***OMT - SPURS vs Chelsea***

[parklane1]

Result was excellent and I think your post holds true for the first half. But I thought we were disappointing in the second half. I was never too nervous that we’d concede because we looked solid but where we looked threatening in the first half every time we broke, I thought we were offensively poor second half.

Still better than how we usually do there. Back on top of the league. One goal conceded in 5. Unbeaten in 9. There are a lot of positives. There is still better to come from us but we’re picking up points in all sorts of ways which bodes well.

There is a way to go for sure ( better to come), but the progress we have made has been pretty quick and i doubt any of us thought we would be where we are so quickly. Work in progress for sure but i feel more confident at this time about actually winning something then i have for a very long time.

 

[SteveAWOL]

 

[DeanoAustin]

There is a way to go for sure ( better to come), but the progress we have made has been pretty quick and i doubt any of us thought we would be where we are so quickly. Work in progress for sure but i feel more confident at this time about actually winning something then i have for a very long time.

If anyone had said last November (when Poch went), March (when we were falling apart) or even May (when we lost to Sheff U and drew with Bournemouth) that we'd be top of the league 10 games in with a well balanced, strong squad, I wouldn't have believed it. If anyone had told me at the start of the season we'd concede 1 goal in 5 games that included Chelsea and City, I wouldn't have believed it with the defensive options we have.

When Poch went, there was a feeling that we'd been set back years by the way his reign crumbled and I could sense a similar apathy to the apathy towards the end of AVB's reign and the entirety of Tactics Tim's time here. What Mourinho, Levy and the club have done over the last few months has been incredible. The balancing and strengthening of our squad for just £60m, the improvement in players like Dier, Hugo, Son, Ndombele and Kane and the way we're getting results demands huge respect. A triumph of a coherent club strategy, signing the right players and great coaching. Let's hope we keep it going but I can't see any reason we don't. I'm not saying we'll win the league but we have all the pieces in place and are in the mix.

 

[90291Spur]

If anyone had said last November (when Poch went), March (when we were falling apart) or even May (when we lost to Sheff U and drew with Bournemouth) that we'd be top of the league 10 games in with a well balanced, strong squad, I wouldn't have believed it. If anyone had told me at the start of the season we'd concede 1 goal in 5 games that included Chelsea and City, I wouldn't have believed it with the defensive options we have.

When Poch went, there was a feeling that we'd been set back years by the way his reign crumbled and I could sense a similar apathy to the apathy towards the end of AVB's reign and the entirety of Tactics Tim's time here. What Mourinho, Levy and the club have done over the last few months has been incredible. The balancing and strengthening of our squad for just £60m, the improvement in players like Dier, Hugo, Son, Ndombele and Kane and the way we're getting results demands huge respect. A triumph of a coherent club strategy, signing the right players and great coaching. Let's hope we keep it going but I can't see any reason we don't. I'm not saying we'll win the league but we have all the pieces in place and are in the mix.

Three pints of optimism and a packet of crisps, please!

 

[DeanoAustin]

Three pints of optimism and a packet of crisps, please!

I'm full of the optimism. I did have a 50 on us to win the league after Bale, Reguilon and Vinicius signed so I'm all in...

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

yeah but we’re not the team being hyped up due to our attacking prowess are we
All I heard before the game was how we deal with them... they couldn’t deal with us. They were very very blunt IMO
They haven’t beaten one top side this season and you can see why

Not that I want to defend them but they are a work in progress as much as anyone. Fat Frank has a lot of new players there and (like other teams) has/had a leaky defence to sort out. Him as the manager might be their undoing but with the players he's got there's a good chance theyre on an upward curve.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Not that I want to defend them but they are a work in progress as much as anyone. Fat Frank has a lot of new players there and (like other teams) has/had a leaky defence to sort out. Him as the manager might be their undoing but with the players he's got there's a good chance theyre on an upward curve.

Or this is as good as they get with him in charge
I guess we will see

 

[StephenH]

no MOM?

 

[Glenda's Legs]

no MOM?

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[Kenyan Spur]

- Kante was given Kane duty
- Chances were about even, Chelsea had the one shot from Mount, the couple of fluffed headers from Abraham and the one Giroud chance. We had the Lo Celso chance at end, Bergwijn shot over and the chance where Reguilon should have been played in (actually looking at it that way, our chances were probably slightly better quality)

I think the most important thing for me is Chelsea is absolutely stacked with attacking players, are in good form and yet played cautiously because they were scared brickless of Kane/Son on counter (Lampard admitted it post interview), this to me is priceless for us. It's one thing to change your meteorology, it's another to play in a way that effectively intimidates the opposition (I've always been a big believer that Pool's defence under Klopp has never been that great, it's just teams are so worried about Pools attack they sit back more and that makes Pool's defence look better.

Two week-ends on top of league, 7 points out of United, City and Chelsea with two of those being away .. not sure much to complain about.

Our best attempt, and the one on target was the one by Aurier. It produced the best save from Mendy. It was similar to the shot by Mount, that was well saved by Hugo.

 

[braineclipse]

Result was excellent and I think your post holds true for the first half. But I thought we were disappointing in the second half. I was never too nervous that we’d concede because we looked solid but where we looked threatening in the first half every time we broke, I thought we were offensively poor second half.

Still better than how we usually do there. Back on top of the league. One goal conceded in 5. Unbeaten in 9. There are a lot of positives. There is still better to come from us but we’re picking up points in all sorts of ways which bodes well.

Agreed, but will just add that defensively we were good in the second half too.

The way we play there are a handful of key moments where we need several things to go right. One or two good breaks in the second half could easily have been enough. When we don't get those right we look toothless, disappointing, but in terms of performance there's only a marginal difference imo.

We won't come up against Kante every week and well done to Lampard for setting them up in a way that kept us quiet on the break for 45 minutes.

 

[billyiddo]

Agreed, but will just add that defensively we were good in the second half too.

The way we play there are a handful of key moments where we need several things to go right. One or two good breaks in the second half could easily have been enough. When we don't get those right we look toothless, disappointing, but in terms of performance there's only a marginal difference imo.

We won't come up against Kante every week and well done to Lampard for setting them up in a way that kept us quiet on the break for 45 minutes.

Yeah, for every Emirates Marketing Project performance where the attack clicks in those rare moments there is likely to be a Chelsea performance where it doesn't click- you have to take the rough with the smooth in that sense with this setup

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Yeah, for every Emirates Marketing Project performance where the attack clicks in those rare moments there is likely to be a Chelsea performance where it doesn't click- you have to take the rough with the smooth in that sense with this setup

And accept that some teams will sit in on the Andy way line like Chelsea did and we have to either stick or twist
And of course we will not play this way against every side

 

[billyiddo]

And accept that some teams will sit in on the Andy way line like Chelsea did and we have to either stick or twist
And of course we will not play this way against every side

At a guess City + Liverpool home & away and Chelsea away - 5 games, not the end of the world if it sees us improve our return in those types of games i suppose.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

At a guess City + Liverpool home & away and Chelsea away - 5 games, not the end of the world if it sees us improve our return in those types of games i suppose.

Indeed
And I hope your right
I want to see more cavalier football with more goals, big hopefully with the balance of a quality defensive effort too

 

[Finney Is Back]

Didn't lose. All that mattered. Could have won right at the death, could have lost right at the death, but ended up with a good point away to Chelsea.

Interesting that we knew what would happen on here with Kante sticking to Kane like a flu to essentially mark him out of the game, vastly limiting our ability to break.

Bit befuddled by Bergwijn's role. He must be doing a tactical job of some sort, but he's just been disappointing this entire season, and today was more of the same. Works hard, but very limited, and slower than I thought.

Defense a little shakier than usual with Rodon in for Toby, but *also* with Dier playing some absolutely awful passes. Highlight was him striding purposefully out with the ball with no one pressing him for 30 seconds, looking up, considering his pass...and beautifully, perfectly wafting a ball *straight* to the surprised Chelsea player 5m in front of him, leading to a breakaway from which they almost scored.

Reguilon, Lloris and Hojbjerg good. Aurier, Rodon, Sissoko solid. Ndombele, Dier and Son acceptable. Kane and Bergwijn a bit anonymous. The point, a good point.

And we go on.

It was absolutely a tactical job, he had to track James each time. He also had to try to get beyond Kane for our counter attacks, his work rate was immense and when (I think it was) Jamie Redknapp said he thought Mourinho might sub him for Bale, I thought ‘no chance!’, Bergwijn’s role was 70% defensive on Sunday.

iMO our best four players were Aurier, Regulion, Hojbjerg and Sissoko, Lloris made the one good save but also nearly cost us coming to try to claim that ball he was never going to get. We got lucky with Rodon’s two big mistakes, but Chelsea created nothing aside from those two individual mistakes from our debutant.

 

[Finney Is Back]

Nope.

They dealt with everything that came their way and Abraham only got clear by fouling them.

Rodon made an error at the end, but that's a far better error ratio than everyone else.

Radon’s two errors could (and probably should) have resulted in 2 goals for Chelsea. He did alright other than that though.

 

[Finney Is Back]

Agree with this summation.

Would have liked to have seen Bale given at least 15 minutes to try and win this game.

I think it may have been more likely to have resulted in us losing it. We didn’t have the possession to utilise his attacking skills, the wide players were very much auxiliary defenders on Sunday.

 

[Finney Is Back]

I don’t think they’re saying “we’re nothing” without them, but they both didn’t turn up today and we looked poor as a result in the second half. Of course any team with their two best players out of the side is not as good. They’ve scored the majority of our goals this season. We could quite conceivably win the league with those two carrying us goals wise. People would say it against Liverpool if they were dropping points but they’re level on points with us after being decimated with injuries. Hopefully they will get an injury to Salad, Jota or Mane. Emirates Marketing Project have also won stuff over the years with injuries to the likes of De Bruyne and Aguero too.

It wasn’t that they didn’t turn up, it was that Son was being asked to defend Chilwell as his primary job and Kane couldn’t find space as Kante tracked him when he dropped off and he was isolated when up front due to the defending that Son and Bergwijn were being asked to do.

 

[Finney Is Back]

I think Pulisic is the next Hazard. They have a handful of exciting attacking players, yet looked blunt today and devoid of ideas.

Our two full backs were fantastic and they got superb support from Sissoko/Hojbjerg and Son/Bergwijn.