*** OMT: Mighty Spurs vs Scum ***

[alekaras]

F*ck sake. First time in the PL that we lose 3 straight at home to them lot.

 

[spursozy]

Cant even beat the scum with their reserve midfield in our own back yard

 

[afsoc4life]

Odobert did more in 20 minutes than Son, Madison and Johnson. Let that sink in. Ange has to start picking on merit.

 

[nattenskonge]

Not even fcking close…

 

[DeanoAustin]

fudge it anyway. Never really looked like we’d score. They were very very good defensively in fairness and we just weren’t good enough to break them down.

Arteta, to be fair to him, set them up very well as much as it pains me to admit.

 

[Bullet]

Toothless and tentative again. Something is wrong with our structure and/or temperament

 

[Chrissivad]

Never looked like scoring, or causing much trouble.

I hope we give Bergvall, Spence, Moore a change some of the 1st team Vs Coventry to try and claim a place in the first team.

Some players today have had plenty of chances and not delivering

 

[JerusalemMan]

fudge it anyway. Never really looked like we’d score. They were very very good defensively in fairness and we just weren’t good enough to break them down.

Arteta, to be fair to him, set them up very well as much as it pains me to admit.

It's true

 

[afsoc4life]

Not even fcking close…

Agreed. Arsenal didn't even go up a gear. Spurs were like a 5 year old doing karate shots on a heavyweight boxer.

 

[Outrance]

Odobert did more in 20 minutes than Son, Madison and Johnson. Let that sink in. Ange has to start picking on merit.

This is the worst part. He just blindly picks Son and Maddison every damn time without blinking an eye. They can do whatever they like

 

[Robspur12]

A lot of questions for Ange to answer with his system.

 

[paxtonwolf]

Anyone really surprised??

Even with Rice and Odegaard missing.

Spurs lose to a set-piece goal. Well Well Well

 

[DeanoAustin]

Apart from that 1 rabbit-in-the-headlights moment, he's been pretty solid

I agree and that was just a bad touch. But there were doubts about him when he signed. Given he’s a big money signing, he won’t get the benefit of any doubt even though he should.

 

[metalgear]

Yup. International and scottish cups are still far from EPL standards. Can only hope he is learning instead of stubbornly hanging on to what made him successful previously. Still has time to turn things around but there are some glaring cosching issues to sort out.

Ange hasn’t got a fudging clue how to change it.

This is brick

 

[Bishop]

Ball out wide to the wingers to cut it back into the striker.

When there are 5 defenders to your 1 striker, it's difficult to find that cut back. And that's if you can get your wingers in behind them

Sadly I don't believe that's an attacking plan that's going to work.

It's too simplistic and the players we have out wide aren't actually any good at gaining space to get that cross in. When they do get that cross in due to the slow pace of the play up to that point there are 5 or 6 defenders faced up against our 1 striker.

I just don't see how this is going to work. I've watched many a team essentially play slow possession football over the years and one thing the guys who were actually successful at doing it all had was actual threat and danger coke from the wings and possession link play from all of the forwards.

Let Ange prove to be the edge case but it's not looking like that's likely. We aren't maximising the possession we do have with the wide players we play.

 

[Goose]

I'd drop Son, Johnson and Madison. Largely ineffective today. And Son is just not captain material.

 

[Mikey10]

I have no idea what we are trying to do. There is no shape or pattern. I feel as disconnected as I did in late era-Conte. Terrible to watch.

 

[GlennGoddle]

A lot of questions for Ange to answer with his system.

We play one way, mate. Mate. You not learnt that yet cobber.

 

[DeanoAustin]

A lot of questions for Ange to answer with his system.

I wouldn’t be too hard on Ange today. But what today illustrated is the value of a solid defence. Allows you to play another way and wins you games.

 

[billyiddo]

Bro it's not about the striker, it's the system. The system we play with the players we have doesn't create actual quality chances. Solanke has been feeding in scraps all match, he had that fantastic header in the first half but even if that had gone in it would have been turning water into wine.

I don't disagree with that but your post that I responded to was using a couple of games 'evidence' to argue the point, which is obviously not enough to go on