*** Tottenham Hotspur vs clams***

[djp82]

This side is a couple of CMs short. Just see the difference on the ball in the middle of the pitch.

 

[Daisuk]

Gil and Skipp coming on.

 

[AdamB]

he is better in the dele role imo, he gets stuck in.

Agreed. GLC in the wrong position, as is Dele (who needs a different formation)

 

[metalgear]

Alonso is always a pain in our ass.
Royal is getting caught out

Alonso is very underrated. very good player sometimes i wonder what is he doing in defence.

 

[DubSpur]

He was just harried and tackled. In his defence, he should have been passed the ball 30 yards from goal when marked

He takes too many touches and should have got rid there quicker

 

[Legohamster]

Oh yes, that striker we bought in the transfer window, what was his name again

Pft, dont need one of those - he would just be picking splinters out his arse

 

[AdamB]

Ndombele off yeh thats the one nice one Nuno.

I think its just fitness related

 

[JerusalemMan]

Unlucky on Dier, but man talk about a game of two halves. Just hoping this game goes like preseason now.

Aye, getting to half-time without scoring was ominous

 

[djp82]

Dele Alli should be know as Dilly Dally. He just can’t pick a sharpe pass it’s so laboured from him

 

[paxtonwolf]

At least it was a shot on target

 

[BrainOfLevy]

Gah, feel this is another like last week, in the sense we just haven’t executed when we needed to.

We pressed in the first half, hard. We needed to score then otherwise we’d tire. And we didn’t.

Chelsea switched formation to control the midfield at the start of the second half. They’d always have a bit of time in the ascendency where we needed to hold firm before adjusting ourselves. We didn’t hold firm.

In the key moments, both in last week and this, we haven’t done what we needed to do.

 

[AdamB]

Back to our zero creativity midfield

 

[metalgear]

Heartbreaking stuff after that first half.

Only because we were really poor, but we have been a big improvement

 

[BrainOfLevy]

And like with the red card last week and the deflection this, some awful luck goes against us.

 

[Mikey10]

Nuno reminds me of Poch with his subs, no matter what way the game is going he won't make a change till around the 70th min

He went full rabbit in the headlights following their HT change. I’m no tactical genius but even I could see we needed to counter it.

 

[djp82]

So disappointing after the best half of football we’ve played this season. Shame really. Feel a little sorry for Nuno. Squad is still ropey. To much dross.

 

[metalgear]

Gah, feel this is another like last week, in the sense we just haven’t executed when we needed to.

We pressed in the first half, hard. We needed to score then otherwise we’d tire. And we didn’t.

Chelsea switched formation to control the midfield at the start of the second half. They’d always have a bit of time in the ascendency where we needed to hold firm before adjusting ourselves. We didn’t hold firm.

In the key moments, both in last week and this, we haven’t done what we needed to do.

One ineffective player - Dele - and we are operating like 10 and a half men against eleven and it makes a big difference with a team like chelsea and a coach like tuchel.

 

[Mooresinho]

I think its just fitness related

Yeh did think that afterwards.

 

[El Guepardo]

Crowd is quiet. Expected more.

 

[paxtonwolf]

Where's the VAR handball check??