OMT - Tottenham vs. Everton

[Robspur12]

We need to support QPR now so that they still have something to play for when the goons come to town.

 

[Mumorn]

13 games
11 wins
2 draws

OMT GHod. Thank you.

 

[Wriggly]

Some Posters on here are simply unreal. Everton are a very good side who have won their last 4 inc City. We have almost our entire 1 st choice midfield out and still pretty much dominated. There are issues but proud of that performance this lot still have to play the goons. Also those saying that we are suffering for not spending in Jan I agree re: a striker but we cannot completely cover our midfield? Who are we going to sign to cover Lennon for fudges sake. We already have bentley on our books.

good post rob

 

[Bullet]

Walker was rated MoM on this site http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/615256/Live

I'd say he did well, ran the whole right side, great energy, lots of high crosses which were pretty pointless with Distin/Howard mopping up... really annoying silly freekicks though when the player is facing away from goal.

As others have said, Dempsey was awful - his only contribution was to whack it wide or leave it.

 

[spurspinter1]

Knew Siggy would score today, can't believe I didn't put money on it...

 

[Joesh]

I am a huge Daws fan but he did lose anichebe but as I said before he was up against him with no support. Whereas Everton had 2 or 3 vs ade.

Its not about support Dawson struggles big time against big strong players. He was always dominated by Heskey as an example. He has strength but has no idea how to dive or show the ref he has been pushed around by lying on the ground and clutching his face after every contact. That makes the difference between us and the top teams. His honesty is his naivity...

 

[yiddo37]

Oh, FFS.

One mis-placed pass against countless blocks and clearances. Did you see how many times he threw himself into challlenges, and won them?

Honestly........not one player had a shocker. Parker was close, but even he made some better runs.

He did put in a few challenges granted but he was dominated by Victor bloody Anichebe. Not a shocker but a bit below average.
Don't agree about Parker thought he played well and drove us on, if anyone had a shocker it was Dempsey.

 

[DubaiSpur]

Well said Sir - it seems we are hell bent on sprint smash smack sprint whack sprint smack whack sprint... it was nice to see a few brain cells flicker briefly into life for 2 or 3 seconds.

Overall I thought we did OK - they sat back in their half and we dominated, for obvious reasons, we kept swinging it in over and over again and Distin and Howard won every high ball, so it was good to see the goal come from a cutback.


I've slated Adebayor all season for truly awful performances, but today was much better, perhaps because he scored for 2 games in a row?

He's building a head of steam, I think. It's how he works. It will be interesting to see how he plays when Bale returns, though. He was the focal point of the side today, and all our crosses and balls forward were aimed at him. He feeds off that, that sense of being the main man up front. When Bale plays, his box-to-box roaming and ability to destroy defences means the team looks for him instead of Ade, relegating the big man to being the poacher up front, which given his difficulties concentrating for any length of time (a problem that affected him at Arsenal and City as well) is not a role he is suited to play.

 

[yiddo37]

Its not about support Dawson struggles big time against big strong players. He was always dominated by Heskey as an example. He has strength but has no idea how to dive or show the ref he has been pushed around by lying on the ground and clutching his face after every contact. That makes the difference between us and the top teams. His honesty is his naivity...

This is true and I feel Caulker may be in the same mould as Dawson, got beaten in the air quite a lot by Jelavic where a more forceful defender would've won the challenges.

 

[Joesh]

I have to say that AVB has to take a lot of the blame here. Its easy to blame Levy or the team but the manager is the one who must answer - why did we have no options on the bench for a winger, why did we have an untested youth striker as the only option to call on. Fair enough Jan is a tough window but what about a loan option so someone could come in and have the Ade impact while trying to impress. Its sad as we could have avoided alot of these problems but instead have a lot of players who can do a job out wide but no cover for the doomsday scenario of both wingers being out. Maybe we wouldnt have to play BAE at left wing for example...

 

[Rorschach]

Oh, FFS.

One mis-placed pass against countless blocks and clearances. Did you see how many times he threw himself into challlenges, and won them?

Honestly........not one player had a shocker. Parker was close, but even he made some better runs.

I'm not even talking about the passes. Anichebe tormented him all afternoon. He did make some great blocks to be fair but got skinned loads of time.

Vertoghen and Caulker were equally as bad today IMHO.

 

[Bullet]

Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas on the Champions League race: "It looks like it will go down to the wire at the end of the season for these Champions League spots. It's part of the game - everything shifts very, very quickly in the Premier League but we have been in this position before and you have to deal with the pressure."

Very quickly? This has been a slow, agonising fall from grace. Weeks of very average performances with the odd flash of brilliance to rescue us at the last.

Maybe AVB needs to step back and see some perspective - yes we were 3rd, but I can't believe a team will finish 3rd playing as poorly as we have in 2013.

 

[Joesh]

Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas on the Champions League race: "It looks like it will go down to the wire at the end of the season for these Champions League spots. It's part of the game - everything shifts very, very quickly in the Premier League but we have been in this position before and you have to deal with the pressure."

Very quickly? This has been a slow, agonising fall from grace. Weeks of very average performances with the odd flash of brilliance to rescue us at the last.

Maybe AVB needs to step back and see some perspective - yes we were 3rd, but I can't believe a team will finish 3rd playing as poorly as we have in 2013.

I completely agree with this, I dont want to sound so negative but reality is that we are performing poorly but just getting by, ie Lyon, Inter away, Reading, West Ham, Basle to name a few where 1 or 2 moments of brilliance have rescued us from an abject performance. The problem is we have no options to change it up. No sub strikers or wingers and only Livermore, Hudd or Carroll to challenge for a central midfield spot.

 

[Jordinho]

 

[Spursman]

looks like a bloke

 

[90291Spur]

Where does she play? In the hole?

 

[NWND]

Proud of that performance, dug in and got a good point against an Everton team that have lost less games than anyone else bar City & United, with half our team out and tired legs. Thought everyone had at least a decent game in the circumstances. AVB has to have a massive hand to he was booed by the macarons at WHL for subbing Mousa for Thudd but the change paid off and we got the equaliser so once again our worst performer was the fans!

 

[Crawley]

I'm not even talking about the passes. Anichebe tormented him all afternoon. He did make some great blocks to be fair but got skinned loads of time.

Vertoghen and Caulker were equally as bad today IMHO.

But it's Anichebe, or any other strikers job to do that. And any defender, dawson, Ferdinand, Mertesacker (titter!) will get done sometimes.
Anichebe is a bloody muscular handful. He isn't going to just give up, and pass the ball to Daws because we think Daws deserves it more.

Yes, he got beat once or twice, but what do you want? Bloody miracles?

 

[shaney]

I'd sign her up. Cant be worse then what we've got.

 

[Crawley]

Proud of that performance, dug in and got a good point against an Everton team that have lost less games than anyone else bar City & United, with half our team out and tired legs. Thought everyone had at least a decent game in the circumstances. AVB has to have a massive hand to he was booed by the macarons at WHL for subbing Mousa for Thudd but the change paid off and we got the equaliser so once again our worst performer was the fans!

Good post. Agreed.

And I'm not like Steff, seeing everything through rose-tinted glasses. I moan and groan like any Spurs fan, but I thought we deserved the win today with the effort put in BY THE TEAM