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***OMT Tottenham Hotspur v Burnlio, Sat Jan 24th, 3pm***

billyiddo said:
We were the better team and on balance of chances should have won - it's 'only' Burnley though so how much you can read in to that is up for debate
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Was there any improvement in terms of our attacking passing and movement? Or was it same old on that front, i.e. little attempts to transition the ball through the middle and instead more getting it wide and crossing it?
 
glorygloryeze said:
Was there any improvement in terms of our attacking passing and movement? Or was it same old on that front, i.e. little attempts to transition the ball through the middle and instead more getting it wide and crossing it?
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We were using the middle of the pitch a bit more than usual.

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SissokoWasGood (BoL) said:
Yeah I hear you.

Honestly my view was that I was done with the Frank project after the Villa match, because the season was over. The West Ham match made me think the players had given up on him and therefore a change was inevitable, but Dortmund showed they hadn’t given up. He put some plans in place for that game and they carried it out.

So now I’m like…I really don’t know. If the view of the club is that they genuinely see Frank as the long term guy, and the players believe in him, I’m happy to roll with it. Equally, if the opportunity comes to get Poch in I would do it,

I think Frank has been extremely unlucky, but this season should not have been this bad in spite of all the transition. The fact that so much of football in general this year is more direct makes me sympathise with Frank’s style to some extent. But I think the question for the decision makers has to be, is Frank able to get results consistently in the league, where he don’t have such a physical advantage like we do in Europe.
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If a team play a low block against us (though I can't understand why any team would bother playing a low block against us) then we look OK (some of our fans are even conned into thinking we're playing attacking football). As soon as a team moves higher up the pitch and presses us we are in trouble.
 
Muttley said:
What I would say is that if we had 11 players that were crossing the white line and playing for the shirt for the entire 90 mins then it could have been different. I would encourage everyone to watch Xavi on the first goal and Spence on the second. First goal, Xavi gives Walker the freedom of the pitch to cross that ball. Xavi then did exactly the same thing again later in the game. Then we have Spence for the second goal doing an "Aurier". Spence knows he should be getting back and tucking in with those spare Burnley men in the box. Porro would have been sprinting. Spence cowardly raised his arm and pretended he was holding the offside as the ball hit our net. Now whether Spence could have influenced the ultimate outcome of the goal or not is not the point I'm making. If he's 100% committed then he should be expecting the parry or the ricochet and being a proper defender and getting back into the mix.

As a fan, it's way easier to accept human error than it is a lack of commitment or application especially from players as intelligent and talented as these guys.
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Why is Xavi tracking Walker instead of his opposite number (Spence)?
 
billyiddo said:
We were the better team and on balance of chances should have won - it's 'only' Burnley though so how much you can read in to that is up for debate
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But to be complimentary to Burnley they have just drawn with Man United and at Anfield, wrapped around an impressive 5-1 win in the FA Cup so right now they are in a half-decent run and far better than the Burnley we played on the opening day

We still should won though had we concentrated better
 
glorygloryeze said:
Was there any improvement in terms of our attacking passing and movement? Or was it same old on that front, i.e. little attempts to transition the ball through the middle and instead more getting it wide and crossing it?
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Not really no. Burnley played a deep, defensive game first half that meant we could play a few more central passes but when Burnley played higher in the second half we had no answer.
 
paxtonwolf said:
But to be complimentary to Burnley they have just drawn with Man United and at Anfield, wrapped around an impressive 5-1 win in the FA Cup so right now they are in a half-decent run and far better than the Burnley we played on the opening day

We still should won though had we concentrated better
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Indeed.... Unlike us, Burnley have improved as the season has gone on.
 
How things have changed from a year ago today when our injury ravaged side lost to lowly Leicester… perhaps Joe Lewis’ kids should’ve replaced our motto, along with Levy, to plus ça change…

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