham
+8
+7 ARSEnal
+6
+5
+4
+3
+2
+1 Emirates Marketing Project
0 Chelsea

Points from 16 games played last season:

+12Liverpool
+11
+10
+9
+8 Tottenham
+7
+6
+5 ARSEnal
+4
+3
+2 Chelsea
+1
0
-1
-2
-3
-4
-5 Emirates Marketing Project
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Surprises me that Chelsea aren’t actually any great shakes...but also a shame that this might be a good year for Liverpool.
 
BrainOfLevy said:
@glorygloryeze , apologies for the ridiculously long post. At an airport so had time to kill and once I started typing I didn’t stop!

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So, this is what I believe. Everything Poch does is to get us to those kind of performances that the opposition simply cannot life with. Like when Quique Flores said we just swarmed all over his Watford side and there was nothing he could do. Those kind of performances that look like perfection only tend to come at a certain point of the season, so like any Manager that wants to create an advantage for himself, he needs to trade off something to make that happen, being our earlier season tempo. Because at the point where Poch decides to unleash it, teams simply cannot live with us. It’s nigh on impossible. But it takes work to get there.


Look at the performance against Leceister tonight. A typical example of a winter-onwards Poch side. We made them look like a poor Championship team, when they are a top 10 prem team with good players. As the first half progressed, we started stamping our mark. The type of space Son got was possible because he was still as fresh as anything while the Leceister players tired of our running at the end of the half. That right there is the biggest argument for building up endurance. It gives us that control. Control within games yes, but control across a season too. Because when you have an actual strategy, you can use it to close gaps where you are weak - in this case our finances. And because of this strategy, we get performances out of players like Davies, Aurier and Sissoko who go under appreciated despite ranking exceptionally highly in areas like fitness, team orientation etc, which we absolutely need.


So to sum up - everything Poch does for me is linked to the strategy to help us close financial gaps by creating situations where we can beat more expensive teams over a season through better conditioning. This allows us to play a higher tempo and control our form at the right points. It happens every season to the point that it is a pattern, and the great thing is it is very difficult for any opposition to stop.
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Nice post.. And most of it is probably accurate.

What is funny is how the league has split into the top 5/6 and the rest. As shown this season, oftentimes we have to do very little to secure the win against the rest. And this goes for our other top 5 rivals when theyre playing the rest.

So where you finish, by definition, boils down to those games against each other.

Now as we've seen it really appears to be a bit of a lottery in these match ups and all of what you have written, although massively analytical and detailed (and when I say you, I mean the approach we assume Poch takes), just doesn't guarantee anything, perhaps because all the top 5 have great managers, great teams employing just as much depth of thought, analysis and detail.
It appears it is literally ''on the day' one team just appears to have the bit between their teeth, hence the head scratching from Poch when we (for no apparent reason) just don't turn up.

Of course, we have no control over the fixture list and maybe that is what caused us to be poor against Arsenal when we were so great the week before. So one of the top 5 could literally have an advantage just on how the fixtures fall.

It's lovely to be genuinely a top club and, if you reflect, the team under fantastic guidance from Poch has ticked so many boxes that haven't been ticked for years.

On another point..Interestingly, Although they won yesterday, Sarri (im beginning to like him) called out his players for inconsistent mentality and said that in the long run they won't achieve if they carry on like that.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Nice post.. And most of it is probably accurate.

What is funny is how the league has split into the top 5/6 and the rest. As shown this season, oftentimes we have to do very little to secure the win against the rest. And this goes for our other top 5 rivals when theyre playing the rest.

So where you finish, by definition, boils down to those games against each other.

Now as we've seen it really appears to be a bit of a lottery in these match ups and all of what you have written, although massively analytical and detailed (and when I say you, I mean the approach we assume Poch takes), just doesn't guarantee anything, perhaps because all the top 5 have great managers, great teams employing just as much depth of thought, analysis and detail.
It appears it is literally ''on the day' one team just appears to have the bit between their teeth, hence the head scratching from Poch when we (for no apparent reason) just don't turn up.

Of course, we have no control over the fixture list and maybe that is what caused us to be poor against Arsenal when we were so great the week before. So one of the top 5 could literally have an advantage just on how the fixtures fall.

It's lovely to be genuinely a top club and, if you reflect, the team under fantastic guidance from Poch has ticked so many boxes that haven't been ticked for years.

On another point..Interestingly, Although they won yesterday, Sarri (im beginning to like him) called out his players for inconsistent meteorology and said that in the long run they won't achieve if they carry on like that.
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How the fixtures fall has a huge say in it IMO

You don’t want to be away after a European game statistically speaking ... you don’t wanna play a team in the top 6 either unless you at home. And ideally you want no big sides around Christmas time
 
Bedfordspurs said:
How the fixtures fall has a huge say in it IMO

You don’t want to be away after a European game statistically speaking ... you don’t wanna play a team in the top 6 either unless you at home. And ideally you want no big sides around Christmas time
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Looking at the fixture schedule we play Chelsea and Arsenal again in successive league games and i'm sure a European gameweek is again sandwiched in-between....#gulp
 
I don't think the fixtures have anything to do with us playing crap against scum. We pretty much always play crap at their place apart from the odd good performance but we're clutching at straws to find good performances and wins when we play them away from home. We've only won there twice in the entire history of the Premier League.
 
Poch took a gamble by resting Kane and Eriken but it paid off so credit to him. I wouldn't blame Poch if he rested Kane against Burnley regardless of the result. He can't play every game and we should be able to beat Burnley at home with or without him.
 
Jurgen the German said:
I don't think the fixtures have anything to do with us playing crap against scum. We pretty much always play crap at their place apart from the odd good performance but we're clutching at straws to find good performances and wins when we play them away from home. We've only won there twice in the entire history of the Premier League.
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You are partly right in that we often play badly there. However, in recent times we have upped our game there massively under Poch and we did have two big games before last week, whilst they played the stiffs in the midweek game. Fair play to them they earned that right seeing as they did the early groundwork and qualified.
 
Jurgen the German said:
Poch took a gamble by resting Kane and Eriken but it paid off so credit to him. I wouldn't blame Poch if he rested Kane against Burnley regardless of the result. He can't play every game and we should be able to beat Burnley at home with or without him.
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You know it's strange, i actually feel more confident when we rest Kane and we are playing away from home than if we have a home game and he's rested...
 
glorygloryeze said:
You are partly right in that we often play badly there. However, in recent times we have upped our game there massively under Poch and we did have two big games before last week, whilst they played the stiffs in the midweek game. Fair play to them they earned that right seeing as they did the early groundwork and qualified.
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Yeah we have played better in recent times but that's the exception really. Most of the time we go there and don't turn up. We played them last season after back to back games against United and Liverpool and then played scum off the park. Granted the game was at Wembley and not away from home but I put our bad result last week down to our rotten record and history there which plays on the players minds rather than an unfortunate fixture schedule.
 
Jurgen the German said:
Yeah we have played better in recent times but that's the exception really. Most of the time we go there and don't turn up. We played them last season after back to back games against United and Liverpool and then played scum off the park. Granted the game was at Wembley and not away from home but I put our bad result last week down to our rotten record and history there which plays on the players minds rather than an unfortunate fixture schedule.
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We had a FA Cup replay against Newport in the week leading up to the Arsenal game earlier this year that you refer to, so we in fact had a situation more similar to Arsenal last week: only one player started that game and also played vs Arsenal.

Poch has banished thoughts of the past mostly from our displays. For example, how often do we go a goal down early on at the Emirates and storm back to lead by half-time?

I honestly think freshness, rotation and the fact that Arsenal played out of their skins because they gave themselves a week off effectively was more key than any thoughts by the players about how badly we traditionally do there
 
The fact that this is our best points haul in our PL (and more recent) history points more to how mediocre we've been over the years than anything else. BUT, given our lack of NewWHL, our restricted budget and NO JACK GREALISH in the squad, what Poch has done is nothing short of magic. He has us functioning as a 'proper' elite PL club, playing great football and with a good number of home grown players contributing to our success (I know, no trophies.....).
 
Poch :
I also want to say that Daniel Levy should be so happy. I want to congratulate him. He's putting in a massive effort, trying to deliver and finish the stadium. Sometimes it's easy to get the praise, the coaching staff, the players and the fans but I think he, and all the board, deserve massive congratulations because they're putting in a massive effort, building what is for me one of the best stadiums in the world. I think I want to congratulate him and this achievement, he is a big part of it and he deserves massive recognition for that.

https://www.football.london/tottenh...chettino-press-conference-every-word-15539416

Clearly a subliminal 'back me or I'm off' message to the boss.

(sarcasm).
 
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