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Spurs vs Southampton, the OMT no-one wants to start

It had the feeling of a pre-season friendly today, or perhaps a dead-rubber where the result doesn't matter as neither team has a great deal to play for. S'ton perhaps pride of beating Derby's record low points total - given they're now down, despite how poor they are, I wouldn't be surprised if they win a couple of remaining games due to the playing without any fear situation they're now in and other teams playing for nothing.
 
Good to return to a live game. Disappointed to hear Levy Out chants starting but pleased they were soon drowned out by 'COYS' chants.

Thats how it should be DURING the game. By all means Levy-haters have your moans before or after, but please while the match is on, back the team.

Re: the game, could have been 5-0 at HT, Ramsdale kept them in it. Hopefully, Thursday we can take those chances and we rack up a good win. Yes 2nd half was frustrating, but I can see what they were trying to do
 
What I'm perhaps struggling with is the interpretation of what was said at half time and how the execution happened by our players.

We all know they would come out the blocks at us being 2-0 down and Ange would have reminded them of that. He would have said keep doing the same things i.e. pass, move and keep possession. He may have also said for the full-backs to play a bit tighter and block of their only avenue we saw in the first half.

What happened next was really bad and makes no sense. The fight stopped, the intensity slowed and we could have easily been in a different place altogether if they had scored 10 mins earlier. The ball became a hot potato again.

I just don't get it with Ange and these players, There is so much potential in both, but there is clearly something major missing from the equation.

In some ways, it was very similar to the very first game of the season - Leicester.
 
paxtonwolf said:
Good to return to a live game. Disappointed to hear Levy Out chants starting but pleased they were soon drowned out by 'COYS' chants.

Thats how it should be DURING the game. By all means Levy-haters have your moans before or after, but please while the match is on, back the team.

Re: the game, could have been 5-0 at HT, Ramsdale kept them in it. Hopefully, Thursday we can take those chances and we rack up a good win. Yes 2nd half was frustrating, but I can see what they were trying to do
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Pray tell. What were they trying to do and why did it fail so badly in that second half?
 
Not sure if our tepid 2nd half performance was game management or just a continuation of our poor form. If the latter, we're on trouble against Frankfurt.

Good to see Vic catching everything that came his way and even some that he had to come out for quite a ways. Long may it continue.

Also pleased for Tel getting his first PL goal.
 
Muttley said:
What I'm perhaps struggling with is the interpretation of what was said at half time and how the execution happened by our players.

We all know they would come out the blocks at us being 2-0 down and Ange would have reminded them of that. He would have said keep doing the same things i.e. pass, move and keep possession. He may have also said for the full-backs to play a bit tighter and block of their only avenue we saw in the first half.

What happened next was really bad and makes no sense. The fight stopped, the intensity slowed and we could have easily been in a different place altogether if they had scored 10 mins earlier. The ball became a hot potato again.

I just don't get it with Ange and these players, There is so much potential in both, but there is clearly something major missing from the equation.

In some ways, it was very similar to the very first game of the season - Leicester.
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I think the simple explanation is you are seeing a bunch of players and a manager who don't really care about the league now and their reputations depend on the EL

Win the EL and Ange gets another job in a bigger league

Some of the players we want rid have an EL win on their CV and will have more options.
 
Legohamster said:
I think the simple explanation is you are seeing a bunch of players and a manager who don't really care about the league now and their reputations depend on the EL

Win the EL and Ange gets another job in a bigger league

Some of the players we want rid have an EL win on their CV and will have more options.
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That's fair. It's not as thought the players quit on the second half though. By them reducing down to 80-90%, they cause their own downfall. We had 5 outfield subs to make in that second half. There was no need to lower the intensity.
 
Legohamster said:
I think the simple explanation is you are seeing a bunch of players and a manager who don't really care about the league now and their reputations depend on the EL

Win the EL and Ange gets another job in a bigger league

Some of the players we want rid have an EL win on their CV and will have more options.
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The players are coasting through league because of the EL and saving themselves for that
 
Muttley said:
That's fair. It's not as thought the players quit on the second half though. By them reducing down to 80-90%, they cause their own downfall. We had 5 outfield subs to make in that second half. There was no need to lower the intensity.
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I thought it was the perfect time to give Moore/Tel/Ajayi some serious minutes in the PL and Gray in CM

I can see why he kept Solanke on to try and get a goal though.

TBF to Ange , if someone got a knock we would have moaned.

I think today was a no win situation

The real issue is why we are just playing dead rubbers in the league in March/April !
 
Legohamster said:
I thought it was the perfect time to give Moore/Tel/Ajayi some serious minutes in the PL and Gray in CM

I can see why he kept Solanke on to try and get a goal though.

TBF to Ange , if someone got a knock we would have moaned.

I think today was a no win situation

The real issue is why we are just playing dead rubbers in the league in March/April !
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If have liked to see gray much earlier but the game was dead before kick off
 
Legohamster said:
I thought it was the perfect time to give Moore/Tel/Ajayi some serious minutes in the PL and Gray in CM

I can see why he kept Solanke on to try and get a goal though.

TBF to Ange , if someone got a knock we would have moaned.

I think today was a no win situation

The real issue is why we are just playing dead rubbers in the league in March/April !
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Bedfordspurs said:
If have liked to see gray much earlier but the game was dead before kick off
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Only a couple of surprises for me. We always knew that we had 3 fit centre halves and 3 fit full-backs who would rotate through these couple of games. The surprise for me was Bentancur playing and none of Sarr, Biss or Gray getting the start in midfield.

Agree on Solanke, and so good to see Brennan back in the goals. Tel would have been my other preference.

We need Kulu back.
 
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