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OMT - Spurs v Villa

Man of the match

  • Total voters
    70
  • Poll closed .
milo said:
Nominations for Alderweireld, Aurier, Bergwijn, Davies, Lo Celso, Moura, Sanchez, Son and Winks. Anyone else?
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Maybe Lloris and Dier. No, just kidding but strange his poor a match we had, yet nine of the first eleven nominated to be MotM. Maybe it’s hard to separate the brick and find anyone that was consistently good today.
 
Armchair Expert said:
Was at the Southampton cup replay and he looked total brick. I've never see a player live at a game that looked so lazy, lumbering and utterly knackered right from the kick off. He was incredibly lazy in defence too and let some average players glide past him as if he was an overweight, asthmatic 12 year old kid.

I think he might well be £50m odd down the toilet. Before seeing him live i was clambering for him to be in the side. Now, I can see there is no way he can play. He's a complete liability.
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Is he really that poor? I keep seeing the good bits of him and he looks fantastic. I keep imagining what a midfield we will have if he plays alongside Lo Celso. But this is making me think otherwise. Perhaps if he can get motivated and sort out his fitness issues? Or will Mourinho just move him on to free up a squad space but at a loss?
 
El Guepardo said:
Is he really that poor? I keep seeing the good bits of him and he looks fantastic. I keep imagining what a midfield we will have if he plays alongside Lo Celso. But this is making me think otherwise. Perhaps if he can get motivated and sort out his fitness issues? Or will Mourinho just move him on to free up a squad space but at a loss?
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Him winks and Lo Celso could be amazing
 
Bullet said:
I was disappointed to see Lo Celso and Ndombele left out. And Gedson, I think that kid has a lot of pep.

Perhaps they weren't fit.

Or Perhaps Mou Mou is saving them for the CL / Cheatski games.

It will be very interesting to see what Mou does next.

Note he went to 442 second half, because Grealish was getting way too much time in the first half. Good to see a manager make a change like that. He did leave some exhausted players on the pitch though, strangely. Probably trying to make a point.

Barring a STUPID mistake from Engels in the last 30 seconds, we do not win. But I guess that is on the forwards, and their laughably atrocious decision making.
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Don’t forget the mistakes we made to let them back into it
 
In the end, we deserved to win, and would have deserved to win even if Engels didn't have that monstrous f*ck-up at the end.

Again, I can see what Mourinho's trying to do, and the counter-attacking football was quite frankly amazing to watch at times. It's quick, it's sharp, and, at its best, it will be lethal. Seeing players skinning opponents, burning down the touchline and leaving center-backs for dead is just something I really, really enjoy, and I don't mind if we have to sit deeper to achieve that sort of situation regularly.

But at the moment, we're on different wavelengths all over the shop - the forwards are off form, Dele's gone walkabout, the midfield offers zero protection to the back line, and as a result we get carved open a lot. Which makes this sort of counter-attacking football a lot less effective - hard to burn past defenders at one end when you're conceding horror goals at the other.

We did enough to win. But we really need an organizer somewhere in that back line (or in central midfield), who keeps the team together in a low block. Shouts instructions, screens the back line, and covers where needed.

Dier tries (and I thought he had a good game, actually), but his mobility just isn't there anymore. This, to me, is the number one priority this summer.

Re: Son and Lucas being head-down individualists, that's their game at this point - we can't change it. And I'm not sure we would want to - many of our best moments in the past few years have come because those players have single-mindedly taken on all comers and scored at the end of it. If they habitually f*ck up like pre-2019 Adama Traore, that's an issue, but both of them regularly produce when it matters, so that's acceptable in my view.

We do need to have alternatives to those two for games where a bit more teamwork is needed, and that's what we have Bergwijn for - the boy is something else. It's two games into his career and he's making the runs and passes that Eriksen couldn't make for a full year and a half beforehand.

The kid is a cerebral footballer, who sees space and makes the linkages with team-mates on an instinctual level. Which I find far, far more exciting than his pace, strength or willingness to work off the ball.
 
We need to buy upamecano, aarons and soumare this summer whilst letting go of vertonghen, walker-peters, aurier, rose, wanyama, dier and sissoko.

I would also offer dele to barcelona as they seem to be looking for an attacking midfielder and the world still believes the dele of two years ago still exists. Due to that we might get around 70m, which would be utterly amazing when you think what we could get to replace him with that type of money.
 
milo said:
It's a public vote, you can see by clicking on the number of votes
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There's not many, if any, posters on here who I don't respect. If I knew any of them voted Son, I might have to revise that. He was fudging toilet. Credit to the lad for scoring two and particularly the winner, he's my favourite player but he was awful today.
 
AjaxDeSuperYids said:
We need to buy upamecano, aarons and soumare this summer whilst letting go of vertonghen, walker-peters, aurier, rose, wanyama, dier and sissoko.

I would also offer dele to barcelona as they seem to be looking for an attacking midfielder and the world still believes the dele of two years ago still exists. Due to that we might get around 70m, which would be utterly amazing when you think what we could get to replace him with that type of money.
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The lad I’ve read about discretely being linked is Celtics CM Ntcham
 
I suppose Jose was taking into account La Celso and Ndombele s fitness when choosing winks and Dier today BUT if either could give 60mins I'd have started them from the off basically because Drinkwater started for them. That's the second time I've seen him play for Villa recently and he's been atrocious. La Celso and Ndombele would have had a field day with him.
 
Hard to pick a MotM, its more who was the least brick. But Son and Moura even in contention??? If either of them were a 5 out of 10 the game would've been wrapped up a lot earlier
 
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