glasgowspur
Paul Stewart
I can see formations, but I can't see plans to play in the formation, we do not look coached.
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***OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Burnlio, Sat Jan 24th, 3pm***
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SissokoWasGood (BoL)
Steve Carr
Honestly thought we were by far the better team and fully deserved to win that. Surprised by the negativity I’m seeing. Ridiculous errors for their goals but we had by far the better chances.
parj
Moussa Saib
The number one thing I see is get the ball wide and cross into the box if there is >0 Tottenham players in the box.
Muttley
Milija Aleksic
What I saw today was the following:
- Too many players drifting in an out of giving 100%. The biggest culprits were Spence, Xavi and to a certain extent, Odobert. Not the only ones though. I said earlier, I'd love to give Spence and Xavi a lot of what Porro has. Romero has it as well. If we had 11 with Romero psychology on that pitch then we are a better team. Our captain crawled off that pitch today.
- Solanke fading. We were a much better team when Solanke was fresher. As his lack of true match fitness came to the foreground in the 2nd half, we looked a lesser team. Then we got a little stronger again as Scarlett came on. I believe that a physical presence is critical to a Frank system at Spurs.
- What @Steff and others have said about patterns of play is mostly fair. I would go further and say that some of our decision making in the moment is not that great. It makes the pattern of play argument more exaggerated than it is and puts it on Frank more than the players. When I look closely, Frank isn't the reason players make bad passing choices or under-hit these passes.
- Our crossing is just woeful. Frank must be pulling his hair out that he's developed this system based on getting the balls into the box from wide areas and he watches in disbelief as we are so bad at it. It's not just technique either. It's picking the wrong type of cross e.g. when Spence hammered it at chest height rather than run in behind along the ground.
- Our finishing isn't great. I think we knew this already. Only Tel gets a let off here as he almost scored from less than a half chance. Other players had much easier chances and fluffed their lines. We finish slightly better today and we win comfortably. Some good saves from the keeper though.
- Our simple passing was terrible again. More under hit passes than I care to remember. Also, we keep playing the passes at the man or just behind. We don't seem to play the ball into a player that should be running forward so we keep losing momentum.
- Our defending in key moments wasn't great. Romero, Vic, VDV, Spence etc were culpable as well as a couple of the midfielders. It's that old thing were you might get away with one error, probably two. In our goals conceded you can see everything from a keeper stranded on his line to a full-back ball watching and then pathetically sticking his arm up to pretend he was playing offside.
- On a more positive note, I though Gallagher had a little step up in sharpness and performance. Bissouma was also pretty decent and didn't even get booked.
- Last one.....lack of yellow cards being shown is killing this league by PGMOL. It's not that the ref had a shocker like last week but if you put 4 or 5 of them on yellows based on the laws of the game then it could be different. One player kicked the ball away aggressively and it hit a female steward. Nothing given. Pathetic.
The ride is just about to get tougher. We will be in a relegation scrap if we're not careful.
- Too many players drifting in an out of giving 100%. The biggest culprits were Spence, Xavi and to a certain extent, Odobert. Not the only ones though. I said earlier, I'd love to give Spence and Xavi a lot of what Porro has. Romero has it as well. If we had 11 with Romero psychology on that pitch then we are a better team. Our captain crawled off that pitch today.
- Solanke fading. We were a much better team when Solanke was fresher. As his lack of true match fitness came to the foreground in the 2nd half, we looked a lesser team. Then we got a little stronger again as Scarlett came on. I believe that a physical presence is critical to a Frank system at Spurs.
- What @Steff and others have said about patterns of play is mostly fair. I would go further and say that some of our decision making in the moment is not that great. It makes the pattern of play argument more exaggerated than it is and puts it on Frank more than the players. When I look closely, Frank isn't the reason players make bad passing choices or under-hit these passes.
- Our crossing is just woeful. Frank must be pulling his hair out that he's developed this system based on getting the balls into the box from wide areas and he watches in disbelief as we are so bad at it. It's not just technique either. It's picking the wrong type of cross e.g. when Spence hammered it at chest height rather than run in behind along the ground.
- Our finishing isn't great. I think we knew this already. Only Tel gets a let off here as he almost scored from less than a half chance. Other players had much easier chances and fluffed their lines. We finish slightly better today and we win comfortably. Some good saves from the keeper though.
- Our simple passing was terrible again. More under hit passes than I care to remember. Also, we keep playing the passes at the man or just behind. We don't seem to play the ball into a player that should be running forward so we keep losing momentum.
- Our defending in key moments wasn't great. Romero, Vic, VDV, Spence etc were culpable as well as a couple of the midfielders. It's that old thing were you might get away with one error, probably two. In our goals conceded you can see everything from a keeper stranded on his line to a full-back ball watching and then pathetically sticking his arm up to pretend he was playing offside.
- On a more positive note, I though Gallagher had a little step up in sharpness and performance. Bissouma was also pretty decent and didn't even get booked.
- Last one.....lack of yellow cards being shown is killing this league by PGMOL. It's not that the ref had a shocker like last week but if you put 4 or 5 of them on yellows based on the laws of the game then it could be different. One player kicked the ball away aggressively and it hit a female steward. Nothing given. Pathetic.
The ride is just about to get tougher. We will be in a relegation scrap if we're not careful.
It's not this game in isolation that's the problem. We've been poor for months, so when you get an unlucky draw against the second worst team in the league it's not going to be viewed as a positive, he has no credit in the bank for these type of results to be fine.
And probably why he should have been sacked after the West Ham game, because even when he gets a positive result or two he will only be one result away from the toxicity again. Had we beat Burnley, and then lost one of the upcoming games it would be back to square one with the fans. It really is dead man walking stuff....