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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    For sure great passing football leading to the same results as we've had so far wouldn't be enough to make people happy. But I think overall there would be more positivity about that than what we're seeing now. Also the case though that great passing football probably would have helped us win...
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    Pedro Porro

    Lack of passing quality overall is an important factor imo. We know how vital that right hand side (Romero, Porro and Kudus) is to us. I also think Porro and Kudus are more of a natural partnership than Spence and Porro, though time may prove me wrong on that.
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    Mohammed Kudus

    Steff is already angry, don't have to make him furious 😉
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    *** OMT Tottenham Hotspur FC v Brentford FC ***

    Would like to see something like that myself. Would arguably our most attacking lineup since the Burnley game at home earlier this season if that happens? (may be some lineups I don't remember). Personally I'd like to see Gray over Bergvall in one of the two deeper roles. Think he's more secure...
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    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

    Quite sapping to defend like that too, always on the back foot, medium high press getting played through, having to run back. Trying to play, losing it, getting back. The way I see it it was more a result of us being able to play when Saudi Sportswashing Machine were no longer able to press as high. Or to put...
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    Xavi Simons

    I'm hoping it's a matter of time before he sees Bergvall or Gray as ready for one of those deeper roles. I agree the 10 not dropping deep being an instruction. It could be removed. But it would also require some other tweaks, like one of the deep midfielders moving in the opposite direction at...
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    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

    Changing the intensity seems really important. But being so clearly second best and non threatening in attack for half of games (first 30 of the first half, first 15 of the second) is imo not a good strategy. Part of the benefit of defending, ceeding possession, is getting to counter attack...
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    Pedro Porro

    Very much looks like the exhausted Porro we've seen several times. He tends not to get injured and he tends to play with a lot of intensity still. But his technical execution suffers.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    I agree that the players we have and have available is a significant part of the issue. I genuinely think a really good deep playmaker would make a big difference. But it's also the system Frank has chosen and worked on. I'm not saying we have to go full Ange here. But there's a lot of room...
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    Xavi Simons

    That could be part of it. I think physicality and defensive ability is a part of it too. To me Simons works hard defensively too, gets stuck in. But he doesn't have the physical profile of the players that get picked ahead of him at the moment. Bergvall too is rather high risk, loses the ball...
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    Cristian Romero

    Some of what gets labeled as brain farts is imo him trying to be ambitious on the ball and then it fails. I much prefer that to players who don't try or aren't able to take responsibility on the ball and try to make something useful happen.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    It has been mostly a problem since then I agree. Even at our best under Pochettino it was still an issue at times. We have had periods since then were we have been better at it. At first under Ange, after that hit and miss, but sometimes it was there. Under Conte for a while we were quite good...
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    The Case for the Attacking play

    The biggest problem for me being getting near or in the box. IIRC there was a stat popping up in the first half at some point that Saudi Sportswashing Machine had 12 touches in our box, we had one in their box. In that shortish spell later in the first half we had some sustained pressure and possession around...
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    The Case for the Attacking play

    For sure the players need to take responsibility. But I think it could also be on Frank, though obviously difficult to know for sure from the outside. To me the safety first and horseshoe passing strategy seems like something that has been ingrained and stops the players from taking responsibility.
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    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

    Nothing big, nothing where it would be harder to miss. But they were threatening, we were not. They had half chances at least, we had the one with Johnson IIRC. We repeatedly lost the ball trying to get forward, but it didn't result in big chances. It's not like Fulham created a lot of big...
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    Tactics Thread

    1 or 2 could be fine. I think our issues with not understanding how to play run deeper than rotation. Part of it confidence too. We seem to me to be trying to play with more risk now, more through a press, more through midfield. But we're struggling to execute it for various reasons.
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    30 minutes is about as long as the majority of teams can sustain a really high and intense press in the first half. When they dropped off a bit we could assert ourselves more. Our inability to progress the ball against a high press is a major issue. I guess we did try to play through them, but...
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    The Case for the Attacking play

    To me because those situations mean we have more players in the box, there's more chaos. Typically we cross hopefully into a box with maybe two attackers, predictably with the opposition defenders knowing well in advance that a cross is coming in. I don't see us getting into a lot of decent...
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    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

    There's the standard amount of holding. Then Burn tries to run through or over Bentancur with them tangling together. Not even an obstruction imo. Burn half arsed appealed, looking like he knew it was never a penalty.
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    ***Official Match Thread Tottenham Hotspur v Saudi Sportswashing Machine 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd Dec. ***

    Think the biggest difference between this game and the Fulham game was that while in both games the other team was better from the off Fulham punished us twice and Saudi Sportswashing Machine didn't. Had Saudi Sportswashing Machine scored in that opening 25-30 minute period where they were clearly on top I think it ends up as a...
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